PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Information Systems Professional with experience in the Program Management, Project Management, design and implementation of business continuity, disaster recovery, emergency management, and pandemic plans for multiple data centers within mainframe and open systems platforms.
• I have developed Business Continuity Management (BCP) & Disaster Recovery (DRP) programs for entire organizations for both global and regional companies.
• Nomenclature today BCP & DRP are almost interchangeable, and being so, titles do not mean what they used to be, you can have a title of BCP Consultant and spend time doing traditional DR.
• Set up different recovery software and ensured use of the planning software by other IT and business departments.
• I have lent guidance to Data center construction, and redesign. Also assisted in the planning, designing and setup of a recovery data center in Jersey City for a third party recovery center vendor.
• Also, develop the alternate recovery site for more than one a government agency, and several private sector companies.
• I have worked with, manufacturing, retail, biotech, pharmaceutical, agri - business, banking, insurance, call, and help centers, all levels of government.
• In many of my contracts, I acted as the Project manager, ensuring that all of the deliverables were received, and that all tasks were completed.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Disaster Recovery/Emergency Management Consultant (SME)

Responsibilities:

• Assisted and lead Hurricane recovery effort, both for Business and IT, for multiple customers
• Ensure compliance with ICS and NIMS
• Conducted post recovery evaluations
• Reviewed and updated Recovery plans to include lessons learns from Disasters

Confidential

Disaster Recovery Consultant SME

Responsibilities:

• Short Term evaluation Project
• Review and evaluate current Disaster Recovery capabilities for 65 corporate entities this
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirements
• Provide a gap report on each entity
• Create roadmap for End state of Disaster recovery effort for corporation
• Create an understanding of current accepted DR standards and practices.

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Consultant SME

Responsibilities:

• Program development for the Disaster Recovery reconstruction
• Develop testing policies and strategies
• Assist in defining Program governances
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement
• Conduct posttest assessment and construct outline for implantations of lessons learned

Confidential, Madison, WI

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review current Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery procedures and Plans
• Act as Program/Project manager
• Develop and institute Business Continuity Management (including both BCP & D/R )Policies
• Assist in revamping of Change Control and Program Management
• Develop BCM Maintenance and testing plans
• Advise corporate recovery on requirements and standards for in-house and third party vendors

Confidential, Savannah, GA

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop Business Application Recovery procedures and Plans
• Develop Business Continuity Program for Business Technology Center
• Develop Backup standards and recovery solutions
• Develop BCM Maintenance plan
• Advise corporate recovery on requirements and standards
• Asses network resiliency
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement
• Set security/network standards for new recovery data center and recovery contracts

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity/Crisis- Emergency Management Consultant/SME

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Business Impact Assessment for Corporate Headquarters
• Develop Business Units Recovery procedures and Plans
• Develop Business Continuity Program for all Corporate Departments
• Develop Emergency Management Plan and Incident Management Reporting
• Develop BCP Maintenance plan and testing outline
• Advise IT on Disaster recovery requirements and standards
• State of the State of recovery for all aspects of the infrastructure, (Network, Data Center, Storage, Security, plan maintenance, PMO, and change management)
• Act a subject matter expert for DR/BCP
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement
• Ensure compliance with standards
• Establish security standards to comply with new federal laws

Confidential, Saginaw, MI

Disaster Recovery Consultant/SME

Responsibilities:

• Create Disaster Recovery Plan for two data centers
• Worked to create a plan for the Help (call) Center
• Develop Disaster Recovery Program for Global IT(Program Management)
• Assist in development of SRM Testing polices
• Pass on Knowledge to company employees and assist is creating hiring criteria for DR positions

Environment: Client Server (LINIX, UNIX, Windows), VMware, SRM

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

Disaster Recovery Consultant/BCP SME

Responsibilities:

• Review Current Recovery Plan for single Client Application
• Develop Solution to recover Application
• Develop Implementation plan for Hardware upgrades
• Develop schedule to modify Business Unit Plans

Environment: Client Server, Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Principal Business Continuity Consultant/SME Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Review BIA
• Develop COOP Plan
• Develop Business Unit Plans
• Develop Emergency Response Plan
• Program/Project Manager
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement
• Establish standards for data center security (including penetration testing and physical access)

Environment: Client Server, IBM Mainframe

Confidential, Crystal Lake, Illinois

Disaster recovery/Business Continuity Consultant/SME

Responsibilities:

• Developed Business Continuity Program (Program Manager)
• Advise on workforce replacement
• Compliance with Federal Law
• Project management

Environment: Client Server

Confidential

Disaster recovery/Business Continuity Consultant/SME

Responsibilities:

• Review Business Continuity Management Program
• State of the State of recovery for all aspects of the infrastructure, (Network, Data Center, Storage, Security, plan maintenance, PMO, and change management)
• Act a subject matter expert for DR/BCP
• Conduct audit or Current Pandemic/Emergency Plans

Environment: Miscellaneous Client Server, Mainframe, and Mid-tier platforms, Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Confidential

Disaster recovery Engineer/Consultant/SME

Responsibilities:

• Aid Developing Business Continuity Management Program
• Act a subject matter expert for DR
• Evaluate current recovery effort
• Active participant in DR Testing and project development
• Assist in changing Change Control to facilitate DR
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement

