Raghavendra Rao

• Consultant service for Business Continuity for clients in government, semi-government and private sector.
• End to End BCM development
• BCM Framework and Methodology advisory
• BCM Documentation and practise

Current Employment: Altisource Business Solutions Private Limited
Assistant Manager, BCP
19 November 2012 - till date.
BCP development
• Business continuity Policy and framework (Planning, Training, Incident mgt, Review)
• Developed Organizational Business continuity Plan
• Unit level Recovery Planning and Pandemic Charter
• BCP tool design, customized and firm wide implementation (LDRPS)
• Defined metrics and review parameters for BCP
• Gap Analysis against ISO 22301standatrd and implementation

Ongoing Functional responsibility
• Develop and maintain internal procedures and templates for Business Continuity
• Performed BIA for multiple businesses and acquisitions
• BCP review for business units across organization
• Management reporting on BC development and BC adherence from business units
• Client / External audit readiness
• Crisis Management lead during disaster situation across regions (US, India, Philippines)
• Training and awareness across different levels of organization.

Successful deliverables: • Effectively handled multiple crisis scenarios and incidents
• Professionally handled audits from external agencies and clients.
• Created BC policies and implementation charters
• Conducted Training sessions across multiple regions and levels of organization
• Developed and implemented region level Business continuity plan and recovery strategies
• BC plans for all business units for Altisource and Ocwen.
• BC Test framework, plan and execution.

Other projects: • Onboarded Corporate Vendor Oversight audit for Info sec and BCP
• Guided a team of auditors to complete Tier 1 vendor audit with stringent timelines
• Supported ISO 27001 governance and initiatives across Ocwen and Altisource
• Contributed to Disaster recovery and IT testing in framework and execution

1. Magna InfoTech Private Limited
Senior BCP Consultant - Goldman Sachs
Duration 1 year 8 months (1 Feb 2011 - 15 Nov 2012)

• Firm wide report for BCP test Participation
• BCP review for Business Units across divisions/regions
• Resiliency report on application testing
• Coordinate Application failover test across regions
• Audit Preparations

2. TATA Consultancy Services Limited
Risk Officer - BPO Bangalore
Duration - 5years and 6monts (11 July 2005 - 27 Jan 2011)

• Identify Mission Critical Application/ processes based on Master Service Agreement (MSA) and TCS MCA Classification Guidelines
• Support BIA, recovery strategies and maintain a comprehensive BCP/DRP document
• Participate in periodic BCP-Committee meeting at Building level
• Maintain a BCP/DRP test calendar for the forthcoming year
• Facilitate drills as planned & update lessons learnt to BCP/DRP plans
• Maintain test logs with date and time and reports of the Accounts.
• Coordinate to carry out periodic restoration from off-site tapes at random,
• Ensure that periodic awareness / training sessions on BCP/DRP are covered among all associates in the Account.
• Maintain an up to date contact list of all key associates and key emergency numbers, with periodic checks for accuracy. Maintain the details of DR-seats planned for the account

Support (for Projects)
• Detailed planning and BCP documentation done for six relationships as CML
• Facilitated BCP requirement as per contractual agreement and TCS best practice
• Facilitated BCP drill and reporting - ensured effective drill objectives and result
• Response to RFPs and solution design - Ongoing
Initiatives
• Organized BCP Workshop
• Organized FMEA Workshop/reviews
• Organized Fire Safety Drills/Awareness sessions

Previous Role in TCS - Investment Banking Domain Exposure

Quality Lead: Credit Risk Operations
Report consolidated supervision and compliance risk management. This is in accordance with clarifying supervisory expectations with respect to firm wide compliance risk management. FED report is time/data critical report sent to Federal Reserve everyday giving a snapshot of credit exposure of Bank to TOP 20 Firms under Banks and Non Banks.

• Monitor daily variance on credit exposure
• Investigate unusual spike / movement in credit positions
• Liaise with credit officers and tech teams across globe to capture accurate data
• Adhere to timely delivery of the report

Additional Responsibilities
Trainer for MS Office
Volunteer in Adult Literacy Program in Villages

3. Thomson Financial
Role - Research Analyst
Duration - 2years and 1 month (23 June 2003 to 8 July 2005)

Thomson Financial is a leading global provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers

Profile - TKO is Thomson's database which pools in data from various other financial data source and third party information providers to cater its value added content into range of Thomson products worldwide.
As Research Analyst I have performed exceeding the ISO standard set for the process in quality and efficiency through different tasks involving regular data maintenance, corporate actions, securities analysis and related exceptions. Research involved thorough understanding of CUSIP, ISIN and other globally recognized security identifiers.