Jim Tedesco

Experience

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  Bank of America

  Jan 1994 - Jan 2001

  Vice President - Manager, Network Contingency Preparedness

  Managed five network engineering project managers supporting concurrent technical contingency projects and exercises on mainframe, midrange, and LAN server platforms. Maintained budget accountability for a $5-million annual plan. Led major network disaster recovery projects. Oversaw server design and implementation.Built two separate network disaster recovery platforms connecting two production data centers to permanent mainframe recovery systems at IBM’s Gaithersburg facility with OC12 SONET Rings for local access and DS3/DS1 for wide area connectivity to support:Channel Extension – DASD mirroring and remote tape back upsStand by Operating System synchronizationTransaction journalingIP and SNA networks (Ethernet and FEP)Provided consistent/standardized project management to five separate regions and ensured exceptional service and structured implementations after creating a detailed process and procedure guide. Show less

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  MBNA America

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2007

  First Vice President - Infrastructure Engineering Manager

  Managed a team of senior data engineers to design and implement high quality network solutions to support, at the time, the largest independent and innovative credit card company within the United States.Implemented a new OSPF WAN infrastructure (Cisco 7206/7613) and new LAN infrastructure (200 Cisco 6500 Switches) to replace the current low speed Frame Relay T1 Nortel/Enterasys RIP network to provide:Significant network availability improvementsScalable network to meet 20% annual growth – organic and portfolio acquisitionsManaged geographically dispersed teams to open new call centers in New Jersey, Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas and Ottawa, specifically the rack and stack functions and Cisco OS configurations for the Wide Area Network connections and Local Area Network for server and workstation connectivityDirected the network infrastructure build activities creating a new hardened facility to support in–house high availability mainframe recovery within 24 hoursImplemented Video over IP to major US and International locations to significantly reduce network expenses Show less

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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Jul 2006 - Aug 2008

  Infrastructure Engineering Manager

  Managed the client network transition to the EDS architecture Managed PMs and technical teams to open a new data center in support of 2,000+ server switch ports needed to meet accelerated growth and building consolidation projectsManaged Cisco switch port availability for rapidly growing server implementation projects

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  May 2009 - Feb 2010

  Consultant at Advanced Micro Devices

  Provided telecommunications expense management improvementsCompleted a telecommunications billing and network documentation audit to resolve billing errors resulting in over $150,000 in annual expense savings. Also managed those Vendors through billing disputes and credits.

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  AMD

  Feb 2010 - Oct 2012

  Network Administration – Telecommunications Management

  Designed and implemented an improved system for telecommunications invoice processing, inventory control, IT circuit ordering, and mobility fulfillment. This resulted in $650,000 annual expense savings, and $500,000 in one-time creditsObtained additional discounts for ATT Wireline and Mobility services through RFP competitive bid process achieving $1.90M annual savings for Wireline services and $.15M for MobilityManaged circuit ordering & installation of MPLS, DS3, OC12, internet access for domestic and international locationsProvided engineering support to the IT disaster recovery data center consolidation project Show less

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  Softcard (acquired by Google)

  Nov 2012 - May 2015

  Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Manager

  Managed and implemented the Softcard Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Management SystemOversight responsibility for building out a new high availability recovery data center for disaster recovery, including deployment of Oracle DataGuard database and file replication, and VPN/MPLS remote connectivity to meet a two-hour recovery time objective and a zero recovery point objectiveCreated a comprehensive set of BCDR documentation following the ISO 22301 standard including BIA, Strategy, Office and Data Center plans, and metricsScheduled and conducted annual BCDR exercises including the detail test plans for the Data Center Wallet application, Softcard offices and other cloud based corporate IT applicationsDeveloped the training and awareness program, and conducted classes for employees and contractorsSatisfied outstanding audit findings (internal and external bank card issuers as a third party provider)Participated in (3) ISO 27001 audits and demonstrated the BCDR program progress and controls via the SOP documents, BCDR plans, and exercise results to meet the ISMS requirements. ISO 27001 certification was achieved all 3 yearsParticipated in (2) PCI audits and demonstrated the BCDR program progress and controls to gain certificationBuilt a structured SharePoint web site for all BCDR documents and the control process to review and maintain plan accuracy Show less

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  TSR Consulting Services, Inc.

  Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

  Disaster Recovery Consultant for KPMG