Gale Irvin

About Gale Irvin

Enterprise Risk & AI Governance Leader | Operational Resilience | Technology Risk | C-Suite Advisor 30+ Years | Healthcare | Government | Financial Services | Multi-Cloud | HITRUST | ISO | NIST | AzureI help organizations modernize enterprise resilience and technology risk governance in an era where business operations increasingly depend on automated and AI-enabled systems.Over more than 30 years in IT leadership roles across healthcare, government, and financial sectors, I have designed and operationalized enterprise disaster recovery, cyber resilience, and regulatory compliance programs supporting complex global technology environments. My work frequently bridges technical recovery architecture with enterprise risk governance, helping organizations align resilience strategy with regulatory frameworks such as HITRUST, ISO, and NIST.My current focus is advancing how resilience and risk management programs evolve to support AI-enabled systems and automated decision platforms. Traditional disaster recovery restores infrastructure and applications; AI-driven systems introduce additional dependencies including model artifacts, training data, feature pipelines, and governance validation controls.To explore these challenges, I have been developing several AI-assisted governance and resilience initiatives, including:• AI Operational Resilience Framework – a governance and recovery model addressing resilience challenges introduced by AI-driven enterprise systems• AI Risk Intelligence Prototype – an AI-assisted system analyzing incident signals and outage data to identify emerging operational risk scenarios• AI Disaster Recovery Plan Parser – a tool designed to evaluate disaster recovery plans against regulatory and governance requirementsThese projects reflect my broader interest in how AI can support proactive risk governance, resilience strategy, and compliance automation.I am particularly interested in opportunities to help organizations strengthen technology risk governance, operational resilience strategy, and AI governance programs as they adopt increasingly automated and intelligent systems.I welcome conversations regarding Director, VP, and executive leadership opportunities focused on enterprise risk, operational resilience, technology governance, and AI-enabled risk management.GitHub:https://github.com/Gale-IrvinI enjoy connecting with leaders working at the intersection of AI governance, operational resilience, and enterprise technology risk.

Experience

1. Enterprise Risk & Resilience Governance Lead (Official Title Disaster Recovery Program Lead)

   Medline

   Mar 2023 — Present · Libertyville, IL, US

   Lead enterprise disaster recovery and operational resilience governance within a $7.8B global healthcare organization supporting more than 500 critical applications across hybrid on-premise and Azure cloud environments. Responsible for resilience standards, recovery architecture strategy, and regulatory alignment across global technology operations.AI Governance & Resilience Innovation• Developed an AI Operational Resilience Framework exploring governance and recovery architecture for AI-driven systems including RAG architectures and fine-tuned models.• Designed governance models addressing AI recovery domains including model artifacts, training datasets, vector databases, and external model dependencies.• Built AI resilience playbooks and operational scenarios demonstrating restoration procedures for AI-enabled decision systems.Enterprise Resilience Governance• Established enterprise disaster recovery standards, recovery templates, and governance processes used across North America and international divisions.• Evaluated and aligned resilience programs across global business units including European Union and Panama operations.• Partner with Internal Audit to validate resilience program alignment with HITRUST, ISO, and NIST frameworks.Cloud Resilience Strategy• Led disaster recovery strategy supporting Medline’s migration from on-premise infrastructure to Azure cloud environments.• Contribute to recovery architecture and testing strategy supporting hybrid cloud enterprise systems.Operational Risk Governance• Implemented structured resilience governance lifecycle including risk assessments, business impact analysis, recovery planning, and continuous program improvement across enterprise systems.

Education

• DePaul University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  1987 — 1990

• William Rainey Harper College

  Associate, Data Processing Technical

  1985 — 1987

Skills

• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Business Continuity Planning
• Iso 27001
• IT Operations
• Management
• Business Continuity
• Internal Controls
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Visio
• Compliance
• Cmmi
• Data Center
• Business Analysis
• Policy
• Disaster Preparedness
• Auditing
• Cobit
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• IT Management
• IT Strategy
• Vendor Management
• Risk Management
• Risk Assessment
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Project Management
• Iso
• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Information Technology
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• IT Governance
• Disaster Recovery
• Process Improvement
• Business Process
• Erp