With over two decades of service as a Type 1 National Incident Management Team member, John is considered an expert in Incident Management Operations in the United States. He has worked with many of our nation’s federal, state, and local agencies to prepare for, manage and recover from the most complex disasters including devastating wildfires, hurricanes, Avian Flu outbreaks, landslides, volcanoes, large scale public events, and man-made disasters like the World Trade Center attacks in 2001.
John has completed thousands of hours of leadership and management training. He is a graduate of Technical Fire Management (TFM) through Colorado State University, the British Columbia Air Attack Officers course in Kamloops, the Australia Strategic Command Training through AFAC/AIPM, and the Red Team Practitioners course through the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies, Department of Defense, in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.