BRIAN STANISLAUS
Business Resilience
Mount Olive,NJ
Summary
Highly motivated professional, offering wide-ranging experience in utilizing first-rate skills in Enterprise Business Continuity Management, National Security, Disaster Recovery, Operational Risk, and Project Management. Adept at driving Operations and Technology vision and improving resiliency for availability of critical functions. Very effective at leading and motivating teams toward production optimization and business development. Highly capable of working with diverse levels of individuals across the organization to ensure superior quality in delivering results on a timely basis. Well versed in multitasking within fast-paced environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Program Director - Enterprise Business Continuity
NEW YORK POWER AUTHORITY
07.2022 - Current
- Provide senior leadership role in the implementation of a fully digitized Business Continuity program.
- Chiefly responsible for optimizing plans to protect the availability of essential functions at all hydro plant facilities.
- Provide oversight in the maintenance of plans, testing and exercise planning.
- Control and manage the resilience budget for staff and related projects.
- Advisory to Sustainable Artificial Intelligence in support of efforts to automate Business Continuity review cycle, exercise planning and execution.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Risk to formulate a framework for addressing emerging risks and provide governance for implementing decision making solutions.
- Lecture freshman and junior university students on Cybersecurity and researcher of emerging National Security threats.
- Chairperson for the enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Committee with responsibilities related to the maturity of Business Resilience.
- Continuous collaboration with Crisis Management and the Security Operations Center to provide leadership in escalating issues related to dam safety at all plant facilities (i.e., Niagara Falls).
- Currently developing a process for evaluating third party risk posture to ensure they meet requirements before contract agreements.
- Provide leadership in managing over 250 Business Continuity Plans and Business Impact Analyses.
- Wrote and published article on Sustainable Artificial Intelligence. Distributed in the Disaster Recovery Journal.
- Currently managing and provide hands expertise on the migration of Business Continuity Plans and associated documents to Archer.
- Partnered with Enterprise Risk in the resolution of pending risks across all departments.
- Collaborating with Crisis Management on the implementation of mass notification with ReGroup, and link to Active Directory, and HRIS, for continuous staff contact details.
- Provide guidance to senior management on policy to keep in compliance.
- Partnered with Internal Audit to assist in developing an annual audit program for Business Continuity.
- Schedule and orchestrate plan exercise independent to Information Technology and as part of company wide end to end exercise.
Senior Director (Consultant) - Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity
MOUNT SINAI
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Responsible for building a mature business resiliency program to include Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management and Third-Party Risk Assessment.
- Develop written policies and procedures, perform Business and Technology Analyses, and create recovery plans to support continuation of business functions and recovery of systems and networks.
- Established Steering Committee to review and make decisions on key initiatives for maturing business resilience.
- Appointed Chairperson for the Steering Committee.
- Developed Third Party Risk Assessment using One Trust cloud portal. Assessment will be used to determine risk posture of potential vendors.
- Wrote and published the Disaster Recovery (DR) Policy.
- Developed Tier framework to prioritize recovery of mission critical applications.
- Performed a gap analysis to compare business recovery time with tiering framework and resolved discrepancies.
- Created template for Application Recovery Plans, Business Impact Analysis, and Business Continuity Plans.
- Conducted BIAs to ascertain impacts to operations during extended unavailability of mission critical applications.
- Worked with senior leaders to create BC plans addressing business disruptions.
- Collaborated with Infrastructure and Business Owners to schedule recovery exercises based on requirements and orchestrated exercises within the timeline indicated.
- Represented DR for cloud migration to Microsoft Azure.
- Tracked and managed issues surfaced requiring resolution.
- Wrote request for proposal to solicit vendors for BC software.
- Established KRI metric for enterprise risk management.
Principal Business Continuity (Consultant) - Operations and Technology Resiliency
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Principal, responsible for the governance of Global Operations and Technology Resiliency program.
- Work with stakeholders to address control issues by engaging Resiliency Leads and Administrators in Line of Business (LoB) in the research and mitigation of Operations and Technology risk and control issues inherent to the bank's operation.
- Manage Business Continuity Lifecycle deliverables by working with leadership within LoBs to complete required deliverables.
- Facilitated Operations and Technology Governance Council, established to provide oversight, coordination, and accountability of Business Resiliency Management activities.
- Partnered with Resiliency Leads to drive and manage completion of Business Continuity Lifecycle deliverables across lines of business.
- Provided guidance on the completion of Strategies, Qualitative Assessments, Business Impact Analyses using Crisis Management System.
- Provided leadership and guidance on quarterly deliverable of Call Tree Tests using XMatters.
- Directed Resiliency Coordinators on the creation of new Business Continuity Plans.
