Summary of experience

Chuck has more than 17 years of experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, emergency management, incident management, command and control, public health and hospital preparedness, risk assessment, change management, cyber security planning, vulnerability assessments and systems analysis. He also has experience in asset interdependency assessments for public sector entities at the federal, state, local and tribal levels. In addition, Chuck has worked with private sector companies in various industries including universities, health care, life sciences, consumer products, industrial products and institutions of higher learning.

In this capacity, Chuck has held numerous roles from consulting on disaster resiliency that includes business impact analysis, continuity of operations, planning, recovery of business processes and operations to management of emergency response planning and operations, exercise facilitation and evaluation, and audit. Chuck also has experience performing hazard and vulnerability assessments, systems analysis, physical security assessments, and hard and soft target asset protection.

Chuck’s areas of focus include the following:

• Assessment of business continuity programs and plans through vulnerability, gap, and business impact analyses applied to auditing existing plans/programs or towards development of plans/programs
• Design, development, facilitation and evaluation of discussion and operations-based exercises and training programs focused on whole community events and disasters
• Conduct of hard and soft target vulnerability assessments and systems analyses for critical infrastructure and cyber-physical assessments emphasizing asset interdependencies towards risk mitigation
• Performance of strategic planning, financial due diligence, and operations and risk assessments for academic medical centers, health care systems and independent hospitals
• Transition and deployment of research and development products to the federal operational environment

Chuck’s relevant experiences include the following:

• Incident command system
• Emergency management
• Public health and hospital preparedness
• Crisis and emergency risk communication
• Interoperable communication
• Crisis standards of care (CSC)
• Emerging infectious disease preparedness
• Syndromic surveillance
• Hazard vulnerability assessment
• Application of technical assets to the first responder community
• Exercise planning, design, facilitation and evaluation
• Business continuity programs/plans
• Program management with federal sponsors
• Continuity of operations
• Capability/gap analysis
• Disaster recovery planning

Professional affiliations and credentials

• FEMA Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program, certified trainer
• Certified business continuity professional, in progress

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, public health sciences, University of Illinois
• Masters of Business Administration, finance, University of Pittsburgh
• Masters of Health Administration, administration, University of Pittsburgh
• Masters Certificate, rehabilitation science and technology, University of Pittsburgh
• Masters of Science, rehabilitation sciences, University of Pittsburgh
• Bachelors of Science, psychology, The University of Michigan