Tejas Pandya

Work History

Manager

American Eagle Outfitters

01.2023 - 01.2024

Disaster Recovery
Defined, developed, implemented, established and maintained a comprehensive IT Disaster Recovery Program
Define recovery strategies based on various technologies and dependencies
Focus on ensuring the IT Resiliency and Business Continuity Planning of critical business functions in the event of a disaster
Conduct risk assessments, create, and update recovery plans in Riskconnect
Define application tiering and categorize applications based on RTOs/RPOs
Collaborate with various cross-functional teams to analyze potential risks, review BIA's and build AIA's and IT recovery plans and processes in Riskonnect and Jira
Support the implementation of robust data backup and recovery systems, ensuring integrity and availability of critical data during and after a disaster
Conduct regular testing and validation of recovery plans and procedures to ensure their effectiveness and identify areas for improvement
Plan and lead failover tests on-premise to on-premise, on-premise to cloud GCP across regions
Contribute to the identification and evaluation of third-party vendors and service providers for disaster recovery solutions collaborating with TPRM and vendor management team.

Infrastructure Architect

McKesson Corporation

01.2017 - 01.2023

Disaster Recovery
Architecting disaster recovery solutions for legacy and new applications hosted in on-premise and cloud infrastructure
Solutions include DR and Cyber capabilities to recover to alternate DR sites with complex integrations across network and infrastructure that need to be ready for a real event or for annual validation
As member of ARB, participated in architectural design and implementation of enterprise-wide disaster recovery solution for on-premise, cloud apps, SAP; conducted failover test of SAP with end-
To-end connectivity testing and application team acceptance
Implement replications for all technical assets based on RPO/RTO as well as it’s compatibility with replication technologies like Zerto, ASR, Commvault, Geo Replication as well as traditional backup tools
Implement infrastructure plans related to disaster recovery
Architecture and solutioned Zerto/Cloud replication and configuration for DR
Identify and resolve gaps in compliance related to regulations including ISO27001, PCI
SOX, SOC1, SOC2, and HIPAA
Collaborated with application vendor to ensure success of disaster recovery exercises
Performed over 40 disaster recovery tests in a 1-year period
Created detailed DR documentation, post exercise recovery action items, remediation actions using Riskonnect
Implemented disaster recovery program over a 3-year period, resulting in risk avoided and proven ability to recover primary business functions within acceptable, recoverable RTOs and RPOs
Coordinated with external business units to provide onboarding around new DR program
Conducted 6 data center consolidations for centers of various size and scope; surveyed sites, participated in logistics planning, and took charge of migrations
Created architectural dependency diagram for applications, identifying upstream & downstream dependencies
Assist Backup teams to build resilient backup tools customizing based on application needs and infrastructure limitations
Set up GCVE and Commvault in GCP
Architect, solutioned and implemented Commvault for on-premise, Azure and GCP.

Solution Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions

01.2012 - 01.2017

Infrastructure and Security
Lead infrastructure/security assessments, pre-sale activities, solution envisioning
Conduct security and infrastructure due diligence/gap analysis
Developed and presented mitigation plans based to stakeholders
Identified risks and worked with stakeholders to manage risk
Extensive experience in working with and building long term relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Development of business cases to support proposals
Substantial Experience leading and managing technical teams.

Infrastructure Manager

SingTel Optus

01.2005 - 01.2012

Responsible for delivering IT infrastructure including server hardware, VMware environment, data storage, switching and routing, backups and planning for disaster recovery
Hands-on management of production Oracle database, SQL, VMWare, Operating systems (WinTel, Linux, Solaris), enterprise backup (Veeam, networker), SAN Storage solutions
Successful and cost-effective introduction of new technologies and retirement of old technologies
Lead team of 12 application developers
Vendor management and software procurement.

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Work History

Manager

Infrastructure Architect

Solution Architect

Infrastructure Manager

Education

Master of Science -

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

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