Managing Partner and Director Emeritus of the University of California at Berkeley's certificate program for emergency preparedness managers. He is author of "Avoiding Disaster - How to Keep Your Business Going When Catastrophe Strikes" (John Wiley and Sons, publisher). His disaster management experience began in 1972 when hurricane Agnes came ashore while he was a U.S. Navy officer in Washington DC. He was Operations Director of a major project that lost its principal venue's infrastructure. While this experience was very traumatic -- it was also extremely educational.

Upon Navy retirement, while he was in county and regional governments' emergency management, He transferred his experiences to other managers while instructing and conducting exercises for California's Specialized Training Institute. Although most of his firm's consulting engagements are now for corporate clients, he continues public policy instruction and is part of the simulation cell at FEMA's Emergency Management Institute, where he instructs and mentors policy groups about planning against terrorism and other high risk threats.

Was the private sector's representative on the Certified Emergency Manager certificate development team, then passed the Disaster Recovery Institute's Certification exam. He was elected a Certified Management Consultant in 1992, and was elected a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute in 1997. His master's (MS) is in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and got his BA while at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.

Since 1982 he has been a consultant to management, educating and planning for: disaster avoidance, business continuity, emergency / crisis management, and recovery. Eight clients' programs have received awards, and several have avoided the disasters others suffered during the real world's tests of: earthquakes, power outages, flooding, firestorms, and the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City explosions.

His academic research with a Madrid Professor of Economics centers on executive decision-making about cost-effective emergency preparedness, and is the basis for his articles in business and professional journals read by real-world managers. Other professionals attend his lectures for the Disaster Recovery Journal's and Survive's symposia, where he connects theory to the real world. He is also invited to speak in other countries. While those are intellectually engaging, none are so notoriously remunerative as attorneys' requests for litigation support and expert witness appearances.