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PROFILE: EXPERIENCED BUSINESS CONTINUITY / Continuity of Operations (COOP), Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery professional with extensive experience in program development, management, continuous improvement and leadership. Experience in Banking/Finance, Mortgage, Transportation, Insurance, Science & Technology and Healthcare / Biotechnology industries. Self-starter and natural leader who consistently delivers high quality results. 2 Lead and manage the Operations (OPS) global Business Continuity & Crisis Management (BCCM) Program. Duties included: * Provide leadership and subject matter expertise for the sustainment and continuous improvement of the BCCM Program * Facilitation of work activities and directed a global network of sixteen (16) BCCM Leads across the OPS business function. * Set contingency planning requirements, program enhancements and implementation of global Best Practices and Standards. * Institution and completion of the first ever "Functional Exercise" beyond the normal "Tabletop Exercise" for our Single Point of Failure (SPOF) Warehouse and Distribution critical business processes Mark S. Kern, CBCP mkernetix@gmail.com * Identification and implementation of effective tools to assist the BCCM Network Leads in meeting program requirements that complied with our Operating Standard (OS) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Partnering with global operations sites to roll-out Operational Excellence (OE) initiatives by prioritizing areas for improvement rigorously assessing contingency plans and coordinating / facilitating BC and CM disaster simulation exercises * Acting as the BCCM single point of contact and SME for Global OPS and SC business units including direct ownership of the BCCM plans for these two (2) business units ensuring they are updated effective exercised and continuously improved * Partnering with other functional areas to align policies best practices performance metrics OS & SOPs Performing in-depth evaluations of our eleven (11) Key Suppliers BC Programs to ensure business disruptions within our supply chain would result in a minimum level of impact to Amgen operations Creative Computing Solutions Inc. (CCSi/Rockville MD) www.ccsin.com. (2 Year Contract)

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