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ANNOUNCEMENT -
Next Meeting:
Next Meeting:
WITI
and ACP Southeast Florida
WITI South Florida
Regional Network Event
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
5:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Space is limited; we encourage pre-registration
to guarantee admission.
Take me directly to the registration form.
ACP members need to RSVP to
RecoveryAdvice@att.net
South Florida Business Continuity:
Communications and Safety Initiatives
Protecting your business assets and supporting
the goals of emergency preparedness programs go
hand in hand. This month’s WITI program focuses
on strategic services for business continuity,
including communications and safety initiatives
by Time Warner Telecom, American Red Cross, and
Department of Health. On June 17th WITI is
partnering with ACP – Association of Contingency
Planners, whose organization is comprised of
business continuity executives and professionals
in the field who set emergency response and
recovery trends. Our event sponsor is Time
Warner Telecom.
Important for your Business Continuity
The strength of our communication networks are
measured by service interruption. In an
emergency situation, this is a vital component
for survivability to connect people and
organizations through protected networks. Our
speaker from Time Warner Telecom, Christopher
Gaffney, Vice President and General Manager of
the Florida region, will talk about
next-generation technology and the solutions
designed to support and protect the growing
infrastructure of the South Florida networks.
The American Red Cross Program, One in a Million
– Heroes of American Red Cross is committed to
reaching one million people by 2012. To present
this program for the American Red Cross will be
speaker Hunter Ruffin, Director of Health &
Safety Services. Mr. Ruffin will speak about
working with businesses to train in First Aid,
CPR/AED and Water Safety, as well as steps
businesses can take to help employees prepare
for emergencies at work and at home.
The Broward County City Readiness Program is
partnering with organizations in Broward County
to serve as distribution points for emergency
vaccines and supplies. Matt Nankin, Assistant
Cities Readiness Initiative Coordinator with
Broward County Health Department Office of
Emergency Operations will speak about the city’s
initiative.
About Our Speaker(s):
Hunter Ruffin, Director of Health & Safety
Services, serving Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe
counties.
Matt Nankin, Assistant Cities Readiness
Initiative Coordinator, Broward County Health
Department, Office of Emergency Operations.
Christopher Gaffney, Vice Present and General
Manager, Time Warner Telecom Inc.
Event Date and Venue
This event will be held from 5:45 pm - 8:00 pm
on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at:
Sheraton Suites Cypress Creek
555 NW 62nd St.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309
(Map)
Schedule:
5:45 – 6:15 Sign in; networking; hors d’ oeuvres
will be served; cash bar
6:15 – 6:30 American Red Cross One in a Million
Program
6:30 – 6:45 Department of Health City Readiness
Initiative
6:45 – 7:00 WITI and ACP introductions
7:00 – 7:30 Time Warner Telecom Protecting South
Florida Infrastructure
7:30 – 7:50 Speakers Q & A
7:50 – 8:00 Event closing
About Our Sponsor(s):
Time Warner Telecom Inc., headquartered in
Littleton, Colorado, provides managed network
services, specializing in Ethernet and transport
data networking, Internet access, local and long
distance voice, VoIP and security, to enterprise
organizations and communication service
companies throughout the U.S. As a leading
provider of integrated and converged network
solutions, Time Warner Telecom delivers
customers overall economic value, quality,
service, and improved business productivity.
These capabilities enable Time Warner Telecom to
provide South Florida businesses with the
next-generation services that protect their
networks and help grown their businesses. For
further information, please visit:
http://www.twtelecom.com
About Our Partner(s):
http://www.acp-international.com
Pre-Registration:
Pre-Registration fees are as follows:
· Free for WITI members
· $25.00 for non-members
Refund Policy: Please check your calendars
carefully, as we will be unable to issue
refunds. If you are unable to attend, we
encourage you to find a substitute to take your
place. If you do wish to substitute, please
email Tech Support.
Please plan to pay in advance. We accept checks
and credit cards.
Pre-Registration Deadline:
All registrations must be received by Monday,
June 16, 2008
For More Information...
· regarding registration or event details,
contact Ann Jakits (ajakits@bellsouth.net).
· regarding pre-registration, contact Tech
Support.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14
ACP is excited to announce our next meeting
topic "Building Business Continuity
Capabilities" During our meeting, attendees will
learn how lack of planning can introduce risk to
organizations, which could impact facilities,
information resources, staff and
telecommunications. Verizon Business will
discuss the importance of planning for the
potential loss of business critical functions
and resources. They will identify practical
solutions based on Verizon's extensive
experience in the field.
