Rich Schiesser Founder and President RWS Enterprises, Inc. Rich Schiesser began his career in business continuity at Northrop Grumman, where for ten years he headed up the main computer center and its disaster recovery group. During that time he personally directed several successful operational exercises that demonstrated the offsite recoverability of large, classified data centers. For the past several years, Rich has designed and implemented effective business continuity programs through his consulting company: RWS Enterprises. His list of clients includes 20th Century Fox, The Weather Channel, DirecTV, Option One Mortgage, Fremont Investments, Argent Mortgage, Las Vegas Police, and Ameriquest.Rich has written dozens of articles for leading IT trade journals and websites, and currently writes a weekly IT Management column at InformIT.com. In recent years Rich has authored two best-selling books on IT Systems Management and IT Production Services.