Business Continuity Planner Resume Sample

The purpose of the information below is to provide you with some sample bullet points for a business continuity planner resume. You will notice that this resume sample bullet point list will describe specific duties that you may have had as a business continuity planner to better help you describe your experience on your resume. 

Here is the list of sample bullet points for a Business Continuity Planner Resume:

• Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures.
• Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly.
• Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.
• Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets such as data centers.
• Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
• Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
• Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
• Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
• Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
• Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.
• Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.
• Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
• Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
• Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
• Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
• Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber-attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
• Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.
• Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
• Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
• Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.
• Create scenarios to re-establish operations from various types of business disruptions.
• Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.

For a general list of keywords for your business continuity planner resume, you can see a comprehensive list on our Resume Sample Keywords page. These keywords are designed to help you use strong verbs in describing your experience on your business continuity planner resume.