Safety Officer Fire Engineer
Resume:
Shawn T. Foster E-mail: ************@*****.***
Shawn T Foster
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Work 928-***-****
Cell 928-***-****
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Position Applying For
State of Vermont Emergency Management
Work History Summary
July 2003-Present (Firefighter/Paramedic, Sedona Fire District) June 2017-Present Logistics Section Chief Type 1, Southwest Area Team 2 (Current) December 2010-Present, (Course Developer/Content Creator, All-Hazard Medical Solutions) December 2017-Present, (Shelter Manager, Office of Refugee Resettlement/Health & Human Services) SUMMARY EXPERIRENCE
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Responded to over 70 national, all-hazard incidents. Type-1 Logistics Section Chief since 2017. Master’s degree in emergency management and homeland security with 20 years of experience in teaching, structural and wildland fire, aviation, and emergency medical and rescue services. Areas of specific interest throughout my career include incident management, project supervision, curriculum development, and course instruction. Eclectic professional work background within local, state, federal, and private sectors. Has functioned as an agency representative and international liaison which has helped develop my leadership, collaboration, and communication skillset.
ACHIEVEMENTS & NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS
Firefighter of the Year, 2018
Awarded Firehouse Safety Grant, 2018
Awarded Arizona Proposition-202 Public Safety Grant, 2018
Paul Gleason Lead By Example Award Nominee -2016
Unit Citation Insomnia Canyon Rescue, 2010
Firefighter of the Year, 2008
Unit Citation Brins Canyon Fire, 2006
9 Certificates of Appreciation for Instructing at Arizona Wildfire Academy
3 Certificates of Appreciation for Instruction at Minnesota Wildfire Academy
3 Certificates of Appreciation for Instructing at Sierra Blanca Wildfire Academy
● S-520 faculty member and team coach for Type-1 command and general staff candidates
● Region-3, S-420, cadre member and team coach for Type-2 command and general staff candidates
● Designs curriculum and delivers incident within incident (IWI) training to the Southwest Area Incident Management Teams
● Wrote Region-3 briefing paper on the Fireline Advanced Stabilization as Transport Kit
(F.A.S.T. Kit).
● Worked in unified command as the logistics section chief with Yavapai County Emergency Operation Center during Covid-19 Response. Developed the Yavapai County on-line, ordering system for personal protective equipment (PPE) for county-wide medical, hospital, and emergency personnel. Created tracking program for receiving and distribution from the Yavapai County supply warehouse. Produced Management Action Points (MAP’s) for the Yavapai County Health Department surrounding local and county Covid-19 Response.
● Written grants and received funding for public safety personnel to improve working environments including the acquisition of agency Hi-visibility outerwear and the development of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program for local law enforcement, fire, servicing local, state, and federal agencies.
● Designed the initial ground transport maps that validate travel times depicted on the 206-WF.
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● Developed Professional Association of Dive Instructors (PADI) International Organizational Leadership program delivered in three languages across North, Central, and South American Continents
ACHIEVEMENTS & NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS (continued)
● Regularly instructs multi-agency courses and national incident management teams on mass-casualty incidents response, incident with incident management practices, and wildland medical provider expectations.
● Functioned as a Shelter Manager and Assistant Shelter Manager at Tornillo, Texas facility for approximately 6,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC’s) in cooperation with United States Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of Refugee Resettlement
(ORR).
● Arizona Department of Public Safety Helicopter Short-haul Rescue Technician/Paramedic
● Coordinates, organizes, and monitors Sedona Fire District uniform and Wildland Fire Rapid Extraction Module Support (REMS) Team.
EDUCATION
Master of Arts from Arizona State University, 2021 School of Public Service Solutions
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Associates of Applied Science from Yavapai College, 2017 Fire Science
Bachelor of Arts from Northern Arizona University, 1999 English, Linguistics
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Firefighter/Paramedic, July 2003 – Present
Sedona Fire District, Sedona, AZ
Job Type: 52 hours per week, Full-Time
Supervisor: Captain Joshua Wells- 928-***-**** (Please contact) Shawn T. Foster E-mail: ************@*****.***
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JOB SUMMARY
Structural Firefighter
Responds to all-hazard emergencies and public service calls including commercial and residential structure fires, vehicle fires and performs extrication. Deploys suppression tactics and strategies to contain and control chemical spills, oil and hazardous materials incidents, radiological incidents, technological accidents, and acts of terrorism. Responds to neighboring forests, cities, and fire districts as an automatic aid and mutual aid resource during wildland urban interface assignments. Mentor new firefighters surrounding job duties and responsibilities during fire, medical, and rescue scenes.
