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Jim Barr
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Harvey Betan
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Homer Brenneman
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Lee Eisen
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James Hammill
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Paul Kamikawa
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Glen McCullers
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Linda Provenzano
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Mark Turnbull
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Ingela Orlove
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Jack Orlove
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Gary Villeneuve
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Mary Kay Palmer
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Frederick Pencek
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Jan Persson
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Dick Regentin
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Harvey A. Betan, CBCP Harvey
 
Senior Consultant 
PO Box 641
Waverly, PA 18471
   
Telephone: 570-563-0868
Toll Free: 888-538-2492
Fax: 570-563-0868  
E-Mail HarveyBetan@ketchconsulting.com

An effective Certified Business Continuity Planning consultant and former Chief Information Officer experienced at identifying, prioritizing and delivering projects, determining policies, applications, and overall business requirements with a view towards continuity of enterprise not restricted to system recovery.

Over fourteen years of experience in business continuity and contingency planning, high availability, client/server, distributed systems, communication and network redundancy.

Was called in to validate the Disaster Recovery plan for an International Law Firm. This involved a thorough review of their network, remote access and International offices.

For a not for profit organization defined a BIA and DR plan for their technology area. Operational BC Plan for their operations (headquarters and over 30 field offices).

For a sizable legal firm performed Gap Analysis on current recovery plan in preparation for network upgrade and co-location proposals from vendors. Reviewed table top exercise, technical architecture of plan, vendor robustness, recoverability, approach, and likeliness of recoverability for technology and legal practice.

For a manufacturing firm conducted a Gap-Analysis of their vulnerability to interruptions.

Designed, coordinated and monitored table top exercises of various interruptions.

Conducted client presentations on Pandemic readiness and safety.
For a major hospital group (7 hospitals) performed a Business Impact Analysis of Hospital functions from admitting, to Emergency Department, Pharmacy, facilities etc. ensuring that not only technology (DR) is addressed in the Continuity Plan.

Teaches adult learners Managerial Accounting, Managerial Finance, and Managerial Statistics at a local college.
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