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PAUL C. HEWITT RESUME 7779 Tall Oaks Drive Park City, Utah Home Phone: 435-901-4068 Work Phone: 435-940-2501 Cell Phone: 435-659-5473 E-mail: [email protected] SERVING: Park City Fire Services DistrictPark City, Utah SUMMARY Creative, Collaborative, Progressive, Energetic Fire Service Leader Fire Chief with leadership and management abilities proven to improve emergency services by maintaining efficient components of an organization while proactively identifying areas of potential improvement and implementing new and effective service delivery strategies. Blend of energy and innovation has produced programs with ongoing success at a department (local), regional and state level. Diverse fire service background with steadily increasing experience and responsibility in all levels of fire service administration ranging from budgetary, personnel, operational needs and issues. Instrumental in providing leadership and support in foresight and development of programs facilitating fire service management and nurturing cooperative relationships. Experienced in administrative and operational levels including firefighter, emergency medical technician, and heavy rescue technician, Paramedic, Captain, Training Division Chief, Operations Battalion Chief and Fire Chief. Educational advocate in both formal and informal settings. Established track record of effective leadership, efficient incident mitigation, implementing useful technologies, effective communications and effective operational tactics and strategies. Initiated regional and national incident management training programs with state and federal mandates. Significant involvement in University of Utah Leadership Academy’s initial program development and delivery. Respected effectiveness in planning and preparation of annual state wide leadership symposiums widely recognized as some of the best leadership training in the region. Extensive operational background serving as incident commander on many large scale incidents ranging from a 100 car pileup in heavy fog on I-80 to a multi casualty incident involving a heavily armed gunman that killed 5 civilians and critically injured 4 others at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City. Personally earned medal of gallantry for I-80 incident. Delivered presentation on Trolley Square event at International Association of Firefighters convention held in Houston, Texas. This event later won the Utah state Bureau of Emergency Medical services award for best managed emergency medical incident of the year. Served as incident commander on dozens of house fires and multi-story residential and other structure fires. Background of involvement in preplanning for large-scale events from dozens of large conventions to the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Served as Venue Commander throughout Winter Olympics sharing event responsibilities with local police and the FBI. Naturally calm demeanor under pressure with known ability to continue critical and creative analysis of any situation whether emergent or non-emergent. Marked success in delivering public safety message through cultivated relationship with the media. As Training Division Chief delivered regular safety messages to public through local news channels and informational media programs that continue today. Nationally and locally networked with many distinguished fire service professionals. GV006735 GV0105-0001
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PAUL C. HEWITT

RESUME 7779 Tall Oaks Drive

Park City, Utah

Home Phone: 435-901-4068

Work Phone: 435-940-2501

Cell Phone: 435-659-5473

E-mail: [email protected]

SERVING: Park City Fire Services District—Park City, Utah

SUMMARY

Creative, Collaborative, Progressive, Energetic Fire Service Leader

Fire Chief with leadership and management abilities proven to improve emergency services by maintaining

efficient components of an organization while proactively identifying areas of potential improvement and

implementing new and effective service delivery strategies. Blend of energy and innovation has produced

programs with ongoing success at a department (local), regional and state level.

Diverse fire service background with steadily increasing experience and responsibility in all levels of fire

service administration ranging from budgetary, personnel, operational needs and issues. Instrumental in

providing leadership and support in foresight and development of programs facilitating fire service

management and nurturing cooperative relationships. Experienced in administrative and operational levels

including firefighter, emergency medical technician, and heavy rescue technician, Paramedic, Captain,

Training Division Chief, Operations Battalion Chief and Fire Chief.

Educational advocate in both formal and informal settings. Established track record of effective leadership,

efficient incident mitigation, implementing useful technologies, effective communications and effective

operational tactics and strategies. Initiated regional and national incident management training programs

with state and federal mandates. Significant involvement in University of Utah Leadership Academy’s

initial program development and delivery. Respected effectiveness in planning and preparation of annual

state wide leadership symposiums widely recognized as some of the best leadership training in the region.

