Kris Andreassen, Cbcp, Pmp, Itil, Acrp Email & Phone Number

Downers Grove, Illinois, United States

Remote

Program Governance & Risk ManagementCorporate Infrastructure & Security (CIS)Support DR Program Office with day to day responsibilities that include managing projects, collaborating with stakeholders, providing support and guidance, developing presentations, status reports, and project updates.• Program Management: Enhance, maintain, train, and administer DR testing guidelines, metrics, dashboards, and reporting documentation. Led enhancements to the DR program testing framework with a pro-active risk management mind-set to identify risks and recovery gaps. Continually look for opportunities to improve the Program’s processes, procedures and services when working with IT Shared Services partners and clients.• Project Management: Manage DR services requests across multiple teams, channels, and reporting lines. Maintain end to end life-cycle of project activities, status reports, risk and remediation items, and steering committee presentations.• Compliance and Audit: Lead IT SOX audit activities related to the DR planning & testing of Thermo Fisher’s critical financial applications. Managed all documentation related to 38 DR Plans, 58 applications, 86 stakeholders, and provided ongoing reports to senior leadership, DR practitioners, internal and external auditors.

Seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in Disaster Recovery (DR), Cyber Resiliency (CR), Project Management, Risk Management with an extensive technical background. Diverse work experience, including at Fortune 20 companies.Work with Business Units and all technology support areas for DR planning, testing and implementation of mainframe, cloud, web, distributed, 3rd party applications and infrastructure deployments of critical applications. Partner with Cyber Resiliency support to improve overall business resiliency. Ensure compliance to corporate / regulatory policies and standards for technical and cyber recovery planning and testing. Perform risk assessments and recovery strategy development.

Managed IT Projects for 40 + Fortune 500 corporate contracts as part of AT&T Global Network Services organization. Projects ranged from webhosting migrations, VOIP, Disaster Recovery testing, site migrations, hardware / software upgrades, etc.Instituted process improvements for a major biotechnology client. Successful process & procedure improvements have now been rolled out to other AT&T corporate accounts.

IT Project / Business Continuity Manager: Conducted event planning reviews for IT projects, including defining project scope and objectives. Managed communication with Project Sponsor and all stakeholders to keep them informed of project status. Performed risk analysis and management. Supported or coordinated support of merger related major change events. Created Standard Operating Processes and Lessons Learned documentation in compliance of Corporate or Team policies. Mentored and trained team members.Manage the disciplines, processes and techniques which provide the means for continuous operation of the essential business functions under various circumstances. Manage and facilitate the annual testing of our Infrastructure and Business for all critical functions and applications. Perform Risk Analysis and report findings to Senior Management. Facilitate and support the implementation of disaster recovery process improvement projects. Planned, coordinated, and implemented mandatory testing without major incident. Testing ranged from simple application testing to large data center outage simulations. Created a companywide standard for documenting and communicating DNS change requirements resulting in increased accuracy which allowed any DNS Administrator around the globe to quickly recognize the change requirements. Created validation and implementation change processes to minimize the number of DNS Administrators needed to support events in turn resulting in reduced costs. Led efforts to implement rapid failover options using Cisco Global Load Balancers or Global Site Selectors (GSS) to reduce recovery times. Served as a member of Corporate Business Resiliency team. Attended monthly meetings with IT and Lines Of Business management to review and propose improvements in failover efficiency related to RTO (Recovery Time Objectives).

DNS / DHCP Engineer at JPMorgan Chase 75 Wall St.

On-Site Systems Engineer at JP Morgan 60 Wall St.

Project Management

Completed, Computer Service Technology

Computer Programming

Computer Programming

Activities and Societies: Lacrosse

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