This will be an interactive meeting with lots of
group discussion.
Topics covered will include:
· Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
History and Scope
· Qualitative & Quantitative Business Impacts
· Best Practices for building Business
Continuity Capabilities
· Case Study from the Field
Our speaker will be Howard Peace, Principal
Consultant at Verizon Business who is
responsible for delivering information security
and business continuity consulting services and
has 20+ years of business continuity and
disaster recovery experience serving employers
and consulting clients in a wide variety of
industries in the US, Central and S. America and
the Middle East. Most recently he developed and
managed the Business Continuity Consulting
Practice at Avaya, Inc and has been responsible
for the establishment of a number of
enterprise-wide business continuity functions
for major corporations such as Cisco Systems,
VeriSign and First Union National Bank.
Additionally, Mr. Peace is a Certified Business
Continuity Planner and was a member of the ANSI
X9.E9 Authentication Standards committee and was
the Data Security Officer for the Manufacturers
Hanover Trust.
Meeting logistics include:
Location: Signature Grand Davie
Date: Wednesday, May 14th
Time: 5:00 – 7:30 PM
Additional: Appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks
will be provided and there will be a cash bar
available. There is a $10.00 cost to attend the
meeting for non-members and members can attend
for free. If you join ACP at the meeting by
filling out a membership form and submitting a
check then meeting attendance will be at no
charge. We welcome new members and any questions
about ACP Chapter perks including discounts at
industry conferences and access to a variety of
industry benefits.
RSVP TO:
Laura Mallet CRP CBCP
RecoveryAdvice@att.net
ACP SE Florida Program and Marketing Director
ACP International Board of Directors, Public
Relations Director
ACP 2008:
Past Meetings:
Wednesday, February 13th
2008
MEETING TOPIC: 2007 lessons learned
REGISTRATION AND APPETIZERS: 5:00-5:30PM
MODERATED GROUP DISCUSSION ON 2007 LESSONS
LEARNED 5:30-7:30PM
MODERATORS INCLUDE
Linda Hoffman,
Manager of Systems
Control/Disaster Recovery at Baptist Health
South Florida
and
ACP SE Florida President
Laura Mallet CRP CBCP, Citrix Business
Continuity Program Manager; ACP SE Florida
Program & Marketing Director, ACP Corporate
Public Relations Director
Joe Paul, MBA, FCITSM Global Disaster Recovery
Architect
COST: $10.00 Non-members, FREE to ACP members
VENUE:
The Grape Las Olas 706 E. Las Olas Blvd. Fort
Lauderdale, Fl 33301 954-467-2433
COMPLIMENTARY FOOD AND DRINK:
Iced tea, soda,
Pellegrino, French press coffee or tea. For
food: some spreads; hummus, gourmet olives,
gourmet cheeses, some appetizers; quesadillas,
pita pizzas, and antipasto.
Las t
Meeting: click here for
Pictures from Past Meetings
August 16, 2007
Westin Hotel - Ft. Lauderdale
May 17, 2007
Location: Westin Hotel - Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida
Time:
4:30 - 8:00
Agenda:
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Registration and networking
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Meeting begins 5:15/5:30 ACP Welcome and
announcements
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Speaker 1 - Merrily
Powell
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Mid-meeting break Coffee/Chocolate Fondue
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Speaker 2 - Franklin
Fletcher
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Speaker 3 - Reginald
Browne
Speakers:
Merrily Powell - NC4 - Speaker
1
Merrily has been the Account Manager for NC4 since
almost its inception in 2002, working with public
and private sectors in the areas of Corporate
Security, Business Continuity, Emergency
Management.. She has experience working with
public sector EMAs at the local, county, state and
federal levels during her 5 years with another
Incident Management software company in the late
90s. Owned her own small software company
providing business application software to
companies in a variety of businesses categories.
Merrilly has a personal focus and belief in
customer support and states” No matter how good
an application is, you need to be in touch with
your customers.”
Franklin Fletcher, Senior IT Specialist IT Security
for Broward County - Speaker 2
Topic: Critical components of a DR / BCP plan and some
of the pitfalls to avoid in the planning process.
Franklin
Fletcher is a Senior IT Specialist IT Security for
Broward County. He is responsible for insuring that the
County’s data meets the confidentiality, integrity and
availability triad. Franklin is the primary contact for
the coordination of the County’s disaster recovery
program to insure that the County is able to provide
essential services to it citizens in the event of a
disaster. He also works as a liaison to the EOC and the
County’s agencies to validate that individual COOP plans
are reviewed and current. Franklin has held various IT
management positions at the South Florida Water
Management District, Vivendi Universal, and Chase
Manhattan Bank.
