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Kansas City, MO, US

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for directing the business continuity and incident management program for the North and South Central region of the U.S., consisting of 72 Southern Glazer's facilities throughout 18 states.

Chicago, Illinois

Management of business continuity program for Central Region Operations, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Nebraska, and Michigan.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Performed business impact analysis (& annual refresh) across all departments; enabled creation of actionable resiliency plans
• Developed & implemented 56 business resiliency plans; addressed business needs of all depts. & minimized operational risk
• Created a resiliency plan self-assessment tool; enabled business areas to assess plans and identify gaps/risks
• Trained & managed crisis response teams at five company locations; reduced operational & reputational risk

Oakdale, MN

Responsible for overseeing and managing enterprise-wide business continuity and disaster recovery, including business impact analyses, BC/DR testing and exercising, maintenance, etc. Scope extends to all divisions of ECMC Group, including Premiere Credit of North America, ECMC Guarantor, ECMC Solutions, and ECMC RRMC. ECMC is the Educational Credit.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for providing business resiliency consulting services to Cargill business units, specifically to support the development of business impact analyses, business continuity plans, and disaster recovery plans.

• Responsible for developing and managing comprehensive global incident preparedness program, including disaster recovery, business continuity, and crisis management.
• Developed & implemented Global Incident Preparedness Program encompassing Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, & Emergency Mgmt. and wrote comprehensive corporate policy pertaining to each of those disciplines
• Performed Business Impact Analyses for multiple divisions of Kroll, including Kroll Ontrack Legal Technologies (U.K. Ops.), TrialGraphix (subsidiary acquired in ’08, based in Miami), and Kroll Background Screening and.
• Developed & implemented ERP’s for all domestic & international sites, and BRP’s for all business units
• Implemented subscription to nationwide automated emergency notification system
• Created leadership succession plan as part of Emergency Response Plan

• Contract position responsible for developing, testing, implementing and maintaining disaster recovery/business continuity plans for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage post-closing operational applications, and related databases.
• Created 76 application recovery plans for Home Mortgage post-closing applications
• Deployed all application recovery plans using LDRPS
• Created hard and soft copy recovery plan libraries, developed and implemented offsite storage strategies
• Performed exercise and maintenance activities for all application recovery plans, including tabletop and functional tests
• Led project for conversion of secure encryption protocols for internal and external data/file transmissions

• Responsible for developing, testing, implementing and maintaining disaster recovery/business continuity plans for Metris Companies.
• Completed BIA’s for all mainframe applications
• Planned and led successful recovery tests for mainframe (zOS), AS400, UNIX (RS6000), and Windows (NT) platforms
• Conceived and drove performance of 1st integrated recovery test, proving ability to pass data from mainframe to AS/400
• Conceived, planned & led 1st “surprise” mainframe recovery exercise (zOS); recovered successfully in 6 hrs.
• Proposed & drove creation of RFP for recovery services; created RFP and managed evaluation and selection process from start to finish, resulting in change of vendors and annual savings of $700,000+

M.F.A., All Coursework Completed; Thesis Deferred, English / Creative Writing

B.A., English Major, History Minor

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude, alt. Commencement Valedictorian, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, English Departmental Scholarship

Agricultural Business And Management

Seminar on Managing Yourself and Others