Karthik Vaidyanathan

Karthik Vaidyanathan is currently the Global Business Continuity Lead for Microsoft Commercial Technical Support Division. Karthik built the division’s BCM program from scratch and evolved it into one of Microsoft’s most successful BCM efforts. Prior to this role Karthik lead the business continuity planning and incident management efforts for Microsoft’s largest and 24x7 support site. Karthik was involved in the pandemic planning efforts for the site during the H1N1 threats in 2009. Karthik also has experience in the design and deployment of contact centre solutions for several corporations across the globe.

Appointment within BCM Institute

• Karthik is an Instructor for BCM Institute India.
  
  

Past Employment

• Business Continuity, Tools and Telecom Program Manager, Microsoft India
• Project Manager, Aspect Software, Bangalore
• Systems Architect, Servion Global Solutions, New Jersey, USA
  
  

Professional Certification

• Awarded Project Management Professional from Project Management Institute, USA – Aug 2005
• 2009 Awarded Business Continuity Certified Expert (BCCE), BCM Institute, Singapore
• 2009 Awarded ITIL V2 Foundation Certification
• 2012 – Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Microsoft LYNC Server 2010.
• 2012 – ISO 22301 Lead Auditor(Results awaited)
  
  

Academic Qualification

• Bachelor of Engineering(Computer Science and Engineering), University of Madras
• Masters of Science(Electrical and Computer Engineering), Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey
  

Presentations and Publication

• ‘Government Policies and Guidelines on Corporate Business Continuity Planning’ at Second India Disaster Management Conference, New Delhi in Nov 2009