Prudential Securities

Mr. Carapola was retained by the CIO of Prudential Securities (PSI) to spearhead the development and implementation of all technology for PSI’s new 1 New York Plaza Operations and Back Office facility.   This facility occupied 1.4 million square feet of space, representing approximately 50% of the floors in the building.

Following successful completion of the Back Office Processing Center, Mr. Carapola built the infrastructure to support approximately 6,000 employees, managed the technical services involved in moving those employees into the new location, and provided user level technical support.

Mr. Carapola was a member of the trading systems design team, defining a new trading floor environment for approximately 800 traders.  He led the initiative to build the Trading Floors, install the new systems and communications environments and move 800 traders into their new locations.

A key component of the Back Office processing environment was the need to provide Redundancy and Disaster Recovery.  This project addressed those components associated with the basic services, power and communications.  Communications redundancy was provided by assuring that multiple redundant paths were available for all services.