Wm Barry Haire

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Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Professional

Over 10 years’ success in planning and directing voice/data network activities in a high availability facility providing innovative Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery solutions and network recovery to fortune 500 customers. Ensure compliance with ISO 22301/BS25999 as well as ensuring DRII methodology & best practices. Technology project migration coordination for multiple customers. Business Continuity professional with a passion for Information Technology and experience leading and collaborating with project teams. Implementing and overseeing technology projects, and administering multi-million-dollar network budgets. Strong business continuity experience in mainframe, server-farm, voice-recovery and open systems environments.

• Business Continuity Planning • Disaster Recovery Testing & Validation

• Change Management • BCM Enterprise Risk & Audit

• Situation Management • Project Management

•Presentation and Negotiations • Agile Framework (SCRUM)

Elsevier Analytics – Philadelphia, PA May 2019 to January 2023

IT Resilience Lead cloud services - DR

Implementation and maintain a comprehensive IT DR program for AWS/cloud technology across the Elsevier estate. Completion of business Impact Analysis (BIA) exercises to ensure all plans are maintained in line with any changes within the business areas

●Responsible for completion of ITDR recovery procedures; work with technical teams to populate ITDR recovery procedures/plans.

●Ensure that application services recovery plans are up to date, comprehensive and reviewed periodically.

●Actively manage and coordinate testing schedules across the business unit’s objectives, exercises and reviews. Produce testing overview detailing Scope and Plans, milestones and deliverables

● Responsibility for the management of the ITDR calendar incorporating activities designed to monitor effectiveness of the ITDR framework.

●Collect and document information about current systems including application data, hardware, network and infrastructure and their dependencies to populate into Corporate CMDB.

●Conduct TIO ITDR awareness and briefings.

●Prepare, review and support approval of contractual proposals relating to all emergency response services.

●Support the closure of all audit and risk management activities.

●Develop and maintain audit parameters for DRP.

●Track progress of treatment activities in the ITDR risk register

●Track progress of activities in the incident and actions register and periodically reviews.

JP Morgan Chase – Jersey City, NJ January 2017 to April 2019

VP Data Center Resiliency Testing Lead

Responsible for providing overall coordination for large firm-wide test events, acting as the focal point for planning activities across multiple LOBs and all individual groups within Technology (e.g. desktop services, network services, distributed technology, data centers, production services, and risk and security) and also for their respective technology business continuity plan responsibilities. Expanded role responsibilities:

●includes working with the global teams, attending conference calls during normal and after normal working hours

●Lead and defines schedule for Business Continuity Management Internal Groups to develop and agree on scope for testing, business groups participating, recovery locations and applications recovering. Produces a Test Overview detailing Scope and Plan, milestones and deliverables

● Ensure compliance of Corporate Groups within Finance, HR, Compliance & Legal to JPMC resiliency policies and standards

●Represent Corporate Technology and Risk on the Regional Resiliency Committee(s), as well as interacting with regional counterparts, as needed

●Ensure all DR issues/lessons learned are recorded on appropriate corporate systems and tracked to resolution

●Ensure Technology Recovery Action Plans, Business Continuity Plans, and Business Impact Analysis's are developed and maintained in accordance with Policy and Strategy

●Assist the Corporate Business groups with development of BIAs and technology recovery plans and maintains a detailed understanding of Corporate requirements to ensure that plans are developed and maintained to the highest standards

●Interacts with the Resiliency Strategy/Governance team to ensure compliance and understanding of business scope, status, and issues for all Business Continuity Plans, Processes and Tests.

●Work with Business Aligned Continuity Manager to deliver Application Testing and Reporting including classification of applications, level of transaction/connectivity testing by application level of flow testing and identify realistic application RTOs and RTCs

●Ensures that Business Managers are aware of overall Resiliency and DR requirements, test status, deadlines and issues and can address with the businesses they support

●Understand and report on the status and capability of the business recovery, highlighting exposures, gaps, audit exceptions, and gap remediation progress

●Provide control reporting for LOBs including scorecards and metrics, identifying remediation plans to bring about resolution

●Own, support, develop/deliver the resiliency testing program for corporate groups

Dun & Bradstreet – Short Hills, NJ July 2016 to August 2016

Enterprise Risk & Audit BCM Consultant

Short term engagement role for D&B as a Business Continuity consultant to perform audit services across current BCP plans. Review policies & Procedures, Governance framework and organizational structure. Review and assess the comprehensiveness and alignment of BCM policies including recovery plan scope, objective, and format. Document and ensure best practice against BS25999 & ISO22301 and DRII methodology are applied. Review, BIA, IMT, Crisis management plans. Review completed BCP plans for accuracy. Make recommendations. Review BIA walkthrough process with teams and document finding and Business Protector tool usage.

