Michael Baris Email & Phone Number

Serve as a liaison between city residents, the city, and county government. Interact with city council members and use feedback to create an emergency preparedness workplan.Serve as Program Manager for City Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program with over 300 graduates using online database programs. Supervise one CERT Coordinator staff member.Purchase, manage, track, and maintain emergency equipment for deployment.Draft, edit, and revise various documents such as Emergency Operations Plan (EOP), Debris Flow Removal Annex, and Multi-Day Power Outage (PSPS) Plan, and Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with local partners.Train staff for their roles in an emergency setting and maintain training documentation. Create, facilitate, and host discussion and operations based exercises for city and other jurisdictional partners.Serve on various committees and collaborations including:Santa Barbara County Emergency ManagersSanta Barbara County Aware and PrepareSanta Barbara County CERT CollaborativeSanta Barbara County Listos

Santa Barbara, California Area

Managed volunteers, stockroom inventory, purchasing of medications and durable medical equipment, and fulfilling any other logistical requests or issues.Lead projects such as creating medication forecasting system using three years of patient data, establishing clinic availability in other cities within Santa Barbara county, and overhauling inventory systems.

Drafted and revised public health emergency preparedness plansEnsured community partners were up-to-date on necessary trainings and hosted trainings on emergency equipment usePublic Information Branch Team Leader; responsible for training public information staff and editing public information messagesServed as Logistics and Resources lead for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Hospital Preparedness ProgramServed as Coordinator for Santa Barbara County Medical Reserve Corps and Disaster Healthcare Volunteer systemCoordinated alongside partner agencies such as hospitals, clinics, EMSA, and fire during drills and emergencies

Wrote and developed an ICS-like response framework, which was to be used by VOAD and civilian organizations (e.g. faith-based organizations) to effectively respond to disasters and support professional first responders.

Contacted alumni and friends of Saint Louis University to update records, gather feedback, and ask for monetary gifts towards Saint Louis University. Promoted to team leader.

Greater St. Louis Area

Designed and exercised mass-casualty Emergency Operations Plan with focus on medical surge, social media use, and patient tracking for twelve hospitals. Participated in SimCell during the exercise.

Bs In Emergency Management, Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management

Activities and Societies: Micah Program of Saint Louis University SLU Improv Comedy Club Executive Board