Facilities Management Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.2169

Education

Bachelors of Science, Forest Management, Northern Arizona University, 1975
Registered Professional Forester

Experience and Qualifications

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Retired (29 ½ Years)

Staff Chief, Fire Planning and Engineering:
Staff liaison to the California Fire Alliance (California Wildland Fire Agencies and Organizations); Staff liaison to the State Fire Marshal Model Wildland Building Code Workgroup; California Fire Alliance Project lead for 10 California Firewise Community Planning Workshops; State Firewise Coordinator; Western State Foresters representative to Community and Private Land Fire Assistance rule writing (2002 National Farm Bill); Western State representative to the National Association of State Foresters Federal Policy Committee Author, Wrote wildfire component of the State Hazard Mitigation Plan; Staff representative to the State Hazard Mitigation Team; Staff representative to the Governor's Office of Planning and Research Fire Hazard Planning and County Wildfire Mitigation development team; CDF Fire Protection liaison to Fire Prevention programs/projects.

Staff Chief Management Services, Northern Region:
Administered Personnel, Finance, Health and Safety, Fire Prevention and Facility Construction programs region wide; Chair, CDF Management Services Committee; Chair, CDF Personnel and Finance Workload Study

Deputy Chief, Fire Weather, Statistics, Budgeted Fire Staffing and Allocations, and SRA Mapping:
Staff liaison for development of California Fire Weather Forecasting Program and fire weather data collection system; Budgeted Fire Staffing and Resource Allocations; Liaison to State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection for Statutory Fire Protection Mapping and Approval process.

Deputy Chief, Operations and Fire Training, CDF Academy:
Staff lead and team writer of CDF Training Plan; Assisted Academy Administrator and SFM Training Chief with development of Training Consolidation Plan

Deputy Chief, Fire Prevention Engineering:
Principle author of several PRC Fire Safe Regulations (Available upon Request); Staff lead for Defensible Space Factor Study resulting in collection of structural fire loss factors that led to Painted Cave and Tunnel Fire analyses; Member of the Western Fire Chiefs Wildland Urban Interface Guide Book workgroup; Program manager for Volunteers-In-Prevention (3,000 citizen volunteers) and the internationally recognized Fire Safe Program; Selected CDF's 1st mass media contractor; Developed numerous fire prevention brochures and guides including major revision of the Fire Safe Guide to Residential Development in California; Created the title/theme and developed the technical material for Fire Safe Inside and Out life safety campaign which has been copied by several states and is still in use after several revisions during the past 14 years; Initiated numerous fire loss mitigation studies.

Other CDF Positions and Assignments:
Division Chief, Pre-Planning, including Fire Prevention, Resource Management and Vegetation Management; Battalion Chief, Resource Management; Fire Captain, Wildland and Structural Fire Protection Assignments.  Meeting Facilitation, Meeting Logistics and Incident Command System Assignments including Incident Commander, Operations Section Chief, Chief Information Officer, Safety Officer, Agency Representative, Liaison, Medical Unit Leader, Strike Team Leader, Task Force Leader and Division/Group Supervisor

National Fire Protection Association

Staff advisor to Forest and Rural Committee in the development of the original NFPA 299, Protection of Life and Property from Wildfire; Wildland Fire Management Section Charter Member (1988); Wildland Fire Management Section Chair (2 terms, 4 years), Secretary (2 years), Regional Director (6 years), Past Chair (4 years); Participant in Code and Standards Development since 1988; Fire Loss Mitigation Presentations at numerous NFPA meetings and session moderator at many others.

CDF Fire Fighters (California Professional Firefighters, IAFF)

Chapter and Region Officer and Director; State Board Member as Region IX Director; Member, Constitutional & Organizational Policy Committee; Representative on Joint Advisory Committee on Wages and Overtime; Member State Supervisory Meet and Confer Team; Developed Redistricting Plan for Regions (Still In Use 13 years later); Combined, Correlated and Compiled By-Laws and Constitution into a single, organized, usable document

Other Assignments

5 Years - USFS Fire Prevention Patrol, Fire Suppression and Road Surveying and Design Assignments; US Army, 1st Signal Brigade, Including a 12 Month Tour in Vietnam; Restaurant Management

References

Available upon request.

Wildfire Forensics Accounting

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