Jamie Caplan Consulting LLC (JCC), founded in 1997, is a certified woman-owned consulting company that provides comprehensive emergency management services for all phases of disaster management, including mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

OUR APPROACH

Jamie Caplan Consulting LLC approaches each client and each project as unique. We spend time listening to your needs, gathering data and analyzing your circumstances. With this information, we create customized solutions. We complete our projects on time and within a designated budget. We utilize state-of-the-art technology including HAZUS-MH and promote sustainable development and develop partnerships wherever possible to increase project success. We build emergency management systems to respond to crisis today and tomorrow.

CONSULTING TEAM LEADERS

Our consulting team is made up of independent professionals who are dedicated to the field of emergency management. Each consulting team member brings many years of expertise in the field as well as a belief in the positive and essential nature of emergency management. We focus our efforts on quality services and customized solutions.

Our business is growing and we are always looking for individuals who may be interested in joining our team.

Jamie Caplan, Project Leader

Jamie Caplan has been working in the field of emergency services for fourteen years. She began her work in emergency management with the American Red Cross in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1994. Creating Jamie Caplan Consulting LLC in 1997 gave her the opportunity to combine her expertise in event management and disaster relief. Her first client was the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Region 9, which gave her the experience of managing a Pacific Mitigation Conference and then forming the San Francisco Bay Area HAZUS User Group (BAHUG).

For the past ten years, Ms. Caplan has focused on forming and managing HAZUS User Groups nationwide, and she is a recognized national expert in HAZUS User Group creation and coordination. She also created FEMA 404, "How to Create A HAZUS User Group," a guide for forming multi-hazard HAZUS User Groups. Ms. Caplan has worked directly with FEMA headquarters and all ten of the FEMA regional offices, and she is currently under contract with FEMA to provide technical assistance to HAZUS User Groups throughout the country.

In 2000, Jamie Caplan Consulting's focus expanded to include work with American Indian tribes and the creation of Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plans. Since then, we have written several FEMA-approved Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plans as well as Emergency Evacuation and Preparedness Plans for counties, American Indian tribes, and small cities.

Ms. Caplan has had several articles regarding mitigation planning published, including two in New England Planning, an American Planning Association newsletter, as well as two in the International Code Council's Building Safety Journal.

Gale Foss, GIS and Graphic Design

Gale Foss has thirty years of experience performing manual and digital cartographic services using state-of-the-art techniques and applications, including computer aided drafting (AutoCAD) and Geographic Information Systems (ArcView, ArcInfo, ArcGIS). Mr. Foss collects data using both manual and digital methods. He understands mapping principles, issues concerning accuracy, scale, resolution, and coordinate systems. He evaluates and employs spatial and statistical analysis techniques, database design, creation, conversion and manipulation for required analysis. He also designs, codes, and tests macro routines and other software programs or scripts to support GIS applications. He can develop and manage automated map libraries, data dictionaries, and documentation or metadata.

LaVonne Peck, Tribal Liaison

LaVonne Peck is a member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians and has nearly thirty years of experience working with Tribal governments. She has also worked directly with the BIA and Indian Health on many projects. She has directly managed many types of government grants including those for housing, energy, new construction, fire stations, land use planning, economic development, and water rights. Ms. Peck knows how to secure funding, work within tribal politics, and achieve goals that benefit reservations and Indian people. She has worked with tribes throughout the country from Montana to Alaska to California and currently sits on the California Fee to Trust Consortium.

James Buika, Disaster Management Consultant

James Buika is a professional earth scientist and a California Registered Geophysicist. He has been a disaster management specialist for the past 18 years, most recently with the Pacific Disaster Center in Hawaii from 2002-2006. Mr. Buika served for thirteen years with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region IX, San Francisco, as FEMA's Regional Earthquake Specialist; in this position, he led efforts to implement the national risk assessment software application, HAZUS.  He has managed federal disaster mitigation teams for typhoons, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and freezes within California, American Samoa and the Federated States of Micronesia. Mr. Buika has a special interest in applying new technologies to enhance emergency managers' decision-making capabilities.

TESTIMONIAL

"Jamie was instrumental in helping us complete North Reading's Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan. She was a pleasure to work with and her knowledge of HAZUS and the FEMA process helped us to develop a thorough plan that was praised by FEMA."

Peter Richardson

Vice President

Green International Affiliates, Inc.