Kathy Kibble Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, On, Ca

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

I volunteer as both a coach, and site coordinator. As a coach, I work one-on-one with children helping them learn to read by following Strong Start's Letters, Sounds, and Words Program. As the Site Coordinator, I am the main contact for the Strong Start program at Millen Woods Public School, and the connection between Strong Start, the principal, teachers, and volunteer coaches for the administration of each 10 week coaching session.

Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

Going Mobile KW volunteers deliver 100 or more meal bags daily to people experiencing homelessness. Our volunteer community outreach group provides support in Kitchener-Waterloo (KW).

Waterloo, Ontario

I began working full time in 1981 as a computer programmer, and over the years held a variety of challenging roles always gravitating toward business continuity management and project / team leadership. I've now ceased full time employment and focus my time on health, family, friends, and travel. I am open to considering consulting or volunteer assignments to help out others.

Waterloo, Ontario

As a volunteer held positions on Board of Directors of 'Director of Ice Scheduling' and 'Secretary/Registrar'. I handled registrations and communications with membership, centralized documents and produced minutes. I scheduled ice for all teams, communicated with coaches, and created a website repository. Presently support the association as needed particularly with their two large annual tournaments.

Waterloo, Ontario

-Responsible for designing, improving, implementing and executing BlackBerry's Global Enterprise Business Continuity Management Program, and, BlackBerry's Incident and Crisis Management Program. -Refreshed >150 Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), business continuity strategies and plans, training and testing of more critical functions annually, and overall enterprise training courses and awareness. -Determine and create reports for all levels of management-Hardened linkages between BC, DR, Environment Health and Safety, Incident and Crisis Management, and Breach Management Process-Lead training and testing of Executive and Local Management teams simulating recent and evolving threats including violence and cyber. Lead large BC/DR combined tests.-Determine responses to customer queries and contracts; provide answers to external and internal auditors as well as customer audits.

Waterloo Ontario

- Lead capacity planning projects and Enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Program Management. - Simplified BlackBerry's Global Enterprise Business Continuity Management Program, and, BlackBerry's Incident and Crisis Management Program aligning with organizational changes; executed these programs initially for two business groups gradually increasing to all business groups globally. -Responded to customer questionnaires, RFIs, and contractual wording; participated in customer, internal and external audits.

In a paid position, supervised kindergarten children during lunch at Keatsway Public School. As a volunteer, have been actively involved planning several fun fairs and pasta nights, parent leader of the home reading program, and many other fundraising and volunteer activities.

Waterloo, Ontario

-Project Leader of: Enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) tests, Canadian DR tests, Business Continuity (BC) plan repository upgrade, BC tool selection, Web Application Infrastructure & Production Services projects, Individual's Ingenium technical software upgrade, Canadian mainframe & AS/400 application migration from Toronto to Waterloo, Group Retirement Services Royal Trust test environment project, mainframe test environment improvements-Responsible for planning, managing and implementing projects, coordination between teams, managing detailed schedules and scope, leading meetings and writing status reports, issue management-People management, working with skilled teams across business groups, influencing others-BC knowledge including BIA, BC plan development, DR plan development, call tree plans, alternate site plans, pandemic plans, and testing of these plans-Preparing training and testing materials for Crisis Management and support teams

-Project Leader of production problem reduction problem-Manager of automating test software & support team-Team Leader of Group, Life, and Health IT production support team responsible for production problems & small production changes, including managing priorities with business groups-Disaster Recovery Team Leader for Group, Life and Health IT-Programmer using PL1, DB2, IMS on Group, Life and Health IT

-Project Manager for General Ledger replacement project, leading both business and IT groups-Disaster Recovery Plan Manager for IT tests leading infrastructure & application teams-Business Continuity Manager - interviewed all business process owners to inventory current state and recovery requirements-Change control manager for infrastructure changes, and Team Leader responsible for implementing all production application changes-Quality Assurance consultant driving standards for new database environments and its supporting new change management software-Installed, tested and implemented upgrades of vendor database & operating system software-Programmer on Property & Casualty IT team using CICS, COBOL, ADS/Online, OLM, IDMS on IBM/Amdahl mainframe