Environment: Miscellaneous Client Server, Mainframe, and Mid-tier platforms

Confidential, New York City, New York

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Consultant, Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Develop BCM Program (Program Manager)
• Act a subject matter expert for DR and BCP
• Evaluate customers current recovery effort (all aspects of the infrastructure, Network, Data Center, Storage, Security, plan maintenance, PMO, and change management)
• Act a subject matter expert for DR/BCP
• Active participant in BCM Steering
• Conduct evaluations of Recovery sites and contracts
• Assist in changing Change Control to facilitate BCM
• Acted as Project Manager
• Design plan to comply with both US and Canada Banking regulations on both a state (province) and federal level (CFPB, FDIC, FFIEC, OCC, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and others
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement

Environment: Miscellaneous Client Server, Mainframe, and Mid-tier platforms

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Consultant, Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Insure compliance of DR
• Act a subject matter expert for DR and BCP
• Evaluate customers current recovery effort
• Identify and develop strategies based RTO and RPO
• Conduct audits of customer recovery/continuity efforts
• Act as intermediary between Confidential and third party for Data Center relocation, consolidation and outsourcing as it concerns DR/BCP
• Review backup strategies

Environment: Client Server, Mainframe, and Mid-tier platforms, Data Protection Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA & Research Triangle Park, NC

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Consultant, Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Develop BCM program Governance
• Act a subject matter expert for DR and BCP
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement
• Develop Crisis Management/Response Plan for IT
• Member of BCM Steering committee
• Evaluate customers current recovery effort
• Identify and develop strategies based RTO and RPO (Network, redundant Data Center)
• Conduct audits of customer recovery/continuity efforts
• Develop BCM Lifecycle
• Instuitionalised BCM in Corporate polices (PMO, Change, and SDLC)
• Review backup strategies

Environment: Miscellaneous Client Server, Mainframe, and Mid-tier platforms

Confidential

Principal Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop DR/BCP program for presentation to current and potential customers
• Evaluate and recommend recovery facility options
• Work with network team to harden Wan and LAN
• Develop Pandemic Planning offering
• Worked with Facilities to Harden Data Center, and tighten access
• Develop plan for STC middle east Call center
• Develop Crisis Management/Response Planning
• Represent Company to Clients
• Support consultants located on-site at customer facilities
• Assist sales in preparing RFP’s, RFQ’s, & SOW’s
• Evaluate customer recovery centers
• Conduct audits of customer recovery/continuity efforts
• Subject Matter Expert for Confidential Company
• Review backup strategies
• Identify and develop strategies based RTO and RPO

Environment: Miscellaneous Client Server, Mainframe, and Mid-tier platforms

Confidential, Washington, DC

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review Current disaster recovery/Business Continuity Plan
• Evaluate and recommend recovery facility options
• Review Pandemic Plans
• Identify and develop strategies based RTO and RPO
• Review various Crisis Management/Response Plans
• Review backup strategies
• Test Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plans
• Audit /Business Continuity plans
• Report Finding to Senior Command
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement
• Evaluate recovery data centers (including Computing equipment, Network, storage systems, and security
• Subject Matter Expert

Environment: Client Server, Mainframe, and Mid-tier platforms, Data Protection Manager

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Disaster Recovery Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review Current disaster recovery efforts
• Develop Disaster Recovery plans
• Develop Plan for Pandemic event
• Implement Recovery plans
• Evaluate and recommend recovery facility options
• Define Applications recovery teams
• Design, and populate new recovery center
• Develop Backup Strategies and Methodology.
• Review Third party agreements to ensure compliance with Corporate needs, and requirement
• Design plan to comply with both US and Canada Banking regulations on both a state (province) and federal level (CFPB, FDIC, FFIEC, SEC, OCC, and others
• Develop and ensure web based application are recoverable along with network access
• Coordinate DR documentation for all of RBC’s primary companies
• Identify and develop strategies based RTO and RPO
• Subject matter expert for Toronto main bank and for RBC Capital Markets and World call center in New York City project updating testing and documentation development and procedures

Environment: NT, UNIX, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, VISIO, SAN, Mainframe

Confidential, South San Francisco, CA

Business Continuity Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review Current application recovery efforts
• Develop Disaster Recovery and Implementation Plan.
• Define all recovery teams
• Evaluate and recommend recovery facility options
• Assist with planning of the recovery of drug production
• Develop Backup Strategies and Methodology.

Environment: NT, UNIX, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, VISIO, SAN, Mainframe

Confidential, Murrey Hill, NJ

Business Continuity Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review Current application recovery efforts
• Develop applications only Disaster Recovery and Implementation Plan.
• Define Applications recovery teams
• Work with third party vendor in define application recovery requirements
• Develop Backup Strategies and Methodology.
• Team Leader

Environment: NT, UNIX, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, VISIO, SAN, Mainframe

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Lead Disaster Recover/Business Continuity Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop Disaster Recovery and Implementation Plan.
• Aid in creation of recovery teams
• Defined roll of Command in a disaster
• Conduct extensive Risk/Threat Assessment
• Develop Alternate Recovery Site
• Actively participate in DSCP/DLA/DoD COOP strategy and planning groups
• Consult with security, change management/control, risk, COOP, and crisis management issues
• Outline Testing and Review Polices and Standards
• Develop a program
• Develop an awareness program for the entire command
• Develop Backup Strategies.
• Recommend to Command Operation changes in daily process to better support Disaster Recovery, which included Crisis Management.
• Created COOP plan for DSCP’s secure SIPrNET network Node
• Evaluate data security risks and recommend corrective actions to correct deficiency
• Supervise intrusion tests and oversee corrective actions to reduce risk of system intrusions

Environment: NT, UNIX, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Visio, SAN and S