Kenneth Johnson

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Windsor, NJ *****

609-***-****

acrzff@r.postjobfree.com

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, NY, NY (FT) 6/2013 – 8/2015

Director Continuity Planning

Manage and oversee the technology, business and vendor Disaster Recovery (DR) functions. Worked with technology/business teams to develop and test; BIAs, recovery plans and crisis management procedures. This increased focus aided in the successful testing of (4) companywide and (2) industry wide regulatory reviews, which satisfied the firms operational and regulatory program readiness.

Fully integrated with the firm’s Risk Management team and engaged in business recovery/vendor assessments, regulatory directives (CFTC, SEC, SOX) and risk initiatives (ie: single point of failure, out of region support modeling, DC reviews, change management enhancement, AWS for DRaAS).

Northshore LIJ Health Systems (FT) 4/2012 -6/2013

Disaster Recovery Manager

Designed the health system’s BCP/DR program, this included the review of current and future recovery technology solutions, while managing a team of (4) DR analysts. Worked with hospital CIO’s to develop, evaluate and manage; BIA’s, playbooks, vendor assessments, crisis management procedures, recovery plans and change management, while ensuring regulatory compliance standards (HIPPA, HiTech) by maintaining internal policies and procedures.

Business DimensionZ/BCBS Michigan (Consultant) 12/2011- 4/2012

Disaster Recovery Solutions Architect

Consulted for a major healthcare company worked to define program gaps and elevate the firm’s readiness for upcoming DR tests, while providing guidance for their existing BCP /DR program. Mapped out dependencies for critical systems infrastructure, while project managing remediation work and integrating DR into their Change Management process. Validated design considerations, enhanced recovery, ensure regulatory standards (HIPPA) and crisis communications of the program. Facilitated various management activities, project plans and budgeting of the overall program.

Susquehanna Investment Group (SIG) (FT) 7/2004 – 9/2011

BCP and Datacenter Manager

Developed and maintained the firm’s DR program and DC operations. Interfacing with business and IT groups to maintain the firms DR program; performing pre-analysis functions (BIA, risk assessments) for technology/business processes and applications.

Oversaw the firms DC Ops team, comprising of (18) admins, which supported backups, systems monitoring, job scheduling, upgrades, MAC and projects within the (3) datacenters and (10) co-location sites. Led various enterprise initiatives; new/existing DC build outs, capacity trending (power/cooling/space), power downs, cabling upgrades, storage/network /market data expansion and server consolidation/virtualization efforts.

Perotsystems/UBS (FT) 7/1998 – 7/2004

Disaster Recovery & IT Facilities Manager

Oversaw a global bank’s Disaster Recovery/BCP Program in the Americas region and managed UBS’ (4) US datacenter infrastructure. Managed all DR/BCP functions and supported multiple tests and audits (Federal and State). Managed large scale programs like; infrastructure decommissioning, site power downs and DC consolidation efforts.

Instinet Corporation (Reuters) (FT) 3/1994 – 7/1998

Director Network Operation and Disaster Recovery

Managed the network operation team, consisting of 14 support techs in (3) datacenters. Monitored and maintained the firms network infrastructure, while managing a staff of (4) DR analysts, which supported the firms DR, Y2K, and Security programs. Established a number of companywide processes like; change management and major outage reporting.

Thomson Financial (FT) 9/1993 – 3/1994

Director Network Technology

Designed and planned Thomson's corporate network infrastructure. This included capacity planning of their network infrastructure, other duties included the creation/submittal of proposals to management (IP multicasting, DC expansion and risk assessments) and project managing various initiatives; restacks, critical power audits, DC expansion projects and DR testing.

Shark Information Services (FT) 2/1984 – 9/1993

Manager of Network Services

Oversaw market data provider’s network and field operations groups, management responsibilities included the ongoing operational support of a real-time market data network and client base infrastructure and developed and established the firm’s Disaster Recovery (DR) program.

Education

U.S. Navy Electronics program (2-year technical degree program)

AMA – MS Project Office 1&2

IBM – Core Networking, SNA/SDLC Design, TCP/IP, X25

ATT - Frame Relay, Structured cabling, WAN design & planning

Cisco - Enterprise security, TCP/IP Multicast, IP4/6 Standards

HP - UNIX security, Openview, SAN/NAS solutions, Virtualization, HPSM

Pink Elephant – ITIL Foundation certification

FEMA – ICS Training (100, 200, 300, 400, 700)

Certification

Certified Business Contingency Planner

ITIL - foundation 1

HIPPA & Hitech Base Compliant

Toolset Experience

UC4, Tidal, MIR3, MS Project, CA Project Suite, Remedy, JIRA, Sharepoint, Confluence, xMatterrs, Fusion, LDRPS, Tripwire, Splunk

Professional Associations

Contingency Planners Exchange (CPE) Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI)

Securities Industry Association (SIA) Association of Contingency Planners (ACP)

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