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Chattanooga, Tn, Us

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 the Privacy and Security Office to ensure full compliance with all federal and state regulatory and audit requirements.• 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 recovery plans and conducted the first ever successful datacenter recovery test.• 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, maintenance and testing of all technology recovery plans from creation to validation testing. Provided guidance on recovery strategy solutions (IaaS, Paas, SaaS and Cloud) for all new and existing systems, including managed solution vendors.• 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 Recovery test, resulting in over 98% of tested objectives being completed successfully.- perform gap analysis and risk assessments to identify opportunities for improvement of DR processes and procedures. - Researched and guided the selection for a new offsite tape storage vendor and created Enterprise backup standards policies.- Led the integration of DR plan updates into the corporate Change Management process.- Created and delivered an Enterprise Backup Standards policy. - Coordinated the design, development, maintenance, and exercising of the overall disaster recovery plans for each critical functional area of the organization. - Facilitates the development of recovery plans to support new applications and hardware systems.

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 Objectives (RTOs).• 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 Recovery exercises. • 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, testing and policy administration.- Continuously maintained and updated six global DR Plans with personnel, equipment and infrastructure changes. - Reviewed and negotiated annual service support vendor contracts to ensure adequate coverage for all critical IT resources.

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 procedures for over 250 assigned systems.- Planned and coordinated for multiple relocations for an entire IT Maintenance Facility for extended remote operations without an interruption of service.

Bsit, Networking & Telecommunications

As, Electronics Technology

As, Leadership & Management