Extensive operational background serving as incident commander on many large scale incidents ranging

from a 100 car pileup in heavy fog on I-80 to a multi casualty incident involving a heavily armed gunman

that killed 5 civilians and critically injured 4 others at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City.

Personally earned medal of gallantry for I-80 incident. Delivered presentation on Trolley Square event at

International Association of Firefighters convention held in Houston, Texas. This event later won the Utah

state Bureau of Emergency Medical services award for best managed emergency medical incident of the

year. Served as incident commander on dozens of house fires and multi-story residential and other structure

fires.

Background of involvement in preplanning for large-scale events from dozens of large conventions to the

2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Served as Venue Commander throughout Winter Olympics sharing

event responsibilities with local police and the FBI.

Naturally calm demeanor under pressure with known ability to continue critical and creative analysis of any

situation whether emergent or non-emergent.

Marked success in delivering public safety message through cultivated relationship with the media. As

Training Division Chief delivered regular safety messages to public through local news channels and

informational media programs that continue today. Nationally and locally networked with many

distinguished fire service professionals.

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Long history of ability to study systems and produce creative solutions to improve and simplify processes.

This ability has demonstrated value in the sharing and presentation of department information and

minimizing costs associated with staffing by training with and combining efforts with neighboring

jurisdictions and departments. This has led to close relationships, sharing of resources and effective

networking among neighboring departments.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Park City Fire Service District

Park City, Utah

Fire Chief 02/2011-Present

Park City Fire Service District (PCFSD)is located approximately 30 miles due east of metropolitan Salt Lake

City, Utah, in the western portion of Summit County and can best be characterized as a residential/suburban ski

resort community surrounded by wildland interfaces. The area is nestled in the grand setting of the Wasatch

Mountains and is rapidly growing, partly due to its three world-class ski areas and the Utah Olympic Park with

its’ ski jumping and bobsled-luge skeleton track facilities. Currently, the community consists of 32,000 year

round residents, tens of thousands of secondary vacation homes and draws 4 million annual over-night visitors,

mostly in the winter and summer months. Additional day visitors frequent the area from the Salt Lake Valley

area. Many visitors come from around the United States, as well as from around the world. PCFSD’s 7 staffed

stations serve an area of 110 square miles consisting of residential, commercial, and wildland urban interface

zones. The area has seen, and continues to experience, significant growth and is home to approximately 83% of

the population of Summit County and encompasses greater than $32 billion (86%) of the taxable value of the

County. PCFSD employs 83 career Firefighter-EMT/Paramedics; and 12 administrative personnel. It also

employs and manages paid-call ambulance transport services of 45 personnel for a neighboring 1700 square-

mile rural community. Our total budget is currently 14.5 million. Direct reports include: an Administrative

Assistant, an Administrative Battalion Chief, an Assistant Chief/Fire Marshall, an Operations Assistant Chief, a

Human Resource Administrator, and a Chief Financial Officer.

Accomplishments with PCFD: Instituted first strategic plan and revised plan in 2013. Created a culture that

follows our core values of professionalism, accountability, dedication, and customer service. Began new

wildland engine program in 2011 contracting services to Wyoming, California, South Dakota, Nebraska,

Montana, and others. Fundamentally changed how we respond to fire and medical emergencies in the

wildland-urban interface area using motorcycles and track driven rangers. Took over entire 1800 square mile

Summit County ambulance services. Enhanced and increased PCFD’s community involvement. Hired a full

time Technology Services Manager exponentially improving our technical abilities in many areas. Changed the

way we communicate with PCFD’s governing body using SharePoint—an information sharing program.

Changed position titles where needed—example: changing an Assistant Chief position to an Administrative

Captain. Instituted new staffing procedures saving the district tens of thousands of dollars annually. Formed a

standing compensation committee in 2011. Created task performance test used to measure members fitness for

duty on an annual basis. Built station #33 and a logistics center to protect and improve our ISO rating. Began

full policy review and revision process in 2013. The first policies we changed and improved balanced employee

and management rights. Implemented overtime approval process. Created cooperative relationships with local

governmental entities that PCFD serves. Improved wildland fuel mitigation program.

