Dr. James Burghard Email & Phone Number

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

• Delivers the Integration of Cybersecurity Personnel into the EOC for Cyber Incidents (MGT-456) and Enhanced Sports and Special Events Incident Management (MGT-440) courses to state, local, tribal, and territorial.
• Facilitates class discussions for the best practices of the coordination and management of large-scale disasters, both manmade and natural, throughout the United States.

Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

• Analyzes the work processes of 57 Army National Guard disaster response units across all 50 states and three US territories during full-scale exercises to identify best practices, lessons learned, and root causes of.
• Conducts assessments of current disaster/incident response training and develops reports identifying positive/negative factors resulting from training.

Manchester, NH

• Instructs cybersecurity classes to undergraduate students that addresses current issues and techniques in cybersecurity foundations, cyber defense, legal and human factors, and incident response and investigation.
• Uses online learning management systems to organize content and communicate with students to encourage clarity and transparency.
• Promotes student success by making myself available to students outside of the classroom and office hours, through email, special appointments, and an evening review session before the final exam.

Cheyenne, Wyoming

• Develops and implements the Wyoming Type III Incident Management Team Qualification System (WIMTQS) and guide; currently utilized to certify management and supervisory emergency management personnel for the State of.
• Determined whether 30 State Emergency Medical Technicians, Law Enforcement, and Fire Fighters met the requirements for qualification under the WIMTQS.

Phoenix, Arizona

• Instructed Emergency Management classes to over 60 undergraduate students that addressed current issues and techniques in disaster management, incident command leadership, and safety.
• Provides a variety of instructive methods to teach technical concepts to students utilizing a culturally diverse approach in the classroom environment to foster a positive learning experience for all students.
• Leverages technology and multimedia approaches along with a facilitated discussion model to enhance understanding, practical applications and keep students engaged in the material.

Cheyenne, Wyoming

• Provided academic leadership to seated and online campus.
• Recruited, hired, and trained faculty.
• Oversaw the review process for 13 online and in-school homeland security and cybersecurity courses.
• Directed changes to curriculum as the chair of the industry and advisory committee.
• Implemented instructor performance analytics to establish quantifiable metrics for measuring instructor performance.
• Developed new curriculum, revised existing programs, and monitored regulatory processes associated with the delivery and granting of diploma and degree programs which resulted in successful accreditation of two-degree.

Cheyenne, Wyoming

• Managed operations for the Saratoga, WY Floods from 2014 to 2016 as the Operations Section Chief and was responsible for all sandbagging operations to include helicopter operations to a failing levee.
• Developed, coordinated, and evaluated 50+ exercises for numerous first responder agencies, to include exercise to prepare the 84th Civil Support Team (CST) for their external evaluation and an HSEEP aligned active.
• Acted as a Liaison Officer between the State of Wyoming and the Northern Arapaho Tribe during the 2016 Lander, WY floods during mitigation of flood risk to tribal fresh water intake
• Managed a mobile communications platform during disasters, whether man-made or natural, as an IT Security professional.
• Conducted hazardous material analysis and ground surveys to ensure the safety of community members of Jefferson and Chambers County, Texas following Hurricane Ike in 2008.
• Supported post 9/11 FAA No-Fly Zone through numerous helicopter missions throughout Southeast Alaska.

Doctor Of Management, Homeland Security, 3.9

Master'S Degree, Homeland Security, 3.93

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies