Tulare County Sheriff’s Posse Mounted SAR (Search and Rescue) Unit. Starting in 1995.
Includes about 20 years command post duty as a trained volunteer. Also Hasty Team
response.
Recognized as an ICS Mounted SAR Technical Specialistto provide input to emergency
/ disaster incident management Planning regarding effective use of the resource.
Experience in multi-operational area incidents working with unified command
2002-2006 CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) Program Coordinator and Citizen
Corps (Homeland Security program) for Tulare and Kings Counties in CA; State of CA
CERT Workgroup member; Citizen Corps representative to state level. Includes experience
as CERT Liaison Officer, exercise design, etc.
Instructor for SAR, Mounted SAR, CERT, ICS
Nevada POST Mounted SAR Mantracker and instructor in collaboration with Worldwide
Trackers
Participated in ASTM developing international standards for SAR/Mounted SAR, and
Homeland Security
Developed training module on Mounted SAR for CA OES for SAR / Incident Management
training
Published author of numerous articles
National level conference speaker (SAR, CERT)
Licensed Amateur Radio KJ6JCD - ARRL EmComm Level I training