Today, I am a small business owner. We finance commercial real estate with institutional capital partners in the 48 contiguous United States.
I'm a former Fed. For 20 years, I served the Department of Defense. I've been active duty, a Federal contractor and a supervisory GS-343-15 responsible for Defense Business Transformation. You can find more about what I used to do by following my LinkedIn profile link.
What is Your Interest in the Community?
My interest is to give back to the community. I enjoy leveraging my background and experience to raise awareness and preparedness in the communities I am part of. I believe we could all benefit from a being a little more prepared. Emergency services are straining under budget pressure and they can be overwhelmed by events. Citizens that are prepared can be valuable assets to their communities!
Your Training Background:
I am formally trained as a first responder, an EMT, a fire fighter and a Navy Corpsman. The military gave me additional training roughly equivalent to the level of a civilian paramedic.
I have been trained and practiced as a BLS (CPR) instructor, an EMT instructor, an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) instructor, an Emergency Vehicle Operator's Course (EVOC) instructor, and have additional training in Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS), structural fire fighting (additional fire training), SCBA operations (filling air tanks), helicopter operations and medivacs.
I was a volunteer member of fire departments in New York and Connecticut. Our New York department ran approximately 200 - 300 structure fires per year via an automatic mutual aid program with 33 fire districts. I fought more than 1,000 structure fires in those years.
I was a paid member of EMS/rescue operations in New York and South Carolina. In New York we did a lot of medical transport work - to include all medical operations out of Danemora State Prison.
I'm a trained SCUBA diver, an FAA licensed aircraft pilot, and a licensed motorcycle enthusiast. I hold a basic GRMS radio operator's license.
I am recently trained as a member of the Montgomery County Emergency Response Team (CERT). I am also a Scout Leader with the Boy Scouts of America.
Great - thanks - how about directing people to the FB page, too, We need to funnel people into a single source. When we have a reliable web page maestro, our own page (MontgomeryCERT.org) will be the authority, but for now, we have to make do.
I was trying to create a new forum on 'Disaster Preparation for Animals', but accidentally saved it to the Gear forum. Is it possible to move it into it's own forum? Another idea I had for a forum would be employment within the emergency management field. In part because I'm currently looking for work within emergency management.
Thank you for all the hard work you put into creating this website.
Hey David - Could you please post the Montgomery CERT equipment list which details the items each member should have in their pack? I can't locate my copy. Thanks.
Suzi Kaplan
I'd rather see my smiling face too, but I photograph like death warmed over so that's unlikely to happen. :)
Great job getting this set up, Dave. Thanks for all your hard work!
Oct 27, 2011
Taylor Church
Glad to be here! By the way, great pictures!
Oct 28, 2011
Anne Culver
Great - thanks - how about directing people to the FB page, too, We need to funnel people into a single source. When we have a reliable web page maestro, our own page (MontgomeryCERT.org) will be the authority, but for now, we have to make do.
Nov 15, 2011
Howard Edelstein
Hi David,
I was trying to create a new forum on 'Disaster Preparation for Animals', but accidentally saved it to the Gear forum. Is it possible to move it into it's own forum? Another idea I had for a forum would be employment within the emergency management field. In part because I'm currently looking for work within emergency management.
Thank you for all the hard work you put into creating this website.
Howard
Nov 16, 2011
Cyndi Pugh
Dave, the widget counter looks to be on 'holiday' for the past 3 or 4 days.
This site is gonna thrive in the New Year "an ya gotta be prepared"!
Cyndi
Dec 28, 2011
Keith Collier
Jan 17, 2012
Jeff Rothstein
Hi Dave.
Any chance I could hire you for a down and dirty web site?
My daughter was just approved for starting a club at her school. She is not looking for anything too fancy. Would you be interested?
Jeff Rothstein
301-537-0390
Jan 20, 2012
Marcus Hull
Thanks very much!
Apr 15, 2012
Pearl Parker
Hey David - Could you please post the Montgomery CERT equipment list which details the items each member should have in their pack? I can't locate my copy. Thanks.
May 26, 2012
Pearl Parker
Thanks a million David!
May 30, 2012
Gary L. Frace
Thanks for the invitation. Glad to be a part of the community.
Jun 16, 2012
Terry Young
Thanks David,
I look forward to reading the comments & postings of others and sharing.
Jun 17, 2012
Donna Lowman
Thank you David for the welcome. I look forward to learning more about the community!
Donna Lowman
Independent distributor of MILA by Lifemax
843-247-3364
www.mudflap.fueledbymila.net
www.seed4change.net
Contact: terpmama@aol.com
Jun 18, 2012
Carolyn Burleson
Thanks David. The site is pretty intuitive and easy to navigate.
Jun 18, 2012
Clifford Buxton
David,
Thank you for your dedication and generosity. I'm looking forward to being able to use this wonderful resource.
Cliff
Jun 22, 2012
Rod Abbott
Thanks, David! I'm glad to be here.
Aug 19, 2012