I am a self directed well organized senior technical professional with excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with cross-functional teams and IT managers. I have 10+ years as a Senior iSeries technical lead to include management of people, processes, and technologies; to include: IBM AS400, iSeries, System i Administration, Engineering, and Control, Operations Management, Role swaps, OS and hardware upgrades, migrations, and operations and communications Support of multiple iSeries-Power system LPARS – HCL - Dean Foods being the latest with a total count of 19 systems (LPARS) plus an additional 16 remote stand-alone AS400sOver 9 years of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity experience with an expertise in Project Management and defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and improving all aspects of the availability of systems services within a specified budget. While at Dean Foods, as the Disaster Recovery Coordinator, was instrumental in designing, planning, creating, and testing business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plans from end to end as well as responsible for leading a companywide effort to identify and evaluate all critical systems. Designed and implemented BC/DR processes and procedures and performed cost benefit analysis on all recommended strategies and developed curricula and facilitated BC/DR training companywide. Hand selected employees from cross functional areas of Information Technology divisions to build BC/DR Teams charged with analyzing all critical systems, developing reports to document system vulnerabilities, and/or single points of failure and recommending appropriate solutions.Spearheaded the creation of six new Availability Management Processes: Asset Management, Configuration Management, Preventive Maintenance, Capacity Management, Job Control, and Business Continuity-Disaster Recovery. As Availability Management Process Owner, increased the core IT system availability from 42% to 98% within 2 years by developing standards and IT process governance and implementing ITIL best practices. Reduced the incidence of IT issues nationwide by leading an initiative to build processes to improve systems availabilityCreated company-wide policies and procedures governing corporate security, email and Internet usage, access control, physical and logical control of data, and incident response.Authored and lead the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery response plan for the escalation and coordination of recovery events in corporate environment