Kate Griffith, President
Qualifications:
- Fourteen years' experience in emergency management at the city, county and state level and in non profit agencies
- Public health and emergency management experience
- Masters degree in public administration
Relevant Experience:
- EOC Manager during 1993 Los Angeles riots, 1994 Northridge earthquake, and 1996 Oregon floods
- Wrote all-hazard disaster response plans, mass fatality plan, health care surge capacity plan
- Managed Salvation Army Cascade Division donated goods operation for Nicaraguan earthquake
- Direct experience working in police, fire, health departments
Specialized Projects:
City of Seattle
Facilitated and documented development of Seattle's Disaster Recovery plan
Medical Examiner's Office, Clark County, Washington
Wrote Mass Fatality plan
Coalition of Community Health Clinics, Oregon HRSA Region 1
Created Regional Surge Capacity plan
Facilitated creation of emergency/surge plans for safety net clinics in six-county region
Regional Public Health, Clark County, Washington
Designed regional public health Emergency Operations Center
Co-wrote Clark County health department Disaster Response and Recovery plan
Wrote Region IV Strategic National Stockpile plan
Wrote SARS facilities plan
Co-designed and conducted department-wide earthquake drill
Salvation Army Divisional Headquarters, Portland, Oregon
Wrote Disaster Response and Recovery plan
Designed and conducted EOC (Emergency Operations Center) exercise
Wrote donated goods annex to disaster plan, churches emergency plans
Washington County Oregon
Designed re-organized EOC (Emergency Operations Center)
Conducted ICS (Incident Command System) training
Created employee disaster planning team
EOC Manager during 1995 windstorms and 1996 floods
Shin Etsu SEH America, Vancouver, Washington
Wrote evacuation plan, aircraft incident annex for business recovery plan
Enhanced product distribution section of disaster response plan
City of Inglewood, California
EOC Manager for Los Angeles riots, Northridge earthquake
Wrote city's Disaster Response and Recovery plan
Wrote Civil Disturbance Emergency Response plan
Conducted training - ICS, business continuity of operations, home and neighborhood disaster preparedness
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