I have been working in various aspects of emergency management since 2003 and completed 25 years in EMS (1987). I have extensive experience in project management, administration and operations, hospital administration and operations including JC tracing and inspection, healthcare and transportation emergency management and business continuity. I have experience in counterbioterrorism, bio and syndromic surveillance, emergency planning, environment of care management, risk mitigation, and evaluation, and risk management. I have extensive knowledge about all phases of Emergency Management. I have been deployed with NDMS and others on a number of disasters and have gained valuable experience in disaster management. I have operated and directed a number of both union and non-union 911 EMS services with excellent results and have created and implemented policy for these and other medical services. Currently, I work with the primary care sector in New York State where I assist FQHCs and other outpatient centers prepare for and manage emergencies throughout the State of New York and assist the sector exercising their capabilities. I have worked with countless federal, state, and local agencies and have developed a dynamic program and have consistently introduced new methods for solving planning problems and have created new ways to utilize outpatient medical centers in disaster response.Specialties: Emergency management, departmental and EMS operations, planning, recovery planning, liaison to many regulatory and professional local, state, and federal agencies and partners, coalition building, business continuity, logistics, and administrative operations. Also have extensive experience in mass casualty and mass fatality planning, healthcare evacuation, exercise development and execution (all levels), plan developing, and have been deployed to various emergency operations centers in response to disasters.
Listed skills include Disaster Response, Emergency Management, Policy, Exercises, and 46 others.
