More than Thirty-Five years of progressively responsible Public Safety experience. Have the ability to resolve internal and citizen concerns quickly and effectively by utilizing effective leadership and appropriate courses of action. Subject Matter Expert in Incident Command, WMD/Hazardous Materials Response and Hazardous Materials Response training, Responding to Bombing Incidents, Prevention of Bombing Incidents and Homemade Explosive Response.

Experienced in Grant writing/funding for CBRNE equipment and training. Subject Matter Expert in planning and coordinating large scale training exercises for the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium / Center for Domestic Preparedness. Maintain numerous professional certifications to include Certified Florida Paramedic, Inspector, Firefighter, Instructor and Advanced Hazmat Tech, All Hazardous Type 3 Incident Commander.

Since retiring from CCFD I have been working for DHS/FEMA at the Center for Domestic Preparedness and New Mexico Tech in the First Responder training programs. With both these programs I participate in the curriculum development, training personnel and the planning and executing of the training exercises.

Responded to Hurricanes Andrew, Irma, Charley, and Ian as Operations Section Chief for FDEM.

Responded to the 1998 and 2004 Florida wildfires as an Operations Chief.

Incident Commander for FDEM during the Covid 19 response ran the test and Vaccine site in Dade County from

5/1/2020-5/30/2021.

Subject Matter Excerpt in the following:

WMD/Chemical/Hazardous Sampling and Identification

• Command and Control of a CBRN Incident, maintenance, logistics and follow on actions
• Sampling in CBRN environment & Personal Protective Equipment Selection
• CBRN Site Exploitation
• Equipment-specific training, as identified by the project
• PPE Equipment Training
• Sustainment Training for Equipment and Developed/Delivered Capabilities