Patrick Cornbill Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

I retired from FEMA after 26 years, nearly 100 disaster deployments and three heart attacks. Now I write humor and perform comedy about hurricanes and heart attacks.

New York, New York, United States

• Federal Coordinating Officer Pay Grade IC-15 May 2020 – Present
• Designated by President of the United States to serve as Federal Coordinating Officer for the federal response to the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Coordinated with the State of New Jersey to provide federal search and.
• As Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer for 4488-NJ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, served as the lead federal official for the State of New Jersey's Governor's Office, Office of Emergency Management and Department.
• Designated by the President of the United States to serve as Federal Coordinating Officer for 4574-NJ-DR in response to Hurricane Isaias. Managed a virtual joint field office to manage the delivery of the Public.

New York, NY

• As an apprentice in the cadre of Federal Coordinating Officers (FCOs), participated in in-depth training in all aspects of FEMA programs.
• Deployed as Branch Director for New York City in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Coordinated USACE, HHS and DoD resources to establish temporary hospital facilities and provide fatality management support. As.
• Deployed as Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer to New York State in response to severe storms and flooding. Coordinated the administration of the FEMA Public Assistance program. Oversaw the establishment of field.
• Deployed as Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer to Minnesota in response to a widespread flooding event. Regularly briefed Minnesota emergency management leadership on the status of federal disaster recovery operations.
• Deployed as Chief of Staff in response to a flooding event in Ohio. Briefed Ohio State emergency management leadership and congressional staffers on the status of federal disaster recovery operations.
• Deployed to Panama City, Florida to the counties most heavily impacted by category 5 Hurricane Michael. Supervised FEMA Community Planning and Capacity Building staff. Developed courses of action to address the.

FEMA Region II, New York, NY

• Operations Branch, Response Division January 2009 – Present
• Primary point of contact for State and Territorial emergency management in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and for federal agencies with Emergency Support Functions (ESF).
• Training and exercise coordinator for the Response Division.Conducting trainings and exercises. Participated in national-level exercises.
• Led the Mass Care planning initiative for FEMA’s Caribbean catastrophic plans review. Conducted stakeholder seminars in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
• Cadre manager for FEMA Region II Planning and Operations reservist cadres. Regional Response Coordination Center (RRCC) (Emergency Operations Center)
• Resource Capability Branch Director (Operations Section Chief) for the FEMA Region II RRCC. Also responsible for mission readiness, training and exercises and Standard Operating Procedure development.

• Deployed to over 40 federally declared disaster operations, usually in a managerial role for the Community Relations (CR) section. Managed CR, intergovernmental, private sector and LNO field staff.
• Served as Assistant External Affairs Officer on six disaster operations,
• Also deployed as AFO manager/Branch Director reporting directly to the FCO, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technician and Situation Status Specialist in the Planning section and Debris Monitor and Debris.
• Deployed with regional Emergency Response Team (ERT-A) and with National Emergency Response Team (ERT-N).
• Also performed various duties for FEMA region II and HQ between disaster deployments including as Congressional Liaison and in the planning section during RRCC activations.
• Appointed to FEMA HQ policy groups as a subject matter expert to determine training needs, design training courses and set national policies and procedures for Community Relations disaster operations.

New Yok, NY

• Led a 12-person FEMA IMAT including recruiting and managing staff.
• Deployed as Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer to New Jersey State Office of Emergency Management for a severe storms and flooding event, pre-landfall preparations for Hurricane Joaquin and for the National Special.
• Deployed as Deputy Branch director and Division Supervisor to presidentially-declared federal disasters in Texas, South Carolina and other events and exercises.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Arranged the NHS’s participation in the WHO’s Hungarian Three Counties Twinning Project to implement Hungarian health policy on a local level.
• Liaised between the two health authorities, Hungarian national health officials and the WHO.
• Wrote reports on the progress of the project, grant proposals to fund the project and reports on the health problems and systems of Bacs-Kiskun County and the northwest of England.
• Arranged and coordinated mutual visits between the two regions.

• Managed database inventory and delivery of all medical equipment for new 1,500-bed facilities.
• Volunteered for Rape Crisis Center. Made arrangements with the Hungarian Department of Interior, UNHCR and International Red Cross for rape victim’s counselors to train Yugoslav rape victim’s counselors at refugee.

Budapest, Hungary

• Arranged housing for Yugoslav refugees during the onset of hostilities in Yugoslavia.

Ma Population Studies, Demographics / Public Health

Core courses in Demography other courses included Public Health, Epidemiology and GIS. Completed a dissertation on the issue of declining.

Ba, Anthropology