Strategic IT Advisory, Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Planning (BCP/ITDRP), IT Project Management, IT Cost Optimization and Cloud Solutions.
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Consulting Services
Why is Business Continuity Planing (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) important for your organization? It enables organizations to protect themselves from and to minimize the disruption of various natural disasters and man-made outages. BCP and DRP focuses on your business recovery and the operational functionality of business critical IT systems that have failed either due to component failure, data center failure, or some other incident or disaster. The goal of DRP is to implement a disaster prevention program to rapidly restore IT operational capability thus minimizing the disruption of critical business applications.
– Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program Assessments and initiation
– Risk Assessments
– Business Impact Analysis
– Crisis and Incident Management Planning
– IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) Plans Assessments and Development
– ITDR options and cost analysis
Interesting Disaster Recovery Facts
Interesting Disaster Recovery Facts
These are only some of the critical questions to ask an organization’s stakeholders. Our experienced team of advisors will ask the right questions, develop detailed business requirements based on the assessment of your organization’s current technology state, and provide the right solutions that will address your corporate IT challenges.
Our IT solutions will be tailor fit to your business. StratoGrid’s experienced specialists will provide an in-depth analysis of your people, processes and procedures. The correct analysis of your information will provide the competitive advantage that your organization’s peers lack. StratoGrid excels in the development of strategic plans and IT roadmaps. This approach will ensure an alignment convergence of your Business and IT goals.
– Virtual CIO services
– IT Projects reviews and prioritization
– IT Budget review and optimization
– IT Strategy development
CIO’s top priorities
CIO’s top priorities
The optimum blend of service selections from a plethora of choices is a daunting proposition for the modern business. Service options can include, but are not limited to, in-house, managed, outsourced, cloud, and hybrid service solutions. StratoGrid can help your business make these critical choices with our experienced staff of experts. We will ensure that your business avoids the cost of mistakes resulting from needless solution complexity and extraneous technology. Our advisors will help you analyze your current infrastructure and application state and present service and technology options that best support and align with your business direction. Contact StratoGrid and enhance your business competitiveness today.
Net percentage of organizations increasing spending
Net percentage of organizations increasing spending
Our team of experienced advisors will help you assess your IT infrastructure and current state architecture. They will assist you with the identification of potential gaps and develop remediation plans to address the corresponding findings. StratoGrid’s targeted remediation plans will prioritize tasks based on risk level and importance to the business.
Typical IT Assessment findings
– Business Continuity Planning
– IT Project Management, Project Assessments and Project Recoveries
– Datacenter and IT Operations Assessments
– Datacentre Consolidations and Migrations
– IT Options Analysis and Market Research
– Public and Private Cloud Advisory Services (e.g. Azure, Office 365, VMware, Citrix, etc.)
– Information Security Control Framework Assessments and Documentation
– Creation of Information Security Control Frameworks (ISO 27002, ISO 27013 Control Standards)
– Threat and Vulnerability Risk Assessments for IT Applications and Infrastructure
– COBIT and ITIL Organizational Assessments
Consulting Services
We’ve had the pleasure of working with the following organizations
Our Consulting Team
Alex Jankovic, CBCP, ITIL
IT Strategist and Principal Consultant
Mr. Jankovic is an IT Strategist and Business Continuity Management Consultant. He is an experienced information technology professional, Certified Business Continuity Professional and IT project manager with broad expertise in: strategic business planning, business and IT continuity strategy, IT strategy, IT transformation, IT infrastructure and operations management, client/vendor relationships, and enterprise solution architecture. During the course of his career, he was responsible for providing technical leadership and architecture on several multi-million dollar IT implementation, transformation and recovery projects for both domestic and international clients, and development of the business continuity plans and management programs.
In addition to his technical and business continuity expertise, Alex has proven communications and conflict management experience. He is highly regarded for building, managing and transforming disparate resources into cohesive effective teams that can finish projects on time and on budget as well as bring consensus from stakeholders. Mr. Jankovic’s experience stretches across public and private sectors, including financials, utilities, retail, healthcare and manufacturing.
