1. JOHN ZACHARKAN 90 Raymond Street, Edison, NJ 08817
732-887-2656 • zach_john@hotmail.com
SENIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST
Versatile IT Specialist with a 25-year career record of innovation and results, leading technology and operations for
national and global enterprises with challenging computing, communications, and information processing needs. Expert in
aligning technology strategies with corporate goals and driving major initiatives through dispersed and complex enterprises.
Broad range of complementary strengths, from vision/strategy and tactical execution through communication/presentation and
ability to gain support for major change initiatives. Extensive experience in publishing, news media, banking, and healthcare
sectors.
Business Profile:
• OFAC / SDN Screening • AML / CTF Compliance • Resolution Planning / Living Will
• ISO 2700 and 9001 Adherence • Global Operations Management • Quality Control & Auditing
• Client Needs Assessment • Production Database Operations • Team Building & Leadership
• Problem Analysis & Resolution • Performance Tuning & Profiling • Strategic Planning & Logistics
• Continuous Process Improvement • Staff Coaching & Training • Relationship Building
Technology Profile:
MS SQL-Server 6.5 through 2014, Oracle 6/7/8i, RDB, DMSII, Biztalk 2003/2007, SharePoint, SCOM, Service Broker, Full Text
Indexing, DTS, SSIS, GEO Replication, Microsoft Clustering, T-SQL, DataMirror, Clarify 6/8/9/10, Siebel 6/7, VB script, XML,
ASP.NET, DBArtisan, ERStudio, Crystal Reports, UNIFACE, COBOL, and ALGOL
EXPERIENCE
IKA Systems (Consultant), Southborough, MA, December 2014 - June 2015
SENIOR SQL SERVER DBA
IKA Systems delivers advanced business technology to health plans across the country
• Install and / reconfigure SQL Server 2012 in UAT, Staging and Production environments
• Setup and configure HA(High Availability) solutions using data mirroring
• Develop and implement maintenance plans for all environments including, Backup and Log maintenance scheduling.
• Supported development team in UAT and production rollouts.
• Provide performance tuning, schema and code recommendations.
Promontory Financial Group, LLC, New York, NY, September 2011– Present
Promontory Financial Group is the premier consulting firm for global financial services companies. We assist our clients in
meeting regulatory requirements, strengthening credit and other risk controls, analyzing liquidity needs, designing and
implementing restructuring mechanisms, assisting with securities-related reviews and conducting internal AML investigations
• Assisted a Chinese correspondent bank in responding to several MRIAs. Identified gaps in the data extracting
methodology used to pull data from the banks wire system to its BSA/AML transaction monitoring system. Worked with
a development team to correct the issues and perform validation. Perform an analysis of the patterns used for banks
AML detection, identified the risks and gaps in coverage. Worked closely with the banks CCO to develop a risk based
approach to monitor the transactions in its AML tool Prime
• For a large Chinese commercial bank, conducted an independent data mapping analysis of its data extract
methodology. Analyzed the bank’s data feeds from its core system to the bank’s transactional AML system, Patriot
Officer.
• Provided an emerging $50bn bank with an assessment of the completeness and adequacy of data systems and data
flows through Actimize, the bank’s automated transaction monitoring tool.
• For a large Middle Eastern bank implemented Promontory’s proprietary transaction monitoring system to assess the
effectiveness of their AML and OFAC program. Provide support and training of regional staff members in identifying
suspicious AML activity within their data.

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• Aided a regional US bank in meeting regulatory requirements by conducting user acceptance testing and validation
through Promontory’s proprietary AML tool. Perform validation of scenario changes in their existing transaction
monitoring system. Mapping of AML risk to controls to validated adequacy of scenario coverage. Utilize a qualitative
process for assessing the adequacy of mitigating controls in place in each assessment area structured around
compliance program themes. These includes: training; customer on-boarding; customer screening; payment screening;
list management; internal reporting; filter settings and rationale for changes; and management oversight and
governance.
• Develop an Information Security Program for a SIFMU that encompassed: Governance, risk assessment,
information security strategy, process monitoring & updating, Controls Implementation, incident response, KRI/KPI
reporting, and roadmap to get there. The policy aligned to the ISO 27000 standards and was in response to a number of
regulator orders.
