I am a volunteer with Bright & Beautiful Therapy Dogs. I have had many other German Shepherds in the past. I trained and worked with Search & Rescue dogs as well as my other Therapy dogs. When I retiered, I wanted to give back to our community and a therapy dog was right up my alley. I did my due diligence and found my pup that was of German lineage and Sieger Champions. Upon getting the 8-week pup home training began. I began conditioning her, and trained her daily, always with love. She learned and excelled in obedience and how to act with children. LEISEL was exposed to young Children immediately, my Grandchildren. Every day we worked together and every day she learned. From touching her paws and tail, to just sitting there waiting for more love, she excelled. 13 months later she was Certified AKC Canine Good CitizenCGC and as a certified Therapy Dog by The Bright & Beautiful Therapy Dogs. Therapy dog visits may vary, depending on the reason for the visit, the nature of the facility, and the type of person being visited. The objective of our therapy visit is to provide comfort and pleasure to someone in need.Therapy dogs have significant health benefits and can reduce stress, anxiety and depression as well as provide a sense of connection in difficult situations. To many, Dogs bring back pleasant and warm memories of family pets from days gone by. When we visit rehabilitation facilities and hospitals, the students or the patients can ease the boredom of institutional life or the pain of a recent surgery by visits from a friendly face with a wagging tail. Sometimes a patient with depression who hasn’t spoken for a while will have a conversation with a dog. LEISEL happily visits the Brackman middle school in Barnegat, NJ every Wednesday, the Ocean County Library, Air National Guard, and numerous other schools and assisted living facilities.

After a long 42 years on call, responding to countless spills and emergencies I have put the Semi-Retired hat on and will now pick my work. I will continue working with the NY DEC on the GRP program and assisting GMS and OBG on special projects. Other than that you can find me on a trout stream fly fishing.

I had worked as the Manager Response Services - U.S. East Coast where I fulfill a myriad of duties. I routinely coordinate responses to petrochemical incidents throughout the United States and territories. I am fully qualified to initiate all necessary response activities in an expedient manner. I am the company’s Spill Management Team Coordinator, managing approximately 195 professionals to respond to incidents anywhere in the United States and territories. During large scale incidents, I am the Operations Section Chief for the GMS Incident Management Team. I am regularly called upon to respond to oil spills 24/365. In the field, I am responsible for implementing work plans, site safety plans and supervising clean-up crews. I am a Qualified individual (QI) for tank vessel and cargo vessel clients. As a QI I am tasked with taking all calls immediately, coordinate agency notifications and guide the master of the vessel in the proper response to an incident or drill scenario or casualties such as soft groundings, deck spills, and container leakages. Other duties include assisting the GMS Training Services with required drills and exercises. Additionally I routinely speak at the Federal On-Scene Coordinator Representative course at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center in Yorktown VA

I was a Chief Petty Officer reservist with the Atlantic Strike Team at Fort Dix, NJ. I had responded to significant environmental emergencies throughout the country such as the World Trade Center’s Ground Zero, Hurricanes’ Katrina and Rita, the Motiva facility explosion, the Buzzard’s Bay B120 oil spill, and most recently Deep Water Horizon where I was Controlled Burn Task Force Leader in the early stages of the unprecedented Deep Water Horizon response. With a fleet of shrimp boats and a sizable staff of Coast Guard and industry technical advisers, our task force was successful in burning an estimated thirteen million gallons of crude oil off the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.I had been assigned to the training division where I was tasked with keeping training matrixes, writing training plans and schedules and presenting training for the 35 man and woman Team. In addition, I coordinate training to numerous outside venues for WMD, Haz-Mat and Rad Level 2.I am a qualified instructor tasked with training team members in HAZMAT chemistry and air surveillance as well a NOAA shoreline Clean up Techniques.

Rob was a State On-Scene Coordinator and Emergency Response Specialist with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Emergency Response. He worked as a member of the NJ DEP Emergency Response Team, responding to all hazard environmental, atmospheric and WMD emergencies for the purpose of assessing environmental impacts as well as functioning as a departmental on-scene coordinator. During such emergencies, he was tasked with determining the public health hazard or significant adverse environmental effects involving potential acute hazardous while supervising and coordinating federal, state, county, and local emergency response personnel to mitigate the incident. In the field he had conducted environmental investigations and inspection work. Additionally he was charged with opening the NJ State Spill Fund at spill and illegal dumping sites supervising the overall operations of the clean up of a hazardous material to the eventual destruction of the waste.In addition, Mr. Schrader was a part time contract instructor for SAIC based in Virginia. Mr. Schrader was part of a 70 member CTOS instructor staff consisting of police officers, firefighters, emergency managers, radiological and nuclear subject matter experts, emergency medical services, Civil Support Team (CST) members, retired and active-duty responders, and personnel with extensive military experience. As with all CTOS instructors he completed the DHS and NDPC Instructor Certification Programs.

After attending 1o week of Boot Camp at Cape May Tracen, I was sent to Boatswain Mate A Scool for 16 weeks.