Our Key Personnel/Experience
Chuck W.
Chuck, founder and president of BetterContinuity, Inc., is a Certified Business
Continuity Professional (CBCP) with over 13 years in the business continuity/disaster
recovery industry. Chuck has managed and personally implemented every aspect of
recovery planning. His experience has covered many companies spanning many industries.
Throughout his experience he has work with all the industry leading vendors and can
provide valuable insight into which vendors work best in which situations and which
situations work best to internalize. He has been a featured speaker at many of the
industry’s conferences and facilitated the conference’s simulated exercises.
He has been quoted in many magazine’s including; Contingency Planning and Management
(“How to Develop Innovative Recovery Strategies and Build Enterprise-wide Support”),
eWeek (“How to stay Afloat, Disaster Shows Need to Plan for Backup Workspace’),
and Computer World (“Risk Management”), and has been a guest speaker for college
MBA students.
Jeffrey K.
Jeff leads our training and video development group. Jeff has been involved
with education/training and Internet technologies for more than 14 years in
numerous capacities. Jeff served at an internationally recognized New Media
development firm based in Minneapolis, MN as Executive Producer, Project Manager,
Systems Designer, Technical Documentation Specialist, and New Media Development
Process Analyst. Jeff recently served as Executive Analyst for Web-based
training projects for Dell, Inc., US Bank, Carlson Companies, and Northwest Airlines.
As an Executive Producer and New Media analyst, Jeff excels with determining
project requirements and specifications accompanied by the development and
refinement of effective learning objectives.
Mary S.
Mary leads our software development group. Her expertise is in the areas
of e-commerce, data and database management, business development, applications
of information infrastructure, e-commerce technologies, business integration and
middleware, and application development. Mary has earned an MBA, plus a BS in
Electrical Engineering. In her spare time she has been a teaching professor at
a local college for over 5 years. She has strong project management, and
development and deployment of software on a variety of platforms and architectures,
in addition to web architectures and strategies for web-enabling businesses.
David S.
David leads our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery subject matter
experts. David is a highly-experienced professional who successfully leads
business and technology initiatives. David is a CBCP with over 10 years
experience in the business continuity / disaster recovery industry. He blends
a thorough understanding of methodologies with project management. He ensures
strategic alignment of information resources and business priorities.
With exceptional inter-personnel skills he has facilitated many recovery
exercises and lead several enterprise-wide projects. His experience has
provided exposure to many industries and many industry leading companies.