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Profile: James Myers, CISSP

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James Myers
Contingency Now
8923 W. 132nd Place
Overland Park, KS 66213

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 913-484-5317
913-851-4207
james@contingencynow.com
www.contingencynow.com		  

Keywords

  • Disaster Recovery
  • Business Continuity
  • Risk Analysis & Assessment
  • Audits & Auditing
  • Enterprise Security

Profile

Mr. Myers has more than 20 years of experience in the communications, network, and computer systems industry. His professional career encompasses both technical engineering and leadership positions to include computer technician, microwave engineering, WAN/LAN architecture & design, macro cellular architecture & design, leading project teams, business development, and sales. The diversity of these skill sets has allowed Mr. Myers to successfully work inside large corporations such as manufacturing, service providers, and start-up companies. Strengths include the ability to present technical information to key "non-technical" executives, taking the initiative through proactive leadership, decision making, and solving complex problems to enable customer satisfaction.

Contingency Now is a Professional business contingency planning services company focused on delivering consulting services to the small and mid-sized industry. Contingency Now also re-sells a highly flexible and user-friendly disaster recovery SW tool specifically designed for those clients who desire to "do it themselves". Contingency Now's client deliverables are:

Perform a Business Impact Analysis (BIA): This work effort identifies business vulnerabilities and the financial cost of incurring a business interruption event. The BIA is the cornerstone work effort that directs the development of the disaster recovery and business continuity planning documents.

Develop a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP): The DRP is a live action plan focused on the timely restoration of vital and critical business technologies. These technologies usually include servers, mainframes, SW applications, operating SW, telecommunications and other network systems. The DRP is a technology driven document that is accountable for IT/IS systems and applications.

Develop a Business Continuity Plan (BCP): The BCP is a live action plan focused on the timely restoration of vital and critical business processes during an unplanned interruption event. The BCP touches across functional boundaries of the enterprise and is accountable for overall business recovery.

Audit Existing Plans & Processes (Audit): The Audit is focused on delivering a 100% objectionable analysis of the current BCP, DRP and operating environment. For those clients that require outside auditing that meets or exceeds federal regulations, Contingency Now is your solution.

Enterprise Security Planning & Implementation: Contingency Now will work with your business and technology personnel to develop a WAN/LAN network security architecture inclusive with a security policy that fits your business needs. Objectionable advice and guidance is given on third party HW/SW security solution providers.

Contingency Now's ProVentNOWSM planning process and documentation meets or exceeds best practices identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Business Continuity Management (BCM).

Contingency Now is a veteran owned and operated company. Fully insured.

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