Our Team

System Infrastructure Innovators

Providing a new, innovative, server and application migration methodology, that can significantly reduce the cost of migration. Providing leadership and expertise in helping clients evaluate their Data Loss Prevention and Business Continuity readiness. Developing DR and BCP design and implementation plans that match the specific needs of their business and the capabilities of their IT infrastructure. Creating partnerships with collocation facilities to provide these services to their clients. Partnering with migration tool vendors. Creating these partnerships relieves the client of having to negotiate multiple contracts to implement a migration project.

Our Team

Alan Stuart

Alan has extensive experience in the insurance industry (AIG 7 years), banking industry (JPMorgan/Chase 8 years) and the technology industry (IBM 27 years). He holds 10 patents in Information Archiving and Storage. 

Alan provided project management oversight (PMO) to 10 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Service Areas to develop a 3-5 year strategic plan (move to cloud) for their application inventory. For the National Science Foundation (NSF), he provided executive leadership and project management oversight to senior NSF management to provide viable alternatives and developing their strategy/roadmap to move the NSF data center to a new location. For both of these projects detailed project plans (MS Project) were developed and tracked, including budgets, staffing noting specific skills and resources required, and schedule alternatives to both meet schedule objectives and reduce risk. In addition, Alan was specifically requested to be the lead executive in the PMO for the implementation of the actual move. Management scheduled the move for a 4 day weekend. With our planning and management, we accomplished a flawless move of the entire data center in 18 hours.

As VP & Global Head, AIG Disaster Recovery Program, Alan was responsible for the development and implementation of the AIG Corporate Standard Disaster Recovery Strategy. The strategy brought all of AIG’s IT systems worldwide into a uniform level of resiliency and recovery enablement. Alan was also responsible for the acquisition of collocation facilities in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. He joined AIG in 2007 as the Global Chief of Infrastructure Transformation where he then led a diverse multinational team to consolidate AIG’s entire global IT infrastructure. The team consolidated over 200 data centers and server rooms in over 50 countries into 4 regional data centers. Over 10,000 applications and data bases were migrated and transformed with virtually no production downtime.

During his long IBM career, Alan was the co-inventor of the IBM Storage Archive technology and became the worldwide executive responsible for IBM’s long-term data archiving and regulatory compliance business. He has written papers on the impact of legislation on IT and was appointed as the IBM Corporate spokesperson on regulatory compliance. Alan was frequently interviewed and quoted in press, sought out as a speaker at conferences, webcasts, and analyst briefings. In addition, Alan was the Chief Architect for ibm.com, responsible for the transformation (architecture and design) of the B2B business process and also led the internal testing effort to make IBM ready for Y2K worldwide.

Alan was VP, Retail Banking Systems, Integration and Testing Architecture, at Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now part of JP Morgan Chase) where he led the merger of the Retail Banking Systems of MHT and Chemical Bank and subsequently, Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank. To accomplish these large bank mergers, Alan invented a new and innovative technique for testing and migrating large systems. These techniques were used to facilitate the mergers. These techniques subsequently enabled the migration of a complete IT environment from New York to Delaware in 22 minutes. System Infrastructure Innovators employs this methodology today which enables data center migrations and consolidations with little or no impact on production.

Alan holds an M.S. in Computer Science from The Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. in Mathematics from Hunter College.

James (Jim) Klinck

Jim has 40 years of industry and consulting experience working for leading Global Insurance and Financial Services firms. Recently, he served as Architecture and Application Development Head for a startup Property and Casualty Insurance Company, overseeing the implementation and integration of a new Policy Administration System. In this role he collaboratively developed a three-year architectural roadmap and implementation plan and acted as their Chief Information Security Officer, establishing their IT Security Policies and program for reviewing their company's Information Security Practices. 

Jim recently shared Project Management responsibilities with Alan Stuart on a project at NIH to develop an inventory of current systems leading to the development of a strategic roadmap to move to the cloud; and the project management at NSF to move their datacenter to a new location successful. Jim has also worked to assist and Insurance Agency in ensuring they are compliant with recent consumer legislation and New York State Insurance Department IT Compliance.

He served as Chief Security Officer for a Global Life Insurance company implementing a world-wide governance program for IT Security. In this role he successfully elevated the awareness of IT security within the firm, formalized policies and implemented a governance program with local accountability. He established processes for Incident Response and reporting to Senior Management on the progress of implementing the cybersecurity program. 

Jim also served as SVP in the Office of the Global CIO at a large multi-national insurance company. He was responsible for the global governance of IT, including IT Standards & Policies and the management of the CIO Council representing each business unit in the governance of IT. During this period, projects were initiated to achieve economies of scale through Infrastructure Consolidation and Call Center Modernization.

Jim holds a Bachelor of Math (honors) from the University of Waterloo with a specialty in Computer Science.

Nat Kami

Nat held several executive positions within AIG including Group CIO - Chief Integration Officer for AIG Japan Holdings. In addition he was Senior Corporate Officer, where he led multiple business units and business functions within a variety of operating companies including the merger and integration of a $6B Property & Casualty and Life Company and digitization of claims and underwriting processing. Nat also oversaw the architecture and delivery of several policy administration initiatives that included over 200k agents and captives.

During his AIG tenure Nat was also the SVP Global Head of Network and Data Center Infrastructure and Co-Vice Chairman of the Separation and Divesture committee divesting 40 companies from AIG without disruption to AIG’s remaining core business units. Nat has also held roles as Transformation Executive enabling the delivery of several programs across critical applications including cloud, application authentication and cybersecurity portfolios.

Prior to AIG, Nat held a variety of executive technology roles within Verizon Business, NTT, MCI, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch respectively.

Nat serves on the Rutgers University Big Data Innovation Program as a Board Advisor. Nat is a Six Sigma Black Belt. Nat is also a graduate of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University and holds Cybersecurity Certification from Harvard University Kennedy Extension School.. Nat has held FINRA series 7, 6, 63/66 licenses. Nat is fluent in conversational Japanese.

Venkata Potturu

As Solution Architect of Data Center Consolidation and Migrations, Venky brings close to 20 years of experience in successfully developing and managing system-wide solutions for the Infrastructure and storage industry. As a Lead Architect for a data center transformation project that enabled a large client in the energy sector to move from 36 data centers with 9,000+ servers across North and South America to 4 locations within the US. This role helped him guide clients to better understand the growing demand of the IT lifecycle and its implications to the future of the client’s business. Venky produced processes and identified tools that could be leveraged to offshored transformation efforts, reducing service delivery cost, increasing margins but maintaining quality and consistency.

Prior to this role, Venky was the Migration Architect for IBM Global Services, where he was responsible for driving key strategic initiatives and new products and services. Previously, he was also in a Discovery, Analysis and Design role for Data Center relocation and Disaster Recovery projects. Venky was responsible for directing research and development for IBM Softlayer PoC's in Application and OS Migrations to Cloud. With his expertise, he was part of a team that developed a regional software migration center for IBM-US in the Boulder Datacenter.

Venky holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical engineering from JNTU – India and a Master of Business Administration (Major in Marketing) from Regis University- Colorado USA.

Nick Savides

Nick has been with Systems Infrastructure Innovators since 2015. He has over 30 years of experience in IT, with an extensive background in applications development, systems programming, mergers and integrations, retail banking systems, data center moves, and infrastructure project management. Previous employers include JPMorgan Chase and AIG, and he has contracted at MetLife. He has managed open systems server compliancy and certification projects, technology labs, Windows virtualization and automation projects.

Nick has been PMP certified since 2004.
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