Assistant Fire Chief & EMT
Serving my community in central North Carolina — leading on scene, training crews, and treating patients on some of the worst days of their lives.
Fire and EMS run on the same discipline I’ve carried through every other chapter: a clear structure, a common language, and a plan that has already been worked out before the pressure shows up. Incident command exists for the same reason a rigging plot or a network runbook does — so the right decision is already made before the moment that needs it arrives.
As Assistant Fire Chief, I help lead that structure: training, readiness, and the process work behind the scenes that lets a crew perform under pressure without hesitation. As an EMT, the job is simpler and harder at the same time — be calm, be capable, and be present for someone on the worst day of their life.
Mutual aid, training design, and readiness planning — the same process-and-people discipline behind everything else on this site.
Process, under pressure
A fireground and a network outage look nothing alike from the outside. From the inside, both are solved the same way: know the system before it breaks, have a plan everyone already understands, and remove as many in-the-moment decisions as you can before the moment arrives.