Ralph Lauren – New York, NY October 2015 to July 2016

Disaster Recovery – IT – Resiliency PM

The role of the Disaster Recovery Program Manager is the coordination and implementation of the DR strategy for the ecommerce environment currently housed at the EBay data center and moving this environment into the AWS cloud facility in northern VA with a secondary site in Oregon. Ensure the failover capabilities in the Oregon environments are tested. Creation of all DR plans, runbooks to scrip out in details our DR step by step plans. Additional coordination and project management of the corporate North Carolina disaster recovery activities as well as SAP testing R3 in the HPD data center. Coordination with the Ralph Lauren corporate and IBM resources to ensure RTO/RPO achievement. Virtual tape library. Oracle, Data Guard

PHH Mortgage – Mt. Laurel, NJ May 2014 to October 2015

Disaster Recovery – Program Manager

The role of the Disaster Recovery Program Manager is responsible for the coordination and assessment of the PHH DR environment, working with BCP management and Technology SME’s to determine gaps in the current technology footprint. Working with internal and external vendors to mitigate gaps and create workable DR plans/run books for the current environment. Project planning for the DR data center relocation into new DR Colocation facility. RFP review and assessment of co-location vendors to host PHH server environments. PM for data center migration project. Review cloud services providers for migration to virtual platform. Creation of new DR plans with the BCM organization to ensure current business RTO/RPO is met based upon business requirements. Test planning as well as creation of multi-year disaster recovery strategy. Project management & IT lead for building consolidation project.

Citicorp – New York, NY January 2014 to March 2014

Continuity of Business - Business Continuity Analyst

The role of the Application CoB Capability Review Unit within CoB Program Operations is to evaluate application recovery, data recovery, technology infrastructure recovery and supplier / vendor recovery as part of a holistic approach to risk management and business continuity/resiliency. Coordinate and conduct focused interviews with the application and infrastructure teams to review and validate the disaster recovery information, obtain additional information, close any gaps in the data analysis, understand nuances of the configuration that cannot be readily determined from the data only, identify and investigate potential areas of concern or issues. Develop the scorecards for the applications and validate the results with the application teams; determine if a further investigation or remediation steps are required. Monitor and report correction actions through resolution or risk acceptance. Document gaps between validated business recovery requirements and actual technology recovery capabilities.). Assist with the root cause analysis of severe system outages involving CoB invocations through proactive engagement of Clients Technology Infrastructures Incident Management Team and product / business technology risk and control teams and application managers. Perform routine updates on project plans, status and issues / risks in coordination with project team. Assist in the development of metrics to monitor operational resilience and readiness and prepare reporting to key stakeholders. Participate on special projects as assigned. Establish improve operational processes process improvement / redesign. Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ –New York, NY March 2012 to June 2013

VP Corporate Data Security - Disaster Recovery

Manage and provide leadership for the disaster recovery program team in coordinating, assessing and ensuring recoverability of the Bank of Tokyo technology environment. Oversee all Disaster Recovery activity for both the online and batch exercises within the bank. Coordinate with IT/DR and SME and business stakeholders for critical DR tasks and projects and risk analyst and compliance initiatives. Direct with Business Continuity management the overall exercise project scope. Lead multiple mission critical projects working within time and cost constraints. Manage updates to Dialogic Communicator emergency notification system. Manage relationships with Disaster Recovery vendor IBM for dedicated backup data center and Hosting environments. Manage multiple emergency response war sites for end user recovery and coordination of all exercises. Final approval for all new applications into production and ensuring proper DR testing before implementation into production environment. Verify Business Continuity and DR plans are updated in SharePoint and BCM plan software tool once implemented.

AmerisourceBergen – Chester brook, PA March 2011 to September 2011

Disaster Recovery Manager

Responsible for disaster recovery program for AmerisourceBergen pharmaceutical distribution corporate offices. Ensure disaster recovery requirements are in place. Work with technology teams to ensure readiness. Development of the high level project plans and timelines for implementation and operational execution of Disaster Recovery plans. Business continuity planning and DR planning session between various business units. Business impact analysis sessions with various business units. Ensure GxP considerations, Ensure High Availability Mimix and Libelle replication environments are tested. Creation of Disaster Recovery and test plans for Mainframe, AS400 and Intel clustered environments supporting Oracle - Real Application Cluster. Identification of technology team roles and responsibilities for planning and execution of DR solutions. Change management and situation management responsibility.

