Michael Mulcahy

About Michael Mulcahy

I lead and advise enterprises in designing, testing, and executing disaster recovery strategies that work when it matters most.With 25+ years in IT disaster recovery across cloud and on-prem environments, I lead large scale recovery programs that align tightly to business RTO/RPO requirements without unnecessary complexity or risk.My work focuses on:• Cloud & hybrid disaster recovery (AWS, Azure)• Failover and recovery testing at enterprise scale• Reducing recovery time, increasing success rates, and improving confidence• Bridging business and technology teams during high-stakes scenariosI’ve led complex cloud recovery initiatives that:• Improved DR readiness and testing efficiency• Increased failover success rates while reducing recovery times• Elevated DR awareness, training, and participation across organizations• Strengthened vendor accountability and improved SLA outcomesI’m often brought in to review recovery plans, identify gaps, and help teams move from “documented” recovery to proven, repeatable execution.My approach combines deep technical knowledge with clear communication, governance, and partnership, ensuring resilience isn’t theoretical, but operational.

Experience

1. Cloud Disaster Recovery Lead (Enterprise Resilience & Recovery)

   The Hartford

   May 2023 — Present

   Lead enterprise cloud disaster recovery and resiliency execution, identifying recovery gaps and partnering with infrastructure and application teams to align RTO/RPO objectives, increasing overall cloud DR readiness by 30%.• Drive complex, cross functional disaster recovery initiatives across technology and business units, establishing consistent execution standards, decision frameworks, and communication patterns that improved recovery testing efficiency by 25%.• Conduct technical reviews of cloud and hybrid recovery strategies, leveraging AI assisted analysis and structured review techniques to validate failover and recovery readiness across AWS and hybrid environments, increasing failover success rates by 40% and reducing recovery times during testing by 25%.• Define and reinforce DR testing expectations, roles, and accountability models for IT and business stakeholders, increasing testing participation by 35% and reducing execution gaps during recovery scenarios.• Apply AI assisted analysis and GenAI supported document review to improve consistency, quality, and time-to-insight across disaster recovery assessments, after-action reviews, and resiliency documentation.• Partner with application and platform teams to mature DR documentation, standards, and testing cadence, reducing onboarding time for new teams by 20% and enabling faster, more resilient cloud adoption.• Serve as a key contributor to the Integrated Technology Resiliency & Recovery (ITRR) program, providing subject matter expertise on application and vendor resiliency evaluations to ensure RTO/RPO compliance and minimize enterprise recovery risk.• Validate remediation outcomes following AWS and hybrid DR testing, working directly with Lines of Business to drive closure of identified gaps and achieving 95% remediation prior to subsequent testing cycles.

Education

• University of Central Florida

  BS Management

Skills

• Project Management
• Php
• Storage Management
• Data Warehousing
• Mysql
• Solution Design
• Business Continuity
• Storage Systems
• Solution Architecture
• Dns Management
• Management
• Windows Server 2003
• Information Technology
• Vmware
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Relationship Management
• Windows Server 2008
• Osd
• Online Marketing
• Active Top Secret Security Clearance
• B2b Ecommerce
• Business Development
• Centos
• Vcenter
• Dod
• Continuity of Operations
• Dns
• Integration
• Redhat
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Servers
• San
• Vmware Esx
• Linux
• Dnssec
• Emc
• Clustering
• Disaster Recovery
• System Administration