Gary Mccready Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Murray Hill, New Jersey

San Francisco, California, Us

As part of the Technology Resiliency Disaster Recovery team, I manage Cyber Resiliency Program project enablers, who prepare, lead, participate and follow up on exercise outcomes.

Consultant focusing on improving Business Resilience for corporations and non-profits, includingCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY, Hillside, NJ 2024Reviewed IT department of 300MM food distribution non-profit recommending strategies to improve resilience.- Assessed tier 1 applications to determine needs for security, performance, recovery, and support.- Met with business stakeholders to advocate for improvements in IT operations and continuity plans.- Reviewed past impactful events with current and future risks to the business developing impact analyses. - Reviewed backup methods and disaster recovery plans, recommended enhancements, and testing processes.- Developed policies and strategies to satisfy issues from IT security audits including third-party assistance.

Tokyo, Jp

Promoted to build teams supporting the Americas, Europe and Japan focused on enterprise storage and data protection and resiliency. Managed 13 staff and consultants in New Jersey, London and Ireland. Wrote organization policies for backup and security. Managed multiple technology refreshes and migrations. Architecture role for Data Protection.Infrastructure Operations Management-Management of 19 storage and backup platforms from seven brands for core banking group and planning responsibility for data protection. Supported nine subsidiaries in US, EMEA and Japan.- Support over 100 staff on server, converged, cloud, monitoring, and incident and resilience management teams.- Drove or supported seven group-wide infrastructure refreshes, datacenter migrations, and digital transformation. - Primary point of contact for nine vendors providing services to platforms managed by the team, including contract negotiation, budgeting, purchasing, troubleshooting, escalation, and reviews against defined SLA’s. - Maintained 12 internal and vendor roadmaps, and 26 technology, management and VAR escalation charts. - Managed over 160 weekly service and trouble tickets with ServiceNow under an ITIL-like framework.Operational Resilience-Ran and participated in over 60 recovery tests meeting the recovery time objective in more than 90% of tests.-Led 12 weekly and monthly meetings on disaster recovery planning, active/active server design, ransomware response and recovery, root cause analysis and change control with over 120 invited staff from 21 groups.-Provided first, second and third level support 24x7 with 15 minute to four hour response timeframes.-Created a 12 metric change risk evaluation matrix to rank potential impact for practitioners and approvers.-Supported a seven tier SLA approach to implement data snapshots, replication, and data protection. -Maintained 21 skillset matrices with over 100 elements to track platform, process and course mastery for staff.

Tokyo, Jp

Hired to automate reliable processes to reduce response time to events and maintain SLA’s for business applications and internal support needs. Also, to mentor and prepare staff for further leadership opportunities.- Reduced staffing support for nine OpenVMS Montran systems staffing by half while maintaining 24/7 support- Started HP EVA array management team and grew environment to 14 arrays and over 120 servers, 50% replicated. - Took over management of four EMC Symmetrix arrays, migrating to nine EMC VMAX platforms with 100% uptime.

New York, New York, Us

Sole systems administrator for 35 OpenVMS servers and storage arrays within a multi-fabric storage area network - Trained several staff members to provide backup support.- Managed critical vendor support for systems that provided the primary market for US bond trading.- Redesigned business recovery environment after World Trade Center disaster.

Us

Member of a team of four VMS systems managers for over 120 production and development systems. - Migrated OpenVMS systems from VAX to Alpha platforms with no downtime and built out new systems.- Participated in Disaster Recovery Exercises and Change Management meetings.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Recruited and relocated by pre-ipo startup to manage real time currency trading systems - Migration of systems cross-country and to new O/S without production downtime.- Trained support and sales staff in application functions.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed all aspects of operations on over 25 OpenVMS systems for quantitative trading and decision support. - Installed all systems and provided application support to trading staff.