Joe Maher Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Colorado Springs, Co / Rockville, Md

Career Management and Development Branch;Training Officer/CSO, Project Manager, Emergency Management.- Design, develop and deliver Management and Leadership Development Training for both Supervisors/Managers and personnel in non-supervisory positions.Program Manager for the MG130 Supervisors and MG132 Professionals course.- Assist the USDA in the design, development, testing and delivery of a Food Defense Table Top Exercise tool kit.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Developed and facilitated a Table Top Exercise for the City of Louisville, KY (Jefferson County Public Schools) to include all exercise planning meetings and documentation.• Revised the City and County of San Francisco Emergency Management plans to include a restoration component addressing the restoration of services that would not require a long term recovery process.• Led the testing of a turn-key tabletop exercise tool kit developed for the USDA addressing a terrorist attack on a school lunch program. Facilitated all exercise meetings and the exercise. Developed a customized Exercise Evaluation Guide packet for each exercise and oversaw the After Action Report/Improvement Plan. After the exercise series developed a final report which included overall observations and recommended improvements to the tool kit.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Facilitated Virginia Department of Emergency Management Table Top Exercise and served as lead controller for a major earthquake drill. Trained all facilitators, controllers and evaluators. Developed all exercise documentation and oversaw the After Action Report.• Support the Department of Homeland Security/Office for Domestic Preparedness (DHS/ODP) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in the execution of terrorism and natural disaster exercises. • Led the direct support effort to develop the first Postal Plan Activation TTX for the distribution of Medical Counter Measures through the Postal Service including developing new evaluation criteria and facilitating the exercise. • Led the San Diego Access and Functional Needed TTX addressing FEMA guidance regarding sheltering and recovery operations. Developed all exercise documentation and facilitated all exercise events. • Managed direct support exercise programs in the states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas including review and approval of all exercise documentation and budgets for DHS. Also worked with Tennessee, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Michigan and Georgia. Led the design, development, control and evaluation of exercises; ensured compliance with DHS’s Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) guidelines. Managed contract budgets in excess of $7,000,000.• Led the revision of FEMA course IS-120, An Introduction to Exercises incorporating HSEEP terminology and methodology. Assisted in the development and writing of the ODP Prevention and Deterrence Implementation Plan. • As a state/local Subject Matter Expert (SME), assisted DHS in writing the HSPD-8 Training, Exercises and Lessons Learned Program Implementation Plan and Requirements. • Contract lead in developing the Federal plan to evacuate the twelve coastal parishes of Louisiana.

Peterson Afb, Co

• Acted as the Command Surgeons representative in the N-NC Command Center, the Future Planning Cell, and the Future Operations Cell where tasks include reviewing/approving Mission Assignments and writing/reviewing the medical portion of PLANORDS, WARNORDS and EXORDS. Manned the Surgeons desk in the Command Center during hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the California wildfires in 2008 and other exercises and contingency operations. • Represented the Command Surgeon at the Threat Working Group recommending Force Health Protection measures based on potential industrial, environmental and public health hazards within the area of operations. • N-NC Command Surgeons’ representative to the DoD Pandemic Influenza response synchronization effort (USNORTHCOM CONPLAN 3551), and USNORTHCOM Pandemic Influenza domestic response plan (USNORTHCOM CONPLAN 3591), primary author of Appendix 6, Annex Q. Key contributor to Annex Q and the base plans. • Reviewed and recommended changes to other Component and Subordinate Unit plans for synchronization.Career Field manager for USAF Reserve component.• Assisted in the writing of and reviewed objectives and EEGs relating to the N-NC Surgeons Office and recommended changes.• Wrote N-NC Individual Medical Readiness instruction unifying requirements of all CONUS DoD personnel.• Wrote hazard information sheets for distribution to assigned/attached forces during exercise/contingency operations.• Due to past experience, acted as the State and local SME in the Command Surgeon’s office.

Various Usaf Bases

• Managed and performed food service facility inspections for food safety, sanitation and safety using Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP). • Managed and performed medical food safety inspection operations to include point of origin, point of distribution, receipt and storage. Coordinated with other service and civilian authorities in related functions.• Managed and performed public facility sanitary and safety inspections to include food handler training.• Managed and performed communicable disease control and disease intervention functions for assigned US Air Force base medical operations. Conducted patient interviews, epidemiological investigations, and patient education. Coordinated with local, regional and state authorities in managing related cases. This included foodborne illness outbreaks.• Managed medical entomology program. Evaluated risk of vector borne disease. Monitored compliance and effectiveness of vector and pest management control programs. Recommended prevention and control measures. Provided education and training on prevention and control of vector borne diseases.• Inspected aircraft for plant, animal and vector clearance to and from foreign destinations.• Managed public health medical readiness program. Prepares and conducts medical intelligence preventive medicine briefings. Provides advice and consultation for decontamination of patients and medical personnel, equipment, and facilities and food supplies. • Managed Occupational Health Programs. Assisted in educating supervisors and workers in personal hygiene, occupational hazards, hazard communications and personal protective equipment. • Member of the Preventative Aerospace Medical team, surveying locations for potential environmental hazards prior to deployment of personnel to temporary operating locations.• Served as a member of the base and medical exercise design and evaluation teams.

Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

• Lead planner for all State level exercises to include participation coordination, documentation prep, control, evaluation and After Action materials.• Assisted State agencies, Tribes, citizens groups and local jurisdictions in planning, executing, and evaluating their exercise programs, and coordinated efforts of various State agencies in planning for Federal and multi-state exercises. The included assisting the Wyoming Department of Health’s CDC mandated bioterrorism exercise series consisting of 15 table top exercises conducted throughout the state. • Led all state and local participation in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) sponsored exercise Diligent Warrior 2003. This exercise was the first full scale, real time exercise in the ICBM missile field. The exercise had over 1,100 participants from over 20 different Federal, State and local agencies. Served as the lead planner, controller and evaluator for state participation.• Responsible for all budgeting and planning for the FEMA and G&T exercise program and coordination through state agencies and local jurisdictions focusing on Natural Disasters, and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE). • Member of the State Radiological Response Team as the team chemist.• Coordinated operations in the state emergency operations center (EOC) when activated. • Responsible for the Emergency Management Exercise Reporting System (EMERS). • Acted as liaison between Wyoming Homeland Security/Emergency Management and F.E. Warren Air Force Base.

Palmer, Ak

• Acted as Science Department Chair and taught eighth grade science.• Developed science curriculum and ordered science equipment, and supplies for the school, • Taught a high school chemistry class on the Internet (cyber-school) for the Mat-Su District.

Palmer, Ak

• Planned, prepared and taught lecture and lab sections for an introductory college-level chemistry course.

Piedmont, Sd

• Firefighter in Charge, Medical Rescue Unit – responsible for monitoring training status for EMT’s and in-house medical rescue exercises for all personnel.• Performed medical rescue, wild land and structure fire-fighting operations.• Performed outreach and education to the local community on safety and fire safety.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Chemistry, Education

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Mathematics And Science (Chemistry)