Emergency Preparedness Specialist
CurrentInitiate, direct, and manage emergency and risk management programs for homeland security sponsors and clients. Resiliency Assessment Lead for 4 U.S. Department of Homeland Security Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) projects. Perform risk assessments for critical infrastructure assets and develop mitigation strategies for public and private organizations. Preparedness ProgramsLead Planner, FEMA Region V New Madrid Earthquake Sync Matrix planning project (2011-2013). Served as Exercise Co-Director and/or Lead Evaluator for 9 City of Chicago bioterrorism and pandemic exercises (seminars, tabletops, drills, functional, and full-scale exercises) involving 15 jurisdictions, 119 organizations, and 502 players (2008-2011). Awarded Argonne's highest achievement award, the Pacesetter, for executing two functional exercies simultaneously in 2008. Managed 10 emergency management projects as part of FEMA's Homeland Security Technical Assistance Program. Led integrated Sync Matrix planning and Logistics and Process Analysis Tool (LPAT) modeling projects in Cleveland, Chicago, Cook County (IL), Florida, Los Angeles County, Providence (RI), Springfield (MA), and Will County (2005-present). Controller and/or evaluator for 6 Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) full-scale exercieses involving 125 different local, county, state, federal, and military emergency response agencies and over 600 players (2008 - present). Argonne Emergency Management Team (2008-present). Committees/AssociationsPublic Health Preparedness Group, Illinois Terrorism Task Force (2005 – present) Illinois Pandemic Influenza Workgroup, Co-Chair Best Practices Subcommittee (2006 – 2011): designed 2009 H1N1 Influenza communications e-mail based survey for 500+ Illinois stakeholders; garnered 43% response rate; and, wrote formal evaluation report for the State of Illinois.