- Managed and lead diverse staff in different time zones on activities requiring oversight.
- Provided key content on the creation of the first Operations and Technology Business Continuity Management Policy in accordance with Enterprise Resiliency Office Policy.
- Drove the rewrite of the Operations and Technology Resiliency Risk and Controls Framework.
- Worked on procedures to participate in the bank's resiliency framework rollout using Fusion.
- Facilitated to creation and update of Business Continuity Lifecycle metrics reporting to Operations and Technology leadership and stakeholders.
- Appointed as liaison to collaborate with Risk Management on the planning and implementation of the Unified Risk Control Framework to supersede United Control Framework.
- Extracted control issues and challenges from Service Now (SNOW) and map with Risk Management Portal to delegate and supervise investigation and documentation of evidence required to reduce or eliminate risks.
- Provided analysis of work transfer capabilities to offset concentration risks where a pandemic outbreak may occur.
- Presented Key Risk Indicators status with inherent and residual risks and appetite to leadership for operational effectiveness.
Senior Business Continuity (Consultant) - Business Resilience
EISAI PHARMACEUTICAL
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Third Party Risk Management, Global Data Privacy Regulations, Information Technology, Security Training & Cybersecurity Awareness.
- Chiefly responsible for the creation and enhancements of policies and procedures for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs.
- Work with business and Information Technology owners to understand and identify risk exposures.
- Create Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans based on recovery requirements.
- Ensure plans are accurate with controls necessary to perform recovery of services for continuation of critical business processes and continually test procedures to ensure the operation of the business can continue in the event of a disaster.
- Led Third Party Risk Management security controls to ensure potential vendors risk posture meet or exceed requirements.
- Implement and maintain a Third-Party Data Privacy Assessment Program to ensure Eisai data is protected and adhere to Global Data Privacy Regulations.
- Managed international cross functional staff in the development of the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs.
- Collaborated with management to assess and develop IT programs to outsource for efficiency and cost benefits.
- Managed business resilience budget for global risk mitigation initiatives.
- Developed and maintain Business Continuity Disaster Recovery and plans.
- Conducted and validate testing and documentation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans as per SOC1 and SOC2 requirements, including HIPAA and CAIQ.
- Addressed and document findings from internal audits and issues identified during testing.
- Managed user security & privacy awareness training program and refine to align with desired outcome.
- Ensured management and efficient assessment of third parties information security risk in accordance with defined risk management processes.
- Conducted third party security assessments in accordance with established process using One Trust.
- Developed process to manage assessment requests in accordance with service level agreements.
- Developed a Cyber Security Awareness program to ensure staff is aware of potential risks from unknown sources to include social media, internal and external threats and other methods that impacted the confidentiality and integrity of company data.
- Ensured monitoring and testing of business continuance procedures, and was proactive in building processes to minimize/eliminate downtime.
- Developed service level risk management agreements with the business and vendors.
- Implemented and conducted Business Impact Analysis to ensure business risks were at the forefront for recovery planning.
- Collaborated with Information Technology to implement tier infrastructure standards for recovery classification.
- Adhered to ISO 22301, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications.
- Ensured the ongoing management of the end user security, privacy awareness and training programs in accordance with established processes.
Senior Disaster Recovery Architect (Consultant) - Technology Infrastructure
CBS CORPORATION
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Defined test strategy and approach for conducting failover exercises in SAP Cloud, based on Business Continuity recovery requirements.
- Performed business assessment to determine critical impacts to business operations and created a strategy for minimizing and recovering from disruptions.
- Provided leadership in developing business and technology recovery plans and coordinate preparation for failover activities.
- Ensured prior test remediation was conducted as prerequisite; provided guidance to ensure gaps were resolved before test execution.
- Reviewed designs and develop testing scope to build disaster recovery readiness plans.
- Coordinated and manage the resolution of defects that surfaced during tests.
- Worked with Internal Audit and Compliance to ensure Key Risk Indicators and Recovery Time Objective were addressed and complied with requirements.
Senior Vice President - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
JEFFERIES LLC.
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Strategic leader responsible for the design and implementation of enterprise-wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs.
- Created and implemented the company's first Business Continuity vendor management module to assess the availability of third-party services.
- Liaised with Enterprise Risk Management, Information Security, Compliance, Internal Audit and Corporate Real Estate to ensure continuity of services and operations are at the forefront with controls in place to mitigate risks at all levels.
- Provided direction to meet and or exceed regulatory Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery requirements with relation to Dodd-Frank, SOX and Broker standards.
- Partnered with Information Technology executives to design and implement a robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program that is continuously tested to meet business and client uptime requirements and adhere to ISO 23001.
