Lacey, Washington, United States
I am currently retired and looking for the next great adventure!
This position is a special appointment and grants the designee with the governing powers and decisions making abilities of a leadership team member. This appointment requires the designee to share historical, technical, and training knowledge, along with wisdom and advice with the iCOOP, its leadership team, the Adjutant General, and all others in our respective continuity community.
Mark R Donges, Capt Civil Air Patrol USAF-Aux Washington Wing Former commander South Sound Composite Squadron Brigadier General Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager Aerospace Education Achievement Award 28 April 2006
WaTech is a new agency in Washington State. Its purpose is to provide essential IT infrastructure and services to all state agencies or to aid them in their mission to find infrastructure and services that meet their assigned missions. I am working with a small team to establish an Emergency Management and Preparedness (EMP) program within WaTech. Our mission – “Using the best practices and techniques available, develop tools, policies, procedures and plans for Washington Technical Solutions (WaTech) so we will successfully respond to and recover from all-hazards emergencies or other situations that may disrupt normal operations in order to meet our obligations to the executive branch, our customers, and to the people of the state.” We have a series of goals to achieve the mission and a dedicated team that takes our mission very seriously. It is gratifying to be able to articulate a vision, build coalitions, and create something that has the potential to reduce risk and save lives during a crisis. It is a great opportunity to build on past experience and training to create Emergency Management products for this new agency. Additionally, the EMP program will promote preparedness for WaTech’s staff so as to mitigate risk during an emergency. My vision is to make preparedness and resilience a part of the WaTech culture. I’m am currently serving on the leadership team for a statewide committee formed by the governor. This committee has representatives from all state agencies and is intended to help them with their COOP / Preparedness efforts. I’m also serving on the leadership team for the Washington State CERT program. I’m CERT trained and helping to guide the development and integration of this valuable resource into our existing Emergency Management assets. Last summer I worked in the Washington State Emergency Operations Center performing the duties of ESF-7 lead. I served both during the state activation and after FEMA joined us in a unified command.
419Systems is a family owned software business dedicated to helping families and small groups prepare for emergencies by providing the right tools. Survival Stores, The Prepper's Assistant is an inventory management and planning application designed specifically for families. Survival Stores is an application for your Mac or Windows computer that will help you plan and manage anything from a 3 day food supply to multiple year inventories of food, equipment, information and emergency plans for a large family at multiple locations. Survival Stores was designed specifically for family disaster preparedness. Survival Stores fills the gap between the market place of preparedness product sellers and hundreds of websites that provide information about preparedness. Survival Stores is a purpose built tool designed to serve as the family unit, small group, special friends group equivalent of COOP (Continuity of Operations) planning. In essence, G-COOP (Group COOP) if you will. Survival Stores is a Family Preparedness tool • Inventory Manager – consumables of all kinds (you decide) • Asset Manager – track equipment, software, library contents, etc. • Emergency Plan Builder • Contact Builder • Go Kit Builder • Reorder points, Recipes Who are we? • Over 35 years designing and developing complex database applications for web and desktop environments. • Study of FEMA Continuity of Operations (COOP) • Study of Incident Command System (ICS) • EMT / Firefighter experience • Wildland Firefighter experience • Civil Air Patrol search and rescue training • Amateur Radio operators • Over a dozen years of experience in family preparedness Visit us at www.419Systems.com Like us on Facebook Our mission is the preservation of life and dignity during an emergency.