August 2016
IT Disaster Recovery Effectiveness – Assurance Challenges
Presented by Pradeep Navalkar
Pradeep Navalkar is the Principal Advisor ICT Service Continuity Management for Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, and has 20+ years of experience in a variety of roles in both public and private sectors.
His present role is to improve resilience of the organisation through recovery of IT Services, and achieving continuous improvement and maturity of the IT Disaster Recovery planning and execution. In previous roles, Pradeep has set up and managed an IT Disaster Recovery Facility for 24 x 7 electricity market systems, and has provided advice to identify and manage risks with IT Disaster Recovery.
Pradeep is a Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering, and holds CISSP, CISM, CISA and ITIL qualifications. He began his career as an IT professional and has been a member of ISACA, IIA, itSMF, IITP and RiskNZ for quite a few years. Over a period of time, he has gained working experience in software development, IT operations, information management, risk management, assurance, consulting, organisational resilience, people management and mentoring.