KATINA BLUE
Director of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
Ms. Katina Blue is the Director of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery at North Carolina (NC) State University. NC State is the largest 4-year institution in North Carolina with the largest number of applications from North Carolina students. NC State University is a comprehensive university known for its leadership in education and research, and globally recognized for its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics leadership. NC State’s research expenditures are approaching more than $325 million annually, with almost 70 percent of faculty engaged in sponsored research and 2,500 graduate students supported by research grants. NC State is ranked third among all public universities (without medical schools) in industry-sponsored research expenditures. NC State University consists of 10 schools and colleges and is consistently ranked among the Nation’s top 50 public universities and by Princeton Review as a best value for students. NC State has more than 34,000 students from all 100 NC counties, 54 States and territories, and 117 foreign countries, and nearly 2,073 teaching, research and extension faculty,and 316 field faculty. Twenty members of NC State’s faculty are members of National Academies. NC State has more than 5,300 administrative and support staff and is proud to have 110 products available to consumers and holds 705 U.S. patents.
Ms. Blue is a Certified Business Continuity Professional through the Disaster Recovery Institute with 12 years of business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management experience with State agencies, private industry, and academia. Ms. Blue serves on numerous committees at NC State University such as the University Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Oversight Committee, Emergency Planning Committee, and the Enterprise Risk Management Task Force.
Prior to NC State, Ms. Blue worked for the NC Office of the Governor – Information Technology Services Department as a Business Continuity analyst and for the NC Department of Transportation, NC Division of Aging, and DC Division of Facility Services as a computer analyst and project manager. She also taught for 2 years as a part-time instructor at Fayetteville Technical Community College in continuing education.
Ms. Blue holds a B.S. in computer science from North Carolina Wesleyan College; anM.P.A. with a concentration in emergency management from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke; and is advancing to candidacy at Fayetteville State University by the fall of 2011, pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership with a concentration in higher education. She is a graduate of the Community Preparedness Disaster Management Graduate Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Administration.
April 11, 2011