Tony Sherman

Retired due to a stroke. Enjoyed the freedom of retirement. Now facing one of life's biggest challenges, with on of the worlds best teams. What is not to like!

Confident Defense's vision is that every start-up should be a secure start-up. Tony role is helping the our clients design and implement security strategies that are lightweight and highly effective.

Working in the IT organization delivering a wide range of complex projects.

Working with professional services arm of Bit9, to deliver large enterprise security solutions. My focus was on the multi-million dollar accounts, ensuring that the complexity of working with fast paced enterprise clients did not negatively impact our ability to provide the highest level of professional services.

Leading and delivering multi-million dollar projects at Empirix, in the Voice QA services and Unified Messaging space.

Responsible for the infrastructure design and implementation. Designing a high availability (HA) solution using virtualization (VMWare) and a HA MS-SQL to deliver a ground breaking SaaS solution for the Advertiser, Advertising and Media markets.

Successfully project managed the implementation and testing of the infrastructure solution and its high availability.

Recruited as a Product Architect to drive a major architectural redesign of newly deployed Statistical Workbench Solution for key financial services client and improve overall stability and scalability of product. Based upon success, promoted to Technical Operations Manager and charged with building and managing a centralized application support team for internal corporate.

Provided leadership and framework to identify needs and resolve critical issues. Scope of responsibility spanned… Show more

Recruited as a Product Architect to drive a major architectural redesign of newly deployed Statistical Workbench Solution for key financial services client and improve overall stability and scalability of product. Based upon success, promoted to Technical Operations Manager and charged with building and managing a centralized application support team for internal corporate.

Provided leadership and framework to identify needs and resolve critical issues. Scope of responsibility spanned team development and leadership, technology needs assessments and solutions, issue identification and resolution, project planning and management, processes and procedural development. Show less

O-TBIS is a privately held project and business development company, aimed at helping customers and their clients deliver high value through software and infrastructure development.

We offer strategic consulting, project management and business development. We offer comprehensive project management. Setting up projects, building the plans, and managing the delivery teams. We also offer businesses systems analysis and development, and use solid IT solutions to deliver these… Show more

O-TBIS is a privately held project and business development company, aimed at helping customers and their clients deliver high value through software and infrastructure development.

We offer strategic consulting, project management and business development. We offer comprehensive project management. Setting up projects, building the plans, and managing the delivery teams. We also offer businesses systems analysis and development, and use solid IT solutions to deliver these strategies.

A few of the clients we have work with include Electronic Arts, Silverstream, Icodeon, IT Global Source, AtWorkResources.com, Tri-Tec international.

for example O-TIBIS took AtWorkResources.com a complex enterprise website from initial concept to initial customer. We did this through using distributed software development teams, and Agile project management techniques to manage this Web based product. They subsequently sold the company to Presagia, a Canadian company. Show less

IT Global source was an offshore development company with teams from Romania, in the early days of the .COM boom

Senior Architect and Project Manager for a distributed development company. During my time there I helped the company generate a productized offering encapsulating their core expertise into high value, high profit, and quick delivery components.Key technical closer in business deals enabling IT Global Source to demonstrate their technical depth and convince their customers of… Show more

IT Global source was an offshore development company with teams from Romania, in the early days of the .COM boom

Senior Architect and Project Manager for a distributed development company. During my time there I helped the company generate a productized offering encapsulating their core expertise into high value, high profit, and quick delivery components.Key technical closer in business deals enabling IT Global Source to demonstrate their technical depth and convince their customers of their ability to deliver. During my time at ITGS I worked closely on Microsoft to Linux ports, Cold-Fusion to Java rewrites, Pure Java/EJB applications and one concept to beta product involving controlling devices attached to the PC, a full PC based app in C++/Java and then a web based data collection point where the data is analyzed and sold. Show less

Charles Schwab is a leader in personal investment strategies.

During the fast growth era of early 2000 I was contracted as a senior project manager to over see complex international infrastructure rollouts. My role was to work closely with the Global business manager to ensure their business venture had the best infrastructure needed to deliver the high standard that Charles Schwab is known for.

I finalized their US to Japan infrastructure, set up their application infrastructure… Show more

Charles Schwab is a leader in personal investment strategies.

During the fast growth era of early 2000 I was contracted as a senior project manager to over see complex international infrastructure rollouts. My role was to work closely with the Global business manager to ensure their business venture had the best infrastructure needed to deliver the high standard that Charles Schwab is known for.

I finalized their US to Japan infrastructure, set up their application infrastructure for their Chinese Language offering this involved a complex systems integration of as well as integration with standard infrastructure projects.

I was also heavily involved in their international infrastructure security and instrumental in improving the relationship between the infrastructure team and their customers by spearheading various communication and planning initiatives. Show less

A successful project manager for the nationwide network infrastructure audit. I was promoted to project manager of the Kaiser Permanente PC/Client Server Y2K remediation. Within a short space of time we had restructured the project, redesigned the processes, and re-staffed to ensure effective use of resources, this quick turn around enabled us to capture further business. I continue to lead the project until May when I was again promoted to overall Program Manager.

