BIOGRAPHIES

Les Junge – EM Associates President

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Steve Woronoff – SMARTT  Solutions Inc. President

Steve Woronoff of Lowgap, Virginia, has worked in the human resources field for the past thirty years.  In August of 1999, he founded SMARTT Solutions, Inc.  SMARTT  (Successfully Maximizing All Resources Through Training) Solutions, Inc., is a Human Resource – based, global consulting company. 

His duties as President of SMARTT Solutions, Inc., provides clients with an array of human resource training programs that include teambuilding and leadership development as well as job description, policy review and employee handbook development and specializes in workmen’s compensation premium reviews and the development of business continuity plans for disaster preparedness. Steve has written over fifty business and government continuity plans for disaster preparedness within Virginia, South Carolina, Illinois, Minnesota, Alabama and West Virginia. 

Prior to SMARTT Solutions, Inc., in 1976, he began his corporate career with Milliken & Company, Spartanburg, South Carolina working as a shift manager and then entering human resources.  In 1981, he began a five-year employment with Dan River, Inc., working as a Personnel Manager and Division Personnel Director.  That company dissolved in 1985 and he began work with Russell Corporation, Alexander City, Alabama as an Area Industrial Relations Manager and for the next sixteen years progressed within the organization relocating to Lowgap, Virginia in 1989 to become a human resource/training manager for Cross Creek Apparel, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Russell Corporation.

Steve obtained his Master’s Degree in Human Resources from Troy State University Montgomery, Alabama; and, a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. In July 2008, he begins studies to obtain a PhD in Strategic Leadership and Organizational Development through Carland University, Asheville, Virginia.

Presently Steve is involved with Rotary International; member of the Mount Airy Rotary Club for ten years, Boy Scouts of America; District Chairman for eleven years and now V.P. District Operations and Executive Board Member.

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Richard Ellison, Sr. – Master Exercise Practitioner

Mr. Richard A. Ellison Sr. has over 34 years of law enforcement experience. He recently served as Chief Facilitator and Master Exercise Practitioner (MEP) for the San Francisco Customs and Border Protection (CBP). He is Federal Emergency Management Agency certified and currently serves as and Instructor for FEMA MEP classes. He has served as a participant, controller, facilitator, and observer in major exercises conducted by Federal agencies i.e. Port STEP conducted by UNITECH and TSA, Safe Port conducted by the United States Coast Guard, an operation at Oakland Airport conducted by TSA, and three Continuation of Operation Program (COOP) exercises conducted by the Federal Executive Board.

Most recently, Mr. Ellison has assisted in the development, conduct and evaluation of exercises to include:

·         School Shooter Exercise for Central Alabama Community College

·         Functional Exercise for Marshall County, AL EMA

·         Tabletop Exercise for Autauga County, AL EMA on school emergency preparedness

In 2005, Mr. Ellison was selected to head up a team of MEPs to conduct an Avian Flu Pandemic Tabletop Exercise in Washington, DC, for senior mangers of CBP. As Chief Facilitator in the San Francisco Field Office, he led a team to develop and conduct at least one exercise per quarter. In 2002 Mr. Ellison worked on the Container Security Initiative (CSI) Antwerp, Belgium and served on the 2002 Winter Olympics security team responsible for running background research on all traffic in and out of Salt Lake City.

Mr. Ellison has led exercises related to terrorist activities and natural disasters including Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Lethal amounts of Hoof-and-Mouth Disease, Anthrax and Pandemics. Each of these exercise were conducted multiple times for more than 200 CBP employees and 100 or more members of other Federal and Local Agencies. Mr. Ellison also served as Chief Inspector of the Enforcement Branch for U.S. Customs in San Francisco, California. During that time his branch made the largest heroin seizure in U.S. history on May 20, 1991 consisting of 1084 pounds of pure China White Heroin. Mr. Ellison was a regional operation officer with U.S. Customs in Los Angeles, California, where he was responsible for all enforcement programs for the Pacific Region, covering the ports of San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Anchorage, and Honolulu. This included the Canine Enforcement teams. As an Operations Officer he was selected to evaluate the Saudi Arabian canine program for the Saudi Government.

Advisory Emergency Management Consultant

Our Advisory Consultant has over 20 years of professional emergency management consulting experience, including serving as the project manager and technical lead on numerous business and information technology emergency preparedness planning projects for university, commercial, state and local government clients. These emergency preparedness projects have covered the spectrum on in-depth assessments, developing mitigation strategies and recommendations and plan development as well as training and exercises.

He has extensive experience in continuity of operations/business continuity planning and mitigation planning.  He has assisted in the assessment, development and testing of hundreds of business and technological preparedness plans for state and local governments, universities and commercial enterprises.

He has demonstrated proficient skills in applying industry leading methodologies to his emergency preparedness projects in the areas of emergency management accreditation; IT security;  homeland security exercise and evaluation methods; business process improvement including six sigma; homeland security target capabilities; strategic planning; IT hardware, software and systems planning; IT software development; organizational maturity models including CMM and COBiT and project management principles.