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Steve Bray
For the past twenty six years, Steve Bray has been the CEO for PowerPlus!, a
company he acquired through a leveraged buyout in 1984. He guided its growth
from $300,000 annually to over $133 million in annual revenue with 900
employees. Steve has been the catalyst for the company to continually push for
new ideas and innovation in business. Originally starting with temporary power,
the company quickly became a leading provider of temporary power solutions,
including the provisions of generators from 25kw up to 2 megawatts, utility
pole line distributions, utility design and installation, and a 24/7/365
mission critical power group. Steve has over thirty five years experience in
the electric industry and is a Master Electrician, licensed in five states.
With a 30 year reputation for outstanding service, PowerPlus! is an industry
leader in power solutions. His experienced management team and qualified field
operators draw upon a wide range of state-of-the-art services and technologies
and adapt them to your project's power needs. Steve's vision of services now
cater to a wide variety of market segments including the refinery, utility
construction, emergency services, financial, medical, data and event
industries. Dependable power solutions are crucial for industries, offices,
homes, telecommunication devices, emergency lighting, computers and other critical
systems where a loss of power is a loss of production, information, and
revenue.
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Arthur A. Cummins
Currently Dr. Cummins serves as Administrator of Safe & Healthy Schools for
the Orange County Department of Education in Costa Mesa, CA. He has been
an educator for over 21 years serving as a middle school and high school
teacher, as well as an administrator in Oklahoma, Texas, and California.
In his current role he oversees County programs including Student Support
Services, Coordinated School Health, the Nutrition Network, Safe & Drug
Free Schools, Safe from the Start, Violence Prevention, and the Crisis Response
Network in which some of his responsibilities include emergency preparedness
and crisis management training, county representative to the Operational Area
for active Emergency Operations Center (EOC), representative to the Orange
County Emergency Management Organization (OCEMO) Schools committee, and is
primary liaison to all county schools on the San Onofre Nuclear Generating
Station (SONGS) information management team. He has taught courses on
Safe Schools Planning, Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS),
National Incident Management System (NIMS), and Hazard Mitigation, among many
others. He is an approved trainer for the International Critical Incident
Stress Foundation and a member of the American Association of
Suicidology. Dr. Cummins is also the Region 9 Coordinator of the School
& Law Enforcement Partnership and serves as a Board member for the
California School Resource Officers Association as well as the Joyful Child
Foundation.
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Margaret Glasscoe
Maggi
Glasscoe is a Geophysicist in the Solid Earth Group at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. She has experience working with
a number of modeling codes, including viscoelastic finite element models (the
JPL developed Geophysical Finite Element Simulation Tool, GeoFEST, in
particular). Her research includes modeling deformation of the Earth’s crust to
study postseismic response to large earthquakes, numerical models of the rheological
behavior of the lower crust, and simulations of interacting fault systems. She
is is a researcher on the QuakeSim project and the Principal Investigator of
E-DECIDER (Earthquake Data Enhanced Cyber-Infrastructure for Disaster
Evaluation and Response).
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Jim Goltz
Jim Goltz recently retired as Branch Chief for the Earthquake, Tsunami and
Volcanic Hazards Program of the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal
EMA). He has worked in the field of earthquake preparedness planning and
research for 30 years, serving in both the public and private sectors. He was
involved in response to several domestic earthquake disasters including the
Coalinga, Whittier Narrows, Loma Prieta and Northridge and conducted
reconnaissance and research on the Kobe, Japan (1995), Chi Chi, Taiwan (1999),
Maule, Chile (2010) and Tohoku, Japan (2011) earthquakes. He served as Cal EMA
Earthquake and Tsunami Duty Officer during the March 11, 2011 earthquake and
tsunami and participated as a subject matter expert in the response to the
tsunami that affected the West Coast of the United States. He served as a
member of the Steering Committee of the California Integrated Seismic Network
(CISN) and represented California on the Coordinating Committee of the National
Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP). Within the NTHMP, Jim served as
Co-chair of the Warning Coordination Subcommittee and was a member of the
Mitigation and Education Subcommittee. Until his retirement at the end of 2011,
he served on the Boards of Directors of the Western States Seismic Policy
Council (WSSPC) and the Cascadia Region Earthquake Working Group (CREW). He has
also served on the boards of the Business and Industry Council for Emergency
Planning and Preparedness (BICEPP) and the California Emergency Services
Association, Southern Chapter (SCESA). He was the recipient in 2011 of a
leadership award presented by the Western States Seismic Policy Council
(WSSPC). Jim received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Ohio State
University and a doctorate in Social Psychology from UCLA.