Glencore International Ltd – Stamford, CT January 2011 to March 2011

Sr. Business Continuity Consultant

Short term business continuity engagement to review and conduct business impact analysis for 12 divisions. Conduct onsite meeting with various business unit heads. Coordinate with the Glencore International business continuity management team. Create business continuity plans for yearly audit.

Bristol-Myers Squibb – Princeton, NJ October 2010 to January 2011

Sr. Business Continuity Analyst Consultant

Short term engagement responsible for BIA documenting the tier (3) Impactful production applications used by the scientific community in testing. Coordination of (11) business units, to (1) review the Remedy asset system ensuring tangible and intangible assets databases are up to date. This database will be used at time of disaster for all physical hardware requirements required to facilitate recovery of all business unit technology. (2) Document business continuity/disaster recovery process for each application. (3) Identify recovery gaps and (4) determine and document any external facing clients access points.

Telcordia Technologies – Piscataway, NJ May 2008 to March 2010

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Consultant

Responsible for the Telcordia Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program. This included Business Impact Analysis and creation of new Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans for the Piscataway, NJ campus, consisting of six buildings and thirty-seven separate plans. Incident management and emergency response plans. Sourced and implemented new corporate wide emergency notification solution with Everbridge.

Managed build-out and migration project of new internal disaster recovery data center site in Manchester, NH. Including, network infrastructure wiring installation, environmental, new z10 BC class Mainframe purchase and install. Backup generator install and testing. Quest MPLS and DS3 Internet access install coordination. Managed multiple technology equipment shipments. Coordinated and lead group meetings for all team members and tracked open items. Coordination of travel team member arrangements. Managed two successful Disaster Recovery tests within 6 months of operational DR site. Provided Route Cause Analysis of issues and post exercise reporting to Sr. management

SunGard Availability Services – Philadelphia, PA, January 2005 to May 2008

Business Continuity Consultant/Professional Services Lead

Function as disaster recovery coordinator and technical migration project manager. Functional project manager for customers in planning for technology migration projects and implementation activities. Mobile recovery data team leader and voice recovery consultant. Responsible for technology migration projects for multiple SunGard customers serving as project manager for technology transfer to SunGard high availability data centers. Coordination leads in customers testing their disaster recovery environment at the SunGard recovery site on various technology platforms. Coordinate SunGard resources involved in pre/posttest activities. Evaluate client’s preparedness to respond to various disasters to their technology environment. Lead review and update of business continuity/disaster recovery plans and emergency response strategies with technical teams.

MCI/ WorldCom – Piscataway, New Jersey, February 2002 to August 2002

Business Engineer, 2002

Identify, develop and enhance high profile account base. Focus on presenting WorldCom solutions based upon customer network requirements. Understanding WorldCom products and services, web hosting, vpn, frame relay, to be able to provide the right solution at price points to satisfy client needs and increase WorldCom market share. Order process, ensure timely installation and turn-up of services and ensure customer satisfaction.

Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services - Carlstadt, New Jersey, 1988 to July 2001

Senior Network Manager, Disaster Recovery 1993 to 2001

Direction setting for data communications and telecommunications resources across multiple locations. Allocated network staff resources for testing and disaster recovery support. Maintained voice recovery call center capability. Inventory compliance and project management to support total contracted requirements for all clients. Evaluated and upgraded infrastructure requirements as needed to ensure adequate in place network deliverables. Negotiated with various network and telco vendors for products and service Ensure vendor and customer service level agreements are met. Evaluate new products and new Telecom technologies. Responsible for preparation and allocation of multi-million-dollar network and technology budget for multiple facilities including (8) OC48 Sonet rings, over 300 customer network nodes, multiple Nortel meridian, system 75/definity PBX systems for both day-to-day use and disaster recovery support. Responsible for technical staffing and identifying key performance objectives and goals. Provided pre-and post-sales support to clients and members of the recovery center management team. Led network team in the consolidation project to move into new 300,000 square foot facility.

Senior Telecommunications Specialist II, 1988 to 1993

Tested customer networks in disaster mode. Evaluated clients' existing network and best recovery solution; maintained the readiness of all equipment, i.e., all front ends, hot sites, phone systems, personal computers, modems, Multiplexes, routers, and periodic review of all customer networks for updated configuration. Conducted network presentations to prospective new clients; report writing of network testing and problem determination; evaluated new communication products for possible use in network recovery. Project management responsibilities included ordering additional equipment, i.e., modems, multiplexes, phone lines, and any communication equipment required to support clients. Accountable for day-to-day workings of entire internal voice network.

Essex County College - Newark, New Jersey

ComputComputer Programming/Data Processing

Empire Technical School - East Orange, New Jersey

Computer Programming/Operations

DRI International

Business Continuity Planning

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