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Golden Valley Fire District

Golden Valley, Arizona

Fire Chief 02/2010—1/2011

Scope of responsibility: 220 square mile district covered by 25 sworn firefighters and 25 paid-on-call

firefighters staffing three advanced life support fire stations. Direct reports included an Administrative

Assistant, Comptroller, Support Services Technician, and an Assistant Chief. The budget was 6.7 million with

reserve being used to pursue improved dispatch, an internal ambulance service, and land for a fourth fire

station. Initiatives, goals and objectives being followed after careful analysis producing a state of the

department report in April. Sample of Programs and initiatives instituted: Wellness and fitness program with

Certified Fitness Coordinators and daily fire and fit training, “cost offset” by seeking annexation and outside

contracts, insured organizational accountability with revision of some policies and procedures combined with

educating personnel, improved inventory control measures, improved community image with new interactive

website, numerous Chief written and published press releases, YouTube channel and more community

involvement, development of a validated task Performance Test, improved facility/apparatus/equipment

maintenance and usability, implemented more efficient staffing procedures, improved organizational and

community safety, decreased average district response time by five minutes.

Salt Lake City Fire Department, Salt Lake City, Utah

Battalion Chief 04/2004 to 01/2010

Scope of Responsibility: Lead Salt Lake City Battalion 1 comprised of 98 firefighters including 11 directly

reporting Captains. Battalion 1 includes downtown Salt Lake City and outlying areas and is the most densely

populated urban areas both with target hazards such as high rise buildings and commercial structures. Served

as lead battalion in scheduling civic duties, training functions, firefighter scheduling and personnel

management. Assisted in management of operating and capital budgets. Worked with neighboring fire

department administrators in program development, requests for proposals and program administration and

delivery. These programs included automated staffing systems, fire training scheduling and delivery,

continuing medical education scheduling and delivery, product testing and purchase, and specialty training

scheduling and delivery. Managed personnel and apparatus coverage to all Salt Lake City districts. Provided

oversight of Salt Lake City International Airport Rescue Firefighters and equipment, advanced life support

companies (ALS), firefighter/emergency Medical Technician (BLS) companies, Heavy Rescue Company,

Hazardous Materials Company and a Swift Water Rescue company. Lead scheduling of firefighter civic

involvement at community council meetings, district meetings, local events and special events and requests.

Provided initial swift water rescue needs analysis to Salt Lake City Fire Department board of Chiefs and

initiated program implementation. Performed duties of Chief in Deputy Chief and Chief’s absence. Ultimately

responsible for accomplishing department’s mission of protection of life, property and environment while

maintaining cooperative relationships with neighboring jurisdictions and agencies.

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Training Division Chief 12/2004 to 01/2007

Scope of Responsibility: Direct reports included Apparatus Captain, Training Captain, Special Operations

Captain and an Office Facilitator. Oversight of Training Division annual budget, incumbent and recruit

firefighter training needs. Responsible for maintaining accurate records of newly established national incident

management online training and certification requirements. Served as Chair and Secretary in regional training

alliance groups, recruit training assurance committee and the Utah training officers association. Responsible

for division’s creation and delivery of quarterly and ongoing drills and educational programs for operations

division. Helped write and implement task performance testing for all Salt Lake City Firefighters. Managed

Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (JATC) two year program for apprentice firefighters. Provided

oversight of Community Emergency Response training. Managed Explorer program to introduce fire service to

interested community youth. Oversaw personal protective gear and self-contained breathing apparatus care,

maintenance and replacement using OSHA and NFPA 1851 guidelines. Instituted sole source provider contract

for all firefighter equipment greatly streamlining process. Responsible for maintenance and security of 4

million dollar firefighter training tower and implemented fee schedule and liability waiver for private sector

use. Provided direct oversight of all recruit training and probationary periods. Managed training division

budget with quarterly reports to the department Financial Director. Worked with other Salt Lake valley and

state fire departments in joint training and development of operational guidelines and served as lead in

development of state wide field operations guide development. Managed 5 million dollar Training Division

budget.

