Dennis Wenk:
CLASS OF 1970
Reavis High SchoolClass of 1970
Burbank, IL
Northern Illinois University - BusinessClass of 1985
Dekalb, IL
Northern Illinois University - Computer ScienceClass of 1977
Dekalb, IL
Coe CollegeClass of 1974
Cedar rapids, IA
Moraine Valley Community CollegeClass of 1974
Palos hills, IL
Dennis's Story
Dennis is from Burbank, Illinois. Dennis's schools include Reavis High School. Dennis later attended Northern Illinois University (Computer Science) , Coe College (Liberal Arts) , Moraine Valley (Computer Science) . Dennis works(ed) at Symantec, Hitachi Data Systems, Symantec.
One of Dennis's favorite quotes is:"It is good to be LUCKY!".
More about Dennis:"Mr. Wenk is a management consultant and has consulted worldwide with Fortune 500 customers; Generating demand for new innovative service areas, leading consulting engagements, and managing new, evolving organizations in over 20 different countries; tackling some very challenging, complex, and ambiguous problems. His experience includes developing architectures and strategies for highly available, resilient and secure infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments, in a wide variety of industries i.e. financial (UK, South Africa, US), retail (Chile), insurance & healthcare (US, UK, Canada), Managed Shared Services (Australia & Finland), Telecommunications (Argentina and Mexico) and Manufacturing (Brazil & US). Virtually anywhere IT is mission critical to business success.
He has performed quantitative operational risk assessments that were used to justify the significant investments required to build, transform and maintain resilient infrastructures; he has performed technology assessments, IT consolidation and transition strategies, and developed site selection criteria for complex heterogeneous technology consolidations. In addition, he has developed charging methodologies, performed capacity planning and performance evaluations in large, complex IT environments. Dennis has developed a number of risk-based s...Expand for more
ervices that quantify the return on the technology investments that increase resiliency and improve continuity programs.
Current topical expertise include; âEco-Friendly Data Centerâ, âGaining Competitive Advantage: The Myth of the Resiliency Paradoxâ, âVirtualization, a Resiliency Enablerâ; âEconomic Impact of Interruptionsâ, âRisk-based Business Continuityâ, âHigh-Stakes Business Impact Analysisâ, âA Risk-Based Approach to Internal Controlsâ, and âResiliency, Clearing the Five Nines Hurdleâ. Dennis has written award-winning professional articles and white-papers and has been published in Information Week, Computer Performance Review, Trends and Topics, Continuity Insights, Infosystems, Computer Measurement Group, and DR Journal and is a regular speaker at industry conferences world-wide.
Dennis has worked at Hitachi Data Systems as a Principal Business Consultant, Senior Global Solutions Architect, Consulting Project Executive and Director of High Availability Solutions. His background also includes experience with IBM Global Network as an Outsourcing Project Executive; Comdisco where he was Western of Director Technology Consulting; KPMG where he was Senior Manager, Group Leader for IT Operations and Transformations, as well as Heller Financial where he served as VP/Information Processing. Dennis Wenk earned an MBA in Accounting and Finance, BS in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University. He is a certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Data Processor (CDP), and Certified Systems Professional (CSP), certified in ITIL Service Management. He was awarded Best Management Paper by Computer Measurement Group.".
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