Augustus Magno

Supports the Senior Organizational Resilience Specialist, CSRS in the implementation and administration of the organizational resilience program and management of the different projects focused on strengthening ADB’s resilience.
Proposes actions to assist departments and offices in conforming and integrating resilience into their business processes and operations to ensure
continuity of operations in the event of business disruptions.
Coordinates measures to employ an OR holistic approach to strengthen existing business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
Assists in the development of a communication plan and organizes activities to promote an ADB-wide awareness of the organizational resilience program.
Provides support in the advancement of organizational resilience through the coordination of seminars and conducting simulated drills of business recovery operations.
Oversees the conduct of training/workshop programs on business continuity and organizational resilience.
Provides recommendations on action of risk evaluations and business impact analysis studies of ADB and its Field Offices.
Administers planning and conduct of scheduled and surprise business continuity drills for the recovery site with critical user and support departments.
Reviews the preparation of back-to-office reports and after-action review reports and provides inputs on OAG's fallback testing reports on the resiliency drills.
Monitors the implementation of improvements required as an outcome of the drills on, key issues, discussions among critical users and support groups, and audit recommendations.
Reviews audit-related documents, plans, and reports to ensure compliance with Business Continuity Management (BCM) standards and coordinate the audit by the external auditor.
Participates in the regular review and revalidation of business impact analysis and risk assessment studies of ADB HQ and the Field Offices and ISO 22301:2019 audit and certification.
Provides guidance and inputs in the preparation of CSRS submission for ADB's Work Program and Budget Framework; Organizational Resilience program review and related reports; briefing notes and presentation materials for workshops, meetings and seminars; as requested by CTL, OAG, OAS, CTL, ORM and staff, including reports to Management and Board of Directors as required.
Oversees the preparation of the annual budget proposal, adjustments in the mid-year review and post-evaluation of budget utilization for Administrative Expenses, annual capital and special capital budgets.
Undertakes review of Purchase Requisitions and Request for Payments in the execution of business continuity and organizational resilience programs.
Represents ADB at international forums and in discussions with other international organizations, as required.
Coordinates and provides direct supervision of activities related to Business Continuity Plan activation at the time of disaster.
Performs review of pre-qualification and bid documents, work performance statement, and service level agreement in accordance with ADB’s established institutional procurement guidelines and procedures.
Provides guidance and advice to prospective bidders related to scope of projects and ADB requirements.
Organizes and coordinates the performance of OR team members by and providing clear direction, distributing workload and regular monitoring of performance.
Performs other duties and ad hoc assignments as may be assigned as reflected in the incumbent’s work plan.

Supports the Senior Organizational Resilience Specialist, in the coordination and implementation of organizational resilience (OR) projects, strategies and plans.
Participates in the implementation of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program including the review and monitoring of both critical and non-critical units' Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessments (RA), Business Continuity Plans (BCP), including submission of key suppliers' contingency and continuity plans, Business Continuity Core Group (BCCG) call list and profile, and Business Continuity (BC) strategy, manual and flyer.

Provides support, training, and expertise to business users in the cloud-based Business Continuity Management software.
Checks audit-related documents, plans, and reports to ensure compliance with Business Continuity Management (BCM) standards and coordinates the audit by the external auditor.
Assists in the regular review and revalidation of BIA-RAs for ADB HQ and the Field Offices and ISO 22301:2019 audit and certification.
Contributes to the development of communication materials on OR related topics to create and maintain awareness and prepares final correspondences pertaining to the OR program.
Reviews and provides recommendations on action of risk evaluations and business impact analysis studies of ADB and its Field Offices (FOs). Assists in planning for Business disruption scenarios for scheduled and surprise business continuity drills. Contributes in preparing back-to-office reports and after-action review reports.
Coordinates and performs preparatory tasks necessary for the conduct of planned/surprise BC drills. Delivers training programs related to Business Continuity, emergency response situations, and disaster recovery (DR) operations.
Develops and implements special projects and major work programs of the unit such as automation of BCM, risk mitigation studies, OR awareness campaigns, tabletop exercise planning, and preparation of reports and dashboard analytics.
Writes specific briefs; plans, etc. for the Management and others as required.
Represents the ADB to outside bodies, as required.
At the time of disaster, acts as one of the incident coordinators, providing direct supervision of activities related to BCP/DRP.

Manage the operations of the Data Center in ADB HQ by ensuring smooth operations, completion of batch jobs, and proper management of backup media.

Manage the Data Center Operators and conduct performance evaluation and recruitment of agency staff.

Worked in the IT Infrastructure and Technology Division, worked in coordinating and consolidating IT disaster recovery activities and efforts of the department.

Supervised the IT Disaster Recovery Team in technology testing and integrated BC drills.

Formulate BC drill reports and coordinate with BC Coordinator/ Secretariat on BC/DR audits.

Assist in the administration of enterprise backup system by monitoring and scheduling backup jobs.

Configured and formulated backup schedule based on business requirements.

Assisted in the provisioning of storage requirements to infrastructure team.

Worked for the IT Strategy Team in-charged in the formulation of IT Strategy (ISTS II).

Provide administrative assistance to the consultants engaged for the strategy formulation.

Assisted in the various activities such as user workshops, business users coordination meetings and other activities of the team.

Assisted in the formulation for the establishment of Program Management Unit.

Assisted in the Enterprise Architecture project of the department by documenting current state of IT infrastructure.