Captain 09/2000 to 04/2004

Scope of Responsibility: Served as engine and truck Captain in some of the busiest fire houses in the state of

Utah. Provided leadership and mentoring to crews in community involvement, emergency medical care, and

fire response and fire prevention. Responsible for maintaining records of business inspections, training,

hydrant inspections and any personnel issues. Authored a quick reference guide for required department

member response to firefighter injury, apparatus accidents, employee assistance programs and many other

valuable phone numbers and information. The first printing of this guide was in 2000 and copies can still be

found posted and often used at all Salt Lake City fire stations today. Worked with neighboring departments

under mutual and automatic aid agreements in sharing of resources both in emergent response as well as

during training opportunities. Maintained accurate apparatus maintenance schedules and equipment

inventory. First priority was crew safety demonstrated by zero crew member injuries while under my command.

Often acted as Battalion Chief in Battalion Chief’s absence.

Paramedic 01/1992 to 09/2000

Duties:

Served as advanced life support paramedic in giving care to sick and injured patients. Provided competent and

compassionate care and transportation on many scenes involving critically injured and dying patients. Worked

the scene of dozens of multi casualty accidents and provided crew leadership and mentoring. Acted as Captain

when regularly assigned Captain was absent. Served on the first high angle rescue team and developed related

training plans and standard operating procedures. Set exemplary standard of attendance, performance,

continuing education and fitness for fellow firefighters.

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Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician 01/1990 to 01/1992

Duties:

Completed three year journeyman firefighter program sponsored by the Utah State Department of Labor.

Provided basic life support, fire suppression, rescue, and property and environment protection. Inspected

businesses and residential facilities recognizing life endangering conditions and assisted in correction.

Participated in drills and continuing medical education to meet and exceed recommended hourly requirements.

Instituted program entitled “Buzz baseballs for hurt children”. This program used local business donations to

buy baseballs which were in turn signed by the local triple A baseball club. EMT’s and Paramedics would

hand these balls out to hurt and injured children in an attempt to take their minds off their suffering.

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACHIEVEMENTS/ACTIVITIES

Currently serve as Chair of the Park City Miner’s Day Parade. Now in its 117th

year, this popular annual

event raises tens of thousands of dollars for local non-profit organizations. Click hyperlink to view more

information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcebZ_RsjIA

Author/Writer for Utah Fire and Rescue Academy’s “Straight Tip” magazine. See articles at:

http://www.uvu.edu/ufra/news/magazine.html Search “Hewitt” in individual issues back to mid-2011.

Remain immediately available to local media. Recorded interviews can be heard on local radio station

KPCW at this

hyperlink:http://kpcw.org/search/google/hewitt?query=hewitt&cx=010251366440257945544%3Aevvhrpvj

geo&cof=FORID%3A11&sitesearch=

Serve on Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Utah advisory board serving hundreds of children in Utah.

In my short tenure with Arizona’s Golden Valley Fire District we began the process of seeking a department

of health Certificate of Necessity (CON). This certificate allows an organization to provide ambulance

service. This initiative met with much resistance but was clearly in the best interest of the tax paying public.

I hired competent legal counsel and developed a strategy for making a positive difference in EMS service

delivery. While a lengthy process, the Fire Chief I swore in before my departure will appear in front of an

Administrative Judge and stands a good chance of gaining the CON.

Training Alliance Group: Served as Secretary. Organized and authored writing of many alliance policies,

assisted in Leadership Symposium planning, fund raising, speaker selection, and departmental advertising

and delivery. Assisted in writing many policies and procedures including policies on rapid intervention

teams, mayday response, firefighter rehabilitation and high rise response.

