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Monique has over twenty five years experience in the electric utility industry as an analyst supporting corporate processes with seventeen of those years involved in contingency planning. She is a Certified Recovery Planner and has a Professional Development Series Certificate from California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI) and is working on her CBCP. She joined the California Independent System Operator as the Strategic Contingency Planner in 1998 where she continues to enhance the corporate emergency management program. Prior to her position with the ISO, she was with Southern California Edison for ten years.
Her contingency planning strength is in the development, documentation, revision, and testing of business recovery plans. She has also managed emergency operations centers during drills and actual events; facilitated multi-organizational task forces; and developed and conducted multiple drills from functional to tabletop, from local to integrated internally and externally. She participated in the development of executive assessment teams and emergency information coordination systems. At the ISO she helped develop a customized emergency management information application that is used corporate wide. She is now focusing on customizing continuity documentation for the appropriate levels of decision makers.
Her education includes an MBA from Claremont Graduate University and many contingency specific courses. She has taken and taught courses for CSTI. She is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers, Business and Industry Council for Emergency Planning and Preparedness, and has participated on the Association of Contingency Planners Orange County board since 1997 serving as Treasurer, Vice President, Advertising Director, and currently President. She joined the Corporate ACP Board in 2005 as interim Treasurer and was elected as Board Administration Officer; a position she will hold through 2008.
In December of 2005 she was invited to participate on the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee’s Pandemic Planning Task Force. The Task Force comprised members from across the nation and Canada produced two documents now available on the NERC website: Electricity Sector Influenza Pandemic Threat Summary and Influenza Pandemic Reference Guide.
What is the President responsible for? The President exercises the following minimum responsibilities:
- Presides at all meetings of the Chapter membership and Board of Directors
- Exercises general supervision of the Chapter Board members, elected or appointed
- Acts as the primary Chapter interface with ACP Corporate
- Acts as primary interface to other local and external organizations
- Serves as an ex-officio member of all Chapter committees, voting only to break ties
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