• Performed a Living Will / Resolution Plan for a large Regional Bank. Create an Information Readiness assessment
of the banks MIS, the objective is to assess the extent to which the MIS information required by the Resolution Plan is
readily available, and if not, how big a challenge we would face in getting it collected when we proceed with detailed
data collection . Assemble an overview description of the systems and data environments supporting the core business
and legal entities. Build inventory of relevant MIS and associated licenses and intellectual property. Summarize key IT
support arrangements, contracts and dependencies
• Provide an Independent Foreclosure File Review to determine whether foreclosure activities were appropriate ,
determining if exceptions and financial injury were present, and reporting on the extent of harm if found.
Release & Data Management Working in hand with the development team, I managed a team that automated the
deployment process to be repeatable process with consistent expected results throughout deployment. Our team
worked closely with the QA team, tracking defects through TFS to release, providing status reporting, documenting the
change, as well as how to validate the change. We executed or oversaw all releases from pre QA, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod,
through Production. Process included automation of result for verification, reporting, installation instruction and
complete reversal procedures.
• Data Analyst/DBA/Solution Architect: Manage production database IT requirements for Project Blue supporting a
team of 20 (analyst, investigator, and developers) staff members -performed a sanction OFAC compliance review in
India, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, UK, Kenya, and the US: analyzing over 75million SWIFT transactions, 2Million+
Customer accounts and key-trade data for a global banking client.
Provide solution architecture, installation and support to a global banking client for a Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
compliance review with in-site solutions placed in: New York and Russia. All work built on Windows 2008, Clustered
SQL Server 2008R2 solution, designed to hold TB’s of Data on HP iSCSI Storage.
Shared Health (Consultant), Chattanooga, TN, February 2011-December 2012 Contract
SQL SERVER SPECIALIST
• Install and / reconfigure SQL Server in UAT, Staging and Production environments.
• Architect, manage and configure SAN storage usage, applying SQL Server best practices.
• Architect, and deploy security as related to PHI / HIPPA compliance, break the glass, and auditing.
• Configure HA (High Availability) and DR (Disaster Recovery)
• Develop and implement maintenance plans for all environments including, Backup and Log maintenance scheduling.
• Prepare for and conduct Performance analysis for Shared Health XDS and XES based on existing size and future
growth 10+TB.
• Educate and train existing Shared Health staff on SQL Server production maintenance to build core competency.
KPMG Worldwide (Consultant), Toronto, Ontario CA, November 2010- February 2011 Contract
SQL SERVER SPECIALIST
SQL Server subject matter expert for Microsoft Consulting Service (MCS), providing the client guidance in performance tuning
and best practices for their SharePoint platform. Review current SQL Server installation and analyze PAL reports to determine
performance issues and identify gaps. Provide comprehensive analysis of the SQL environment along with the configuration
of the HP EVA SAN storage, presenting best practice and recommendations to improve performance, high availability and
scalability. Work closely with monitoring team implementing SCOM 2007 building end to end monitoring solution while

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increasing efficiency and control. Identifying manage packs, key components to monitor as well as defining performance
metrics and the granularity to raise alerts and warnings.
Fidelity Information Services (Consultant), Fort Lauderdale, FL, August 2008-December 2009 Contract / W2
SQL SERVER SPECIALIST
Fidelity is provider of core processing for financial institutions; card issuer and transaction processing, and related information
products and outsourcing. Engaged in upgrading over 80 database servers that rely on a complex multi-directional
transactional replication model. Job involved replacing core servers, SAN, O/S, upgrading from SQL 2000 to 2005, and
performance enhancements.
• Formalized Server 2005 best practices and standards provide comprehensive guidelines for use by the database se
administration team and setting the ground work for the future of the team.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of SQL Server 2005, providing high-availability,
security PCI compliance, and database maintenance.
• Migration of the live production database environment, configuring a complex transactional replication model while
maintaining 100 percent up time.
• Planned and coordinated SQL Server 2008 installation and upgrade roadmap with the development team
• Provide training sessions to a junior DBA staff.
