A planner who kept asking why the plans kept breaking.
I'm an emergency preparedness professional in metro Atlanta. I came into the field through an MS in Emergency Management and stayed for a problem I couldn't put down: preparedness knowledge decays faster than organizations can maintain it, and the tools of the field haven't caught up.
How I got here
My path ran through operations before it ran through planning: order management and supply chain coordination at The Clorox Company through hurricane-season disruptions, and overnight shifts in a 24/7 global security operations center supporting one of North America's largest pharmaceutical distributors. Both taught the same lesson from different angles: when something goes wrong, the organization's real capability is whatever information its people can actually reach.
Since early 2025 I've served as an Emergency Preparedness and Response Specialist II at Clayton County Health District, where I'm the primary planner for the district's emergency preparedness program. I steward a portfolio of thirty-one planning products (base plans, support annexes, and incident annexes built on Georgia DPH templates and CPG-101), and I've personally drafted three base plans and more than ten annexes of that suite. I support the district's HSEEP exercise program, facilitate the annual hazard vulnerability analysis with county emergency management partners, and serve as the district's primary EOC contact during real-world activations.
The portfolio matters less to me than what building it revealed. I inherited a shelf of documents; the interesting work was designing the planning information architecture underneath them: the crosswalk mapping every product to its state equivalent, its capability, its approval authority, and its knowledge sources. That system is what the rest of this site is about.
Experience, education, credentials
Emergency Preparedness and Response Specialist II
Clayton County Health District, Jonesboro, GA · Feb 2025 – present
Primary planner across four federal cooperative agreements (PHEP, CRI, HPP, MRC-STTRONG); 24/7 on-call for activations.
- Order Operations Specialist, The Clorox Company (2020–2024)
- Security Risk Analyst, Allied Universal (McKesson GSOC), 2022–2023
- Warehouse Generalist, Sanofi (2014–2019)
- MS, Emergency Management · Jacksonville State University, 2021 (GPA 4.0)
- BA, Interdisciplinary Studies · Georgia Southern University, 2018
- Member, National Society of Leadership and Success
- FEMA ICS/NIMS series (IS-100, 200, 700, 800) and HSEEP series (IS-120, 130, 139)
- IS-235 Emergency Planning; IS-1300 Continuity; IS-2200 EOC Functions
- G-191 EOC/ICS Interface (GEMA/HS, score 92)
- In progress: ICS-300; Georgia Certified Emergency Manager (exp. Nov 2026); CERT Instructor Training
- CPG-101 base plan development and annex writing
- HSEEP exercise design, evaluation, and AAR/IP development
- Hazard vulnerability analysis (Kaiser Permanente methodology)
- WebEOC, ReadyOp, FAMIS 360, Knack, SharePoint
- Public health emergency preparedness
- Continuity of operations
- Planning information architecture
- Preparedness decision support (exploratory)