Disaster Recovery Journal Winter 2025

CAREER SPOTLIGHT

potential benefits of the program (e.g., risk elimination and/or mitigation, enhanced functional area resilience, etc.) the executive level support was immediate and that flowed downward to the functional areas, and a robust and highly successful program was born. Have you had any mentors? Describe the effect they have had on your career. I’ve had two! Margaret Millett, through a veterans’ outreach program, and Cary Jasgur, via American Corporate Partners. Both were instrumental in my career transition, assisting and providing mentorship in areas such as resume tailoring, interview strategies, potential career options (including actual job openings), networking ideas, and so much more. Their time and shared information was invaluable in my transition. What are some lessons learned you still leverage today? I learned numerous lessons throughout my Air Force career that will apply in any role I take on. For example, coordination and communication with external partners is important for mission execution and contact before an issue occurs is better than during a crisis. Additionally, obtaining executive level support is critical for successful program or project execution; without it your program is going to struggle. Finally, maintaining and continually refining and improving plans and processes is vital to ensure the health of a program. What aspects of working in this industry would you like to see change or evolve? Though I’m not currently working in a BC role I’d like to see more cross functional cooperation to both uncover more risks and interdependencies and eliminate more gaps and seams to increase operational resilience and improve recovery times.

Career Spotlight: Kiley Stinson of JPMorganChase By CARY JASGUR

had been immersed in all aspects of BC throughout my career and enjoyed looking at the big picture and trying to eliminate and mitigate risks and ensure mission accomplishment. Once I found out there was a professional certification, I obtained my CBCP to establish my credibility in the field. Tell us about some of the challenges you have encountered in your career? The biggest challenge I dealt with was convincing functional area peers and executive leadership of the need for and benefit of BC to drive mission accomplishment. Functional peers didn’t necessarily object to BC but also didn’t readily provide support to the program since it was typically an added duty for someone. When I was able to sit down with executive leadership and show the

Tell us about yourself – your name, company, title, and responsibilities?

Kiley Stinson, consumer security project manager, of JPMorganChase. I manage all aspects of alarm system (intrusion detection, video and access control) installation for Chase new bank branch and large refresh projects. This includes plan development (managing scope), proposal solicitation (managing budget) and installation scheduling and oversight (managing schedule). How did you get into the business continuity industry? After retiring from the Air Force, I was considering what I wanted to do in my next career and discovered business continuity (BC). Though we didn’t call it BC in the military I realized I

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