Professional Summary

• Over 30 years of progressively responsible & active involvement with volunteer, combination, and career fire departments. Leadership responsibilities on Hazardous Materials (CBRNE), Technical Rescue, and Urban Search & Rescue Teams.
• 23 years of experience as a public safety instructor teaching firefighting, safety, hazardous materials, and technical rescue courses at the state, county, and local level. 10+ years of fire service teaching in Higher Education.
• Creative and highly self-motivated lifelong learner of public safety preparedness and response in addition to adult learning theories, workplace learning practices, and instructional/course development principles. Career focus on training and education; have served as a peer instructor training other instructors in adult learning theories, andragogy, and educational delivery methods.
• Teaching and instructional development experience both as a project manager and as a team/committee member with instructor development, firefighting, and technical rescue classes delivered through classroom, online, and hybrid instruction at the governmental, vocational, undergraduate, and graduate levels. I have developed, revised, and instructed in-person, hybrid, & online training courses ranging from 4-hour awareness-level training to semester-long college courses utilizing synchronous and asynchronous learning strategies.
• Significant experience with all aspects of course design and development from beginning to end such as needs analysis, storyboarding, creating engaging exercises/scenarios, assessments, test item creation and analysis, preparing instructor and student course materials, etc.

Education

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Doctor of Education in Educational Administration (2014)
• Dissertation title – Firefighter Workplace Learning: An Exploratory Case Study
• Studies and research focused on adult learning theories, workplace learning, & professional development.

SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY
Master of Public Administration, Emphasis in Public Safety (2007)

University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
B.S. Fire Science Administration, A.S. Fire & Occupational Safety (1998)
• Certificate Degrees in: Fire Prevention, Industrial Fire Protection, Arson Investigation, and Hazardous Materials.