West Top Talent
Candidate 101West
Homeland Security/ Emergency Management
San Francisco, CA
Travel N/A
Compensation: $100,000 + + Opportunity
Executive Manager with success and innovation in motivating and managing people and creating unique solutions in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Largest jurisdiction position held in county with population over 3.5 million. Worked at city, county, and state levels and have built and remodeled EOCs, worked with Incident Management software, certified and trained thousands of emergency workers in SEMS, NIMS, ICS and EOC Operations, conducted exercises involving up to 550 responders and multiple jurisdictions. Experienced Nuclear Power Plant incident planner and trainer and have managed response to 8 Presidential Disaster Declarations, a state wildland fire, a chemical warehouse fire evacuation, floods, tornados, earthquakes and other incidents. Have managed the most successful neighborhood preparedness program in the nation with more than 5,000 households and installed public alerting systems. Also run preparedness and planning consulting business to assist business, and public facilities to respond to their most likely hazards. Looking for a great community and position to use my experience and skills to achieve excellence in the field.
Candidate 102West
Business Continuity Professional
Los Angeles, CA
Open to relocate/ Travel
Compensation: Seeking $95,000 +
Looking for a Certified Business Continuity Professional with experience, enthusiasm, and dedication to be a positive addition to your organization? This candidate is a subject matter expert and can put into place a robust and viable Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery program to fit your corporate needs. This manager has over 10 years experience conducting business impact analysis, risk analysis, strategy development and implementation, plan development, emergency preparedness, life safety, validation and maintenance as well as vendor coordination and management. Having successfully coordinated full-scale recovery exercises, this individual is also highly skilled in utilizing LDRPS including administration, implementation and creation of custom Crystal Reports. He/she is currently seeking an opportunity to provide BCM leadership to an organization. If you are interested in enhancing your company’s existing Business Continuity program or building one from the ground up, you’ve found the right candidate!
Candidate 103West
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident/Emergency Management Certified Professional.
Portland, OR
Relocation not preferred but will work remotely or travel extensively, 50-75%
Compensation: $120,000-200,000
This candidate is an Industry expert with more than 17 years in planning, implementation, testing and execution. He/she holds two certifications from DRII and the BCI. He/she worked the last ten years with a multi-national organization with responsibility for more than 50,000 employees in 600 worldwide locations. More than six years in consulting. He/she developed three program offices from scratch. He/she has completed more than 150 Business Impact Analyses, developed more than 2400 plans, and developed/facilitated more than 3000 exercises.
Key disciplines include:
- Program/Project Management, Audit and Control
- Corporate Communications
- Business Impact Analysis / Risk Management
- Recovery Plan Development, Test and Execution
- Education/Training and Awareness program development (including CBT)
- Regulatory/Industry Compliance (HIPAA, ITIL, SOX, MAR, ISO27000, ISO17799, BS25999, NFPA1600)
- Data Center Recovery Operations
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Software Engineering & Management
Candidate 104West
Certified Business Continuity Professional
Southern Colorado
Willing to relocate; Travel up to75%
Compensation: $90,000-110,000
Often mistaken for a mild-mannered reporter, this candidate is a seasoned, degreed and certified Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery professional having more than a decade of progressive BC industry experience and an Information Technology background. Serving both the private and public sectors of the industry as a team member, manager, regional BC program manager, or consultant, this hands-on practitioner has strengthened the BC programs of several global corporations, helped to build two BC programs from the ground up, and expanded the parameters of others through innovative thinking and a process-oriented mindset. Candidate often interfaces with local, state, and federal agencies when employer assets are threatened and routinely interacts with corporate executives, customers, and vendors with ease and industry savvy. While not as powerful as a locomotive, this mild-mannered team player has the strength to move your BC program to the next level.
Candidate 105West
Global C4 Leader (Crisis / Continuity / Communications / Consulting)
Southwest USA
Willing to relocate and travel extensively
Compensation: $90,000 +
This proven leader in industry and management consulting brings extensive global experience in the areas of rapid crisis preparation, emergency response, crisis intervention, crisis communications, and event survival & recovery. Having worked in over 30 countries and provided remote support in over 100, this candidate knows what WILL work –and- more importantly what WON’T work in the areas of crisis and disaster preparation, response, survival, and recovery. He/She holds advanced degrees and active professional certifications in Crisis & Continuity, Communications, Human Resources, & Executive / Organizational Coaching. In addition, this candidate is a nationally-certified EMS Professional –and- a Master Certified Crisis Chaplain. He/She specializes in the human factors of crisis events, effective internal & external communications, reputational risk mitigation, executive protection, and real-world viable solutions that don’t cost an arm and a leg to bring to life!
Candidate 106West
Certified professional building robust global business continuity management programs for the global financial services industry
Orange County, CA
Relocation not preferred but will work remotely or travel 25%
Compensation: $160,000 – 200,000
This candidate has 10 years experience building a comprehensive and rationalized BCM program that has successfully protected a global financial organization from any business impacts in no less than eight actual disruptive events.
Skilled at leveraging budgets and limited resources to develop BCM programs that provides the business process resilience that regulated financial service companies require. Planning and developing the program is but one skill set. The other critical ingredient to a successful BCP is gaining buy-in from the business units for the Program. This candidate’s communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills have been brought into play to socialize the program to the enterprise.
Specialties include:
· BCM Program Development
· BCM Operations Management
· Staff Management & Budgeting
· IT Disaster Recovery (DR)
· Risk Assessment, Impact Based Planning
· Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
· RTO Identification
· Business Process Minimization
· Escalation Procedures
· Global Incident Response
· BCM M&A Integration
· Enterprise Risk Management
· GRC Convergence with BCM
· Vendor Management
Orange County, CA
Relocation not preferred but will work remotely or travel 25%
Compensation: $160,000 – 200,000
This candidate has 10 years experience building a comprehensive and rationalized BCM program that has successfully protected a global financial organization from any business impacts in no less than eight actual disruptive events.
