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Making WestRock more resilient by strengthening and testing Operational Technology Disaster Recovery capabilities.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Led a team of three continuity professionals to manage, develop and maintain recovery strategies and proactive solutions to address risks to critical operations. Successfully managed response to a variety of.
• Worked with counterparts to combine continuity programs resulting from a merger between Kronos and Ultimate Software including policy and plan standardization.
• Led response to Covid-19. Facilitated daily status meeting with senior executives and functional leaders and stakeholders, developed response strategies for approximately 23 various potential scenarios, key point of.
• Established a repeatable process, including necessary templates, to carry out business continuity and Disaster Recovery projects.
• Reviewed and approved functional and technical recovery plans ensuring completeness and currency.
• Developed key program and project metrics and led monthly senior and functional stakeholder updates.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Developed and executed the IT infrastructure and application recovery strategy of the Daimler North America Data Center by formalizing and transforming all aspects for the disaster recovery program, including driving.
• Managed and drove the creation of technical infrastructure recovery plans improving overall company resiliency.
• Established a governance structure to include representatives from senior Information Technology and Business management.
• Developed, designed, and implemented recovery strategies for critical infrastructure including taking advantage of cloud technology resulting in significant cost savings.
• Instituted three-year road map to ensuring the disaster recovery program continues to mature to meet the ever-evolving business needs/requirements.
• Led the development of an enterprise-wide business and application impact analysis to confirm and validate recovery time and point objectives and to identify opportunities for improve recovery capabilities.

Guided and managed the execution of program activities supporting the transformation from current state to future mature of business continuity and cyber security capabilities across the portfolio of brands. Worked and managed cross functional teams and leadership stakeholders as well as other third party partners resources within in the business and.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Transformed the global business resiliency program for the $8 billion Bottling Investment Group consisting of 19 individual bottlers and business units by following agile methodologies to establish, deploy, direct and.
• Developed and instituted a global business resiliency methodology using accepted global standards including global recovery exercise standards by deploying new recovery exercise methodologies.
• Managed a global team of business resiliency professionals establishing business resiliency programs for 19 individual bottlers and business units.
• Transformed the business resiliency program from a responsive to a proactive posture across the global enterprise.
• Successfully managed and advised during a variety of events with bottlers including natural, man-made, and technology disasters, including a four-day business resiliency event impacting Indochina while maintaining al.
• Collaborated and managed individual teams and key stakeholders located across the globe to perform qualitative and quantitative risk and impact analysis for over 3,000 critical activities that identified potential.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Directed and managed the FHLBank Atlanta’s business continuity and records management programs to ensure critical business processes can resume within a defined timeline to minimize impact and associated loss to the.
• Successfully managed yearlong project to design, construct and relocate data center of 60 servers and SAN device.
• Managed all recovery activities following an event resulting in the shutdown of the corporate data center, led hourly status meetings and updates for recovery teams, executive management and the board of directors.
• Served on several corporate and system committees including Business Continuity Governance Committee (Chair), Corporate Security Executive Committee (Secretary) and the FHLB System Business Continuity Committee.
• Developed and managed $2 million operational budget, creating significant savings by renegotiation of contracts, while improving recoverability and service.

Menlo Park, California, US

Managed a team of business continuity and disaster recovery professionals implementing enterprise-wide business continuity programs in a variety of industries.

Wayne, PA, US

Uxbridge, West London, GB

Performed independent evaluations of the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of the systems of control within the organization, and the quality of ongoing operations in accordance with Internal Audit division policies and procedures,

Mba, Information Systems Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Accounting & Finance