Phillip Stachelski Email & Phone Number

Moreno Valley, CA, US

Riverside, CA

• Worked with city staff to promote emergency preparedness throughout the community, including acting as program manager for the city Community Emergency Response Team. Acted as the point of contact for the public.
• Managed the city Community Emergency Response Team program, including training new CERT members. Created a new background-checked volunteer force from that program that can be drawn on to work events where additional.
• Planned and oversaw the development of the major update to the Ready Riverside preparedness website, ReadyRiverside.org, including developing the content and layout for the site.
• Assisted with the city COVID-19 Pandemic response as Documentation Unit Leader. Duties included daily curation of pandemic data (cases, death, hospitalization, testing, & vaccination) and creating a daily or weekly.
• Coordinated and facilitated the annual Public Safety Preparedness Expo featuring staff and equipment from multiple departments and community stakeholders.

Aurora, CO

• Manage and lead a team of young adults while ensuring customer satisfaction, facility is clean and in good working order, and deal with any situations that occur during the shift, including service delivery issues.
• Oversaw two major technology transitions and limited disruption to business. Found workaround solutions during system failures until the systems could be brought back online.
• Assisted in interviewing, hiring, and onboarding 100+ new personnel during rapidly fluctuation business cycles, and helped to maintain morale for employee’s whose primary priority was usually not their employment with.
• Worked with multiple locations to train staff for various roles, including new staff for a new store, existing staff and leadership on new technology and processes, and supporting locations in need of staff.

Denton, TX

• Monitor weather conditions and amateur radio traffic during severe weather events.
• Helped with multiple exercises, from tabletops to full scale. Acted in various roles during full scale and tabletop exercises helping to evaluate the exercises under HSEEP standards.

Dallas, TX

• Became the first digital volunteer for the Red Cross, using social media and weather knowledge to warn a large local audience of a variety of weather events, including a major tornado outbreak.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Led the social media effort when 22 confirmed tornadoes, including an EF3 and three EF2s, impacted the North Texas region with 30 minutes of lead time on the potential for tornadoes. Utilized Social Media to push.
• Helped conceptualize and operate a Digital Operations Center used to monitor and push relevant information critical to disaster response to teams in the field and to relevant publics seeking information on what to do.

Denton, TX

• Wrote and edited stories for, compiled, and published a monthly blog and newsletter.
• Managed & monitored CVB social media activates.
• Instrumental in promoting events in Denton, TX through social media. The local Event Planning Trade Show saw a greater than 100% increase in attendance.

FEMA Region VI

• Answered inbound calls to assist people in Disaster Assistance Registration, including for Hurricane Irene and the 2011 Texas Wildfires.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Developed a reference and guideline resource for myself and fellow call center staff.

Denton, TX

• Worked with the Emergency Management Coordinator to develop new programs and update existing plans and procedures.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Developed a working draft of protocols for the Eagle Alert Reverse-911 system, including participating in high-level meetings to decide how and when the system would be used.
• Wrote a UASI grant proposal in the first week. The $68,203 proposal for security equipment for a new stadium was the only one awarded of 17 proposals in DFW.
• Assisted with the response to H1N1 Pandemic Influenza outbreak that impacted university operations across multiple campuses including student housing, education programs, and research. This included identifying.
• Performed a needs assessment and began the process for the University of North Texas to become a StormReady community.
• Launched a pilot program of UNT Ready, an adaptation of the University of California’s UC Ready business continuity assessment system for the University of North Texas.

Denton, TX

• Prepared a list of resources, such as gas stations, ATMs, and hotels, for people to use while evacuating from Louisiana to the DFW Metroplex ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
• For 12 hours during Hurricane Gustav, managed a 3-person call center that helped answer evacuees' questions and provide critical evacuation information.

B.S, Emergency Administration & Planning

Activities and Societies: •John Maxwell Award for Outstanding Student in Emergency Administration & Planning (2009) •International.

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