Creating Order Out of Chaos: Knowing Your Vulnerabilities - July 21, 12:00 pm ET/9:00 am PT to 3 pm ET/12:00 pm PT

3 Contact Hours / 0.3 CEU

Through Real-World Case analysis from both the government and NGO perspectives, the class will help the student gain an intimate understanding into Human-Technical-Environmental issues that threaten successful implementation of event crisis, COOP, and recovery management; understand the unspoken vulnerabilities in management practices that induce crimping effects; and identify lean-forward positioning techniques that have effectively saved projects facing unsurmountable odds but were too important to fail. The target audience includes professionals involved in direct program, project, crisis/COOP/recovery management responsibilities; those addressing issues prior to/during/post crisis; and people seeking greater operational effectiveness through a greater understanding of internal and external impacts to crisis management.

Instructor - Jeff Alvich, CBRM

Mr. Alvich’s unique career spans over 30+ years with local, state and federal California-based Fire Service organizations (concluding at the position of Fire Chief), US Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness, and private sector. He is an MBA alumnus of CSU Dominguez Hills, possessing a Bachelor of Science in Fire Protection Administration, a graduate of the DHS Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism, with industry specific credentials including:

• Nationally and Internationally Certified Business Resiliency Manager (CBRM)
• FEMA and BRCCI Continuity of Operations Plan Instructor
• California State Certified/UCLA-Master Instructor
• California HAZMAT and CBRNE Incident Commander/Instructor
• Federal On-Scene Commander

Highlights of his career include being the Program Manager for the California Hazmat Technician/Specialist Training program, Co-creator and program manager of the California USAR program, Hazmat entry team leader and responding to over 400 hazmat events.