A 19-year veteran of the fire service. Firefighter in Ladder 3 and Rescue 1 in the borough of Manhattan, Lieutenant in Ladder 174 Brooklyn, Captain Special Operations Command, Battalion Chief Battalion 51 Queens. Member of the FDNY Incident Management Team and New York Task Force 1 USAR Team. Deployed with NYTF 1 to the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Rita as planning sections chief.  Operations Section Chief for the Governors Island Testing of alternate strategies for wind driven fires.  Member of the NFPA advisory committee on alternate strategies for wind driven fires. Instructor for the battalion chief command course managing mayday's, deputy chief course managing mayday's and alternate strategies for combating wind driven fires and PPV for the FDNY. Nationally certified fire service instructor I.