Kathleen Gleaves has 13 years of experience in the transportation security and emergency management field. Her experience developing plans and conducting emergency drills and exercises covers security issues and a full range of natural and man-made disasters. She excels at bringing divergent ideas, conflicting processes and multiple documents into a single, efficient and coherent program.

Ms. Gleaves is an engaging and energetic facilitator and trainer and has brought National Incident Management, Incident Command, facility and aviation security, and emergency response training programs to all organizational levels. Her students include Public Safety officers, elected officials, flight crew, and senior staff members from both public and private sectors.

PROFILE

Expertise

• 8 years in aviation industry in Emergency Program management and flight crew emergency procedures with Alaska Airlines
• 3 years Seaport Security and Emergency Program management, maritime transportation and corporate business continuity with the Port of Seattle
• 12 years emergency management curriculum development and training delivery
• 6 years of EOC management including facility and systems oversight and responder training
• Delivered TSA/FAA mandated flight crew security training program
• Served on the Regional Catastrophic Planning Team (RCPT) and the US Coast Guard's Maritime Transportation System Recovery Unit (MTSRU)
  
• Developed, facilitated and evaluated numerous exercises from tabletops to full scale; including security breach scenarios, air crashes from both airline and airport perspectives, earthquakes, pandemics, severe storms, potential flooding impacts from the damaged Howard Hanson dam, and projected waterfront disruptions with TWIC start-up
• Authored manuals, bulletins and training material in accordance with regulatory requirements of FAA, TSA, NTSB and the US Coast Guard
  

Key Qualifications

• Able to bring stakeholders with divergent goals and ideals together for their mutual benefit
• Emergency Preparedness Program development
• NIMS & ICS instructor for all organizational levels including elected officials
  
• Experienced exercise designer, controller & evaluator 
• Experienced moulage artist
  
• Business Continuity instructor 
• CERT Trainer
  
• Professional magazine writer
  
• Training program development - curriculum, materials, presentation
  
• Excellent presentation skills

Professional Certification and Affiliations

• Certificate Continuity Manager (CCM)
• Master Exercise Practitioner (MEP) Certificate
• Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) trainer
• Incident Command System (ICS) Instructor

Education and Professional Development

• International Air Transport Association Training Institute (IATA)
  
• NTSB Aviation Disaster Response program
• FEMA Professional Development Series
• Mass Casualty Response Planning

Current Projects

• Emergency Management Consultant for Sound Transit
  
• Teaching the Master Exercise Practitioner program for FEMA as an adjunct instructor
  
• Developing a Training program for the Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District

Recently Completed Projects

• Marine Terrorism Response Plan - harmonization and modernization of the Plan by involving stakeholders from multiple jurisdictions around Puget Sound and consolidating plans and protocols to support a regional response.
• Developed a Mid-Term Transportation Recovery team for the Regional Catastrophic Planning project by bringing together transportation stakeholders from all over the region
• Facilitating employee emergency exercise and training program for Orange County Transit Authority, Orange County, California
• Victim development and field moulage for an airport Police Active Shooter exercise that will be filmed as part of a video training program
• Developed an employee emergency preparedness program for Romac Industries foundry operation
• SeaTac Airport 2014 Triennial Crash exercise, providing moulage and victim development for 200 victims (my largest event yet!)
• Developed an EOC Logistics staff training program for the Portland/Vancouver UASI group
  
• Served on the Design Team for the Marine Terrorism functional exercise in Puget Sound
• Taught a Business Continuity course in San Diego, California
• Design team member, victim development and moulage for an Emergency Room surge capacity exercise for Valley Medical Center