Project Manager Resume
Barrington, IL
SUMMARY:
Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Specialist with significant progressive experience designing and implementing comprehensive DR plans in Open and Mainframe systems for Fortune 500 and private companies. Excellent analytical, problem solving, project management and communication skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint; LDRPS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Barrington, IL
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading IT application team’s in designing, implementing and testing disaster recovery plans across multiple data centers in the U.S.
- Conducted pretest disaster recovery meetings, to review current plans and configurations and ensure the proper pieces were in place for the upcoming test
- Coordinated disaster recovery exercises
- Conducted and reported on post - mortem meetings, tracked and resolved test issues, and ensured DR plans were updated after DR drills
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Disaster Recovery Architect
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading onshore and offshore team’s in designing and implementing disaster recovery plans across multiple data centers and / or at third party data centers.
- Worked with IBM and SunGard in contracting equipment for declared disaster and Disaster recovery tests.
- Ensured the different technical groups created disaster recovery processes and procedures that could be executed by outside personnel with similar skillsets
- Coordinated disaster recovery exercises for Open Systems. iSeries, and Mainframe systems
- Conducted and reported on post-mortem meetings, tracked and resolved test issues, and ensured DR plans were updated after DR drills
- Assisted with gathering business impact analysis forms along with reviewing and validating the information for customers
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Disaster Recovery Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for validating and testing high and low available system’s disaster recovery plans across multiple data centers and at third party sites. .
- Analyzed business systems and made recommendations for disaster plans
- Coordinated with vendors in contracting equipment in the event of a declared disaster
- Work with different technical groups to ensure their recovery processes and procedures were created and current
- Coordinated disaster recovery exercises for Open Systems and Mainframe systems
- Conducted and reported on post-mortem meetings, tracked and resolved test issues, and ensured DR plans were updated after DR drills
- Led meetings with different departments to create and / or update business impact analysis forms validating the information
- Reviewed and developed business continuity plans for departments within Willis Tower
- Provided and tested with support groups for emergency aircraft incidents
Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL
Disaster Recovery Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed business systems and made recommendations for disaster plans
- Led teams in designing and implementing high available disaster recovery plans across multiple data centers
- Coordinated with vendors in contracting equipment in the event of a declared disaster.
- Worked with different technical groups to ensure their recovery processes and procedures were current
- Coordinated disaster recovery exercises for Open Systems, AS400, and Mainframe systems
- Conducted and reported on post-mortem meetings, tracked and resolved test issues, and ensured DR plans are updated after DR drills
Media Management / Networker System Administrator
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Maintained mainframe system storage
- Reviewed, planned, and presented new mainframe storage policies and procedures
- Maintained mainframe system backups and assisted in disaster recovery plans
- Managed the NetWorker 7.1.1 and AlphaStor 3.0.4 backup server
- Managed 300 nightly backups using modules Unix, NDMP, Oracle, and Lotus Notes
- Managed NetWorker and AlphaStor storage polices, pools, drives, and schedules
- Installed new UNIX server backups and storage nodes
- Tested and implemented NetWorker and AlphaStor fixes as needed
