Experience

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  Scottsdale Fire Department

  • Scottsdale, AZ

  • Volunteer - Scottsdale Fire Department

    • Jun 2023 - Present
    • Scottsdale, AZ

    Assisting with wildfire communications and education as well as other assigned duties

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  Independent

  • Scottsdale AZ

  • Risk Mentor and Educator

    • Nov 2019 - Present
    • Scottsdale AZ

    After 40 years of Risk Management, Business Continuity and Crisis Management, I am now focused on sharing (mentoring, educating, authoring) my experience to help individuals and organizations manage risk in many forms, while continuing my involvement with Industry groups such as the BCI, InfraGard, DRJ and Continuity Insights.

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  InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA)

  • National

  • InfraGard National Member Alliance - AZ IMA Member and prior National and local leadership roles

    • Jan 2003 - Present
    • National

    Prior Co-chair of a national level Cross Sector Council, past National (INMA) Vice President and past national Board Member and Committee Chair, prior Ethics Chair, and prior Local Membership Coordinator, Secretary, Vice President and President of the Chicago InfraGard chapter. Currently a member of the Arizona Alliance.

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  Fusion Risk Management

  • Chicago Illinois

  • Retired - Executive Advisor and Co-Founder

    • May 2006 - Oct 2019
    • Chicago Illinois

    Retired Co-Founder and Executive Advisor at Fusion Risk Management, Inc. which was founded with the vision that IT Risk Management solutions could be made more effective, efficient, and economical. Fusion’s approach is to fuse together the management of the four core disciplines of IT Risk Management, which are Regulatory Compliance, Security, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity. Our solution combines our award winning Framework Risk Management System and advisory consulting services with solution integration to offer our customers end to end value.

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  Albright Advisors, LLC

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • President

    • Jun 2005 - Apr 2006
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Albright Advisors was an interim independent consulting and advisory role during the conception and startup of Fusion Risk Management.

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  IBM

  • Chicago Illinois and Somers New York

  • Vice President - BCRS

    • Sep 2003 - Jun 2005
    • Chicago Illinois and Somers New York

    General Manager of IBM's US Business Continuity and Recovery Services business. Responsible for Sales, Operations, Marketing, Consulting, Product Management, Finance and all back office aspects of IBM's North American Business Continuity and Resiliency Services business.

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  Hewlett Packard

  • Director, Business Continuity - Americas

    • Jun 2003 - Sep 2003

    Recruited to become General Manager of HP's Business Continuity division for the AmericasLeft as I was recruited by IBM to run their BCRS business for the US.

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  Tatum

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • CIO Consultant

    • Jun 2002 - Nov 2002
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Provided consulting services to client companies on various aspects of Information Systems, acting as a contract CIOThis was an approved interim role while on a 1 year non compete from SunGard

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  SunGard

  • Senior Vice President

    • Nov 2001 - Jun 2002

    Moved to SunGard as part of SunGard's acquisition of Comdisco Availability Services. SunGard responsibilities were to support the transition of major customers and staff, which was completed over a nine month period.

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  Comdisco

  • Rosemont, Illinois

  • President - Services Division

    • Feb 1984 - Nov 2001
    • Rosemont, Illinois

    President of Comdisco Availability Services, providing Business Continuity, Storage Management, Web Hosting, Disaster Recovery and Professional Services. Successfully led sale of business to SunGard, resulting in SVP position with SunGard Availability Services.

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  Chi/Cor Information Management

  • North America, Chicago based

  • Partner / Owner

    • Feb 1980 - Feb 1984
    • North America, Chicago based

    Founded and managed the IT DR consulting business for this IT services firm. Became Comdisco's sole source for consulting, leading to role to build Comdisco's consulting business inhouse.

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  Signode Corporation

  • Manager, Computer Services

    • 1969 - 1980

    Data Center Operations and Systems Software Manager

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  KPMG LLP

  • Senior Consultant

    • 1977 - 1978

    Senior consultant in the areas of systems software and data center operations