Carlos Ascencio

About Carlos Ascencio

A technical strategist leader with almost 20 years of experience across many technology disciplines, including 10 years’ experience in direct supervisory management. Detail oriented innovator with the ability to inspire and manage cross-functional teams, across multiple geographic regions in different time zones. Exceling when given multiple responsibilities and projects, by prioritizing and pivoting when required. Specializing in,• Operational Digital Transformation• Technology Departmental Operations Management• Infrastructure Optimization• Vendor Management and Contract Negotiations• Cloud Transformation• Operational Simplification• Program and Change Management• Agile Processes• Merger/Acquisition Integrations• Strategic Planning and Innovation• Server Architecture and Data Center hardware deployments• Audit and Risk Operational Mitigations• Business Continuity• Process ReengineeringMost recently working in various positions from Management, Architecture Design, Engineering, and Operations Support. Across various technology stacks, for one of the world’s top ten largest banks.

Experience

1. Managing Vice President

   MUFG

   May 2013 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Oversee and directly manage a staff of senior architects and engineers geographically located in different time zones. making sure the department is aligned with the company’s goal of operational digital transformation, operational excellence and moving toward a hybrid cloud strategy. • Work directly with Enterprise Security to understand and develop remediation plans for all Audits, Risks and Security compliance vulnerabilities. Making sure the department is abiding by the financial laws and regulations that the bank is governed by.• Project work intake obtaining business requirements and turning them into actional items to deliver an overall technology solution to our business partners. • Drive strategic direction, and manage all daily operational support and projects for a range of geographically distributed virtualization products.• Create support models, road maps and establish processes to assess future required technology investments while managing the departmental budget. • Support and oversee multiple systems across several data centers on different AD domains integrated into multiple forest.• Oversee all maintenance, problem incidents, upgrades and security patching vulnerabilities for the bank’s virtual infrastructure across 4 data centers.• Capacity planning, forecasting and sizing of the enterprise virtual infrastructure. • Develop and create new departmental processes and documentation allowing pro-active approach to risk remediation to allow a reduction of vulnerabilities and future audits.• Responsible for direct vendor management negotiating the scope of work, bill rates and budgets for recurring and new projects.• Management and prioritization of complex projects while dealing with multiple teams across the organization. • Perform infrastructure assessments and provide detailed legacy remediation plans and upgrade paths.• Annual budgeting activities with senior management to develop and establish a departmental budget plan.

Education

• DeVry University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General

  1998 — 2002

• California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

  Managment Information Systems

  2000 — 2001

Skills

• Citrix
• Active Directory
• Sharepoint
• Microsoft Exchange
• Dns
• Tcp/Ip
• Data Center
• Vmware Esx
• Server Architecture
• Business Analysis
• Sdlc
• Enterprise Architecture
• Office Communications Server
• Lotus Notes
• Sophos
• Postini
• Blackberry Enterprise Server
• Smtp
• Legal Compliance
• Information Security Management
• System Deployment
• Rms
• Good Technology
• Sourceone
• Banking
• Team Building
• Customer Service
• Change Management
• Engineering
• Forecasting
• Financial Accounting
• Governance
• Integration
• Business Process Improvement
• Team Leadership
• Linux
• Microsoft Office
• Management
• Project Management
• Marketing Strategy