Management Training

RICHARD MIKE GARCIA, JR.

**** ****** **** **. **********, TX 75077• 214-***-**** • ****.*******@*******.***

EXPERIENCE

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• Provide guidance on the appropriate use of hazard mitigation funding available under Section 406 of the Stafford Act.

• This will ensure national consistency in the use of Section 406 mitigation funds and promote measures that reduce future loss to life and property, protect the federal investment in public infrastructure and ultimately, help build disaster resistant communities.

National Flood Insurance Program (Repetitive Loss)

• Worked as a team lead in conjunction with State and community government agencies identifying and cataloging thousands of repetitive and severe repetitive loss structures.

• Trained staff on the process of identifying rep loss structures, and how to properly input them into the national flood database tool.

• I also identified structures in the Coastal Barrier Resource Zones (CBRA) to help maintain the wetlands. Identifying these structures saved $1,250,000 dollars during the Ike disaster.

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)

• Coordinate as Team Lead the acceptance of new projects, review for approval or disapproval, entry into NEMIS, scan documentation into NEMIS, and allocate and obligate approved projects in an effort to provide Hazard Mitigation grants to State of Louisiana and local governments in order to implement long-term hazard mitigation measures after the major disaster declarations of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

• Lead position as a team lead over staff members.

• Trained staff in the process of reviewing HMGP projects, approving/disapproving grants and monitoring grants.

• Trained staff and oversaw the entry of the project applications and the scanning of documents into NEMIS (national emergency management information system).

• Worked in and was a member of Community Outreach which brings together FEMA, the State government, the local government, and a consulting company, James Lee Witt Associates, together to focus on educating and training the public in hazard mitigation and what they can do along with developing a software package to show the advantages to mitigation.

• Created internal tracking system to monitor the HMGP grants from receipt to closeout with the aid of Data Warehouse.

• Member of the Hurricane Emergency Response Team in Louisiana, which consists of visiting and assisting the parishes in the onset of a hurricane from pre landfall to after the storm passes as the eyes and ears of FEMA for the parishes.

Hazard Mitigation Planner

• I worked as a reservist/DAE for FEMA in reviewing plans for the state of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

• Reviewed over 50 Mitigation Plans and getting them approved, adopted, and scanned into the plans repository for Louisiana so the state could move forward in looking into the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program

• Travel out to different parishes to assist the local public in developing their plan through technical assistance and workshops.

EDUCATION

December 2003 University of North Texas, Bachelor of Science

Major: Emergency Administration and Disaster Planning

Minor: Business Management

CERTIFICATES AND TRAINING

2005 Introduction to the Independent Command System, ICS-100 2005 Basic Incident Command System, ICS-200 for Federal Disaster Workers

2005 National Incident Management System (NIMS),

2005 National Response Plan (NRP)

2006 Disaster Management

2006 Intro to Grants and Cooperative Agreements

2006 Evaluating Federal Funds Management Capabilities of Recipients and Sub recipients

2006 Principles of Emergency Management

2006 Coordinating Environmental & Historic Preservation Compliance

2006 Mitigation for Homeowners

2006 Federal Assistance Law

2006 Ethics in the Grants Environment

2006 Cost Principals: OMB Circulars A-21, A-122, A-87, and FAR 32.1

2006 Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants: OMB A-102 and 2 CFR Part 215

2006 Monitoring Grants and Cooperative Agreements for Federal Personnel

2006 Managing Flood Development through the NFIP (IO)

2007 Hurricane Liaison Team Training

2007 Coordinating Environmental & Historic Compliance

2008 Exercise Design

2008 406 Hazard Mitigation

2009 Contracting Officer Technical Representative 2010 Continuity of Operations (COOP) Awareness Course 2010 Equal Employment opportunity (EEO) for Employees 2010 Equal Employment Opportunities for Supervisors 2010 FEMA Initial Ethics Orientation 2010 Deployment Basics for Federal Disaster Workforce Readiness 2010 Workplace Violence Awareness Training 2010 ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents, ICS-200 2012 Google Advertising Fundamental Certification 2012 Google Advertising Advanced Certification

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