SUMMARY:

• Todd L. Fair is a result driven Disaster Recovery Consultant, trusted Subject Matter Expert & Business Continuity Manager wif years of experience in developing robust enterprise Disaster Recovery programs forward and in line wif mission for large Fortune 500 companies. Deep understanding and experience w/ Disaster Recovery techniques, principles, methods & supporting technologies.
• Client portfolio consists of Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Office Depot, Confidential .
• As teh Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Manager at Confidential, Todd was a well - respected team builder who orchestrated team growth through extensive cross functional mentoring for enterprise disaster recovery, business resilience, security & C-Suite communication.
• During his time at Office Depot, as Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Manager (ITSM), he was an industry leader managing all activities for Disaster Recovery and ITSM Business Continuity.
• Manages, develops, and leads disaster recovery strategies & solutions, including risk assessments, impact analysis, strategy selection & documentation of continuity & disaster recovery procedures.
• Partners wif organizations infrastructure & application leaders in IT, Security & other departments to align goals and objectives of teh IT Disaster Recovery & Business Service Continuity programs.
• Works closely wif internal and external auditors to ensure compliance during recovery activities, while creating business continuity & disaster recovery budgets, adhering to company guidelines.
• Overseeing testing and rehearsal of documented disaster recovery strategies and plans, so they are aligned wif teh goals of all teh infrastructure, application, and technical business teams.
• Industry leader of disaster recovery programs, authoring plans, exercises, testing, success metrics.
• Building dashboards wif similar tools like PowerBI: Atlassian, Microsoft Suite, SharePoint, Jira, etc.
• Todd L. Fair is excited for this important role at Northwestern Mutual and available immediately.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Disaster Recovery - Business Continuity
• Resiliency - IT Management - Disaster Recovery Plans
• Infrastructure - IT Compliance - COBIT - DRII
• FFIEC - ITIL - NIST - SOX - DR Program Implementation
• Crisis Management - Mentorship/
• ITIL - ITSM - Security Teams - Risk Assessments - Atlassian
• Disaster Recovery Strategy - Gap Identification
• Dashboarding Builds - Jira - SharePoint – MS Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential – West Palm Beach, FL

Deployment & Release Management

Responsibilities:

• As a certified ITIL Release Manager and BC/DR Resilience Management Auditor and IT operations professional, proven expertise in IT Service Management, DR & Change Control /Release mgmt.
• Unique ability to break silos and build relationships program wide.
• Experienced managing complex business environments, optimizing operational processes and increasing organizational capacity, ensuring teh business will continue to operate wif:
• Minimal impact, while also remaining in compliance.
• Responsible to manage business continuity incident & emergency management for Enterprise.
• Respected team builder who orchestrates employee growth through extensive cross functional mentoring. Keen sense of Compliance for Supply Chain, Crisis Management, Business Resilience, Disaster Recovery w/Cloud, Security and C Suite Technical skills.
• Capable of full program implementation; multi-industry experience including retail wholesale, insurance, banking, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, software, and related services.
• Successful implementing Enterprise Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery Programs surpassing IT Compliance Standards/Procedures for COBIT, DRII, FFIEC, ITIL, NIST, SOX.

Confidential – Fort Lauderdale, FL

ITIL Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate release content and effort based on teh service request backlog using:
• ITIL Service Management glod standards.
• Coordinate pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates. Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations.
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.
• Produce Deployment, Run Books, Disaster Recovery Testing requirements, Implementation Plans.
• Weekly Release Reporting, Communicate business analyst release details & schedules to business
• Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.
• Work wif release engineers to understand impacts of branches.
• Maintain release schedule for core services & ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
• Lead and co-ordinate activities including teh execution of teh deployment Plans and checklists.
• Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.
• Maintain teh release repository.

Confidential – Deerfiled Beach, FL

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Manger

Responsibilities:

• Industry Leader: Seasoned CBCP/ ITIL certified resiliency professional wif experience in strategic and technological aspects of business. Certified ITIL BC/DR Resilience Management Auditor and IT operations professional, wif expertise in IT Service Management, Change Management and Release Management, unique ability to break silos and build relationships program wide.
• Experienced managing complex business environments, optimizing operational processes and increasing organizational capacity, ensuring teh business will continue to operate
• Team builder who orchestrates employee growth through extensive cross functional mentoring.
• Compliance for Banking, eCommerce, Supply Chain, Crisis Management, Business Resilience, Disaster Recovery w/Cloud, Security and C Suite Technical skills.
• Program implementation seeing projects to full completion; multi-industry experience including retail wholesale, insurance, banking, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, software and services.
• Successful implementing Enterprise Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery Programs surpassing IT Compliance Standards/Procedures for COBIT, DRII, FFIEC, ITIL NIST and SOX compliance. Seasoned wif small to Fortune size companies and management structures.
• Industry leader managing all activities for ITSM Business Continuity and IT DR Operations, Office Depot, North America $18 billion organization, IT Service Management.
• Supply Chain and vendor contract management (IBM, Dell, EMC, Xerox, ATOS, Oracle, Info Sec, NOC, Vology, AT&T/ Verizon, Sun, Solaris, Linux, Wintel, Hewlett Packard) and governance
• KPI tracking, BC/ DR Exercises and Testing exceeding scope and objectives of RTO and RPO
• Platform consolidation (Store merges), collaborate wif architect, application development,
• Mid-tier and infrastructure teams developing best in class BCI/ DRII based recovery plans.
• ITSM contributor, SLA monitoring of risk & industry trends compliance.
• Detailed recovery solution design and technology infrastructure implementation while directing multiple work functions/applications or major projects/programs simultaneously.
• Determine continuity and disaster recovery strategy & requirements for $18B organization.
• Orchestrated cross functional discipline of associates and staff nationwide.

Confidential – Tallahassee, FL

Business Continuity Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct oversight of large customer - Direct teh BC emergency Operation, Risk/DR program teams and risk mitigation, ensuring delivery of Continuity of Operations Risk, BC and DR planning.
• Determine continuity and disaster recovery requirements for $8B organization.
• Managing 15 cross functional teams and staff of three, engineering Virtual Sustainable Planner, Created Citizen’s 24 X 7 State of Florida’s, corporate weather tracking software.
• Developed a company-wide threat alert.
• Led teams in developing in-house software and systems to monitor risk wif deliverable of validated single source for verifying weather threats to production locations.
• Assisted security teams in risk assessment/ forecasting.