I have broad experience in a wide variety of fields and industries as I've spent 40 years in fire and emergency services, worked for 15 years in engineering, sales, marketing and management; and was blessed to make my career in the fire service for 20+ years. I've had tremendously rewarding and even life-changing experiences in all of these fields, most of which are documented in the stories that have been writing themselves for the past 50+ years.The three "selling" points I share at the top of my resume are:-Proven leader in creating positive solutions to challenges of the emergency services community-Quadrupled training participation for county-wide fire services bureau-Multi-million dollar company more than doubled in size during my employmentBut to summarize that even further, my goal has always been to be recognized as a "successful leader helping others solve problems by utilizing my vast emergency services experience, creative and organizational talent, technical competence and clear communication skills."While that sounds like a mouth-full --- I firmly believe that my greatest success, and thus my personal satisfaction, comes simply from helping others to be successful. I try to carry a servant attitude in all that I do and focus every day on training my replacement, whoever that may be and in whichever arena I play.In 2007 I wrote: "From the Xbox to the Box Alarm: Understanding and Engaging Today's Firefighters" (http://www.tigerschmittendorf.com/xbox-live/), an article that changed the focus away from generational differences and started to change our mindset toward exploring opportunities to connect the demographic divide. I’ve had the opportunity to share this game-changing conversation of the same title with thousands across the country in the emergency services community and a variety of other industries under the title: “Cracking the Code: An offline conversation about connecting with an online generation.”Specialties: Recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters; marketing, grant writing, emergency management; organizational leadership; incident command, operations and logistics; public speaking, key notes, storytelling, having conversations with other passionate people.