- Was chiefly responsible for ensuring the availability of critical functions at the onset of an emergency.
- Managed global Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery financials and work with Legal and Compliance on vendor contract negotiations.
- Was directly responsible for relationships with regulators and third-party vendors where Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery is concerned.
- Managed efforts for a Third-Party Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Audit program.
- Was key contributor to Vendor Governance for the evaluation of new and existing vendors Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery capabilities.
- Integrated Emergency Mass Notification into Crisis Management that provided command and control during emergencies using Everbridge and Communicator NXT.
- Was responsible for integrating Emergency Notification software with Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans to strengthen data relationships.
- Focused efforts to direct and manage Business Continuity plan activation and improved the testing of plans.
- Partnered with Information Security to couple Business Continuity with cyber security plans for increased infrastructure protection.
- Designed and implemented Key Risk Indicators for assessing risks relating to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery processed and functions.
- Presided on firm wide Steering Committees to present and get status on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery testing initiatives.
- Collaborated with Enterprise Risk Management and business owners to review and update risk tolerance in order to implement appropriate controls to provide optimum resilience throughout the enterprise.
- Designed and currently manage controls to manage business and regulatory requirements for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
- Ensured Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are reviewed, updated and tested according to Policy.
- Assessed the viability of alternate recovery locations to attest where there are opportunities to expand/reduce capacity to support changes in business functions.
- Created a central management system for controlling the Business Continuity Management program.
- Increased business relationships and partnerships to create requirements for internal and external audits.
- Wrote the company's first Disaster Recovery Run book to manage recovery procedures for the infrastructure.
- Rewrote the company's Disaster Recovery Plan to document procedures for a complete data center failover.
- Wrote the company's business requirement for a new emergency notification tool.
- Created Request for Proposal for a new emergency notification tool.
- Wrote the business requirement for the company's seat reservation system.
- Wrote procedures and standards for reserving a business recovery seat positions at alternate locations.
- Managed the move of a premium alternate location to a new facility for improvements in resiliency and business expansion.
- Increased completion of emergency notification testing in the US to more than 90% success rate.
Education
Doctoral candidate - National Security Studies
NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY
Master of Science - Information Security and Assurance
NORWICH UNIVERSITY
NORTHFIELD, VTBachelor of Arts - Classic Humanities
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
MONTCLAIR, NJSkills
- Outstanding Organizational Skills
- Program Management
- Leadership and Supervision
- Process Improvement
- Gap Analysis
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Risk Metrics and Analysis
- Strategic Planning and Implementation
- Problem Resolution and Decision-Making
- Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
- Business Continuity
- Disaster Recovery
- Third Party Risk Management
- Global Data Privacy Regulations
- Information Technology
- Security Training
- Cybersecurity Awareness
Organizational leadership
Budgeting and financial management
Websites
Certification
Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)
Affiliations
- Disaster Recovery Institute
- Veterans Leadership Network
- Marine Corps League
- United War Veterans Council
- West Indian American Day Carnival Association
- Association Contingency Planners of New York and New Jersey
Qualifications Summary
- Outstanding Organizational Skills
- Program Management
- Leadership and Supervision
- Process Improvement
- Gap Analysis
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Risk Metrics and Analysis
- Strategic Planning and Implementation
- Problem Resolution and Decision-Making
- Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams in the development of Enterprise Resiliency by understanding company's risk and impacts while operating mission essential functions
- Established and appointed Chairperson for the Steering Committee to review and make decisions on key initiatives for maturing business resilience
- Wrote and published article on Sustainable Artificial Intelligence. Distributed in the Disaster Recovery Journal
- Collaborated with Infrastructure and Business Owners to schedule recovery exercises based on requirements and orchestrated exercises within the timeline indicated
- Managed and lead diverse staff in different time zones on activities requiring oversight
Timeline
Senior Program Director - Enterprise Business Continuity
NEW YORK POWER AUTHORITY
07.2022 - Current
Senior Director (Consultant) - Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity
MOUNT SINAI
01.2021 - 01.2022
Principal Business Continuity (Consultant) - Operations and Technology Resiliency
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
01.2020 - 01.2021
Senior Business Continuity (Consultant) - Business Resilience
EISAI PHARMACEUTICAL
01.2018 - 01.2020
Senior Disaster Recovery Architect (Consultant) - Technology Infrastructure
CBS CORPORATION
01.2017 - 01.2018
Senior Vice President - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
JEFFERIES LLC.
01.2014 - 01.2017
Master of Science - Information Security and Assurance
NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Arts - Classic Humanities
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
Doctoral candidate - National Security Studies
NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY
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