Argosy University

American Military University

Roosevelt School of the Performing Arts

Business Continuity  -  Emergency Management  -  Incident Response  -  External Agency Coordination   -  Program Initiation and Management  -  Training and Planning  -  Cross-Functional Team Leadership  -  Active Security Clearance  - 

Asfalis Advisors

Emergency Management Specialist

USCG Air Station San Francisco provides 24/7 helicopter response for 650+ miles of the hazardous California coastline, from south of Los Angeles to north of San Francisco, saving lives and property, enforcing laws and protecting the maritime environment. 

Senior leader of a cross-functional team of 18 direct reports across two geographically distant sites, providing all-hazard incident response in one of the world’s most demanding and high-risk environments. Conducted in-depth planning development and implementation, project management, awareness and training programs, crisis communications and extensive coordination with external agencies.
 
•	Plan Development and Implementation: Key leadership position during the COVID-19 pandemic creating response plans and implementing risk controls to operations, training, and scheduling. Developed management guidelines for frontline operators. Implemented strategies to reduce workforce exposure while maintaining essential mission operations and mandatory training requirements. Navigated complex scheduling challenges in providing personnel for dual, 24/7 response locations. Result: 100% availability for life-critical missions despite pandemic complexities. 
•	Coordination: Liaised with agencies at the federal, state and local levels to conduct joint training and enhance mutual response capabilities. Created the now-annual USCG Interagency Day, hosting 35 diverse rescue agencies to conduct tabletop exercises, and build and maintain partnerships. Result: increased efficiency and actual lives saved during subsequent joint-agency incident responses.

U.S. Coast Guard

Chief, Aviation Survival Technician | Helicopter Rescue Swimmer/EMT

USCG Sector San Diego is responsible for marine safety, disaster relief, environmental protection and law enforcement in the Southern California area. Provides 24/7 helicopter search and rescue capabilities including long range offshore medevac operations.

Senior leader of 9 direct reports, and organizational training program manager. Worked independently and within cross-functional teams to achieve goals.

•	Exercise Planning and Development: Lead Coast Guard aviation representative for a training exercise simulating a large scale incident with dozens of participating agencies. Directly involved in all phases of exercise planning and execution. Result: successful test of emergency plans and interagency coordination, enhancing response during a real-world event.
•	Adaptability: Led team through shifting all operations to a satellite facility for due to infrastructure compromise. Required creative solutions to maintain operations.  Result: No loss of productivity or safety, met all organizational goals despite the added challenges.
•	Program Management: Managed ongoing base-wide modernization project that was behind schedule and over budget. Utilized cross-team collaboration to identify and resolve problem areas. Result: using new vendors, brought the project in on original deadline and under budget. Recognized by leadership with Coast Guard Achievement Medal for superior performance.

USCG Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama is a multi-mission unit, providing key training to all Coast Guard aviators. Conducts Search and Rescue, Homeland Security, and Environmental Protection from the Louisiana/Texas border to the eastern edge of the Florida panhandle including helicopter disaster surge response for America’s Gulf Coast. 

Promoted to Chief, leading a cross-functional team of 17 direct reports with responsibility for incident response, training, scheduling and personnel management. Accountability for the tracking, inspection and maintenance of all life-support and rescue equipment across four different airframes and 21 aircraft. 

•	Collaboration: Collaborated with local Fire/Rescue departments to provide enhanced hurricane response training for team members. Engaged subject matter experts to learn roof ingress techniques for flood rescue. Recognized as a best-practice and replicated at units around the country.
•	Program Development: Leveraging Basic Life Support Instructor certification, created a training center to provide in-house CPR certification to unit members. Volunteered to hold weekend classes to certify family members in CPR, AED and first aid at no cost. Result: significant cost savings to the unit by avoiding course fees and travel costs, and enhanced capabilities to the public. 
•	Training Program Management: Responsibility for planning, coordinating and delivering high-risk training to over 400 aircrew members and agency partners. EMT program manager, providing tracking, training and certification for 17 team members. Safety program manager, conducting risk assessment and implementing risk mitigation strategies.

USCG Air Station Los Angeles (now decommissioned) provided 24/7 helicopter search and rescue coverage for 250 miles of coastline from Dana Point to Morro Bay, including Catalina and the Northern Channel Islands, and up to 100 miles offshore.

Direct supervisor for a team of 7 direct reports. Operational Helicopter Rescue Swimmer/EMT and Instructor. All-hazard incident response, operating as a solo rescuer working with a specialized cross-functional aircrew responding to individual and multi-victim rescues and large scale disasters. 

