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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 enterprise-wide events ensuring operations and customer support were maintained.Accomplishments:• 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 contact for all information. Collaborated Covid response with stakeholders across the organization. • 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 the development, exercising and updating of all recovery procedures and protocols supporting the recovery strategy. Ensured recovery capabilities remained concurrent with the recovery requirements of individual business functions and other domestic and global lines of business to which Mercedes-Benz USA provides critical IT Services..Accomplishments:• 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 information technology to identify , plan and deliver conceptual, logical and physical business continuity and cyber security deliverables to meet corporate and local objectives. Managed multiple broad scope complex projects and thus creating value to each brand and corporate entity.

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 manage the program thus creating a strategic and competitive advantage within the markets served.Accomplishments:• 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 critical activities. • 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 risks, including a detailed analysis of critical supply chain risks and capabilities.

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 Bank and disruption of services to shareholders while adhering to applicable laws and regulation related to business continuity and records management. Highly effective interpersonal communicator with exceptional ability to converse with clients and to direct reports, as well as Steering Committees and fellow executives with outstanding results. Accomplishments:• 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 (Chaired) and Information Technology Governance Committee (Member). • 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