Skilled at leveraging budgets and limited resources to develop BCM programs that provides the business process resilience that regulated financial service companies require. Planning and developing the program is but one skill set. The other critical ingredient to a successful BCP is gaining buy-in from the business units for the Program. This candidate’s communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills have been brought into play to socialize the program to the enterprise.
Specialties include:
· BCM Program Development
· BCM Operations Management
· Staff Management & Budgeting
· IT Disaster Recovery (DR)
· Risk Assessment, Impact Based Planning
· Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
· RTO Identification
· Business Process Minimization
· Escalation Procedures
· Global Incident Response
· BCM M&A Integration
· Enterprise Risk Management
· GRC Convergence with BCM
· Vendor Management
Candidate 107West
BC/DR Guru
Orange County California
Compensation: $75,000+
This savvy and energetic business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) guru instills high quality and a team mentality into every role and engagement he/she has been involved with. With over 8 years of experience in BC/DR and 10 years in technology, this individual has a keen eye for detail, a solid grasp of industry best practices and is adept at managing complicated projects/programs to ensure that a viable program is maintained.
Having held numerous high-level roles including Sr. Technical Writer, Sr. Compliance Officer, Sr. BC/DR Consultant (CBCP certification), Sr. Program Manager and Practice Manager, this individual brings a strong set of core competencies to the table. These include:
- Business Impact Analysis
- Risk Assessment/Mitigation
- Policy/Procedure Development
- BC/DR Plan Testing
- Functional Interdependencies Mapping
- Emergency Response
- Recovery Strategy Development
- Response/Recovery Training
- Safety Program Development
He/She is fun to work with and has received many accolades from coworkers and clients which are available upon request.
Candidate 108West
Seasoned Certified Business Continuity Professional
Location: West Coast
Compensation: $150-200K
Relocation: Yes
Travel: up to 30%
This senior level candidate has witnessed firsthand what a good business resilience program can do for a business, and what the lack of such a program can do to a business.
As an accomplished senior leader this candidate’s focus is on building Business Resilience into organizations, by integrating scalable business continuity, emergency management, issues management, crisis management, and disaster recovery programs. This candidate has built continuity and mitigation programs in both centralized and decentralized models with optimum results. Work experience spans multiple sectors, including those within the country’s critical infrastructure.
Qualities this candidate will bring to your company include:
· Quantitative as well as qualitative results.
· Proven negotiation abilities.
· Experienced strategic and operational planning and implementation.
· Effective formal and informal, written and oral, communication skills.
· Successful expense containment and budget management.
· Effective collaboration across an organization.
· Practiced technology and business acumen.
As a Certified Business Continuity Professional this candidate focuses on the effects rather than the cause of a business interruption, expanding the breadth of companies’ business continuity and disaster recovery programs to improve their business resilience. This candidate can help improve your company’s overall sustainability.
Location: West Coast
Compensation: $150-200K
Relocation: Yes
Travel: up to 30%
This senior level candidate has witnessed firsthand what a good business resilience program can do for a business, and what the lack of such a program can do to a business.
As an accomplished senior leader this candidate’s focus is on building Business Resilience into organizations, by integrating scalable business continuity, emergency management, issues management, crisis management, and disaster recovery programs. This candidate has built continuity and mitigation programs in both centralized and decentralized models with optimum results. Work experience spans multiple sectors, including those within the country’s critical infrastructure.
Qualities this candidate will bring to your company include:
· Quantitative as well as qualitative results.
· Proven negotiation abilities.
· Experienced strategic and operational planning and implementation.
· Effective formal and informal, written and oral, communication skills.
· Successful expense containment and budget management.
· Effective collaboration across an organization.
· Practiced technology and business acumen.
As a Certified Business Continuity Professional this candidate focuses on the effects rather than the cause of a business interruption, expanding the breadth of companies’ business continuity and disaster recovery programs to improve their business resilience. This candidate can help improve your company’s overall sustainability.
Candidate 109West
Certified Business Continuity Executive
USA – Willing to relocate/travel
Seeking $125K
This CBCP certified candidate has extensive experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning and Information Technology. With over 30 years of experience in the Information Systems specializing in business continuity and disaster recovery for financial services and insurance industry.
He/she is keen in strategy as well as execution with in-depth knowledge in both business continuity and information technology areas. His/her broad experience included Risk Assessments, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), defines Business Continuity Policy, Standard of Practices, and managing the development, implementation, training, conduct table-top and rehearsal exercises, and maintenance of enterprise-wide business continuity and disaster recovery planning programs
This applicant is willing to relocate without assistance; willing travel and is eager to join a company that values his/her expertise in business resumption plan development, information system and execution. A must see candidate!
USA – Willing to relocate/travel
Seeking $125K
This CBCP certified candidate has extensive experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning and Information Technology. With over 30 years of experience in the Information Systems specializing in business continuity and disaster recovery for financial services and insurance industry.
He/she is keen in strategy as well as execution with in-depth knowledge in both business continuity and information technology areas. His/her broad experience included Risk Assessments, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), defines Business Continuity Policy, Standard of Practices, and managing the development, implementation, training, conduct table-top and rehearsal exercises, and maintenance of enterprise-wide business continuity and disaster recovery planning programs
This applicant is willing to relocate without assistance; willing travel and is eager to join a company that values his/her expertise in business resumption plan development, information system and execution. A must see candidate!
