Author: Nick Meacher

Nick Meacher learned preparedness planning from his extensive career in emergency services and emergency management. With over 25 years as an expert planner developing and teaching emergency response programs, Train-the-Trainer programs, developing a variety of exercises to include Emergency Operations Center and Continuity of Operations. He has worked on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team and in Emergency Operations Centers. He is an instructor for Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, Exercise Design and a number of other related courses. He is a contributing author to several magazines and teaches preparedness, including developing family emergency plans, communications plans, Amateur Radio and other aspects of being prepared for the natural and man-made disasters that occur every year. He has been a contributor to several Department of Homeland Security documents on encryption in public safety. He has presented at several state emergency management conferences, the American Association of Airport Executives Emergency Management conferences and Public Safety Communications Summits. He has appeared on a number of podcasts. He runs a volunteer team that provides free Amateur Radio (HAM) classes and tests and has provided almost 2,000 test sessions in four years with over 1,200 new ham radio operators.