Justin Everhardt
Lake Alfred ,FL
Summary
Results-oriented emergency management professional with extensive experience in developing and implementing emergency preparedness strategies. Known for effective team collaboration and achieving operational goals amidst dynamic situations. Proficient in crisis communication and resource management, ensuring community resilience and safety.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Market Manager for Emergency Management
AdventHealth
08.2021 - Current
- Manages corporate Emergency management program and conducts research and analysis of program performance to identify opportunities for growth and improvement, including developing new procedures to meet federal, and state regulations
- Develops and manages detailed emergency management plans to respond to various situations, including security concerns, natural disasters, medical incidents, and other emergencies, focusing on responding effectively and promoting recovery
- Standardize and maintain 8 million dollar’s worth of emergency response, and readiness equipment
- Works with hospital coalition to manage budget and meet hospital and OSHA accreditation standards
- Manages and creates training classes and teaches over 500 professionals annually how to respond to emergencies, ensuring patient, staff, and environmental safety
- Manages a HERT response team of 400 members for hazardous material disasters, including setting up decontamination tents and triage for mass casualty incidents and other emergencies
- Coordinate corporate regulations, policies, and procedures to maximize safety security and overall safety in 20 hospitals
Aerospace Medical Technician
United States Air Force
08.2012 - 08.2021
- Managed primary and specialty health care clinics, developed clinic protocols, and managed patient secure messaging and communications
- Directly supervised and evaluated work activities for 12 personnel, ensuring daily care needs and patient care assignments were met
- Taught over 200 USAF medics how to respond to different emergencies, disasters, and incidents correctly and safely while deployed and stateside
- Protected patient data with secure record management and cyber security analysis, zero leaks, and insider threats
- Drove productivity and collaboration by building a strong rapport with patients, physicians, and staff across the organization, meeting federal and other accreditation standards
Firefighter/ EMT
Polk County Fire Rescue
01.2009 - 01.2012
- Evaluated and addressed emergency and hazardous scenes to determine a strategy for investigating, suppressing, extinguishing fires, assessing injuries requesting appropriate resources to manage emergency scenes
- Inspected and completed routine maintenance of fire apparatus, equipment, power tools, portable fire extinguishers and developed maintenance plans to ensure equipment stayed in service
- Spearheaded research into the specific causes of different types of fire
- Studying materials, ignition sources, and spread patterns to provide better service and safety to citizens and other fire personnel
Driver Engineer/Firefighter/EMT
City of Mulberry Fire Department
01.2007 - 01.2010
- Managed on scene operations involving fire, medical, hazardous materials, and other emergency situations, ensuring scene safety to all personnel and citizens involved
- Observed principles of risk management during emergency and training operations, project implementation, and day to day operations, to enforce safety, implemented training standards to develop a standard training plan for all personnel
- Drove daily shift operations, creating fire safety inspections, workflow, project management, vehicle, and equipment maintenance, creating and updating evacuation and other safety polices for residential and commercial structures
- Assumed responsibility of command on different emergency scenes, carrying out firefighting and medical treatments to mitigate emergency incidents
- Inspected commercial and industrial businesses, for safety and fire code violations, and issuing corrective action plans
Education
BACHELOR of COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY -
American Military University
11.2024
MASTER of ARTS - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
American Military University
01.2024
BACHELOR of ARTS - Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness
American Military University
01.2022
Skills
- Emergency Management
- Incident Response
- Disaster Preparedness
- Vulnerability and Risk Mitigation
- Threat Assessments
- Disaster Recovery
- EM Planning
- Exercising
- Operational Readiness
- Business Continuity Planning
- Nat’l Preparedness Goal
- NIMS/ICS
- Planning
- Logistics
- FEMA Core Capabilities auditing
- Technology Implementation/Use
- Training and training plans
- EOC Operations
Transcriptscertifications
Transcripts, Certifications and Letters of Recommendation provided upon request.
Awards
- Air Force Commendation Medal, USAF, 01/01/18
- Air Force Achievement Medal, USAF, 01/01/18
- Air Force Achievement Medal, USAF, 01/01/16
- NonCommission Officer of the Qtr, USAF, 01/01/17
- Airman Below the Zone, USAF, 01/01/14
- Outstanding Firefighter, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, 01/01/07
Licensescerts
- OSHA Hazwhoper
- FEMA Incident Command System (IS-100, 100.c, 200, 200.a, 200c., 201, 300, 405, 700, 800b.,800d.)
- FEMA Pro. Development Series (PDS) (IS-120, 230)
- Workplace Security, Active Shooter
- Misc. Training: CDC/Covid, Crowd Ctrl.
- Firefighter/EMT, HazMat Ops
Timeline
Market Manager for Emergency Management
AdventHealth
08.2021 - Current
Aerospace Medical Technician
United States Air Force
08.2012 - 08.2021
Firefighter/ EMT
Polk County Fire Rescue
01.2009 - 01.2012
Driver Engineer/Firefighter/EMT
City of Mulberry Fire Department
01.2007 - 01.2010
MASTER of ARTS - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
American Military University
BACHELOR of ARTS - Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness
American Military University
BACHELOR of COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY -
American Military University