Wildland Team
Teaches Wildland Medical Provider course for local, state, and regional firefighters. Maintains department wildland supply cache and oversees receiving and distribution of personal protective equipment. Ensures wildland medical teams and Rapid Extraction Module support crew (REMS) readiness and assists with any dispatch and on-assignment needs. Continually seeks improvement within the wildland program by re-evaluating response to high-risk fire and aviation accidents. Paramedic
Lead paramedic responds to 911 system calls such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the Sedona Fire District and adjoining communities. Conducts patient evaluations, medical condition, and determines course of treatment and transportation plan to definitive care facilities. Provides first-aid treatment and life-support care to sick and injured patients. Ensures incident safety measures are taken and delegates on-scene tasks of the emergency medical care providers. Documents detailed patient care reports for pre- hospital coordinator and base hospital medical director. Works as a preceptor for advanced life support and paramedic students within the pre-hospital system. Medical care provider during back-country and helicopter short-haul rescues with the Department of Public Safety (DPS).
Special Operations Team Member
Trains and performs high-angle rope rescue and swift-water rope rescue in the backcountry of Coconino County and Yavapai County response areas. Helicopter Short- haul Rescue Technician and paramedic in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Public Safety who performed rescues in the Sedona Fire District and adjoining response areas.
LEADERSHIP
● Organizes and conducts life-saving treatment modalities for the citizen within the Sedona Fire District.
● Leads agency uniform program and identifies the needs of the workforce by developing standards and policies for station wear and Class-A Uniforms.
● Identifies scope of projects, work to be done, and deadlines for completion. Shawn T. Foster E-mail: ************@*****.***
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● Leads training division in after-action review of Fireline Leadership, Organizational Leadership in the Wildland Fire Service, and tragedy fire staff rides. PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
COMMUNICATION/INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
● Coordinates and facilitates patient care, movement, and transportation from incident to hospitals and other care facilities.
● Establishes scene safety and organizes medical treatment during incidents.
● Explains rational for selection of treatment modality algorithms for on scene fire and medical crews.
● Advises agency leadership of program status and variables that affect departmental success.
ANALYSIS/PROBLEM SOLVING
● Plans inter-crew training evolutions for cardiac arrest and trauma patients.
● Analyzes workflow of emergency medical care crews for ways to improve patient care, decrease on-scene times, and shorten delivery time to definite care.
● Coordinates with Fire Chief to create and incident action plan (IAP) and identify logistical needs for special events.
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
Logistics Section Chief Type 1 (LSC1), June 2017-Present Southwest Area Team #2, (IC Nieto 2019), (IC Pierson-2019-2020), (IC Bales 2021-Present) Supervisor David Bales – 928-***-**** (Please Contact) JOB SUMMARY
Logistics Section Chief
Supports Complex Incident Management Teams (CIMT’s) including Type 1, 2, 3 Incident Management Teams during all-hazard emergency incidents through the implementation and coordination of logistical support, principles, methods, and practices. Interfaces with state, local, and federal resources during wildfire and all-hazard incidents. Provides recommendations for change to increase productivity across the organization and analyzes logistics functional area for work efficiency. Ensures information sharing occurs and maintains team situational awareness.
LEADERSHIP
● Develops operational, tactical, and strategic plan to ensure logistics processes are efficient, have integrity, and meet the needs of the incident.
● Maintains strategic mindset to support host agency and ensure all logistics functions are adhering to the delegation of authority.
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● Encourages the use of emerging technologies such as water recycling through coordination with municipalities within the fire foot-print to ensure local communities are not negatively impacted while hosting large incidents. PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
● Provides direction for incoming resources through transition plan and sharing of information about the location of operations, facilities, communications networks, ground support equipment, for incoming logistics resources to successfully perform their functional duties on the assignment.
● Organizes the team roster and ensures readiness of logistics section.
● Collaborates with contracted resources to ensure equipment and services are being provided for the Incident Command Post (ICP), remote camp, forward operating bases, and boots on the ground.
● Supports a learning culture and encourages training opportunities on incident whenever possible by ordering regional priority trainees and ensuring there are qualified trainers.
● Promotes systemic improvement for example initiating the use of iPads to assist ground support drivers navigating on incident and validating accountable property drop-off times to the fireline.
