I'm an emergency manager who has lots of interests and great friends.  I've got a musical background and spend some time playing the trombone.  Take a look at some of the menu items to the left and after you explore a few, you'll have a pretty good idea of who I am.

My official work bio:

Bob is the Emergency & Safety Manager for Para Los Niños, a community-based non-profit organization that provides educational and family support services to Los Angeles’s neediest communities. Para Los Niños services include child development and education, three Charter Schools, child abuse prevention and intervention, after-school enrichment, and youth diversion and delinquency prevention. Bob manages the emergency preparedness and safety programs at the organization’s twenty-six locations in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.

Bob’s previous experience includes work as an Air Force contractor in the Office of Emergency Management at Los Angeles Air Force Base; Training Programs Coordinator for the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County; and Emergency Services Coordinator for Amgen, Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA. He has also been an officer with the USAF Auxiliary – Civil Air Patrol since 1992 and has been involved in the LAFD CERT program since 2002. A member of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and a member of the Business and Industry Council for Emergency Planning and Preparedness (BICEPP) since 2004, Bob joined BICEPP's board of directors in 2007.

 

Some trivia that appears nowhere else:

• 
  Second-generation Angeleno.  Both my father and I were born in Hollywood, CA.
• Fourth-generation Californian.
• Attended the first Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl.  Yes, I was only seven years old at the time, but my mother made my
  
  father take me since my older sister was going to go.  (Thanks, Mom!)
• Marched in the Rose Parade -- twice.
• Flown a fighter plane and a glider.
• Own two dozen or so brass instruments.
• Have a small collection of old telephones from the 30s--60s.
  

I hope you enjoy the new website.  The original one began way back in the last millenium--literally, 1999.  Hopefully this one will be better organized.

 

My research project on this history and variations on the trombone, baritone and euphonium continues to get hits from all over the globe and I answer as many inquiries as I can on the subject.  In 2009, the Encyclopedia Brittanica designated my website as a resource for more information on the trombone.

Stay tuned as I am still updating this site!