Dennis Wenk is responsible for creating continuity & resiliency solutions for HDS customers. His experience includes quantitative risk analysis, business impact assessments, business contingency planning, high availability strategies, investment justification for high availability, technology assessments, client/server and open systems transition strategies, chargeback methodologies, emerging platform evaluations, technology and infrastructure integration, cross-platform compatibility, complex heterogeneous technology consolidations, outsourcing evaluation, capacity planning & performance analysis, platform selection and implementation, centralize v. distributed alternatives, site selection, facility construction, and migration services.

Articles and Presentations

Awarded the best management paper by the computer measurement group (CMG). authored articles published in information week, computer performance review, trends and topics, continuity insights, disaster recovery journal, and info systems including : "outsourcing: a management perspective”, “availability value analysis”, “clearing the five nines hurdle”, “almost never; business continuity”, “is ‘good enough’ storage good enough for compliance?”, “making the best use of limited security resources”, “stakeholders accountability and operational risk”, and “economic and regulatory impact: post 11 September, 2001”, “best practices, ain’t”, “risk management and business continuity: overview and perspectives”

Presented to SHARE, continuity insights management conference, disaster recovery institute, Purdue University, Midwest telecommunications conference, data processing management association, and computer measurement group, EDP auditors association, financial executives institute, North American Computer Exchange (NOREX), and Amdahl Users Group.

Education and Certification

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Accounting and Finance (1985), Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (1977) from Northern Illinois University and Associates of Science in Data Processing from Moraine Valley Community College (1974).

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Data Processor (CDP), and Certified Systems Professional (CSP).

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