Richard Savage Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Mississauga, Ontario

- Established and continue to maintain the IT Risk Management process- Continue to operate the Change Management program as outlined below- Project Manager for the introduction of a Data Classification process, supported by Azure Information Protection- Developer of a Computer Security Incident Response Program (CSIRP)

Mississauga, On

- Maintain the Change Management policy, process, required documentation and related procedures. - Develop Change documentation templates: including test plan, implementation plan, back out plan, risk assessment and communication plan. - Ensure that all submitted changes are complete per the policy and process before being approved. - Assess all Standard and Emergency changes for impact on the business and IT services, preventing the introduction of unauthorized changes or changes which represent an unacceptable risk to the reliable delivery of services. - Ensure a Post Implementation Review is conducted for Changes, providing feedback on corrective or preventative actions as needed. - Report Change Management metrics, Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors as required.

Barrie, Ontario

- Plan and design VBA solutions for organizations looking to leverage the tools they already have for a better and more cost-effective result.- Specialize in creating VBA tools for business continuity planning and change detection.

*The title for this position changed from Manager, IT Standards and Compliance in April 2009.- Management of Internal IT auditors and responsible for steering the IT Department successfully towards Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Saved $1 million on the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance by in-house effort. Saved an additional $800,000 over eight successive audits by directing high quality internal audits that allowed external auditors to accept our work as their own, reducing their billable hours.- Worked closely with the IT Department toward performing remediation, and maturing the operation/efficiency of IT processes.- Compiled and tested pandemic business continuity plans for Canada-wide operations, and managed the disaster recovery planning and testing effort for Corus Radio, Toronto. Plans were drawn upon during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.- Devised the risk assessment and reporting method and database used by the Enterprise Risk Management Committee.

Toronto, Canada Area

Oversaw two Project Managers responsible for the smooth management of system upgrades. Also managed an IT Inventory Controller, Technical Writer/Trainer and the Supervisor, Security and Control.Responsible for creating and implementing a Sarbanes-Oxley IT audit plan as the regulation became imposed upon Corus. Solid work in this area resulted in acquisition by the Risk and Compliance Department to perform annual IT audits as Manager, IT Standards and Compliance .

- Managed twelve Level 1 and Level 2 personnel in Toronto, Calgary, and Ireland.- Implemented a self-serve knowledgebase.- Implemented an online purchasing centre for IT-related items.- Implemented ITIL certifications, and best practices framework.- Created in-house classroom training.- Selected desktop hardware and software for the corporation.- Conducted quarterly user-satisfaction surveys.- Satisfied a user base of 2,500.

- Responsible for the creation or implementation of IT systems.- Maintained, and modernized the Corus line of in-house applications.- Analyzed and made recommendations for new applications.- Oversaw the smooth integration of WTN Business Systems data into Corus.

- Wrote a complete commercial playback automation system for TSN.- Wrote a video playback system allowing TSN producers to quickly recall looping video backgrounds during live and pre-recorded productions.- Wrote a sports ticker program for TSN and RDS, collecting data from three newswire sources, and manual entry.- Wrote sports time and score indicators (known as score bugs) for CTV, TSN, and RDS. The program controls a Chyron Maxine!, and was featured in the “Basic Heroes” column of the August 1999 issue of Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal.- Created a broadcast inventory system used by TSN, CTV, D.A.V.E., and Dome Productions.