Houston, Texas, United States
Andrew White has over 25 years of experience managing and deploying large scale monitoring and automation solutions for managing IT infrastructure health and cybersecurity. Mr. White is a proven leader with demonstrated successes innovating technology solutions and driving large-scale initiatives that safeguard critical infrastructure and enhance organizational preparedness. Mr. White currently serves as the Director of Threat Intelligence at the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office and is a communications specialist on Texas A&M Task Force 1. Previous positions include leading the emergency communications experts supporting the DHS CISA Cyber-Resilient 911 program for Lafayette Group, Inc., Global Head of Conferencing and Collaboration at Citi, Executive Architect for Cloud Solutions at IBM, the leader of the Monitoring and Event Management organization at Nationwide Insurance and owner of a Service Management Consultancy developing solutions as a consultant for a wide variety of organizations, including the Mexican Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Telmex, Wal-Mart of Mexico, JP Morgan Chase, Nationwide Insurance and the US Navy Facilities and Engineering Command.
Supporting threat informed decision making processes.
Responsible for managing, and maintaining, all communications and communications systems for Texas Task Force 1. The Communications Specialist reports directly to the Logistics Team Manager. Description of Duties: The Communications Specialist is responsible for: • Keeping the Task Force Leader and Logistics Manager informed of the capabilities and/or limitations of incident communications • Assessing overall communications needs, obtaining frequencies, and developing the Task Force Incident Communications Plan • The installation, operation, and maintenance of the task force communications systems, including: radio, satellite, telephone, internet, GPS’s and networks during incidents • Coordinating communications with other entities, task forces, and the Incident Support Team (IST) Communication Unit Leader • Adhering to all safety procedures • Accountability, preventive maintenance, and minor repairs of communications equipment • Maintaining appropriate records and reports • Maintaining the communications cache in an operational state at all times • Developing requests for replacement, or repair, for consumable, inoperative, lost, damaged, or destroyed communications items • Develop a Task Force Communications Plan (ICS 205) as part of Tactical Action Plan • Operate as an IST Communications Center Dispatcher
Responsible for the successful delivery of the operatiional readiness components of the Rainbow/G2C program in the Western hemisphere. Specific duties include ensuring operational policies are observed, coordination with operations teams to ensure succesful handover, oversight of designs, bills of material, program scheduling, and detailed implementation planning and execution. This role acts as the top operational program resource for North America, Mexico, Latin America, and South America. Financial duties include delivery cost estimation and resource planning, establishing rates/billing, and optimizing the cost of the solution to the business needs. Additionally the role will serve as a primary communications point between the program leaders and sponsors, the operations teams, and other program stakeholders.
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