Organized writing and editing of the Field Operations Guide widely used throughout Utah State. Presented

idea to training alliance group. Took lead on collaborative effort to develop field operations guide now used

throughout the state. This pocket sized guide condenses and simplifies first efforts on emergency responses

such as: Bomb threats, brush fires, hazardous materials response, operational retreat and abandonment,

vehicle extrication, aircraft fire and rescue, earthquakes, rope rescues and many other common emergency

responses. This guide was one of the first highly successful combined training efforts of neighboring

departments.

Utah Fire and Rescue Academy Quality Assurance Committee: Committee founder and served as first

Chair. This group oversaw the training of Recruits statewide. Utah Valley University’s Fire and Rescue

Academy was awarded an ongoing grant which greatly cut into department’s costs of training new recruits.

Created consensus among ten valley departments to use Utah Fire and Rescue Academy for recruit training

needs. This committee monitored and changed curriculum and testing methods as needed. The committee

also made suggestions and provided letters of referral for potential instructors.

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Utah Training Officer’s Association: Served as Secretary. This group coordinated professional

development and training among state departments. Met on a monthly basis with Chief Officers from other

departments around the state to compare notes regarding lessons learned from emergency responses and

introduce new concepts and training opportunities.

Utah Fire and Rescue Academy’s Command Training Center: Acted in leadership role in concept

development of Command Training Center at Utah Fire Rescue Academy. Currently serve as one of three

state wide Lead Instructors. One lead instructor must be present at all incident command classes providing

direct oversight and delivery of standard curriculum. This program utilizes the latest computer technology

to enable potential incident commanders to run up to 15 real life scenarios in one day’s training.

Salt Lake City Fire Department Fitness Committee: Served as first Chair of newly formed Fitness

Committee. This ten member committee provided much needed fitness assessments to all sworn SLCFD

firefighters. As a result of the findings of the fitness assessments the committee was tasked with hiring an

outside vendor to develop a validated task performance test. Served on the request for proposal committee

and maintained involvement to the end of the process culminating in a department task performance test

policy. Efforts were in conjunction with city and department attorney as well as other city council

members. The efforts of this committee have lowered medical claims from on the job injuries.

Salt Lake City Fire Department Awards and Recognition Committee: Personal involvement began in 1993

and has developed into an annual program which recognizes exceptional performance among department

members. Individuals are nominated by their peers for recognition in many categories and are recognized at

annual awards event.

Automated staffing/payroll committee: Personally developed first computer automated staffing program in

2003 which is still in use today. Currently serve in request for proposal review and implementation

committee. “TeleStaff” was selected to provide an automated phone calling and staffing program.

Scheduled to spend two weeks with “TeleStaff” in the very near future to program and implement this state

of the art program. This program has proven to save tens of thousands of dollars on staffing expense for

larger departments such as Salt Lake City. Possess intrinsic understanding of fire department needs for

staffing and how to best meet firefighter and public needs whether using computer automation using manual

means.

Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics: Served as Venue Commander assisted in preparation efforts. Venue

Commander was responsible for overall crowd safety. Oversaw group of firefighters tasked with managing

crowd safety and mitigating emergency medical incidents. Also managed firefighting readiness for

potential incident mitigation. Salt Lake City was praised for a relatively incident free environment with

some of the most rigorous security and prevention measures ever seen.

Public Safety Bond Committee: Worked to gain funding for new $195 million dollar public safety building,

emergency operations center, fire training center, two fire stations and a police precinct. The second version

of this public safety bond passed with a 65% voter approval on November 4, 2009.

Civic events leader: Maintain involvement in charitable events such as “Tackle the Tower”. This

firefighter event raises funds for the American Lung Association in Utah. Led a group of 12 Salt Lake City

Firefighters to win the fastest overall and individual time for the event. Then in 2012 and 2014 led Park

City Firefighters to do the same. In 2014 led a group of Park City Firefighters in the largest stair climb in

the nation held in Seattle, Washington. Our team finished in the top 10% and raised thousands to benefit

leukemia/lymphoma. Acted as muscular dystrophy’s executive for the “executive lockup” program to raise

money for children afflicted with muscular dystrophy. Maintain strong belief in fire department’s hugely

positive influence in any community. Remain actively involved as Park City Fire Chief in many good

causes such as serving as Miner’s Day Festival and Parade Chair. This event attracts thousands of residents

and visitors raising tens of thousands of dollars for non-profit organizations.

