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Through my experience and education, I hope to be able to share what I have learned over the years with the Everyone Goes Home® program. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Safety, Master of Science degree in Industrial Health, and an Emergency Management certificate. In addition, I was recently accepted into the Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy. My career has afforded me to see a lot of diverse areas in emergency response. I started my professional career in industry, working as a safety director for a foundry and then working as an industrial hygiene intern for a major automobile manufacturer. After graduate school, I went to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as an industrial hygienist. While there, I joined the full-time hazmat response team and was the team leader for a number of years. In addition, I was one of the safety staff to provide safety oversight for several of the Department of Energy emergency response teams. These teams could deploy worldwide and through the interactions with other countries, I was able to meet our brothers and sisters in other parts of the world. We are truly blessed here at home with our safety equipment and with programs such as Everyone Goes Home®.
As with all of us, family is most important to me. And yes, this does include my fire service family. I have been married for 20 years to my beautiful and wonderful wife, Cherie. We have three children, Stephanie -17, Kylee -15 and Logan -9. We do what we do to save and protect our loved ones and the loved ones of others. Everyone Goes Home® is such an important program to our business and I am proud to be a part of it.