Brownstein, Irv

Irv Brownstein is a consultant with over thirty years experience in the information industry. In the course of his career he has demonstrated particular expertise in the areas of metrics, balanced scorecards and measurement programs, business intelligence, program management, business continuity, software asset management, process engineering, skills management, all phases of systems development and implementation, software package evaluation and installation, systems methodology development and implementation, productivity improvement and cost reduction, quality assurance and project management.

He has developed Disaster Recovery templates and an integrated Business Continuation Plan (DR/BCP) for a 200 person IT area of a large insurance/financial services firm as well as a major City and large consulting firm. The DR/BCP process categorized all system functions; established critical functions, data and resource needs; identified recovery timing needs; and, determined a call tree with associated procedures. The DR/BCP was documented, distributed and maintained for all key participants. He has developed and marketed software packages; has published 27 articles and authored Guidelines for Selecting Software Packages (Elsevier). He has also developed and conducted over 30 seminars, workshops and training sessions focusing on benchmarking assessments, developing SAM & ITIL metrics, performance and productivity improvement, skills management, cost reduction, technology “Readiness”, knowledge-based planning and estimating.