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Fitness and wellness fire service leader: Served for years as Certified Fitness Coordinator. Regularly

compete with other firefighters in off duty events such as the Salt Lake City Marathon, Wasatch Steeple

Chase, Jupiter Peak Steeple Chase, Park City Marathon, Salt Lake Ten Miler and many other events.

Personal belief of physical fitness leading to better firefighter performance and increased firefighter and

civilian safety demonstrated by personal participation.

Salt Lake City Mayoral Leadership Council (represented fire department): Tasked with providing a

mentoring program to all city employees. Council worked to transfer corporate cultural knowledge from

Salt Lake City Corporation’s current leaders to its future leaders who in turn learned to lead teams

successfully.

Fire department Battalion Chief and Captain’s selection boards: Served on selection boards for Los Angeles

City, Las Vegas City, Park City, Murray City, Midvale City, South Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, and others.

EDUCATION

University: Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Major Field of study: Public Emergency Services Management

Degree received: B.S. Graduated Magna cum Laude--transcripts available on request

Coursework: Surveying fire and rescue services, public program administration, public

relations for emergency services, business law, human resource

management, analytical research and approach to public emergency

services management, terrorism, fire origin and cause, health and safety

program management, customer service, grant proposal writing, master

planning for public emergency services and health and safety program

management, homeland security and terrorism response, survey of

humanities, calculus, analytical geometry, physical fitness (karate,

racquetball and fitness for life), fire supervision and leadership, biology,

economics, American civilization.

University: Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Major Field of study: Fire Science

Degree received: A.A.S. Graduated High Honors

Coursework: Course work included: Incident command, fire protection/detection

systems, building construction for the fire service, fire service leadership,

incident safety officer, fire service law, fire suppression, fire service

special operations, fire service technical rescue, algebra, basic computer

programming language, trigonometry, wild land/urban interface fire

protection, fire investigation, fire officer and supervision.

University: Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Major Field of study: Drafting and Design Technology

Degree received: A.A.S. Graduated High Honors

Coursework: Architectural design, structural design, electrical design, civil engineering,

strength of materials, kinematics, plate layout, blueprint reading, applied

mechanics, technical illustrating, occupational safety, pipe drafting,

surveying, physical sciences, English composition, computer graphics and

drawing, principals of economics.

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University: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Field of study: Fire Service Leadership Academy

Certification earned: Phase I and II certification

Institution: National Fire Academy, Emmitsburg, MD

Field of study: Executive Fire Officer Program

(I was in third year when appointed as Park City Fire Chief)

Courses: Executive Development, Leading Community Risk Reduction, Executive

Analysis of Fire Service Operations in Emergency Management,

Executive Leadership.

University: Weber State University, Ogden, Utah

Major Field of study: Paramedic School

Courses: Paramedic I, Paramedic I Lab, Paramedic II, Paramedic III, Paramedic IV.

School: School of Hard Knocks

Major Field of study: Small Business

Degree: I have often joked that I earned a “Magna Come Anxiety” bachelor’s

degree in business.

Information: Gained extensive experience (1977-2001) in small business. Founded a

company called “Lovena Fence” that specialized in vinyl fence, cedar

fence, hand railing, and decking. Company grew to gross nearly three

million dollars annually with up to 35 full time employees before my

partner and I sold it. To this day I believe this experience to be one that

best qualifies me to be a Fire Chief.

Park City Leadership This year long class educates present and future community leaders to

Class XVIII our ever changing community needs. The class culminated in a Las Vegas

“City Tour” studying the city’s needs and infrastructure.

