Our Staff and Associates
It takes a team to make any project a success. Our consulting team is made up of independent professionals who are dedicated to the field of emergency management. Each 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.
Jamie Caplan
Jamie Caplan is the principal of Jamie Caplan Consulting and has over twenty years of emergency management experience in all phases of emergency management. Her expertise is in mitigation planning, public outreach and HAZUS.
Ms. Caplan has managed multiple large-scale emergency management projects including three versions of the Territory of American Samoa Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan.
Ms. Caplan was a part of the NY Rising and Reconstruction Program that won “Best Involvement of Vulnerable Populations” Rising to the Top award for their stakeholder involvement and community outreach. Ms. Caplan orchestrated a large-scale outreach effort for South Central Connecticut Multi-Jurisdiction Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan. The needs of both shoreline communities and small rural communities were met.
Ms. Caplan has facilitated the outreach and program management for multiple conferences, including five Annual Hazus User Group Conferences for FEMA Headquarters, as well as multiple breakout groups and public workshops for mitigation, response and recovery planning projects.
Quite simply, facilitating public outreach and collaboration of multiple stakeholder groups is Ms. Caplan’s expertise. Clients include local governments, state governments, U.S. Territories, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and multiple Tribal Governments.
Darrin Punchard
Darrin Punchard is an urban planning and resilience strategy consultant who has spent his entire career working to prevent natural hazards from becoming disasters. He has more than two decades of experience in hazard mitigation planning with specialized expertise in risk assessment, risk communication, benefit-cost analysis, and the development of actionable strategies for risk reduction. Darrin prepared some of the nation’s first federally-approved hazard mitigation plans following passage of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 and to date has assisted more than 500 communities in similar efforts, with emphasis on integrated and participatory planning processes.