Steve serves as a Continuity Architect at SunGard's Center of Excellence. His primary focus is in the area of business continuity strategic initiatives, including the delivery of Availability Program Management for larger customers in the Western US. Prior to joining SunGard, Steve was a Sr. Solutions Architect at Hitachi Data Systems, a Senior Analyst at Nike developing innovative approaches for global supply chain operations, a Program Director at Comdisco delivering strategies and program management support for several key organizations, and Vice President at First Interstate Bank leading the Business Resumption and Emergency Management programs through a period of extensive acquisition and process consolidation.
Steve leverages his education and broad industry background and disaster related experience to provide key insights and management direction to organizations seeking to implement or improve their business continuity programs. His collaborative style, coupled with sound project and program management skills, ensures a comprehensive and well thought out approach.

In addition to his duties with ACP, Steve is also a fire commissioner serving the volunteers and residents on Anderson Island, his home in the South Puget Sound.

Vicki is an Information Technology Manager with the City of Seattle. She has focus on various operational issues for the City of Seattle’s Department of Information Technology. She chairs the City of Seattle Information Technology Business Continuity Planning Community and represents the technology department on all emergency operations planning efforts. Vicki has worked as an IT operations manager for various City departments including Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities and has extensive knowledge of various city operations. She is currently working with the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to ensure that all City departments are developing Continuity of Operations Plans for essential City services.

Vicki graduated from the University of Washington in Business. It was the desire to have constant learning environments that lead her to become a developer and programmer with private firms until a move into the infrastructure operational area within the City of Seattle. She is a native of Washington.

Bob Posey is the president of Allied Business Systems, Inc. Allied has two operating divisions, Computer Classrooms In Seattle and Business Continuity Center of Seattle. His primary areas of focus within BCRP are helping and hosting clients to execute their IT recovery exercises, corporate workgroup recovery strategies and small/medium business recoveries.

Bob has a bachelor-of-science degree from California State University, Sacramento and an MBA from the University of Oregon.

Bill has over twenty years experience dealing with Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Planning. He has two certifications in these fields. The SRP (Senior Recovery Planner) certification through the University of Richmond, VA, and the highly valued CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).
He started his working career in computer operations and was promoted into computer operations management where added responsibilities were given for business continuity and disaster recovery. He joined two BC/DR organizations in the early 90’s and has been a member of the ACP since it’s inception in Washington State, which now includes being a member on the executive board.

Bill has worked in medium to large organizations and has been a consultant to multi-billion dollar companies, such as Microsoft and Honeywell. Although he has worked with business units and public organizations, his main focus has been working with I.T. department DR plans. This includes the coordination of business requirement aspects and plan integration for the organizational business continuity plan.

 

 

 

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