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Antoine McKnight
Antoine McKnight was born and raised in the City of Los
Angeles. He and has been a member of the Los Angeles Fire Department for 25
years. He is currently assigned to the Los Angeles/Long Beach Operational Area
Alliance. Chief McKnight has held the ranks of Firefighter,
Firefighter/Paramedic, Captain I, EMS Supervisor, Captain II and Battalion
Chief. Chief McKnight has taught all components of the C.E.R.T. program and was
one of the initial team of instructors from the Los Angeles Fire Department to
launch the C.E.R.T. program nationally by teaching C.E.R.T. Train the Trainer
at the Emergency Management Institute, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. During his
tenure, Chief McKnight has gained experience in Hazard Mitigation including
Brush fires, Structure fires, Multi-Casualty Incidents and physical rescues.
Some of his other assignments have included the Disaster Preparedness Division,
the Fire Safety and Education unit, Planning Section and the Community Service
Unit as the Public Information Officer.
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Dimitar Ouzounov
Dimitar
Ouzounov, Ph.D., is an Associate professor of Geophysics at Chapman University,
Orange, CA and member of NASA Goddard SFC Applied Science group, with more than
20 years of experience in Geophysics, Earth Sciences and Geocomputing. His
areas of expertise are in Applications of remote sensing for natural hazards
risk management, earthquake hazards, the study of the Earth’s electromagnetic
environment and geocomputing. In early 2000 Dr.Ouzounov suggested using Earth
Observation Data for sensing major earthquakes and active faulting. His results
have been published in NASA news releases, numerous scientific journals and
presented at American Geophysical Union meetings. Dr.Ouzounov has a leading
role in the new cross-disciplinary studies in geophysics and near space science
applications. He has been part of several international meetings in USA,
Mexico, Turkey, China, Italy, India and Japan on the topic of earthquake
monitoring by using satellite and ground observation technology. Dr. Ouzounov
is a project investigator on several research projects of application of Earth
observation technologies for natural hazards risk reduction.
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Susan Owen
Susan Owen is a Research Scientist at NASA/Caltech Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with the Geodynamics and Satellite Geodesy group.
Her research focus has been on understanding volcanic and seismic hazards
through precision measurements of ground movement, primarily with GPS. She is
currently Principle Investigator for the Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis
for Earthquakes (ARIA-EQ) project at JPL. In 2008 and 2009, she led the
geodetic earth science community as Chair of the Board of Directors for UNAVCO,
the community-driven organization that runs a NSF & NASA funded geodetic
facility in Boulder, CO. Her studies
have focused on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, fault systems in Southern California,
and subduction zone faults in Japan and Chile. She has worked extensively on
developing fast, efficient and highly precise methods for analysis of large GPS
data sets, as well as collaborated on studies that integrate GPS data with paleoseismology,
seismology, satellite imagery, and more traditional methods of measuring the
earth¹s movement in order to better quantify the hazard potential of tectonic
and magmatic systems. She was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at U.C. Berkeley in 1998-9,
and an Assistant Professor at USC from 1999 through 2004. She received a B.A.
in physics from Harvard in 1992, and a Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford in
1998.
