Donald Schmidt, Arm, Cbcp, Mcp, Cbcla, Cem Email & Phone Number

Central Florida

Preparedness, LLC helps clients assess hazard and operational risks; develop and implement strategies and programs to prevent hazards and mitigate the impacts of hazards; and design, implement, and evaluate emergency management, business continuity, and crisis management programs. Preparedness LLC also supports risk managers and insurance brokers with risk assessment; prevention and mitigation strategy development; and program development and implementation.Past Chair of NFPA's Technical Committee on Emergency Management and Business Continuity responsible for NFPA 1600 " Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity/Continuity of Operations Programs" (Chair for the development of 2010, 2013, and 2016 editions).Co-developer and instructor of DRI International's emergency management and business continuity management auditor training course. Instructor of DRI's business continuity fundamentals course. Former member of the National Fire Protection Association's professional development faculty having developed and taught NFPA's two-day course on developing an emergency management and business continuity program using NFPA 1600. Member of the USA Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO's 292 Security Technical Committee, which is responsible for ISO 22301 and related emergency management, business continuity, and resilience standards.Principal member of NFPA's Technical Committee on Pre-Incident Planning, which is responsible for NFPA 1620 and ASTM E54 Homeland Security Committee including Working Group 8908 writing a national standard on school emergency preparedness.

Framingham, Ma

Contract instructor within the Training & Exercise Unit responsible for the instruction of MEMA professional development courses and support for MEMA exercises as facilitator, controller, and evaluator.

Instructor of DRI's certification courses for business continuity (BCLE 2000) and Business Continuity Auditor (BCLE AUD, NFPA 1600 and ISO 22301).

Buzzards Bay, Ma

For five years Mr. Schmidt taught "Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery" within the Academy's Master of Science in Emergency Management program. The course followed established professional practices and international standards including NFPA 1600 to define the business continuity planning elements and process.

Developer and contract instructor of NFPA’s two-day professional development course on developing emergency management and business continuity programs using NFPA 1600 “Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs.” Instructor of NFPA’s Evacuation Planning Workshop.

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