Franklin has
an MBA for the NY Institute of Technology and a BA from
the City College of New York. Franklin is a Certified
Business Continuity Planner (CBCP), Project Management
Professional (PMP) and Certified Information System
Security Professional (CISSP).
Reginald L. Browne, Professional Standards & Special
Investigative Unit, Broward County Schools - Speaker 3
Topic: School Security the new norm: Prevention,
Response, Recovery
Reginald has
been working with the Broward County Public schools for
approximately 10 years and has been working with youth &
law enforcement for over 15 years He has been with the
SBBC Special Investigative Unit for 8 yrs and has work
experience in: Drug prevention & psycho-social
assessments, youth sexual offenders field, gang,
emergency management, NIMS, terrorism, CPTED, and is a
former teacher.
Currently
Reginald is the task assigned; Visitor management, STAR
project manager, Emergency Response & Crisis Management
grant manager and for the past 4 yrs Project designer
for new school online safety plan. He is the coordinator
for all School SAFE team emergency management training.
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PAST MEETINGS:
ACP SE
FL Feb 15, 2007 Meeting Recap
Our change in meeting formats late in 2005 to a quarterly-based,
evening meeting has afforded us much more time to
network with our co-members and peers as well as
make available more value-added presentations by
leaders in our industry. As such, our first-quarter
2007 ACP SE FL meeting was held on Thursday,
February 15, at the Westin Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale
(it’s right off I-95, easy to get to). Presenting
at the meeting was Cisco Systems, who also sponsored
the event (a big THANK-YOU to Cisco for
that).
As is our modus-operandi, attendees helped themselves to appetizers
and a cash bar while greeting and networking with
colleagues prior to the start. And let me tempt you to
the next meeting by saying the chocolate-fondue that is
served mid-meeting is worth the drive.
At the start of the meeting, Linda Hoffman, Chapter President,
covered some ACP business, including the introduction of
the new SE FL Board (the Board members are listed on our
website:
http://www.acp-international.com/seflorida/html/officers.html).
The new officers have all been very eager to help out,
and you will be seeing changes to the chapter throughout
the year, such as a newsletter, added events, new and
innovative presentations and speakers, and more. And
speaking of the newsletter, our inaugural issue of
Continuity Today was distributed. Although
many of us had a hand in the creation, special thanks
goes to Jennifer Lay for being the creative mind behind
the splashy format. And you can submit stories and
articles for the newsletter, just follow the guidelines
on the web-site (http://www.acp-international.com/seflorida/html/symposium.html).
Cisco representatives Mike O’Hara Garcia (Strategic Account
Manager) and Mary Luke (Consulting System Engineer) gave
a tag-team presentation on alternative communications
and a system called IPICS (IP Interoperability and
Collaboration System). “It’s an easy to use, scalable
and comprehensive solution for communication
interoperability”, as per their website. Basically, the
system lets you share information (as in voice systems)
either within or across agencies or departments, and
over various devices like home, cell, radio, PTT, etc.
And it’s not just for emergency service organizations,
like fire, police, dispatch, etc. It has features that
can be used in the workplace, as it is IP-based. Mary
brought in (or more accurately, lugged in, as the box
probably weighed more than her) a demo setup, which
included all components, even the router config. She
showed how different devices could speak to one another,
and how security was set to lock out others. Now, I
can’t do it justice here in this write-up, but it was a
neat concept that I’m sure will gain a good following.
So let me point you to Cisco’s website for much more
detailed information:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6712/index.html.
We do thank Mike, Mary and the other Cisco reps that came to share
and display their communications tools and products and
answer questions by the members.
Cisco was our main presenter for this meeting, which filled up just
about all of our time. Just remember, these meeting are
held for you, our members, and your attendance is
appreciated. We did move these meetings to the evenings
to accommodate everyone’s busy daily schedules. So
please take the time and attend the meetings. I think
you’ll be glad you did.
I look forward to seeing you at future events.
Tom Serio
Secretary
ACP SE FL Chapter
tom.serio@officedepot.com
click here for
Pictures from Past Meetings
Sponsorship Opportunities
Take advantage of the South Florida Association of
Contingency Planners exciting 2007 Programs Calendar by
becoming an ACP event Sponsor. Send an email to Laura
Mallet at
RecoveryAdvice@att.net with ACP
sponsor information in the subject for additional
details.
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