Experience

West Palm Beach Fire Dept

• United States
• Public Safety
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Chief/Emergency Manager

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  • Emergency Manager for the City of West Palm Beach overseeing 116,000 residents, 1400 employees and 20 billion dollars of taxable property in the event of any emergency including natural or man-made disasters.• Oversees 112 annual special events including Sunfest that attracts 350000 patrons, Major League Baseball spring training.• Liaison and hazardous materials response director with Secret Service and FBI for President Trump’s visits to Palm Beach, up to 20 visits annually.• City’s Liaison with Palm Beach County’s Emergency Operations Center for Hurricane Matthew. Emergency Manager for the City of West Palm Beach for Hurricane Irma and Liaison for ESF 4 and 9 at the State of Florida EOC for Hurricane Michael.• Plan, develop and management of the department’s 42 million dollar budget. Oversee and approve appropriate requisitions and expenditures. • Oversee department’s special operations division including a regional hazardous materials team, Florida deployable technical rescue team 755, type II swift water team and regional technical rescue task force. • Public information officer and public relations director for the fire department. • Design and Implementation of biannually citywide emergency operations drills. Participated in numerous FEMA and State of Florida annual Radiation drills as a member of Region 7 Incident Management Team as a Liaison, Logistics or Operations Section Chief.

• Chief of Trainig and Safety

  • May 2015 - Jul 2017

  • Create and maintain a training matrix system showing all mandatory, specialized, optional and miscellaneous training; planned, scheduled and conducted training drills appropriate for fire fighters.• Train firefighters in ventilation, hydraulics, pumper operation and aerial ladder operation; coordinated special training courses with the training staff, safety training organizations and external consultants.• Initiated training programs in using and maintaining firefighting equipment, apparatus, fire streams and developing ad-hoc knots and hitches as well as provided adequate training on first aid, CPR and SCBA drills, live fire training, foam application, and tank fires.• Provided training on firefighting tactics and skills while maintaining a system to identify and publish at least one training bulletin every month.• Prepared instruction aids, training manuals and Department bulletins as well as maintained training progress records through Target Solutions for the members of the Department.

• Operations Captain

  • Apr 2012 - May 2015

  • Oversaw the hazardous material team’s budget and ordering. Developed hazardous materials training for the all hazardous material technicians.• Established standards and design manuals and standards for hazardous material annual standards.• Oversaw Emergency Medical Services for an entire shift including emergency calls and quality assurance of all daily medical reports.• Scheduled and supervised the work activities of limited paramedics in the step program including all associated evaluations and testing.• Accomplished public requests for information regarding EMS and maintained emergency and non-emergency fire response records on a regular basis. Training and motivating firefighting personnel as well as supervising firefighters engaged in operation and maintenance of fire stations equipment.

• Operations Lieutenant

  • Aug 2009 - Apr 2012



West Palm Beach Fire Dept

• United States
• Public Safety
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Firefighter

  • Jan 2000 - Apr 2009