•     Innovation: Major innovation in creating and fabricating a completely redesigned aircraft rescue and survival gear storage system. Result: led to the adoption of a more functional, intuitive and standardized storage system for the entire USCG helicopter inventory. Runner-up for the 2010 Coast Guard Innovation Award. 
•	Stamina: While working 90-hour work weeks with multiple 24 hour shifts per week, completed a bachelor’s degree in Emergency and Disaster Management with honors. Selected as the Air Station Los Angeles 2010 Person of the Year.
•	Instruction: Lead Coast Guard instructor for the annual Rescue Boat Operator Course, hosted by Los Angeles County Lifeguard- Baywatch Division. Provided multi-hour classroom and operational instruction in high-risk boat-helicopter hoisting and joint rescue techniques to dozens of partner agencies from across the country.

Aviation Survival Technician | Helicopter Rescue Swimmer | Supervisor/Instructor

USCG Air Station San Francisco provides 24/7 helicopter search and rescue coverage for up to 350 miles of coastline from Morro Bay to Point Arena and up to 100 miles offshore.

Operational Helicopter Rescue Swimmer/EMT and Instructor. Promoted to supervisory position, assisted with management of 7 personnel and training, scheduling and budgetary oversight. 

•	Incident Response: Responded to multi-jurisdictional incident and complex rescue scenario during the unprecedented Russian River flood. Jointly responded with multiple agencies. Completed a rescue of a woman trapped in her car with rising waters. Awarded the Coast Guard Air Medal and Higgins and Langley International Swiftwater Rescue Award.
•	Exercise Planning: Coast Guard aviation representative for large scale exercise at San Francisco International Airport, simulating an airliner crash on deck. Implemented lessons learned from the exercise, directly contributing to an enhanced response during the actual crash of Oceana Airlines at SFO several years later.

Aviation Survival Technician "A" School and Helicopter Rescue Swimmer Training is one of the most demanding training programs in the U.S. Military. With arduous physical training both on land and in the water, under intense scrutiny and psychological pressure, it has a historical failure rate well over 50%. 
The training prepares graduates to be independent operators in some of the worlds most challenging and high risk situations, making rescues in extreme conditions and requiring exceptional (and creative) decision-making abilities to accomplish the mission in any environment. 

-Completed training as one of only three graduates out of an initial class of six.

Aviation Survival Technician "A" School | Helicopter Rescue Swimmer Training Program Candidate

USCG Air Station Los Angeles (now decommissioned) provided 24/7 helicopter search and rescue coverage for 250 miles of coastline from Dana Point to Morro Bay, including Catalina and the Northern Channel Islands, and up to 100 miles offshore.

Operational Helicopter Rescue Swimmer/EMT and Aviation Survival Technician.	 Provided all-hazard incident response, inspection and maintenance of all rescue and survival equipment, and instruction in survival techniques to aircrew.

•	Cross-national Partnerships: Volunteered as part of a helicopter aircrew attached to a Coast Guard cutter for a 6-month deployment to the Persian Gulf, completely circumnavigating the globe. Visited more than 15 countries, providing rescue demonstrations and lectures for foreign national rescue agencies in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean, as well as conducting humanitarian aid work. 
•	Disaster Response: Provided initial incident response to the crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261 off of the coast of Oxnard. Large scale disaster response with agencies at Federal, State and Local levels.
•	Senior Leadership Engagement: Coast Guard aviation representative for a major speaking engagement at General Dynamics (GD NYSE) during the Rescue 21 Communications System development. Addressed 400-member audience, including the CEO and senior executive leadership of GD, mayor of Scottsdale, AZ, senators, congressional representatives and other key industry senior executives and employees. Outlined Coast Guard rescue operations, and the relevance and impact of the new Rescue 21 system, providing a contextual framework for the real-world impacts of the program. Fielded questions alongside the Coast Guard Chief of Staff.

Aviation Survival Technician | Helicopter Rescue Swimmer/EMT

Junior team member aboard the Coast Guard Cutter "Conifer", responsible for maintaining all aids to navigation in the critical Southern California maritime domain. Additionally conducted maritime law enforcement and environmental protection missions along the Eastern Pacific. 

Filled multiple roles including Helmsman, Small Boat Operator, Aids to Navigation Technician, Deck Watchstander and .50 caliber Machine Gunner. Volunteered for Rescue Swimmer role, leveraging significant aquatics background. 

-Participated in the historic release of "JJ the Gray Whale", a global news event in which a juvenile gray whale was released back into the ocean after a rehabilitation at Sea World in San Diego. Provided personnel safety oversight as the Rescue Swimmer aboard a small boat during the release operations of the multi-ton whale.

Dennis Moyer, MSOL, CBCP