Annual Fire Executive I make it a point to attend these leadership conferences bringing fire

Conference service leaders from around the world together. This year’s conference

will be in Seattle, Washington and will be the third in a row that I have

attended.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Utah Fire and Rescue Academy, Utah Valley University: Command Training Center Lead Instructor

in fire service incident management

Salt Lake City Fire Department: Fire Officer Leadership and Development Instructor

National Fire Academy “Train the Trainer” Instructor for National Incident Management System

(NIMS) for Emergency Medical Services certification.

National Fire Academy “Train the Trainer” Instructor for Unified Command for Multi-Agency and

Catastrophic Incidents

National Fire Academy “Train the Trainer” Instructor for National Incident Management System

(NIMS) for fire operations

Utah Governor’s Public Safety Summit (2008), Utah Department of Public Safety: Keynote Speaker

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International Association of Firefighters Conference (2007), Houston, Texas: Keynote Speaker

JOB RELATED TRAINING COURSES

Emergency Medical Technician Course 07/1987

440 Hr. Recruit Training, Salt Lake City Fire Department 03/1990

Paramedic Program, Weber State University (Current 2018 recertification) 03/1992

Firefighter, US Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship/Training 01/1993

Leadership/Fire Officer, Salt Lake County & Salt Lake City Fire Departments 02/1995

Professional Firefighters of Utah Conference in Wendover, Nevada 04/1996

Fire Company Officer I and II, Utah Valley University 02/1998

Fire Officer Leadership, Utah Valley University 04/1998

Managing Company Tactical Operations–Preparation, Decision Making, Tactics (3 Courses), UVU 01/1999

Incident Safety Officer, National Fire Academy 12/2001

Microsoft PowerPoint level 1 and 2 02/2003

National Safety Council Defensive Driving Course 10/2003

Pediatric Education for Pre-hospital Professionals (PEPP) 11/2003

Contemporary Firefighting Strategy and Tactics 01/2005

Microsoft level 1 and 2/Word level 1 and 2 01/2005

The Eight Deadly Sins of Mismanagement, Utah Valley University 04/2005

Fire Fighter Safety and Accountability, Utah Valley University 08/2005

IS-00700 National Incident Management System (NIMS), DHS/FEMA 11/2005

IS-00800 National Response Plan (NRP), DHS/FEMA 07/2006

IS-00100 Intro to the Incident Command System, (ICS 100), DHS/FEMA 07/2006

IS-00200 ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents, DHS/FEMA 07/2006

Executive Analysis of Fire Service Op in Emergency Management, DHS/NFA 08/2006

IS-00300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents 06/2008

IS-00400 Advanced ICS for Command and General Staff, Complex Incidents, and MACS 06/2008

JOB RELATED CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES

National Incident Management Compliance and Integration/National Fire Academy

Officer I, II and III Certifications

Firefighter I and II Certifications

Instructor I and II Certifications

Inspector Certification

Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations Certifications

Hazardous Materials Operations Certification

Heavy Rescue Technician Certification

Current Paramedic Certification

Emergency Medical Technician

High Angle Rescue Technician

Firefighter Escape and Survival

Company Tactical Operations

Emergency Response to Terrorism/Federal Emergency Management Agency

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PAST AND PRESENT AFFILIATIONS

Arizona Fire Districts Association

Arizona Fire Chief’s Association

Mohave County Fire Officers Association

Arizona State Public Retirement System Board Member

Utah Training Officers Association

Salt Lake Valley Training Alliance Group

Salt Lake Valley Fire Chiefs

Joint Council of Utah Fire Service Organizations-one of 17 voting members

Utah State Fire Chiefs Association

International Association of Fire Chiefs

Wasatch Back Fire Chiefs

Western Fire Chiefs Association

Park City Firefighters Association

Park City Interagency Task Force

Summit County Management Team

International Association of Firefighters

National Fire Protection Association

Utah State Firemen’s Association

Salt Lake City Firemen’s Relief Association

Leadership Park City Class XVIII: 2012

Park City Rotary (2013 and 2014 Chair-Miner’s Day Parade/2012 Co-Chair)

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah Advisory Committee

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