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Kansas City, MO, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Serving as the Senior Manager for the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Program with responsibilities concerning the governance of the program and the development and testing of the organization's business continuity and crisis response plans.

Lees Summit, Missouri, United States

Acted as managing consultant providing subject matter expertise and project management services to Wipro's US and international clients in the areas of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Cybersecurity.

Kansas City, Missouri

Established the organization’s Business Continuity Program by developing Business Continuity and Incident Management components to support and expand the company’s existing Disaster Recovery initiatives. Responsible for the management of the Business Continuity Program for all rail operations in the United States and Mexico to include response plan.

Austin, Texas Area

• Established and maintained a Global Resiliency Program encompassing all levels of the eBay organization. Led an 18-person team of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management professionals in the.
• Established and tested emergency response protocol for the Executive Crisis Management team.
• Drafted a crisis communication plan with branding, communication, legal and human resource staff.
• Assisted crisis management team in the implementation of emergency response plans, alternate operating strategies and notification protocol.
• Trained emergency management teams and security staff in the execution of facility-level crisis response plans.

St. Petersburg, Florida

• Established the organization's IT Business Continuity Management Program for 93 manufacturing and corporate support facilities employing 180,000 global staff. Developed a corporate incident reaction program utilizing a.
• Introduced program policies and procedures in addition to business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis communication plan templates for company-wide usage.
• Devised and delivered maintenance, testing and training initiatives including facilitating post-testing review sessions to offer gap remediation recommendations.
• Implemented software for business continuity and incident management across 93 worldwide locations.
• Served as an incident coordinator during events requiring corporate incident response teams.
• Acted as a liaison for the Global Information Assurance Team on requests related to matters of potential litigation and/or personnel misconduct.

• Oversaw a Global Business Continuity Program to ensure a comprehensive approach to business continuity planning, crisis communication and emergency management in addition to corporate security and investigations..
• Strengthened the business continuity management program encompassing 84-customer support contact centers and 55,000 employees.
• Instituted an over-arching emergency response structure providing global support to regional and local response teams.
• Developed business continuity plan templates for use in the creation of facility plans, as well as the supervision of cross-functional teams engaged in plan development and maintenance efforts.
• Conducted 57 location-specific risk assessments and business impact analyses.
• Served as a lead advisor to executive emergency response team during crises by facilitating team meetings, directing recovery efforts and providing high-level status updates.

I acted as a consultant responsible for the development of client’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Programs. This included conducting Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis; developing Continuation of Operations Plans; creating and conducting disaster response training and testing programs. I developed Disaster Recovery procedures, which.

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