West Top Talent
Candidate 101West
Homeland Security Professional
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Open to travel
Salary: Negotiable
I have unique and outstanding credentials and am seeking a senior level position with a business as the Director of Homeland Security/Emergency Management or as a consultant. I am Organized, tenacious, high energy, persistent, and known for leaving no stone left unturned. Startups/turnarounds are welcome.
I received a Master of Arts in Homeland Security and Defense from the renowned Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California, and authored a widely-used textbook on homeland security law and policy. I teach both online and in person and design curriculum. I’ve been a practicing attorney and trial lawyer since 1985 and am admitted to practice law in California plus four other jurisdictions. I have professional first responder experience as a police officer, an EMT, and a search and rescue team leader.
I have had overall management of human and material resources for a community-based first responder agency with experience in: program development; program management; project management; funding and finances; procurement; safety; training; education; public relations; inter-agency and government relations; and community outreach. I prepared Emergency Action Plans; oversaw design and development of a heavy rescue land vehicle and a water rescue vehicle. I organized local, regional, and multi-national trainings.
Open to move within Northern California and to travel 25%.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Open to travel
Salary: Negotiable
I have unique and outstanding credentials and am seeking a senior level position with a business as the Director of Homeland Security/Emergency Management or as a consultant. I am Organized, tenacious, high energy, persistent, and known for leaving no stone left unturned. Startups/turnarounds are welcome.
I received a Master of Arts in Homeland Security and Defense from the renowned Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California, and authored a widely-used textbook on homeland security law and policy. I teach both online and in person and design curriculum. I’ve been a practicing attorney and trial lawyer since 1985 and am admitted to practice law in California plus four other jurisdictions. I have professional first responder experience as a police officer, an EMT, and a search and rescue team leader.
I have had overall management of human and material resources for a community-based first responder agency with experience in: program development; program management; project management; funding and finances; procurement; safety; training; education; public relations; inter-agency and government relations; and community outreach. I prepared Emergency Action Plans; oversaw design and development of a heavy rescue land vehicle and a water rescue vehicle. I organized local, regional, and multi-national trainings.
Open to move within Northern California and to travel 25%.
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!
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 Professional /IT
Orange County, CA
Open to Some Travel
Compensation: Seeking $100,000 +
A candidate with extensive hands on, as well as management experience. The candidate is a seasoned 30 year veteran of the IT Business Continuity Industry holding a CBCP certification. He / She managed a Data Center for twenty two years. The candidate has written code in several languages, maintained tape, disk and file level maintenance, console automation, microcode upgrades, backup setup, technical support for DR recovery,
etc. He / She has extensive experience with most of the hot-site providers including Comdisco (now SunGard), SunGard and BCRS and has worked in most of their U.S. locations. He / She possess several years’ emergency management experience (3 campus buildings), business continuity experience and computer infection prevention and remediation experience. He / She have attained extensive experience with tape and high availability recovery and with most hardware, O/S and software products. He / She have experience managing DR programs for various clients in various industries including: manufacturing, health care, local government, entertainment, retail, technology and transportation. The candidate has managed an average of 7 DR exercises per year for the past 10 years. The candidate developed and taught classes in MSProject and basic Web design and participated in a major company’s LDRPS implementation. The candidate possesses an extensive portfolio of acronyms including: TSM,
DFDSS, DFSMS, OSA, VTAM, JES, CICS, IDMS, DB2, SQL, VTOC, VSAM, CA!/7/11, T1, DS3, OC3, ACL, SNA, BIOS / uEFI, HTML, SOX, HIPAA, LAN/WAN/VLAN, MIPS, SAN, NOC, PGP, BAU, CMOS, RAID, SCSI, UCB, (and others upon request), and is not afraid to use them!
Orange County, CA
Open to Some Travel
Compensation: Seeking $100,000 +
A candidate with extensive hands on, as well as management experience. The candidate is a seasoned 30 year veteran of the IT Business Continuity Industry holding a CBCP certification. He / She managed a Data Center for twenty two years. The candidate has written code in several languages, maintained tape, disk and file level maintenance, console automation, microcode upgrades, backup setup, technical support for DR recovery,
etc. He / She has extensive experience with most of the hot-site providers including Comdisco (now SunGard), SunGard and BCRS and has worked in most of their U.S. locations. He / She possess several years’ emergency management experience (3 campus buildings), business continuity experience and computer infection prevention and remediation experience. He / She have attained extensive experience with tape and high availability recovery and with most hardware, O/S and software products. He / She have experience managing DR programs for various clients in various industries including: manufacturing, health care, local government, entertainment, retail, technology and transportation. The candidate has managed an average of 7 DR exercises per year for the past 10 years. The candidate developed and taught classes in MSProject and basic Web design and participated in a major company’s LDRPS implementation. The candidate possesses an extensive portfolio of acronyms including: TSM,
DFDSS, DFSMS, OSA, VTAM, JES, CICS, IDMS, DB2, SQL, VTOC, VSAM, CA!/7/11, T1, DS3, OC3, ACL, SNA, BIOS / uEFI, HTML, SOX, HIPAA, LAN/WAN/VLAN, MIPS, SAN, NOC, PGP, BAU, CMOS, RAID, SCSI, UCB, (and others upon request), and is not afraid to use them!
