Interim Director, Emergency Management

• Mar 2021 - Present

Responsibilities: • Facilitated, coordinated, and trained a multi-disciplinary incident management team by building relationships with key partners. • Managed two Emergency Operations Centers and maintained the university Emergency Operations Plan. • Led division programs in planning, training, exercises, and response. • Managed division personnel, budget, and grants. Highlights: • Led a team of hundreds in response to COVID-19 operations. • Coordinated planning for funeral services of Senator Orrin Hatch and Sgt. Kory Newbold. • Hired and trained two emergency management specialists. • Secured $40,000 in federal funding for the Emergency Management Program Grant. • Developed a prototype common operating picture for first responders. • Led development of hazard-specific annexes for the Emergency Operations Plan, including severe weather evacuation procedures.

Associate Director, Emergency Management

• Oct 2015 - Mar 2021

Responsibilities:• Co-led development of University of Utah Emergency Operations Plan, including developing response plans for disruptions to campus operations.• Collaborated with campus experts to plan, train, exercise and respond to various threats and hazards, including active shooter/aggressor incidents, earthquakes, fire, severe weather, infrastructure failure, hazardous materials release, terrorism, and public health emergencies, and conducted dozens of exercises for thousands of individuals.Highlighted achievements:• Served as Operations Section Chief for University's COVID-19 response, expanded incident command team structure and developed COVID-19 Dashboard.• Served as Planning Section Chief and Operations Section Co-Chief for the only Vice-Presidential Debate in 2020, designed incident command structure, seating layout and incident action plan.• Key stakeholder in design of Emergency Operation Centers at S.J. Quinney College of Law and Public Safety Building.• Served as operations section chief for campus response to Salt Lake City earthquake and deputy campus emergency manager for two student homicides.• Assisted in development of safety videos: Stop the Bleed and Run, Hide, Fight and developed student- and staff-facing education programs.• Developed software code to permit high-volume visits from SMS links to alert.utah.edu and enable Campus Alert text messages beyond 160 characters and enabled branded alert images posted to wayfinding kiosks around campus.

Associate Director, Environmental Health and Safety and Emergency Management

• Jul 2010 - Oct 2015

For Environmental Health and Safety, I managed human resources, administration, and information technology. For Emergency Management, I managed the day-to-day administration and technology of the Campus Alert system, a pool of student interns, the campus natural hazard mitigation strategy, and assisted in all other areas of emergency management.

Climate science GIS application developer

• May 2010 - Jun 2011

Web applications developer

• May 2008 - Jul 2010

Software development contracts for the Center for Natural and Technological Hazards. - Rapid Visual Hazard Assessment (RVHA) – A web-based tool allowing residents of Salt Lake County to rapidly assess their exposure to natural and technological hazards. - PARSE – Protective Action Recommendation Scenario Environment to support research in wildfire incident commander expertise Software development contracts for the Center for Natural and Technological Hazards. - Rapid Visual Hazard Assessment (RVHA) – A web-based tool allowing residents of Salt Lake County to rapidly assess their exposure to natural and technological hazards. - PARSE – Protective Action Recommendation Scenario Environment to support research in wildfire incident commander expertise

Founder

• Jan 2008 - Jul 2010

Open-source hazards-related software development and contract computer systems analyst. Open-source hazards-related software development and contract computer systems analyst.

GIS API and web developer

• Nov 2009 - Feb 2010

PHP web developer PHP web developer

Technical Manager, Disaster Resistant University Grant

• Sep 2006 - Feb 2010

- Co-wrote the university’s mitigation plan funded through the Disaster Resistant University program (FEMA-funded pre-disaster mitigation competitive grant program). - Liaised with faculty experts in earthquake modeling, civil engineering, architecture and managed graduate students in the collection and analysis of key data. - Developed software tools to aid in data collection and preparation; delivered open-source software tools to FEMA to aid other DRU-funded colleges and universities. - Co-wrote the university’s mitigation plan funded through the Disaster Resistant University program (FEMA-funded pre-disaster mitigation competitive grant program). - Liaised with faculty experts in earthquake modeling, civil engineering, architecture and managed graduate students in the collection and analysis of key data. - Developed software tools to aid in data collection and preparation; delivered open-source software tools to FEMA to aid other DRU-funded colleges and universities.

Architect and software developer

• Feb 2009 - Dec 2009

Architect and developer for RedROVER data transfer tool from ROVER to HAZUS Architect and developer for RedROVER data transfer tool from ROVER to HAZUS

Software Developer

• Sep 2000 - Jan 2006

Software developer on the GUI team. I created custom graphical user interfaces applications that allowed telecommunications carriers to provision users and services in their network services. Software developer on the GUI team. I created custom graphical user interfaces applications that allowed telecommunications carriers to provision users and services in their network services.

Webmaster

• 1999 - 2000

Marketing, web design and development, special projects Marketing, web design and development, special projects

Owner

• Apr 1998 - Jun 1999

Owner, website designer Owner, website designer

Webmaster / Systems Engineer

• Jun 1995 - Apr 1998

Webmaster and systems engineer for Silicon Graphics Canada. Worked out of Toronto as remote member of the Silicon Surf team in Mountain View, CA Webmaster and systems engineer for Silicon Graphics Canada. Worked out of Toronto as remote member of the Silicon Surf team in Mountain View, CA