Silver Level Authorized Trainers

The following Authorized Trainers received Silver Level recognition in the CDP Exellence in Training program for fiscal year 2010:

Scot Campbell; San Antonio Office of Emergency Management; San Antonio, TX Scot joined the San Antonio Office of Emergency Management as a Training Officer in October 2007. He worked to establish the advanced Incident Command System (ICS) level training for the San Antonio/Bexar County Emergency Operations Center, where the majority of the classes are held. Scot qualified as a Certified Trainer while on a two-year contract with the Internal Revenue Service after he retired from IBM with 30 years of service. After the conclusion of the IRS contract, Scot joined USAA (United Services Automobile Association), where he was responsible for establishing and managing their Emergency Operations Center and enhancing their employee safety programs. While with the Office of Emergency Management, Scot has conducted many ICS 300 (Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents) and ICS 400 (Command and General Staff – Complex Incidents) classes, educating over 600 first responders. Scot is especially proud that he has conducted several sessions of the ICS 402 class, educating over 100 Executives and Senior Officials regarding their roles and responsibilities regarding the Incident Command System. Scot is a Liaison Officer/Public Information Officer with the Alamo All Hazards Incident Management Team and the Alamo Response Command Center. Scot is a Certified Business Continuity Professional and is an Adjunct Instructor with the Texas Department of Emergency Management, where he has assisted with the ICS Train-the-Trainer classes.
Ben Carver; Mississippi Office of Homeland Security; Starkville, MS Currently, Mr. Carver is responsible for providing National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) training for the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security, through the Mississippi State University Extension Service in all 82 counties, as well as training sessions for the Mississippi Highway Patrol at the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Training Academy in Pearl, Miss. He also writes educational materials associated with NIMS, along with assisting various agencies with statewide response drills. Mr. Carver is also responsible tracking approximately 80,000 responders's training levels in the Mississippi Emergency Responders Database. He is also responsible for the annual 4-H Legislative Page Program, an opportunity for 4-H and the Center for Governmental Technology to partner and provide four youths the opportunity to serve as Pages in both the House of Representatives and the Senate for one week during the Spring Session. He also serves the City of Starkville as an Alderman in Ward One, and recently completed a Masters of Public Policy and Administration, and hopes to start on a doctorate in the near future.
Brian Galligher; Delaware County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management; Delaware, OH Brian Galligher is the Director for the Delaware County Ohio Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and has been with Delaware County since 2006. He is the President of the Emergency Management Association of Ohio and represents all 88 LEPCs on the state Emergency Response Commission. Prior to working for Delaware County, Mr. Galligher was Radiological Analyst, then a Field Liaison at the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, which assisted ten county EMAs and responded to disasters in support of counties across the state. Mr. Galligher is a six-year active duty veteran of the US Navy, where he was a chemical and radiological specialist for a fast-attack nuclear submarine. He is currently an officer in the US Navy Reserve and deployed to assist in humanitarian assistance/disaster relief operations. Mr. Galligher holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Tri-State University and a master’s degree in administration from Central Michigan University.
Tony Garcia; City of Adrian Fire Department; Adrian, MI Lt. Tony Garcia has been with the City of Adrian Fire Department for 24 years. In 1996, he was assigned as programs manager for the Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Training Center hazardous materials response programs and in 1997 as the training coordinator for the Michigan Urban Search and Rescue program. He has been involved in the development of hazardous material response, command and management, CBRNE and technical rescue curriculums. Lt. Garcia received his B.A.S. from Siena Heights University in hazardous materials emergency response. He is certified Fire Officer III by the National Fire Academy and has served as an Instructor for the Office of Firefighter Training since 1989. Lt. Garcia is owner of the training company Safety and Compliance Training and Consulting. They have provided emergency response training for a number of private and public sector agencies throughout the Great Lakes area including DTE, BASF, Chemtura, US Steel, Anderson Development and Detroit Water Department.
