My blogs

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Industry	Internet
Occupation	Co-Founder
Location	Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Links	Wishlist
Introduction	25 years of emergency management experience mostly with Red Cross, private industry and a small amount with FEMA. I have worked on small and large disasters involving floods, fires, firestorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides and the like from the early 1970's to today. Created courses to teach first-time leaders to respond to disasters and other emergencies. Surveyed damaged from thousands of homes and apts. from all kinds of disasters. Directed the first damage assessment for the San Francisco Earthquake and Oakland Hills Firestorm Former EMT who has aided about 2,300 injured people and supervised to treatment of over 10,000. Supervised first aid events of up to 1 million people. In 1991 Co-created Crisis Management Systems, Inc. providing disaster consulting and training for large businesses. Created SafetyStore.com in late 1995 - when less than 100K websites in the World Part of the largest disaster preparedness project in US history. Our goal continues to be creating systems and products to help 1st time people in emergencies to be more successful.
Interests	Small Businesses, Internet-based businesses, Disaster Preparedness, Sailing and Boating,
Favorite movies	Not a big fan of disaster movies.
Favorite books	Risk Management by Steven Fink, HTML in a Week: it was what we used to lauch our first website in 1995. Best $12.95 we were spent.