Zachary Borst, Intelligence Analyst, Everbridge; James Podlucky, Industry Solutions Manager, Everbridge; Dan R. Pascale, Executive Vice President, Margolis Healy & Associates
How are you strengthening resiliency within your campus community before, during, and after a severe weather event?
Weather emergencies and severe weather events can happen very quickly. Potentially impacting the things that matter most. As severe weather season continues to ramp up, it only takes one event to have an impact on an entire campus community. A poorly designed plan can negatively affect the response and recovery phases but also impact communication and collaboration with students, faculty, staff, and visitors throughout the incident lifecycle.
Each school is unique with complex environments but the mission to create safe and secure surroundings remain to be parallel.
This webinar will discuss:
• Best practices for expanding your reach within and around the campus community
• Coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders throughout the incident lifecycle
• How technology is best utilized before, during, and after a severe weather event
About the speakers
Zack Borst joined Everbridge in November of 2020 as an Analyst with the Tactical Resolution Team. Zack started his public safety career as a volunteer firefighter and EMT in high school and discovered emergency management as an undergrad at the University of Vermont where he began his career as an intern, assisting with planning for the H1N1 pandemic. Zack has served in emergency management roles at the local, county, and state level, and spent 5 years as a higher education emergency manager. Zack also serves as a Command and Control Operations Specialist in the Vermont Air National Guard and is the Vice President of the Vermont Emergency Management Association.
James Podlucky joined Everbridge in April 2020 as an Industry Solutions Manager. James started his career in the emergency management field after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL. Throughout his public safety career, he has worked at the city, county, and state level. He is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM), through the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and a graduate of the Master Exercise Practitioner Program (MEPP), as well as the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy (NEMAA) with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Throughout his career, he has served in many roles within various Emergency Operation Centers (EOC) for flooding events, the United States presidential inauguration, tropical storms, winter storms, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Dorian, the World Rowing Championship and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic. James has innovated emergency management business processes and data analytics to provide situational awareness and a common operating picture when managing critical events.
About the moderator
Daniel R. Pascale, Executive Vice President, Margolis Healy & Associates is a board-certified security and emergency management professional with more than 25 years of experience as a practitioner, consultant, and volunteer leader. He is responsible for Margolis Healy's consulting strategies, business development initiatives, and continues to lead the Security and Emergency Management practice areas. In this role, he has worked with dozens of institutions to conduct emergency plan and program reviews, and hazard, risk, and vulnerability assessments. He has also conducted executive training programs, both facility, and campus-wide security assessments, and developed relevant emergency preparedness and security-related policies and procedures.