Candidate 104West
Multi Disciplined Certified (CBCP) Candidate
Location: Nationwide
Salary negotiable
With over 24 years in the Emergency and Continuity field this candidate brings an amazing set of skills and experience to clients. The candidate has held several senior executive positions including running Business Continuity programs and Risk Programs for multi-billion dollar organizations with over 75 locations and 35,000 employees.
This candidate has not only extensive pre-event planning experience (with over 40 BCP’s written) but also has been involved in the management of over 60 real life crisis and disaster events.
The candidate has been the project manager on numerous world class Business Continuity projects including; The largest Business Continuity Exercise in the history of the nation, the largest continuity base risk assessment in the US, the design of the entire emergency preparedness system for all of Antarctica and the Incident Commander for a year long business continuity event.
This candidate has the ability to travel to any client site for short or long term durations for special projects or tasks. The candidate is able to work remote either as a regular staff employee or as contract assistance.
Location: Nationwide
Salary negotiable
With over 24 years in the Emergency and Continuity field this candidate brings an amazing set of skills and experience to clients. The candidate has held several senior executive positions including running Business Continuity programs and Risk Programs for multi-billion dollar organizations with over 75 locations and 35,000 employees.
This candidate has not only extensive pre-event planning experience (with over 40 BCP’s written) but also has been involved in the management of over 60 real life crisis and disaster events.
The candidate has been the project manager on numerous world class Business Continuity projects including; The largest Business Continuity Exercise in the history of the nation, the largest continuity base risk assessment in the US, the design of the entire emergency preparedness system for all of Antarctica and the Incident Commander for a year long business continuity event.
This candidate has the ability to travel to any client site for short or long term durations for special projects or tasks. The candidate is able to work remote either as a regular staff employee or as contract assistance.
Candidate 105West
Certified Business Continuity Professional
San Francisco, CA
Willing to relocate and travel
Compensation: $100,000+
Strategic and professional executive specializing in developing strong and profitable business relationships and devising winning solutions within crisis management, business continuity, and disaster recovery. Proven track record of effectively assessing needs and leading cross-functionally to deliver and complete projects on time or ahead of schedule. Act as a change agent with a history of building and enforcing comprehensive compliance programs that exceed business needs with minimal overhead costs. Leverage strategic relationships and influence colleagues to define, implement, and enforce standards. Excellent ability to communicate with all levels within the organization.
Areas of expertise:
Business Continuity – Strategic Planning – Risk Assessment – Project Management – Crisis Management – Disaster Recovery – Testing Incident
Communications – Problem Resolution – Business Impact Analysis – Technical Writing – Corporate Communications Regulatory Compliance –
Cross-Functional Leadership – Process Improvement & Optimization – Operations – Vendor Relations Strategic Partnerships – Consulting
San Francisco, CA
Willing to relocate and travel
Compensation: $100,000+
Strategic and professional executive specializing in developing strong and profitable business relationships and devising winning solutions within crisis management, business continuity, and disaster recovery. Proven track record of effectively assessing needs and leading cross-functionally to deliver and complete projects on time or ahead of schedule. Act as a change agent with a history of building and enforcing comprehensive compliance programs that exceed business needs with minimal overhead costs. Leverage strategic relationships and influence colleagues to define, implement, and enforce standards. Excellent ability to communicate with all levels within the organization.
Areas of expertise:
Business Continuity – Strategic Planning – Risk Assessment – Project Management – Crisis Management – Disaster Recovery – Testing Incident
Communications – Problem Resolution – Business Impact Analysis – Technical Writing – Corporate Communications Regulatory Compliance –
Cross-Functional Leadership – Process Improvement & Optimization – Operations – Vendor Relations Strategic Partnerships – Consulting
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
Emergency Management/Disaster Preparedness Professional
Based in Orange County, CA
Seeking minimum of $80K
This IAEM-certified professional has a demonstrated ten-year track record of success in emergency management and disaster preparedness planning within both the public and private sectors. He/she understands that business continuity isn’t just about computers and is seeking an opportunity to build or continue a whole-enterprise disaster preparedness/response/recovery program. Four years in the mobile telecommunications industry taught this candidate the pitfalls of infrastructure left without backup or maintenance. A retired military officer, this individual knows what “survivability” and “resiliency” mean and wants to help your company achieve them.
