Project Manager Management

Raymond Jean

Email: abpghg@r.postjobfree.com

Address: ** ****** *****

City: West Hartford

State: CT

Zip: 06117

Country: USA

Phone: 860-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: 90

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Job History / Details:

iSummary

Business Solutions Executive, Certified Senior Managing Consultant, Project Manager and Engagement Leader within IBM Global Technology Services and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Specialist with Sungard Consulting Services. Other titles within other organizations include Vice President of Consulting Services and Sales Director.

I have an outstanding record of selling and billable hours in my 15 years in the business resiliency, risk management and crisis management field. I provided consulting services for more than 100 companies worldwide in most sectors.

I trained and mentored numerous consultants. Some of my clients include major consulting firms such as Northrop Grumman, Intekras, Lower Associate, McKinsey, Marsh & McLennan and Gartner Group and corporate industry firms such as CIGNA, Lincoln Financial, GEICO, Fleet Bank, Duetsche Bank, Bank United, VISA International, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of Japan, Ekonomi Bankasi

Skills

Consulting Sales; Presentations; Application Development and Testing; LDRPS Software Tool; Risk Assessments; Business Impact Analysis; Work Group Recovery; Mapping business requirements to Recovery Strategies; Developing department and IT Recovery Plans; Crisis Management Plans; Plan Analysis; Table Top Exercise; Lotus and Microsoft Tool Suites and MS Share Point usage.

professional highlights

Marketing and Sales

Developed Statements of Work / Proposals for consulting services

In pricing engagement I determined the skill set requirements, number of hours to complete the engagement at an hourly rate or fix price engagement.

Provided consulting sale support and assisted the consulting team to meet target dates. I am a firm believer in team support.

Consulting

Performed Business Impact Analysis & Risk Assessments, developed business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management plans for over 100 companies worldwide. I led technical engagements such as the creation of recovery scripts for various systems - Sun Solaris, AS400, RS6000, DEC VAX, etc. for a company consolidating five data centers to two as well as developing application recovery plans in LDRPS and project managed and led numerous business continuity and disaster recovery engagements.

Received numerous awards for client satisfaction, follow-on business and gaining client references. I was written up in Forbes, Hoovers D&B Company, Dow Jones Market Watch, Financial Services News, Biz Journal, Excite Money & Investing, Los Angeles Times, and Homeland Security Press when I left IBM to start a consulting business for an international risk and compliance company.

Distinguished Service Award for Supporting U.S. Dept, of Homeland Security.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sungard disaster recovery COnsulting services Nov 2011- Present

Disaster Recovery Consultant Cigna Health Insurance

Created Cignaaiis application, server and infrastructure recovery plans in LDRPS based upon BIA results.

The Hartford financial Services, Hartford, CT Oct 2009 - Nov 2011

Service Continuity Specialist

Created the Workgroup Recovery Plan in Strohl LDRPS, planned Command and Control logistics and assigned and led applications quarterly testing for Wealth Management valued at $1.5b.

Independent Consultant Mar 2009 aii Oct 2009

Center Point Security, Lowers & Associates, Intekras, Northrup and Grumman

Performed Risk and Security Assessment for McGillaiis Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital and provided risk/threat mitigation recommendations. I developed the State of Virginiaaiis Disaster Recovery and COOP plans for the State of Virginia.

Risk Watch, Inc., Annapolis, MD Dec 2007 aii Nov 2008

Vice President Consulting Services

Created a consulting practice from the ground up specializing in business continuity and disaster recovery consulting, risk and regulatory compliance assessments such as ISO27001/2 and HIPAA as it relates to IT.

Developed numerous Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Project Plans with tasks, schedule and assignment clearly defined.

Built a contingency of independent consultants and provided sale training to sale staff to qualify and sell business continuity consulting services.

Performed and led numerous regulatory compliance assessment engagements.

Trained sales staff for qualifying continuity and recovery consulting opportunities.

IT CRISIS SERVICES, Woodland Hills, CA Jul 2007 aii Oct 2007

Business Solutions Executive (Contractual Assignment)

Developed new business opportunities and business partnership focusing on crisis management.

Worked with Crisis Team in preparation of a disaster.

Sold IT crisis services for companies throughout the world such as Emergency Equipment Acquisition and Immediate Readiness (coordinate crisis management activities with government officials, insurance companies and emergency personnel.

IBM aii Global Technology Services, Armonk, NY Jul 1998 aii Jun 2007

Principal, Products and Solutions Specialist, and Certified Professional Consultant

Exceeded consulting 75% utilization targets by more than 10% -15%.

Consultant and Project Manager for numerous complex engagements such as data center consolidation, developing recovery scripts for most platforms, i.e., Sub Solaris, IBM AIX, Intel Windows, DEC Alpha, etc.

Assessed disaster recovery & business continuity plans for best practice.

Created and facilitated Table Top Disaster Recovery Exercises.

Created the Risk, Compliance and Security Assessment and Crisis Management Plan development consulting methodology.

Created the Risk Management class for South Africa Risk Management Society with worldwide attendance and for IBM with global with attendance exceeding 500.

Created, sold and performed assessments in security, risk and regulatory compliance, i.e., HIPAA, SOX, ISO 17799 and ISO 27001/2 as part of the IBM Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery consulting practice.

Presented continuity and recovery solutions to executives.

Closed over 100 consulting opportunities and perform more than 100 consulting engagements.

AFFILIATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS

Association of Continuity Planners (ACP) - Connecticut Chapter, International Consortium for Organizational, Resilience (ICOR), Business Resilience Certified Consortium International (BRCCI), Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), Northeast Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (NEDRIX), Computer Measurement Group (CMG), Alpha Beta Gamma National Business Honor Society, IBM Cisco Project Review Board, CIO Executive Council.

Certified, Member of the American Legion and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

PUBLICATIONS

Capacity planning for disaster recovery (Computer Management Group newsletter)

Risk Management consulting methodology (IBM Newsletters)

Crisis Management Planning (published in the fall 2004)

Quoted in crisis management books by Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell

Press Release in Forbes, Hoovers D&B Company, Dow Jones Market Watch, Financial Services News, Biz Journal, Excite Money & Investing, Los Angeles Times, Homeland Security Press.

PRESENTATIONS

Combining Business Impact Analysis with Risk Assessment, 2004 DRJ Conference

Business Resilience and HIPAA Requirements, New England HIPAA Group

Business Continuity and Risk Assessments Topics, Summit Conferences

Presented and facilitated the Executive Insurance Forum on business continuity

Computer Measurement Group and Local User Groups on business continuity

Military

Company A 26th Aviation Battalion, Crew Chief on flight status, door gunner, air craft maintenance, crew lead. Honorable discharge.

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