Chuck is an Emergency Management Specialist and Program Manager at FEMA HQ in its CBRN Support Branch. Chuck holds a Bachelor of Art in Emergency Management and Homeland Security. A Master of Science Degree in Homeland Security with a focus in Post Disaster Healthcare Response & is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a National Healthcare Disaster Preparedness Professional. He has experience as a former member of the North Carolina Disaster Medical Assistance Team (NC-1 DMAT). He was a critical care paramedic with Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC and a Paramedic Preceptor with Forsyth County EMS. Chuck wrote the State Medical Assistance Team Program Approach with Dr. Lew Stringer in 2004 which has deployed to over two dozen declared disasters including the Winston County Mississippi devastating Tornado Outbreak in 2014. In 2012, Chuck was tasked by the Department of Defense to work with a six-team member from Marine Corps Command, Quantico Virginia, to write the Marine Corps Emergency Management Program while serving as the Installation Emergency Manager Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany GA.
Prior to coming to Washington, Chuck was the Non-Resident Training Coordinator for FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston AL. Chuck’s team of 458 Instructors trained thousands of responders across the United States and all 16 U.S. territories. At the Noble Training Facility in Anniston Al, Chuck also served as the Operations Officer for the only teaching hospital in the world. Noble Hospital is a 100 bed General hospital which serves the notional community of Central City in the County of Liberty in the State of Columbia. Each week, over 200 support staff, role players, simulations technicians, 756 static and high-fidelity manikins, transforms this town into a center of learning as disaster strikes the community. In 2017 & 2020 Chuck and his team wrote two healthcare centric preparedness courses, Health Sector Emergency Planning I & II, to assist healthcare coalitions to comply with HHS ASPR Final Rule of healthcare disaster preparedness training over 7,500 participants in 18 months across the country.
For more information about how the CBRN office can assist you, please visit Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Office FEMA.gov
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