R. Aubrey Cheatham, CEM, MEP

Experience

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  USAF

  Feb 1979 - Mar 1999

  Senior Master Sergeant/First Sergeant

  13 years Nuclear Security Forces Management, 7 years First Sergeant

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  Campbell County, Virginia

  Mar 1999 - Aug 2009

  Public Safety Director

  Fire, EMS, E911, Emergency Management, Fire Marshal services, Animal Control

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  CRA, Inc.

  Aug 2009 - Feb 2013

  Project Manager

  Technical Assistance and Homeland Security related emergency planning for Federal, State, Local, and Commercial clients.

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  Homeland Security Solutions, Inc.

  Mar 2013 - Sept 2015

  Project Manager

  Currently assigned duty as Virginia Regional Exercise Liaison with the Olson Group Ltd.

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  The Olson Group, Ltd.

  Mar 2013 - now

  Aubrey Cheatham has a distinguished record providing leadership, management, and supervision to various organizations over the past 42 years. Over the past eight years, Mr. Cheatham has managed and helped design, facilitate, and evaluate well over 185 Tabletop, command post, Functional and Full-Scale Homeland Security and Emergency Management compliant exercises. He has led the planning, conduct and evaluation of multiple-agency, multiple-venue exercises addressing both natural disasters and acts of terrorism at the Federal and local levels. He has developed and delivered high-level exercises, briefings and other products for senior political and agency officials in both Washington and across the country. Mr. Cheatham has eight years emergency management and public safety experience as a local government Director and Deputy Director of a department responsible for the coordination of emergency management, fire, fire marshal, EMS, Emergency 9-1-1, and animal control services in Campbell County, Virginia. He also has seven years’ experience as a United States Air Force First Sergeant where he was responsible for the morale, welfare, and discipline of organizations averaging 200 personnel in various worldwide locations. Mr. Cheatham spent thirteen years as a Security Force Manager in the USAF where he was responsible for the security of up to 500 nuclear warheads and the supervision of up to 50 individuals performing various nuclear security, air base ground defense, and law enforcement related duties worldwide, including air base security, ground launch cruise missile deployment defense, aircraft security, and incident investigations. Show less

  • Exercise Subject Matter Expert

    Jul 2023 - now

  • Senior Vice President, Training & Exercise

    Mar 2013 - Jul 2023