Omar Kitchlew, ITIL, VCP, CCEA
IT Architect and Sr. Infrastructure Consultant
Mr. Kitchlew is an IT Architect and Senior Infrastructure Consultant. He has over 20 years of experience in IT Infrastructure, with a focus on Microsoft Technologies, Citrix and VMware virtualization solutions. He was responsible for project management, design and implementation of many complex datacenter consolidations and mid-scale to large-scale infrastructure environment designs and implementations.
Mr. Kitchlew has an extensive experience in IT applications and systems in both public and private sectors, including healthcare, transportation and retail.
Mark Koehler, B.Sc., B. Eng
IT Security Architect
Mr. Koehler is a Senior IT Security Architect with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He has a broad and deep expertise in IT Security, Governance, and Compliance. He is experienced with CSAE 3416 and ISO 27001 audits. Mr. Koehler has conducted extensive threat and vulnerability risk assessments of network technologies and applications in a variety of sectors in conjunction with control gap analysis and remediation. In addition, Mr. Koehler has wide-ranging experience in the creation of security control designs for corporate infrastructures employing ISO/IEC 27002/27013, COBIT, PCI-DSS, PIPEDA, HIPAA & SOX frameworks and standards.
Mr. Koehler’s experience spans across financial, manufacturing, utilities and communications sectors.
Abdi Ibrahim, TOGAF, MCSE
Senior Technical Architect
Mr. Ibrahim is a Senior Technical Architect with over fifteen years of IT Industry experience. His primary interests have been in Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (micro-services) in large Data Centers where he implements Cloud based core services such as Distributed Compute, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) primarily on Open Source technologies: OpenStack, Ceph, AWS, Docker and CloudFoundry.
Mr. Ibrahim is an advisor to a C-level executives in both private and public sectors, on IT strategies and future-state architectures around disruptive IT transformation, enterprise Private Cloud and business agility. In the last 5 years he spent a considerable amount of time and energy in developing and providing thought-leadership on how to transform today’s technology architecture to support new and emerging trends such as Cloud, application containerization, agile development leveraging CI/CD in DevOps context, Web 2.0 technologies (MEAN stack) and business insight (Big Data Management).
Dana Burns, VCP, MCSE
Senior Technical Consultant
Mr. Burns is a Senior Technical Consultant with over 20 years of industry experience and 30+ industry recognized certifications. Ha has proven technology leadership and team building skills, strategic vision and expert technical abilities in Enterprise Infrastructure technologies, as well as a strong interests in IT service delivery and support. Mr. Burns led and managed planning and operational teams through large scale projects such as the design and build of state-of-the-art data centers, virtualization infrastructures and messaging migrations. He created strategies around IT risk management, service availability, service delivery, data protection, security and compliance, utilizing methodologies and frameworks such as ITIL, MOF, SOA and TOGAF.
Mr. Burns consulted private sector organizations, with the strong focus on mentorship, quality of service, integrity and the customer experience.
Peter Grewal, CCIE, CISSP, CCDP
Sr. Network and Infrastructure Architect
Mr. Grewal is a Senior IT Network and Infrastructure Architect. He has over 15 years of experience in complex enterprise networking solutions, employing CISCO networking and security products. In addition, he has an extensive and deep knowledge of F5 load balancers, CheckPoint firewalls and Juniper network and security solutions. Mr. Grewal was engaged on the large scale network transformation and cloud integration projects, where he delivered network architectures, designs and implementation services.
Mr. Grewal has proven experience in both public and private sectors, including: healthcare, financial, retail, manufacturing and communication.
Sung Park, CISSP
IT Security Consultant
Mr. Park is a Senior IT Security Consultant with 17 years of experience in the Information Security field. He specializes in the development of security controls, security compliance audits and project management. One of Mr. Park’s primary focus areas is on internal security control evaluation and security incident response protocols.
Mr. Park has a proven track record of delivering information security projects, along with leadership and hands on technical security knowledge in both private and public sectors.