Based in Orange County, CA
Seeking minimum of $80K
This IAEM-certified professional has a demonstrated ten-year track record of success in emergency management and disaster preparedness planning within both the public and private sectors. He/she understands that business continuity isn’t just about computers and is seeking an opportunity to build or continue a whole-enterprise disaster preparedness/response/recovery program. Four years in the mobile telecommunications industry taught this candidate the pitfalls of infrastructure left without backup or maintenance. A retired military officer, this individual knows what “survivability” and “resiliency” mean and wants to help your company achieve them.
Candidate 108West
Manage Risk with a Resiliency and Continuity Executive Coach
West Coast - Will relocate
Travel up to 75%, International Travel okay
Part-time or Contract Opportunity preferred
Scope and Rates or Retainer negotiable
Fearless leader employing risk reduction and change management techniques for improved resiliency. Proven innovator using creative application of best
practices and cross feed to enhance the bottom line. “Whole community” style leads to strengthened relationships that mean survival. With additional instructor and facilitator core competencies, the candidate builds the security culture so important to the resilient organization.
Successful hands-on experience with government, private industry and the non-profit community clients gives the candidate a unique versatility and enhanced problem solving skills.
Certificates from FEMA, ACFE and USAF and speaking at national conferences demonstrate knowledge base and credibility in the professional field. The
candidate’s MPA was earned in analysis and problem solving.
If your company needs to survive and operate in today’s hazardous environment, if you need an executive that can plan, build and coach, you’ve found one!
West Coast - Will relocate
Travel up to 75%, International Travel okay
Part-time or Contract Opportunity preferred
Scope and Rates or Retainer negotiable
Fearless leader employing risk reduction and change management techniques for improved resiliency. Proven innovator using creative application of best
practices and cross feed to enhance the bottom line. “Whole community” style leads to strengthened relationships that mean survival. With additional instructor and facilitator core competencies, the candidate builds the security culture so important to the resilient organization.
Successful hands-on experience with government, private industry and the non-profit community clients gives the candidate a unique versatility and enhanced problem solving skills.
Certificates from FEMA, ACFE and USAF and speaking at national conferences demonstrate knowledge base and credibility in the professional field. The
candidate’s MPA was earned in analysis and problem solving.
If your company needs to survive and operate in today’s hazardous environment, if you need an executive that can plan, build and coach, you’ve found one!
Candidate 109West
Certified Business Continuity Professional / Certified in Emergency Management
Verified in Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management
Denver and Colorado Springs area
Open to Relocate / Willing to Travel 75%
Compensation: $100,000 +
This is a highly organized self-starter that requires little direction to complete tasks given. With the ability to work easily up and down the organization from CEO to project staff, this candidate has developed the skills in business continuity and emergency management to put C-Level desires, management direction, and (everyone’s) requirements into cohesive plans that meet budgetary and regulatory requirements. This candidate has a project management background and carries a 17 year certification in business continuity (CBCP), is certified in Emergency Management and carries a Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT) Train the Trainer certification as well. The applicant has a proven record in hardware, software, and process implementations, facility
upgrades, corporate relocations, and has developed three ground up viable recovery programs for global financial and travel related institutions. I was responsible for; management and staff buyoff and training, design, development, exercising, maintenance, and recovery of corporate wide disaster recovery plans. Those program foundations in turn supported by processes put in place to ensure consistency and survivability; i.e. Business Impact Analysis, Risk Analysis, Awareness & Training (for C-level through staff), quarterly full scale exercises along with departmental focused exercises, vendor coordination, contract negotiation, and a corporate wide capacity management program.
Verified in Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management
Denver and Colorado Springs area
Open to Relocate / Willing to Travel 75%
Compensation: $100,000 +
This is a highly organized self-starter that requires little direction to complete tasks given. With the ability to work easily up and down the organization from CEO to project staff, this candidate has developed the skills in business continuity and emergency management to put C-Level desires, management direction, and (everyone’s) requirements into cohesive plans that meet budgetary and regulatory requirements. This candidate has a project management background and carries a 17 year certification in business continuity (CBCP), is certified in Emergency Management and carries a Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT) Train the Trainer certification as well. The applicant has a proven record in hardware, software, and process implementations, facility
upgrades, corporate relocations, and has developed three ground up viable recovery programs for global financial and travel related institutions. I was responsible for; management and staff buyoff and training, design, development, exercising, maintenance, and recovery of corporate wide disaster recovery plans. Those program foundations in turn supported by processes put in place to ensure consistency and survivability; i.e. Business Impact Analysis, Risk Analysis, Awareness & Training (for C-level through staff), quarterly full scale exercises along with departmental focused exercises, vendor coordination, contract negotiation, and a corporate wide capacity management program.