ORANGE LAKE RESORTS (Consultant), Kissimmee, FL, March 2008 – June 2008
SQL SERVER SPECIALIST
Hired to fix database performance issues for the largest timeshare resort in Florida (110,000 owners worldwide). Successfully
turned around losses of more than $200K by correcting a number of issues affecting storage, procedure calls, schema
distribution, and client usage. Remedied a primary cause, determined to be a storage bottleneck caused by the distribution of
the SQL Data files.
• Formalized SQL coding standards and guidelines for use by the technical development team and vendors. Implemented
formalized change management.
• Introduced DataMirror and performed POC to demonstrate its effectiveness on rapidly changing data from one data
source to another regardless of the database engine.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of SQL Server 2005, providing high-availability
defining comprehensive backup strategies
• Hired/groomed a successor for the SQL server environment to continue work after contract ended.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York, NY, July 2003– March 2008
MANAGER GLOBAL DATABASE OPERATIONS
Managed optimization and performance of day-to-day operations, focusing on issue resolution, security, and delivery.
Provided leadership to a team of database administrators and engineers to fulfill contract obligations as the sole provider of
election news for the 2004 national elections. Instituted cost effective measures to turn around growing financial problems that
were affecting the company and the newspaper industry as a whole.
• Oversaw tactical management of a complex environment of 150+ production SQL servers distributed globally. Designed
and architected the high-availability and disaster recovery models. Implemented strategic database backups that integrated
with the corporate Veritas backup solution. Architected a comprehensive monitoring solution that incorporated Idera
Diagnostic Manager and SCOM rolling alerts to HP OpenView and creating and assigning Altiris tickets as part of the
corporate monitoring and alerting solution.
• Managed the corporate SharePoint infrastructure. Consolidated several SharePoint installations as well as upgraded
the corporate sites from the 2003 portal version to 2007.
• Implementation Manger responsible for coordinating development deployments through qa, test, and production.
• Key member of team that was responsible for systems that transported data to every corner of the world over all
media platforms and formats, serving over 5,000 radio and TV stations and 1,700 newspapers in the United States and
8,500 newspaper, radio and TV subscribers in 121 other countries. This server power and capacity equated to
approximately 4300 CPUs and over 200 TB of SAN storage. We achieved live indexing of news feeds with the ability to
search content within 4 seconds of ingestion and categorization.

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• Delivered a national election system, including hardware, software, and application tools, for use by Big 5 network news
bureaus ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox
• Delivered the new content delivery tool APImages.com and photograph archive website, responsible for more than
$2M in operational expenditures all part of the new ingestion and delivery mechanism, utilizing SQL Server 2005, SSIS,
replication, and Service Broker.
• Built out the new datacenter; instrumental in vendor management, purchasing, installation, configuration, and support
hiring
• Directed a 40-member multi-level team of engineers to restructure and roll out unified VPN and dialup access systems
for 4000+ end users worldwide.
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC CORPORATION (PANASONIC), Secaucus, NJ, 2002–2003
SENIOR DBA / DEVELOPER.
LEVERAGED TECHNOLOGY, INC., New York, NY, 2001–2002
SENIOR DATABASE DEVELOPER
BULLDOGRESEARCH.COM, New York, NY, 2000–2001
SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR/DEVELOPER
VENCOR (KINDRED HEALTHCARE), Louisville, KY, 1999–2000
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Redmond, WA, 1999
DATABASE DEVELOPER
Prior: IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER | SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST, COBOL PROGRAMMER 1983–1998
CSSC INC. – COBOL Programmer, Implementation Manager, Systems Analyst - Unisys, Wang, and VAX VMS
Kids R Us – COBOL Programmer Unisys
High-Grade Beverage – COBOL Programmer NCR
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Linux, 2005 | MySQL, 2005 | Clarify Database Administration, 2001 | Supporting Microsoft Cluster Server, 1999 | System
Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 1999 | Uniface Corporation Application Development using UNIFACE,
Conceptual schema design, and Standards and Guidelines for Object Oriented Development, 1996 | Middlesex County College
NJIT CS Transfer Program, 1997 | Digital Equipment Corporation Database Administration for RDB, 1993 | Oracle Corporation
Database Administration II for Oracle 7, 1993 | Academy of Business Careers Computer Programming, 1982