Marco Olmos; Orange County Fire Authority and Tijuana Fire Department; San Clemente, CA Marco Olmos, an Orange County Fire Authority Fire Crew member of special operations and support services and Tijuana Fire Department Firefighter/Training Officer, serves as a board Director of Government Relations and Training for the Asociación de Bomberos del Estado de Baja California, Inc. Mr. Olmos has been an instructor since 2000. As Fire Fighter/Training Officer for the Association, he is dedicated to training workshops for first responders and the community in the US and Mexico. Mr. Olmos has been chosen to be part in federal, state and local training in California, Nevada, Chicago, and Alabama in the US; and, Sonora and Baja California in Mexico.
Jim Palmer; Houston Office of Emergency Management; Houston, TX Upon retiring from the U.S. Army in 2006 after serving 21 years as a Combat Arms Soldier, Jim Palmer began his civilian career as an Emergency Management Planning, Training, and Exercise Officer with the City of Houston. In 2009, he assumed responsibility as Chief Instructor for the City's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and has expanded the training courses offered by OEM from just ICS courses to now include Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) training and Continuity of Operations (COOP) training. Mr. Palmer earned a bachelors degree in Crisis and Disaster Management, summa cum laude, from the University of Central Missouri. He has attained credentials with the International Association of Emergency Managers as a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) and is currently one of the few individuals in the country certified as a FEMA Master Continuity Practitioner (MCP).
Mike Sampson; Independent Consultant Trainer; Warrensburg, MO Mr. Sampson currently provides emergency-management consulting and training nationally as an independent contractor. He teaches Incident Command System/National Incident Management System curricula for the University of Central Missouri and Missouri State Emergency Management Agency, and is a subcontractor for a U.S. Agency for International Development project. Recently, Mr. Sampson was director of the Center for Emergency Response and Terrorism with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. He also has continuity of operations planning experience with industry and with the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. He has previous work experience serving as an agricultural specialist with the Cooperative Extension System in Washington State and Kansas; as a 17-state national emergency-programs director with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; as a bioterrorism preparedness coordinator-pandemic influenza, for Public Health of Madison/Dane County, Wisconsin; and as a law-enforcement planner with the Boise, Idaho, Police Department. He also has more than 20 years of production agriculture experience with a family-farming operation in Kansas; has worked in acute-care hospitals in Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming; has been a master trainer and course coordinator for the agroterrorism curriculum for the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security, University of California-Davis; was agency liaison for emergency management with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's Division of Animal Health; and had a lead role in developing the Wisconsin Veterinary Corps. Mr. Sampson served on DATCP communications and emergency-preparedness committees; has written disaster response plans; served on the Multistate Partnership for Security in Agriculture's risk-management group; served as logistics section chief for the Wisconsin animal health incident management team; worked as a public information officer in the Wisconsin Emergency Operations Center during declared emergencies; designed, facilitated, and evaluated emergency-management exercises using the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program; has responded to five Presidentially declared disasters since 2005; and, had a lead role in Missouri's H1N1 pandemic response in 2009. Mr. Sampson earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a master's degree in adult and continuing education from Washington State University Pullman. Mr. Sampson has been a certified Incident Command System and National Incident Management System instructor since 2003.
Detective Sergeant Steven Schneider; Oakland County Sheriff; Rochester Hills, MI During his 15 years in law enforcement, Sergeant Schneider has attended and completed a multitude of emergency services-related and train-the-trainer courses. He has a wide array of experience in several areas, including Weapons of Mass Destruction, Community Anti-Terrorism Training, Investigations, Corrections Management, Inmate Custody and Care, Road Patrol and General Administration. This experience has been gained through his degree programs, employment with two large investigative companies and one of the largest sheriff's offices in the United States. Sergeant Schneider is a member of the Oakland County IMT Team and has completed Type IV Incident Management Team Training, as well as federal training in all areas of CBRNE. In addition, he is an adjunct instructor and guest lecturer for private and public higher educational institutions and has taught departmental members, as well as private sector individuals, in a variety of subjects.