Francisco Molina Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

As the Interim Associate Vice President for Enterprise Risk Management and Chief Risk Officer for Carnegie Mellon University oversees Environmental Health and Safety, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, Emergency Preparedness and Risk Operations. These teams support the mission, values and strategic objectives of the university by sustaining and enhancing a safe and healthy environment and supporting organizational resiliency with a risk-conscious culture. Oversees the development and deployment of risk management tools and practices across the university and leads a cross-functional group to provide risk intelligence to university leadership and inform strategic decision-making.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

As Senior Director of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity role, he provides strategic guidance, essential tools and robust governance that align with the university’s mission and risk tolerance. This ensures that critical services can persist even in the face of disasters or significant business disruptions.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Conduct operational risk assessments as part of the Enterprise Risk Management function, generating executive reports collaborating with business partners and organizational leadership to generate thoughtful risk management conversations to define priorities according to the organization's risk appetite. • Develop and implement a multi-year strategic roadmap for Emergency Management, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity aligned with the overall organization's strategic plan. • Design, implement and maintain a resiliency program framework based on best practices and standards. • Lead the execution of Business Impact Analyses to generate a clear and consistent understanding of business priorities, functional dependencies and continuity/recovery requirements and strategies. • Design and deliver training and awareness education to program stakeholders and the community at large. • Lead and collaborate with partners in the ongoing maintenance and exercising of emergency, continuity, and technology response plans. • Act as EOC facilitator during an emergency or planned event response activating the appropriate emergency, business continuity and/or disaster recovery plans.• Manage and provide direction for the creation, coordination, facilitation, and communication of Crisis Management. Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery exercises, including after-action/lessons learned and action items for resolution. • Manage continuous improvement and risk remediation initiatives and projects following Six Sigma and Project Management practices. • Manage personnel and budget.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Assessed business needs and priorities conducting business impact analysis and defined high-level IT business requirements resulting in the identification of areas of improvement and initiatives to close gaps.• Established a business resiliency framework based on based practices (such as ISO 22301, NFPA 1600, CERT-RMM) covering all aspects of business and technology resiliency consistent with laws and regulations.• Developed technology and business resiliency plans covering resiliency strategies, procedures, and dependencies including customers, people, vendors, systems and technology and critical records. • Established a risk management approach (ORM) to identify risks and facilitate investments decisions to mitigate resiliency risks and set business expectations about current vs. desired capabilities.• Collaborated with Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, and Infrastructure teams to analyze our current infrastructure, systems, network, data backups/replication, and desktop recovery capabilities, identifying gaps/risks and remediation plans. • Defined, in collaboration with the Safety and Security area and HR, a process to align our safety response and crisis response to events. • Planned and conducted exercises (tabletops and drills) by business area as well as integrated annual exercises in all our sites to practice procedures and identify opportunities for improvement.• Activated plans and responded to several types of business interruptions weather, technology, and human-made incidents such severe winter weather, tornadoes, hurricanes, cyber, safety and technology incidents impacting the continuity of operations.

Northfield, Vt, Us

Adjunct Faculty in the School of Graduate and Continuing Studies - Master of Science in Business Continuity. Norwich University – The Military College of Vermont is a private university located in Northfield, Vermont (USA). It is the oldest private military college in the United States. Norwich University's population is almost completely a Corps of Cadets but also includes a traditional student body and a School of Graduate and Continuing Studies.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

• Implemented the overall resiliency and security controls framework based on best practices, legal/compliance requirements, and corporate requirements.• Implementation of systems to manage mass notifications, plans, and crisis response.• As part of the Operational Risk Management organization identified and reported risks to support the executive decision making defining resiliency priorities and investments.• Defined an executive steering committee to provide feedback and program support clarifying current recovery capabilities vs. desired and options to close the gaps.• Conducted business impact and risk assessment to identify business priorities and resources dependencies.• Implemented and managed mass notification and plans administration tools and systems.• Conducted risk assessments and established process and capabilities metrics in all our locations.• Designed, planned and executed technology and business exercises. • Managed enterprise business and technology availability as well as data privacy and protection projects from initiation to closing.• Planned and conducted exercises for crisis management teams, business plans, technology recovery covering a variety of scenarios.• Responded to major events such as the 2008 floods in Cedar Rapids IA, Hurricane Sandy.• Conducted Operations and Information Technology due diligence to expand AEGON’s presence in Latin-America: Mexico and Brazil.Other prior experience within the AEGON Group Seguros Banamex AEGON Mexico City, MexicoDirector, Information Technology/Model Office Assistant Director • Established, planned, and managed the overall policies and goals for all functions of the information technology department. • Analyzed the needs of the business and established priorities for feasibility studies, systems design, and implementation to develop new and/or modify information processing systems.• Oversaw the operating and capital expense budget and a 105-employee organization.

Chief Risk Officer (Cro) Certificate

Ph.D., Information Sciences

Master Certificate, Executive Leadership

Master Of Science, Administration

School Of Business, Professional & Executive Development, Agile Project Management

Professional Development, Project Management Professional - Center For Technology & Management Education

Professional Development, Executive Communication

Graduate Diploma, System Dynamics

Diplomado, Evaluación De Proyectos De Inversión

B.E., Industrial Engineering