Architected disaster recovery across multiple data centres, with a formal backup and retention policy separating backup from archive, and evaluation of AWS, Azure and alternative hosting models against recovery objectives and the cost of meeting them.
The Cecil disaster recovery data centre was designed as a facility as well as a network: dual UPS, A and B power paths, diverse carrier entry, and high-availability firewall and IPS pairs with hardware bypass.
Subtopics
- Continuity of OperationsA two-hundred-page all-hazards plan whose first instruction is to skip the plan and go straight to the appendices.
- Deployable InfrastructureKits built for reproducibility — because a capability has to work in the hands of whoever draws it, not only the person who built it.
- Emergency OperationsSeven hurricane activations as Emergency Coordination Officer, each producing an after-action review that fed back into the architecture.
Applied in
- Medical Examiner's Office Enterprise IntegrationNine subsystems federated through one bus across three sites, with the integration layer itself made redundant.
- Cecil Disaster Recovery Data CentreFacility and network design for the recovery site — power, cooling and carrier entry as well as what ran inside.
- Consolidated CAD/911 Dispatch SystemTwo agencies with separate commands onto one dispatch platform, cutting response times from five to ten minutes down to one to two.
- ITD Continuity of Operations PlanA two-hundred-page all-hazards continuity plan whose first instruction is to skip the plan and go straight to the appendices.
- Fort Stewart Mobile Disaster Recovery FleetA fleet of vehicles able to deploy across Georgia during disasters and operate where fixed infrastructure was gone.
- JEA Utility SCADA and Redundant Control SitesEstate-wide SCADA across every water treatment and wastewater facility, with two control sites so neither was single.
- Emergency Operations Center Wireless NetworkA fault-tolerant Motorola wireless network built specifically for EOC use during natural disasters.
- Florida National Guard Continuity of Operations PlanThe first COOP of the career — the discipline carried forward into the City of Jacksonville plan a decade later.
Through subtopics
2 further projects reference a subtopic of this entry rather than the entry itself.
- First Coast Radio SystemRegional shared public safety radio across three system generations — original, retrofit, and full P25 replacement.
- SOCOM Transportable Wireless KitA two-site voice, video and data package over a point-to-point link where no fixed infrastructure existed.
Career
- Founder and Principal Consultant · Young Tech Systems, LLC
- Chief Systems Engineer / IS Manager · StorComm, Inc.
Documents
- ITD Continuity of Operations PlanTwo hundred pages, all-hazards, sole author. Aligned to the county emergency management plan and built on Incident Command System doctrine.