Consultants
Standby Consulting is made up of a core team of experienced professionals in the field of business continuity, data centre design, cyber governance and project management. We also have an extensive database of consultants in specialist fields from all over the world.
Meet some of the Standby team.....
C.B. (Sam) Mulholland Managing Director and Founder of Standby Consulting.; CBCP, MIITP, ITCP
Sam and has worked in the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery sector for over 15 years. Prior to that he worked for Databank Systems, a consortium of banks in New Zealand, who at one stage were the largest computer organisation in the Southern Hemisphere. Databank had one of the most advanced finance and banking systems in the World. Sam worked his way up through the ranks to become a Data Centre Manager for 16 years and worked in network and central processing data centres.
Sam established Standby Consulting in 1996 and has guided and grown the company from then. Sam has also worked in Australia and Fiji for IBM. Standby now work in both New Zealand and Australia, as well as further afield since setting up a successful Middle East office in 2007.
Sam and his company has carried out 50+ Business Continuity and IT DR Plan projects across a wide variety of organisations, both government, public and privately owned. These projects have covered, risk assessments, business impact analysis, designing and pricing recovery strategies, and writing various Plans, IT DR Plan and Business Continuity Plan workshops and testing and updating plans and embedding them into organisations.
Besides the Business Continuity Work, Standby has successfully completed other specialised consulting projects and also been the Product Managers and Consultants for the construction of data centres and server rooms.
Sam is a Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP), a certification gained through the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII), USA plus a Member and a Chartered IT Professional of the Institute of IT Professionals (IITP)
Janet Jones, Lead Consultant and New Zealand Manager; CBCP, BAppSci(IT), Dip. IS&T Management, Dip. IS
Janet is an experienced Business Continuity Management (BCM) Consultant. Since joining Standby in 2002, she has successfully worked on and in many instances project managed and led a significant number of projects for Standby. She has been directly involved in projects for medium to large enterprises across a broad range of business sectors including hospitals, academic institutions, local government, finance & banking, insurance institutions, infrastructure & utilities organisations, pharmaceutical manufacturers and retail & service industries. In her role as Lead Consultant, Janet has worked with clients throughout New Zealand, in Australia and the Middle East.
A Certified Business Continuity Practitioner, Janet is skilled in industry recognised business continuity, crisis management and disaster recovery methodologies and follows internationally recognised industry standards. She has an excellent understanding of business continuity management best practices.
Janet has performed numerous risk reviews, business impact analysis and has developed business continuity and recovery strategies for many of Standby’s clients. She creates and delivers BCP and DRP documentation for clients her report writing and documentation skills are outstanding. Janet often works in a QA role within Standby to ensure all documentation is of the highest standard.
Mike Jackson
A product of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Mike has been leading and teaching leadership for much of his working life, retiring from active service as a Major, he has travelled extensively and has accumulated some unique experiences during his life.
With an obvious passion for empowering people to experiment with new opportunities and his techniques for developing client’s self-efficacy, knowledge and skills he has enabled many clients to progress towards and achieve their objectives.
Starting as a COBOL programmer back in the early days of computing, Mike quickly rose to running three companies in the UK, but had to walk away during the dot com downturn. Since then he has mainstreamed as a Project / Change Manager but is happy to take walks on the wild side of Testing, Quality management and Process re-engineering. His Army training ingrained the need for built in redundancy and as a result, he has a reputation for developing robust systems with practical well tested failover options and is a respected Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery specialist.
More recently, Mike has rendered his experience available as a facilitator and a certified leadership coach, where his current focus is on executive leadership and project management coaching enabling Executives and Project Managers to implement successful meaningful change programmes. As an external resource, Mike is able to ask challenging questions and review legacy business processes whilst staying above most of the usual office politics that often obstruct and interfere with change initiatives.
Trevor Winter - Data Centre Expert
Trevor is an experienced service delivery manager, specialising in IT Datacentre facilities. He was South Island Business Continuity manager for major New Zealand IT company. Trevor has designed, sold and project managed some of New Zealand’s largest Wi-Fi networks while at the same time managed a major Datacentre facility. The Datacentre has remained 100% available since it was commissioned in 2010 despite being subject to numerous devastating earthquakes. His resourcefulness ensured the Datacentre remained fully operational while running on generator power for 11 days during the main Christchurch earthquake. On a number of occasions Trevor has presented to senior members of Australian “Business Continuity Panel” on lessons learnt operating a major facility during life changing events. He was also guest speaker in Sydney at a Datacentre Dynamics conference. Trevor was the primary design consultant for recent $9 million Datacentre expansion project in Christchurch bringing it up to a tier 3 Up-Time Institute standard, he has also consulted to customers with designing their own small Datacentre facilities. Trevor has been involved with many of New Zealand’s major companies, at first managing a team of field engineers delivering IT services to those clients throughout the South Island and more recently providing Datacentres hosting services as well as Wi-Fi consulting. Trevor’s 36 year experience in the IT industry have brought him a wealth of skills which he now offers through his consultation services.