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Chattanooga, TN, US

Knoxville, TN, US

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Provides leadership and guidance for the implementation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program to ensure critical business programs and supporting applications maintain availability. Works closely with.
• Developed a new Continuity program by conducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment to establish Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).* Developed 19 new technology.
• Implemented a new alert notification system, AssuranceNM, to ensure efficient communications during emergencies.

* Successfully planned and led ten complex recovery tests for critical systems, recovering all within RTOs.* Provide guidance for cloud migration strategy for enterprise Disaster Recovery solutions.

Newport News, Virginia, US

• Provided leadership and guidance for the implementation of Disaster Recovery program to ensure critical business applications and platforms maintain availability. Managed and coordinated for the development.
• Implemented the IT resiliency program including identifying critical business processes, prioritizing recovery of supporting applications, and creating and testing new recovery plans to mitigate risks.
• Conducted a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) of top 40 business units to identify and minimize gaps.
• Achieved true alignment with the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs with executive Risk Management sponsorship and reporting of policy, planning and testing.
• Deployed a new recovery planning software tool AssuranceCM, and an alert notification system.
• Contributed towards $100M expansion of business by providing verifiable proof of program maturity.

Lakeland, Florida, US

Implement and manage the Disaster Recovery program to ensure all business applications and platforms maintain availability. Develop, maintain and test mainframe and distributed technology recovery plans. - Designed and implemented an Enterprise Disaster Recovery program utilizing BCM methodology.- Plan and coordinates annual Datacenter failover Disaster.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Responsible for staff management, development and implementation of all corporate Business Continuity policies and planning covering crisis management, business continuance and IT disaster recovery.
• Established a program for Enterprise’s Business Continuity based on ISO22301 code of practice standards for BC Management.
• Implemented corporate-wide emergency notification solution reducing alert notification by 85%.
• Coordinated and conducted Business Impact Analysis to identify vulnerabilities and reduce risks to critical business processes for integration of overall business continuity strategies within established Recovery Time.
• Successfully planned and led the first-ever testing of the company crisis management plan identifying gaps in coverage and redundant responsibilities.

• Assigned as a contractor for IBM Global Services on the AT&T account and performed Disaster Recovery planning to coordinate and organize resources for Midrange systems and large-scale Mainframe platform Disaster.
• Managed the development for new DR plans creation, culminating with the walk-thru exercise to ensure all resource and technical details were complete.
• Planned and conducted the longest scheduled mainframe recovery test lasting over five months, including more than 20 applications for recovery.
• Led the development of a planning project to document and outline the process for creating and testing DR plans for use by the entire service line.
• Standardized the audit and approval process for the DR plan database using LDRPS.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Responsible for establishing and creating disaster recovery and corporate security program standards by identifying requirements for data recovery, risk analysis and acceptance, policy administration, and access controls. - Administered and coordinated all disaster recovery initiatives including plan creation, maintenance and documentation using LDRPS.

Arlington, Virginia, US

During multiple assignments performed duties as supervisor of IT technical maintenance facility and instructor of advancement-required leadership development courses and computer network and administration training courses.- Managed, trained and issued daily work assignments for 25 electronic communications technicians on efficient and standardized.

Bsit, Networking & Telecommunications

As, Electronics Technology

As, Leadership & Management