HARSHA S. SASTRY

Profile

• Harsha Sastry is an Industry Expert - Business Continuity and Crisis Management has earned his Masters as an individual professional certification from Disaster Recovery Institute - USA. Harsha is honored by the National Honor Society USA the Order of the Sword and Shield (OSSNHS). Harsha is professionally also a member of Business Continuity Institute - UK.

  Harsha has industry experience of over 20 Years out of which more than 13 years in Strategic Risk Governance, Implementation, Sustainability and Performance Measurement Metrics including InfoSec, Asset Protection, Risk management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Business Resilience , Event Management and Contagious Illness Preparedness Programs

  Harsha has experience in Manufacturing, Information Technology, IT Enabled Services, Financial Services and Risk Management Service industry verticals.

  A gist as a change catalyst to meet Organizational Resilience, Risk Management Excellence and Accelerated Execution objectives

  • Engaged in providing strategic governance, direction and risk advisory services across IT Service Management, Vendor Risk Management, IT-DR, Cyber - Event Response and Recovery integrated incident management central platforms, business continuity strategy and execution planning for business units and organizations.
  • Provided Thought leadership and strategic direction to leadership teams and customer engagements.
  • Managed programs to enable businesses to identify, mitigate, plan and test continuity plans for preparedness planning and supply chain resilience.
  • Engaged executive leadership teams in Event Management exercises to educate, train and coach for readiness during crisis and emerge effectiveness for business resilience and recovery.
  • Experience in conducting end to end outage exercises, coaching teams comprising of business units, support functions and risk subject matter experts within the organization to embed the knowledge and culture.
  • Implemented and led automation initiatives for in-house tools, product integration, platforms for quick turnaround time and high availability resilience requirements.
  • Executed multiple IT transformation programs applying principals of DFSS (Design for Six Sigma)
  • Developed six sigma aligned data center management processes effectiveness measurement standards emerging a continuous improvement horizon for the organization.
  • Designed and executed multiple benchmarking exercises across Product, Service, Risk Management and Continuity management initiatives.
  • Developed maturity models for Testing and Exercising, Business Resilience Index comprising of continuity and resilience metric parameters which enable organizations to change direction of viewing resilience as a KPI to a resilience index providing continuous improvement capabilities and horizons.
  • Documented several Wisdom help-aids, newsletters, and training programs. These provide the practical aspects of implementation techniques necessary for an Organization Resilience Management team.
  • Harsha is an active contributor to continuity forums and often speaks at Industry events.
  • As a social responsibility stands by the theme - "Knowledge grows by sharing". Takes every opportunity to share awareness of Security, Privacy, Reputation, Infosec, Continuity practices, Risk management concepts to children and industry professionals.

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