Team Rubicon is a veteran-led international non‑profit humanitarian organization that unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with medical professionals, first responders, and civilian volunteers to rapidly deploy teams for mitigation, relief, and recovery efforts to communities affected by disasters and humanitarian crises both domestically and abroad. Services are provided free of charge and are completely funded by corporate and personal donations.

I joined TR in mid 2018 and have served on a multitude of local and national operations in a vast variety of roles from General Responder to the Command and General Staff of a major Type 1 incident. I was accepted into the Clay Hunt Fellows Program (Base Camp 8) in October 2021 and graduated from the program in April 2022.

Operations & Projects

• 08/2018: Service Project - Hurricane Irma Recovery
  Bunnell, FL - Roof Tarping
• 09/2018: Service Project - Hurricane Irma Recovery
  Big Pine Key, FL - Muck-Outs
• 10/2018: Amberjack - Hurricane Michael Response
  Marianna, FL - Strike Team Leader, Roof Tarping
• 09/2020: Kick the King - COVID-19 Response
  Van Nuys, CA - General Responder, Testing Center
• 09/2021: Won't Bow Down - Hurricane Ida Response
  Houma, LA - Sawyer 1
• 10/2021: Won't Bow Down - Hurricane Ida Response
  LaPlace, LA - Sawyer 1
• 08/2022: Appalachian Spirit - Flood Response
  Clay County, KY - Strike Team Leader, Muck-Outs
• 09/2022: LA County Mudslides - Flood Response
  Lake Hughes, CA - RECON
• 10/2022: Sunshine Strong - Hurricane Ian Response
  Lee County, FL - Sawyer 1
• 11/2022: Sunshine Strong - Hurricane Ian Response
  Charlotte County, FL - Planning Section Chief
• 12/2022: Sunshine Strong - Hurricane Ian Response
  Lee County, FL - Strike Team Leader, Sawyer 1
• 01/2023: River Rain - Flood Response
  Ventura County, CA - Planning Section Chief
• 02/2023: Tercera Vez - Wildfire Mitigation
  Niland, CA - Advanced Sawyer 1

Qualifications

• Core Operations (Muck-Outs, Debris Management)
• Tools, Tactics, & Techniques (T3)
• Strike Team Leader
• Sawyer 1 (Superseded)
• Advanced Sawyer 1 (AS1)
• Site Survey (Damage Assessment)
• Reconnaissance & Advanced Echelon (RECON/ADVON)
• Planning Section Chief (PSC)
• Operations Section Chief (OSC)
• Safety Officer (SOFR)
• Home Ignition Zone (HIZ)

Certifications

• FEMA ICS-400: Advanced Incident Command System, Command and General Staff-Complex Incidents
• FEMA ICS-300: Intermediate Incident Command System
• FEMA G-191: Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command System Interface
• FEMA IS-2200: Basic Emergency Operations Center Functions
• FEMA IS-800: Introduction to the National Response Framework
• FEMA IS-700: Introduction to the National Incident Management
• FEMA IS-520: Introduction to Continuity of Operations Planning for Pandemic Influenzas
• FEMA IS-317: Introduction to Community Emergency Response Team
• FEMA IS-315: CERT and the Incident Command System
• FEMA IS-200: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response
• FEMA IS-100: Introduction to Incident Command System
• FEMA IS-29: Public Information Officer Awareness
• NFPA Reducing Wildfire Risk to Property - Professional
• NFPA Reducing Wildfire Risk to Property - Protecting Your Home or Business
• NDLSF SALT Mass Casualty Triage
• UNDSS BSAFE - Basic Security and Awareness in the Field
• HHI Building a Better Response

The VFW is a nonprofit veterans service organization comprised of eligible veterans and military service members from the active, Guard and Reserve forces. Founded in 1899 and chartered by Congress in 1936, it is the nation's largest organization of war veterans and its oldest major veterans organization. It provides a plethora of services to war veterans, to include, but not limited to:

• Educating separating service members about their well-earned benefits through private benefits counseling sessions with a VFW Service Officer.
• Providing training to VFW Service Officers on signs of emotional suffering so they can better direct veterans to programs and services.
• Helps cover rent, utilities or groceries for a military families struggling with the hardships of war.
• Delivers morale-boosting "Welcome Home" celebrations for service members who have returned from combat.
• Facilitates a sense of community and comradely where veterans can feel comfortable with those who have shared similar experiences of being engaged in armed conflicts overseas.

I became a Life Member of the VFW shortly after returning from my first deployment to Iraq in late 2007. Since joining, I worked on a multitude of construction and landscaping projects to improve the facilities at several posts in the Florida Space Coast area, as well as provided basic services for elderly and disabled Veterans both within and outside of the organization.

The Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association is an association of Combat Veterans from all branches of the United States Armed Forces who ride motorcycles as a hobby. As a registered 501(c)(19) veterans’ charity, the CVMA mission is to support and protect those who have defended our country and our freedoms. The CVMA focus is to provide assistance and help to individual veterans, veteran care facilities, other veteran organizations and registered charities. The CVMA sponsors and participates in many veteran-related motorcycle (and other) charity events each year, and as a non-profit organization, donates to various veteran causes.

I joined the CVMA (20-1) in 2016. As a member I have performed many veteran funeral escorts in conjunction with the Patriot Guard Riders, attended and assisted a multitude of charity and fund-raising events for both veteran causes and needs in the community, as well as provided general services to veterans in need, both within and outside of the organization. I also served as the lead coordinator for the Homeless Veteran Outreach Initiative where we sought out homeless Veterans by visiting homeless encampments to collect the information of any veterans within them in order to facilitate the connection between them and the various service organizations that could provide them assistance; as well as bringing them food and clothing donations and ensuring they had bus tokens so that they could access the local VA clinic and make their appointments.