Experienced in enabling IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) and Business Continuity (BC) Program, spearheaded a $70MM program to address FHFA Regulatory and Compliance audit to address the effectiveness of the business continuity and disaster recovery programs. Established an Out-Of-Region Disaster Recovery Data Center and revamped BC plans to support the full recovery of core infrastructure and business applications.
Specialities
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Executive, Board and Regulator Presentations
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Business Impact Analysis
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Development and Maintenance of Business Contingency/Disaster Recovery Plans
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Risk Management
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Audits and Regulatory Compliance
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Testing, Training, and Exercises
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Business Recovery
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After Action Reports Disaster Recovery
Highlights
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Collaborated with Enterprise Risk, Business lines, Information Technology and Information Security office to ensure business continuity plans were developed, appropriately tested to ensure reasonableness and validity to ensure operational readiness. This includes ensuring that all plans are in alignment and current with each other.
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Led BIA assessments, working teams across the enterprise to define critical time sensitive systems and business functions, appropriate Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives (RTO & RPO)
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Delivered IT Contingency Plans providing overall management in DR program capabilities regarding applications, infrastructure recovery, information security, crisis management, and disaster recovery compliance/audit initiatives.
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Proactively identified potential risks; assesses their relative impact to the organization; and collaborates with others to ensure formation of a strategic approach to proactively address them as appropriate and ensure the Company’s ability to resume business at all times.
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Ensured supplier business continuity and disaster recovery risks were understood and considered by the business. Partnered with IT Procurement and IT governance to ensure vendor health assessments were done as part of new acquisitions and contract negotiations.
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Created a strong partnership within Information Technology to ensure end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery were considered for all new application and technology deployments and correct SLA’s and OLA’s were in place.
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Provided business and technical guidance to senior and executive staff, business continuity team members, enterprise staff, and subcontractors relative to business continuity; lead the development and reporting of key indicator metrics for the program; in collaboration with others, planed, directed, monitored, and participated in the development of program projects and analysis; ensures compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
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Facilitated ongoing review, management and resolution of business continuity problems involving one or more business areas, systems and/or functions. This includes collaborating with others and facilitating the process of defining problems and implementing solutions. Consistently demonstrates the use of ingenuity and creativity by making recommendations and taking actions to direct the analysis and solutions of problems.
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Coordinated pre-planning of and response if necessary of enterprise-wide events that impact enterprise business continuity.