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Dan Packer
Dan Packer served as the CEO and President of Entergy New Orleans Inc. from
1998 through the end of 2006. Prior to joining Entergy, he served as a Senior
Engineer of General Physics Corporation. He also served as training coordinator
of Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company for six years, and as Plant Manager
of Waterford 3 Nuclear Plant, becoming the first African American in the United
States to manage a nuclear plant. Under his leadership the plant received the
highest ratings in the region. Packer served as the Chairman of Entergy New
Orleans Inc. since 1999 and as the Chairman of the New Orleans Aviation Board
for Louis Armstrong International Airport. He also served as National Chairman
of the American Association of Blacks in Energy, which focuses on
energy-related issues in America. Mr. Packer is a Board Member of several
organizations, including Keystone Energy Board, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra,
Port of New Orleans, Louisiana Community & Technical College System, and
Fore!Kids Foundation, as well as a Trustee of Loyola University New Orleans. He
was honored in 2005 by Black Enterprise as one of the Most Powerful African
American Executives in Corporate America. Mr. Packer holds a B.A. from Charter
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John Rundle
John is Distinguished Professor of Physics and Geology at the University of
California, Davis. He is a past Director of the California Institute for Hazard
Research of the University of California, and currently serves as Executive
Director of the APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation (ACES), a consortium
of 6 APEC economies whose goal is to understand the entire earthquake cycle by
means of rigorous models and numerical simulations. For over thirty years, his
research has focused on using statistical physics to understand the physics of
earthquakes and other driven threshold systems. He has a particular interest in
the development of methods for earthquake forecasting based on studies of chaos
and complexity in driven nonlinear systems, as well as on the use of realistic,
large scale numerical simulations. More recently, he has developed an interest
in viewing crashes in economic and financial systems as a kind of “Econoquake”
that might be understood by analogy to earthquakes and other first order
(nucleation) phase transitions. Braving the unthinkable, he has also dipped his
toes into the real world, and co-founded a startup company in the area of
global earthquake forecasting, general hazard analysis, and risk management for
the global public (www.openhazards.com).
He has also co-founded a startup in the area of financial forecasting and
investing (Seismic Funds, LLC), that uses techniques similar to those developed
in the earthquake area to forecast movements in the financial markets. John has
served the scientific community through membership on numerous boards and
committees, including serving as a Member (1990 - 1997) and Chair (1994-1996)
of the scientific Advisory Council to the Southern California Earthquake
Center. He is a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (1995-present). He is an External Professor at the
Santa Fe Institute, where he co-organizes a yearly conference on financial forecasting
and risk (held this year at Morgan Stanley, NY on October 5, 2011). He is a
Fellow of both the American Physical Society (2005) and the American
Geophysical Union (2008). John received his B.S.E from Princeton University
(Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi), and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the
University of California at Los Angeles.
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Masanobu Shinozuka
Dr. Shinozuka is a world-renowned expert in earthquake and
structural engineering. He is especially interested in field theory and risk
assessment methodology in civil engineering. Dr. Shinozuka's research focuses on continuum mechanics,
micromechanics, stochastic processes and fields, structural dynamics and
control, and earthquake and wind engineering. He also studies systems
engineering, with an emphasis on structural and system reliability; risk
assessment of lifeline systems, including water, electrical power and
transportation networks; and analysis of the socio-economic impacts of natural
disasters. He also is interested in advanced technologies, specifically remote
sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) for disaster assessment and
mitigation, smart materials and structures, and nondestructive evaluation. The applications for his work are in earthquake engineering in building, bridges, lifeline and environmental systems. His work highlights the multidisciplinary aspects of infrastructure system problems.
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Mayor of Anaheim Tom Tait
Tom Tait was elected to serve as Mayor of Anaheim in
November 2010, campaigning on a platform of bringing the core values of freedom
and kindness to the culture of the city and upholding public safety and civic
upkeep as the City of Anaheim's top priorities. Tait's election comes after two
previous terms on the Anaheim City Council. In 1995, Tait was appointed to fill
a vacancy and complete an unexpired term on the city council. He was
subsequently elected by the votes in November 1996 to serve a full four-year
term and was re-elected without a challenge in 2000 and served as Mayor Pro Tem
from 2002-2003. Mayor Tait brings considerable experience to California's tenth
largest city, having also served on the Anaheim Planning Commission, the
Anaheim Budget Advisory Commission, and as a member of the Anaheim Community
Block Grant Foundation. He also served as Anaheim's representative on board of
the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and has been active in
the community, where he was advisory board member of the Anaheim Family YMCA
and the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center. Mayor Tait is a member of
the California State Bar, and is president of Tait & Associates, Inc. and
Tait Environmental Services, an engineering and environmental services firm
with offices throughout the western United States.
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