● Provides input on decisions related to incident changes during complexity analysis and recommends alternative solutions to complex problems.
● Supervises and provides training opportunities for logistic section chief trainees of duties to include leadership practices, development, and recruitment of team members.
● Provides oversight of incident contract agreements and land use agreements procedures are followed.
COMMUNICATION/INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
● Coordinates with the command and general staff situation updates to include logistical thresholds that may affect support and services of the operation.
● Provides training and instruction for Logistic Section Chief Trainees, Facilities Unit Leaders, Communications Unit Leaders, Ground Support Unit Leaders, Security Managers, Food Unit Leaders, Supply Unit Leaders, and Medical Unit Leaders
● Ensures logistics personnel understand and follow incident procurement, injury compensation and land use procedures.
● Reviews management standards and policies with expanded dispatch, national cache warehouses, command and general staff the techniques required to support all levels of incidents and planned events.
● Ensures common operating picture while assisting local, state, and federal government preparing for, and responding to wildfire and other all-hazard incidents. ANALYSIS & PROBLEM SOLVING
● Liaises with FirstNet to ensure incident resources maintain mobile communications and infrastructure.
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● Assists with the planning and design of incident communication network systems and forecasts incident equipment needs to ensure coverage meets operational needs. Deployment of a solar-powered Starlink satellite system in the Pecos wilderness on the Calf Canyon Fire that enabled mapping product downloads and Wi-Fi calling is an example of using new technology to fix legacy challenges.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
● Evaluates and recommends actions to reduce incident cost without disrupting operations during wildfire incidents.
● Maintains open communication with external team members such as expanded dispatch, buying team, and incident business advisor (IBA) to confirm proper incident ordering processes and best business practices are employed.
● Identify changing priorities in emergency response and evacuation planning. COLLABORATION/ MANAGEMENT
● Coordinates with Planning Section to complete the ICS-203, ICS-206 WF (Incident Medical Plan), and ICS-204, (Division/Group Assignment List) for the Incident Action Plan (IAP).
● Constructs demobilization plan of logistics personnel and equipment, constructs adequate transition plan forecasting the needs of incoming team, and provides an substantive executive summary tied to the logistic section incident knowledge and experience.
● Demobilizes all equipment and personnel to include camp crews, unit leaders, land use agreements, and firefighting equipment at the end of each assignment.
● Aligns with incident buying team and finances to confirm VIPR evaluations, contractor commercial invoices, and land use agreement requirements are met.
● Facilitates safety inspection with incident safety officer to ensure shower, mobile kitchen, incident command post, and remote camps are operating in accordance with governmental safe work environment policies.
Curriculum Developer, Content Creator, Instructor September 2013-Present All-Hazard Medical Solutions (AHMS) Flagstaff, AZ
Job Type: full-time/per course requests
Owner: Todd Miranda 928-***-**** (Please Contact) JOB SUMMARY
Curriculum Creator/Instructor
Designer of Fireline Medical Provider (FLMP) and Incident Within an Incident
(IWIM) curriculum and textbooks. Serves as a technical expert and cadre member in developing, analyzing, and evaluating educational content, curriculum goals, and objectives. Makes recommendations to enhance program efficacy. Research Shawn T. Foster E-mail: ************@*****.***
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national, inter-agency documents and directives to ensure course content is aligned with national mandates.
LEADERSHIP
● Coordinates and monitors the delivery of course content and interaction with students during virtual and in-person classes.
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
● Leads efforts to continually maintain curriculum relevance through integration of the most current case studies.
● Integrates realistic scenarios into the classroom and field exercises that reinforce learning objectives.
● Provides advice to the Federal Land Management Agencies, state cooperators, and private contractors on how to develop and improve safety and emergency medical plans.
● Lead cadre discussion with high-level agency leadership to determine the type of equipment and number of personnel required to effect successful emergency evacuations sick and injured wildland firefighters.
● Lead group discussion and team evaluation during the analysis of course content, delivery, and student feedback that assists with making program correction and revisions.
COMMUNICATION/INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
● Provide appropriate technical advice to cadre and external customers surrounding the decision-making process for treatment and transport plans.
● Conducts presentations and course delivery at Wildfire Academies pertinent to Incident Within Incident Management (IWIM) and Wildland Medical Provider Courses.
● Interacts with local and regional 911 partners to coordinate training scenarios using medical and short-haul aviation assets.
ANALYSIS/PROBLEM SOLVING
● Develops PowerPoint presentations to daylight areas for curriculum changes and improvements.
