Deborah has expertise in Crisis Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Information Systems Security. She has over 20 years experience in the IT domain in medium to large companies in the technology sector. She has worked on areas ranging from systems administration and systems security and disaster recovery to corporate business continuity, IT security, IT Risk and controls including Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO 9000.
She has performed assignments in datacenter and systems management, disaster recovery and business continuity program management, IT Service Management, Crisis Management and IT Risk assessments and IT controls and audit programs. The past 10 plus years have been concentrated on business continuity planning, crisis management and service management in large technology companies. Her last corporate position she exercised her knowledge and experience as a program manager at Microsoft. Presently she is an independent business owner and freelance instructor.
Deborah holds a bachelors' degree in Information Systems Security as well as certifications in Business Continuity and IT Security including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - (ISC)2), a Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP) - DRII and a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) - BCI in UK.