Candidate 110West
Business Continuity/Emergency Coordinator /Private & Public Sector Coordination Professional
Based in Portland Oregon, open to domestic and international assignments
Seeking project/incident type contract work in BCDR, incident management, public/private sector coordination, vendor audits and insurance risk analysis
Part time or contract work preferred starting in September 2013
Has built domestic and international BCDR programs, managed incident response teams, interfaced/trained with first responders – Planning Section Volunteer with a regional state EOC, and contributed to a major state level resiliency analysis for the pending earthquake in Pacific North West. The candidate is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member, and possesses an active background clearance. Combined managerial & mud on the boots experience provides the ability to step into any situation and contribute immediately. This candidate has the maturity and expertise to step into any situation in a team member or leadership role with the flexibility to travel to any client site for short or medium term durations or work remotely for projects, incidents, and tasks.
Based in Portland Oregon, open to domestic and international assignments
Seeking project/incident type contract work in BCDR, incident management, public/private sector coordination, vendor audits and insurance risk analysis
Part time or contract work preferred starting in September 2013
Has built domestic and international BCDR programs, managed incident response teams, interfaced/trained with first responders – Planning Section Volunteer with a regional state EOC, and contributed to a major state level resiliency analysis for the pending earthquake in Pacific North West. The candidate is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member, and possesses an active background clearance. Combined managerial & mud on the boots experience provides the ability to step into any situation and contribute immediately. This candidate has the maturity and expertise to step into any situation in a team member or leadership role with the flexibility to travel to any client site for short or medium term durations or work remotely for projects, incidents, and tasks.
Candidate 111West
Multi-Disciplined Associate Business Continuity
Professional Based in Denver
Open to relocation and/or 75%+ travel
Seeking $90K+
This enthusiastic, dedicated candidate is experienced at developing and managing business continuity programs, disaster preparedness programs and disaster response programs. This includes developing plans, policies, procedures and processes. Experience includes conducting BIAs, tabletop exercises, training classes and coordinating responses to disasters. This candidate has excellent communications and analytical skills and the ability to direct teams
through influence and motivational management. This candidate has experience as bot the Incident Commander and the Logistics Section Chief within the NIMS framework. This candidate also has proven success managing Federal grants in the DHS Port Security Grant Program.
Professional Based in Denver
Open to relocation and/or 75%+ travel
Seeking $90K+
This enthusiastic, dedicated candidate is experienced at developing and managing business continuity programs, disaster preparedness programs and disaster response programs. This includes developing plans, policies, procedures and processes. Experience includes conducting BIAs, tabletop exercises, training classes and coordinating responses to disasters. This candidate has excellent communications and analytical skills and the ability to direct teams
through influence and motivational management. This candidate has experience as bot the Incident Commander and the Logistics Section Chief within the NIMS framework. This candidate also has proven success managing Federal grants in the DHS Port Security Grant Program.
Candidate 112West
Manager/Director Business Continuity
Currently in California - Willing to relocate
Travel: <10%
Compensation: $100,000+
CBCP (from DRII), plus a couple of Engineering degrees and professional credentials in Homeland Security, Anti-Terrorism and Emergency Response.
Hurricanes! Earthquakes! Tornado storms! Raging wildfires! Regulators! If a business disruption like one of those were to hit your company today, do you know where to go and what to do? Do your employees know? This seasoned business continuity professional can help you answer “Yes” to both of those questions by driving your company’s business continuity program, including emergency management, pandemic planning, risk and business impact analysis, and auditing & testing of plans. This candidate is a hands-on manager who has successfully led business continuity and emergency response teams, on both a local and a regional level,in the financial and telecommunications critical infrastructure business sectors. Whether your business continuity program is mature and you want it to be more robust, or your program is in need of a master business continuity architect, this candidate can meet your needs.
Currently in California - Willing to relocate
Travel: <10%
Compensation: $100,000+
CBCP (from DRII), plus a couple of Engineering degrees and professional credentials in Homeland Security, Anti-Terrorism and Emergency Response.
Hurricanes! Earthquakes! Tornado storms! Raging wildfires! Regulators! If a business disruption like one of those were to hit your company today, do you know where to go and what to do? Do your employees know? This seasoned business continuity professional can help you answer “Yes” to both of those questions by driving your company’s business continuity program, including emergency management, pandemic planning, risk and business impact analysis, and auditing & testing of plans. This candidate is a hands-on manager who has successfully led business continuity and emergency response teams, on both a local and a regional level,in the financial and telecommunications critical infrastructure business sectors. Whether your business continuity program is mature and you want it to be more robust, or your program is in need of a master business continuity architect, this candidate can meet your needs.