● Realigns course topics to match specific agency practices.
● Seeks to find new and emerging equipment that will enable medical resources to move across the landscape with less effort.
COLLABORATION/QUALITY MANAGEMENT
● Liaises with regional wildfire and incident management academy command and general staff to coordinate course delivery and logistics.
● Participates in after-action review of medical training scenarios with the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Shawn T. Foster E-mail: ************@*****.***
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Affairs, Minnesota, Arizona, and Sierra Blanca Incident Management and Wildfire Academies.
● Host meetings to inform and update cadre members and external partners about current course status, future schedule, and course developments. OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Shelter Manager, January 2017-Present
BCFS Health and Human Services, San Antonio, TX
Job Type: On-call Reservist
Supervisor: Rodrigo Sanchez– 928-***-**** (Please Contact)
• Provides leadership and oversight for the direct care staff on deployments at large shelters for international asylum seekers.
• Assists as a Spanish speaking bilingual interpreter
• Trains incoming shelter managers and assistant shelter managers current standard operating procedures, and web UAC status tracking program.
• Shelter Manager and Assistant Shelter Manager at Tornillo, Texas facility for approximately 6,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC’s),
• Coordinates UAC academic activities, legal consultation, and counseling
• Built temporary shelter facility during reunification process
• Paramedic, Firefighter, Fire Engineer, Fire Captain for shelter housing 500 UAC’s, Carrizo Springs, Texas
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*Relevant Training (entire training packet with certificates available upon request) Course Title Date Course Title Date
L-580 Leadership is action-
Gettysburg Staff Ride
2019 Dude and Yarnell Hill Leadership
Roundtable
2020
RO645 National Fire Academy -
Leadership in Supervision
2022 IS-800 National Incident Response 2009
Red Team Thinking Boot Camp 2022 Helicopter Short-haul Technician/Paramedic
2011
You Will Not Stand Alone –
Interagency Guide to Critical
Incident Management
2018 S-520 Advanced Incident Management 2017
S-420 All Hazard Intent into Action 2014 TEEX- Disaster City Enhanced Incident Management
2016
L-480 Organizational Leadership in
Wildland Fire Service
2014 L-280 Followership to Leadership 2014
L-180 Human Factors 2003 S-260 Interagency Incident Business Management
2005
S-230 Crew Boss 2005 S-270 Basic Air Operations 2007 I-400 Advanced ICS 2014 I-200 Basic ICS 2005
I-300 Intermediate ICS 2005 I-100 Intro to ICS 2003 I-200 ICS for Initial Action 2009 IS-700 Intro to NIMS 2009 VOLUNTEER & COMMUNITY SERVICE EXPERIENCE
Yavapai County Mounted Sherriff Posse, 2017-2021
Philanthropic fundraising through annual events to provide scholarships for high school students transitioning to college. Events include May Roping, Golf Tournament, Scholars for dollars, fishing tournament, and raffles to provide over $40,000 in scholarships awards to the community/
Muscular Dystrophy Association, 2003-Present
Assist with organizing, scheduling, staffing, and site preparation for donation locations. Sedona Marathon, 2007-Present
Provide detailed logistics planning, support, and service before and during the event. Support and service include medical coverage, medical treatment, supply and equipment acquisition.
Toys for Tots
Ensure drop-off locations are properly equipped to receive donations and ensure donated items are properly and efficiently distributed the foundation. Camp Courage -Burn Camp for Kids, 1998-2003
Design and deliver a SCUBA diving learning session and underwater experience for children who are burn victim survivors.
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References
Jeff Andrews
Fire Staff, Incident Commander Southwest Area Team 2 Prescott National Forest
James Grimes
National Incident Management Organization (NIMO), Logistics Section Chief-Atlanta Washington Office
John Pierson
Retired-District Ranger, Incident Commander Southwest Area Team 2 Reserve Ranger District Gila National Forest
Todd Abel
Battalion Chief, Operations Section Chief Southwest Area Team 2 Shawn T. Foster E-mail: ************@*****.***
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Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority
Thommy Yuneman
Retired-FDNY Captain, Logistics Section Chief Type 1, Southwest Area Team 1 New York City Fire Department
Ralph Lucas
Battalion Chief, Operations Section Chief Southwest Area Team 1 Prescott Fire Department
Rodrigo Sanchez
Sedona Fire District
Captain
Todd Miranda
All-Hazard Medical Solutions
Owner
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