I was then promoted… Show more

A successful project manager for the nationwide network infrastructure audit. I was promoted to project manager of the Kaiser Permanente PC/Client Server Y2K remediation. Within a short space of time we had restructured the project, redesigned the processes, and re-staffed to ensure effective use of resources, this quick turn around enabled us to capture further business. I continue to lead the project until May when I was again promoted to overall Program Manager.

I was then promoted to a project manager managing a $16.9M systems integration effort. By teaming strong technical teams with hand picked senior managers they succeeded in there objectives of delivering high quality software in budget at each milestone. We used C++ and JAVA for the front end client, C++ & COBRA for the middleware and porting existing Sybase code to Oracle 8, on an AIX platform. Show less

As lead IT Security Office I was involved in all security aspects of networking, and software development security.

I successfully led the implemented of their first security-auditing plan. Concurrently I redesigned the Workstation/Server configuration for Eurostat's secure environment using Windows NT for both workstations and authentication server, and Solaris as the main application server offering. This was then scaled up to include all access to the secure… Show more

As lead IT Security Office I was involved in all security aspects of networking, and software development security.

I successfully led the implemented of their first security-auditing plan. Concurrently I redesigned the Workstation/Server configuration for Eurostat's secure environment using Windows NT for both workstations and authentication server, and Solaris as the main application server offering. This was then scaled up to include all access to the secure environment.

Operational responsibilities involved secure access (Firewalls and secure tokens), managing security patches and backups, anti-virus tools, Internet access, and cryptographic software. Developing and monitoring the network security and intrusion detection system.

I was involved on a daily basis with technical teams throughout Eurostat, ensure security policies and procedures were embedded into all aspects of the development cycle and on going operations. Show less

Initially the role there was to lead the implementation of New International Customers and to develop the EMEA (Europe Middle-east and Africa) wide 7x24 helpdesk for IBM's Global Network offering. Once those projects were in place my main role was implementing special projects such as Global Frame Relay service, EMEA wide Lotus Notes, and Internet Content Hosting, ML 1/2, an SNA tool for viewing customer global networks.

Whilst working in Zoetermeer I was responsible for a number of… Show more

Initially the role there was to lead the implementation of New International Customers and to develop the EMEA (Europe Middle-east and Africa) wide 7x24 helpdesk for IBM's Global Network offering. Once those projects were in place my main role was implementing special projects such as Global Frame Relay service, EMEA wide Lotus Notes, and Internet Content Hosting, ML 1/2, an SNA tool for viewing customer global networks.

Whilst working in Zoetermeer I was responsible for a number of large international customers: RINET, a worldwide group of insurers and re-insurers.The Dutch securities exchange (NECICOM) .Timberland & Johnson & Johnson.

Internally for IBM I arranged the RFPs, and wrote the initial procedures for New International Customer Environment. Show less

I was involved in supporting a wide variety of I.T. They run 31 Novell networks 2.15 - 4.0, along with about 30 UNIX boxes running a variety of UNIX platforms (mainly ICL, but also AIX, HP-UX, and Bull). These are, in the main, all connected over SPX/IPX, TCP/IP, and X.25. As well as improving my skills in connectivity and security in both UNIX and Novell, I improved my experience with WAN intercommunication between various services and the security aspects of large-scale networking… Show more

I was involved in supporting a wide variety of I.T. They run 31 Novell networks 2.15 - 4.0, along with about 30 UNIX boxes running a variety of UNIX platforms (mainly ICL, but also AIX, HP-UX, and Bull). These are, in the main, all connected over SPX/IPX, TCP/IP, and X.25. As well as improving my skills in connectivity and security in both UNIX and Novell, I improved my experience with WAN intercommunication between various services and the security aspects of large-scale networking.

During this time I was also a contract developer for Chapman Hall and developed a number of packages for them in C++ using ZINC a platform independent GUI library. Show less

As the College IT coordinator, this involved developing and delivering a company wide strategy for I.T. training to both staff and students. This involved development and delivery schedules,I.T. access and purchasing policies across a range of conflicting sectors agreed.

Before I finished he set up their first collegewide I.T. resource center. This involved RFPs, design of the layout, purchasing of equipment and software, designing, installing security and maintenance of Novell and UNIX… Show more

As the College IT coordinator, this involved developing and delivering a company wide strategy for I.T. training to both staff and students. This involved development and delivery schedules,I.T. access and purchasing policies across a range of conflicting sectors agreed.

Before I finished he set up their first collegewide I.T. resource center. This involved RFPs, design of the layout, purchasing of equipment and software, designing, installing security and maintenance of Novell and UNIX networks.

I also took the lead in the design and delivery of I.T. courses such as C++, C, UNIX administration and various business packages to industry. This involved looking at a variety of features such as: the method of delivery, the relevance of the material, and the costing structures. Which enabled me to use and strengthened my business and marketing skills, understanding the needs of other companies whilst ensuring the business unit's profitability. Show less