MANISH SONI

• Introducing & executing high-level legal contract strategies, making decisions, and overcoming complex business challenges using experience-backed judgment, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity
• Working as a Functional Lead responsible for liaising with senior management and providing site-level updates on IT Risk, BCP & DR, Data Protection & Privacy, Internal Audits and Compliance function
• Implementing & maintaining the business continuity policy, controls, processes, and procedures. Identify resources, schedule, and conducting the relocation exercise for BCM
• Maintaining Disaster Recovery (DR) plans for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) implementation using an eBRP tool
• Assessing GDPR requirements and their applicability, and prepare a project plan for implementation to ensure compliance
• Conducting Privacy Assessments to evaluate access to customer Personal & Sensitive Information
• Leading investigations of data and privacy violation incidents for the site
• Establishing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM) systems, monitoring and timely updating the tool as per the RCSA guidelines of the company & ensuring End User Computing compliances per the guidelines
• Evaluating & managing data protection risks associated with third-party vendors and service providers
• Ensuring data protection measures are in place for cloud-based data storage and services
• Conducting regular audits & assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of data protection measures and recommend improvements
• Supporting & conducting internal audits for all ISO Management Systems, including ISMS, SMS, and EMS
• Establishing data governance policies and procedures to ensure compliance with data protection regulations and industry standards
• Staying updated with the latest data protection technologies and assessing their suitability for the organization's needs

• Project: BCM & DR Implementation – Various EU clients
• Developed & formulated DR strategies & plans, subjected them to thorough testing for effectiveness and managed their successful implementation
• Created, finalized & obtained approval for the activity plan and covered various scenarios within the Cloud environment
• Supervised the testing & maintenance of DR Plans and also crafted a comprehensive project plan for BCP implementation using SunGard Availability Service LDRPS
• Assessed & revised the technical recovery documents to reflect the current setup and recovery procedures accurately
• Supervised the progress and conducted daily review meetings with team members to ensure timely delivery of tasks and optimal team productivity
• Project: BCM & DR Implementation - ZNA Zurich Insurance Group US
• Designed various DR strategies and Plans for DR exercises aligned with client requirement for multiple data centers geographically dispersed location
• Conducted GAP analysis for both process & operation and improved the effectiveness of DR objective
• Maintained & facilitated testing of DR Plans and designed a project plan for BCP implementation via a tool LDRPS
• Played a key role as a resource of the team and simulated 100% site recovery achieved for over 60 applications running on around 300 servers
• Reviewed & acquired the technical recovery documents updated with the current setup and recovery steps
• Reviewed the data backup strategies and plan

• Exclusively accountable and responsible for ensuring the functionality of the HDFC net banking site from the disaster recovery (DR) site
• Proficiently managed the implementation of a third-party Disaster Recovery tool “DRM 3.1” from Sanovi for replication of Data, monitoring RPO & RTO, Switch over Switch Back and Fail over & fall back testing, and have an excellent understanding of the tool.
• Administered and managed numerous live exercises and mock drills of varied levels to validate the setup which involved immense coordination between distinct teams.
• Steered and managed the project of change in solution to reduce RPO and replication time, a storage-based solution for SQL database system using Hitachi’s Universal Replicator (HUR) tested and implemented.
• Attained successful BC& DR implementation for over 30 applications assessed as critical for Retail and Core Banking.