Instructor Experience:
Course: Developing a State/Regional CBRNE Task Force
November 2005 to present
Three-day course sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and offered to large cities around the country that had identified the need to develop a multi-disciplined CBRNE response team with specialized search and rescue capabilities. This course was the beginning of the development of the following US&R Teams across the country:
Texas Task Force 2
Oklahoma Task Force 1
Oklahoma Task Force 2
Wisconsin Task Force 1
Maryland Task Force 2
St. Louis (East-West Gateway) US&R Team
Ohio Region 2 US&R Team
Course: Passenger Rail Rescue Instructor
December 2011 to present
Five-day course at Disaster City designed to provide fire and police departments with the knowledge, skills and abilities to respond to and manage large-scale passenger derailment and bombing incidents. The course provides increasingly difficult scenarios on our seven-car Amtrak derailment training area. I also lead the students in a case studies-based review of previous passenger train disasters to facilitate student-centered learning.
Guest Lecturer on Crisis Communication at the Texas A&M Mays Business School - MBA, Executive MBA, and Professional MBA Programs - April 2007 to present. I present on the subject of media relations and crisis communications approximately three times a year to each of these MBA programs after conducting a day-long disaster leadership exercise at Disaster City.
Emergency Management Considerations at Passenger Rail Incident, Presentation at the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) Conference; San Antonio, TX – April 2015
Crisis Communication: Is the Media the Enemy, Co-Presentation with Professor John Krajicek at the TEEX Leadership Development Symposium
January 2013 - Frisco, TX
January 2015 - San Marcos, TX
January 2016 - San Marcos, TX