Business Continuity Specialist Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for business continuity specialist, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for a level of challenge as the BCM SME to ensure that all the resilience effort is improving Pearson’s ability to respond to unforeseen incident and events.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Demonstrated knowledge or experience involving development of various exercise types
• Knowledge or experience regarding project management skills
• Demonstrated experience developing written communication and presentations
• Demonstrated experience serving on business continuity or incident response / emergency management teams or related activities
• Demonstrated experience involving a BC or EM program at the company or business unit level
• Broad knowledge of electric or gas utility operations (electric distribution / transmission, power generation plant, gas operations, etc)
• Certified Business Continuity Professional (DRII) or equivalent
• Certified emergency management professional

Please consider me for the business continuity specialist opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for business process analytics for PBT groups and systems; requires keen requirements gathering skills and the ability to relate technical concepts and proposals to business audiences.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Extensive experience of certified business continuity or disaster recovery experience or suitable equivalent
• Demonstrated customer facing communications and problem resolution skills
• Business Continuity Planning Certification from an accredited institution, (ie DRI, BCI)
• Detail oriented, organized, and conscientious
• Excellent computer skills (EXCEL, Word, Outlook) and experience with internet research
• Organized and capable of prioritizing and managing multiple simultaneous projects or initiatives
• Detail-oriented with an emphasis on delivering accurate, high-quality assignments and projects
• Experience providing time estimates and scheduling technical projects

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the business continuity specialist position.

Previously, I was responsible for a consultative approach with customers and ability to articulate technical concepts using simple business language for the non-technical.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Certification through an established crisis management, emergency management or business continuity organizations such as DRII or BCI preferred
• Plan and manage the work of a unit tasked with managing major elements of the Enterprise Resiliency program (resiliency risk, controls and compliance management, incident management, crisis management and/or business continuity management)
• Proven experience with Business Impact Analysis methodology with respect to financial, reputational, legal, regulatory, and external/internal customer impacts and critical business process dependencies
• Coordinate the development, maintenance and testing of all resiliency plans and/or exercises by all business units or other stakeholder groups
• Support and maintain resiliency plans, tools, systems, and equipment and data repositories
• Demonstrate experience as a subject matter expert in area of resiliency at the Enterprise level
• Familiarity with relevant industry regulations, with an emphasis on information security and privacy requirements surrounding HIPAA/HITECH, GLBA, DPPA and FCRA
• Strong organizational skills including effectively handling multiple assignments simultaneously and prioritizing work effectively

I would like to submit my application for the business continuity specialist opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for a general understanding and the ability to communicate a feature/product’s benefits to a customer’s operation requirements.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Consult and design customer site level business continuity strategies including secondary sites for workarea recovery
• Develop and maintain customer site level business continuity families of plans
• Maintain and refresh customer site business continuity plans in place
• Conduct tests of business continuity plans and documents
• Train customer staffs in business continuity plans and execution
• Interface with Customer’s local and corporate senior management on business recovery Issues & Mitigations
• Provide periodic governance reports to Customer’s local and corporate senior management on status of business continuity program and in-scope locations
• When called upon, assist customer in invocation and execution of business continuity plans

Please consider me for the business continuity specialist opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for ongoing relationship management—demonstrating the ability to develop tactical and strategic programs to ensure OEM partner success with Masimo technologies;.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Clinical experience and clinical systems knowledge, preferred
• Knowledge and understanding of business continuity and recovery planning methodology, frameworks and industry best practices and industry related standards (ISO, BSI, FSA, etc) with a keen appreciation of associated benefits, practical limitations, risk, financial and business impact analyses
• Project management experience with planning, organizational, decision-making and problem-solving skills necessary to coordinate the execution of tests and corrective actions and to ensure maintenance multiple business continuity plans across the organization, globally
• Demonstrated use of Microsoft Office tools
• Intermediate level of experience with networks, Windows and Unix operating systems, storage area networks, and familiarity with data replication designs
• Extreme attention to detail with exceptional analytic and problem solving skills
• Leadership and teamwork skills to negotiate with and influence peers and senior officers on policy and strategic issues
• Experience with Cloud solutions (e.g., AWS and Microsoft Azure)