Douglas Brown

Experience

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  Cathedral City Fire Department

  Jan 1988 - Apr 1993

  Battalion Chief / Fire Marshal

  Provided leadership and management of the fire prevention division and code enforcement services for a career fire department serving 35,000 people in a 20 SM area.

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  International Association of Fire Chiefs and Emergency Services Consulting International

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1996

  Director of Govt. Relations

  Led and managed operations of the Government Relations Department. Included lobbying and coordinating national legislative agenda with the White House, Congress and Federal agencies.

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  National Fire Protection Association

  Apr 1996 - Mar 1999

  Research Project Manager

  Directed and managed multiple high-dollar fire and life safety research projects to help achieve performance based codes and standards.

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  Caldwell Fire Dept.

  Mar 2000 - Nov 2009

  Deputy Chief / Fire Marshal

  Provided leadership and management for the Fire Prevention Division serving three cities and 120 SM rural service area with a population of approximately 60,000 people.

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  Idaho Fire Chiefs Assn.

  Jun 2000 - Apr 2015

  Vice-President of Operations

  Served on the Board of Directors for fifteen years. Held the positions of Secretary-Treasurer (4 years), President (2 years) and Vice-President of Operations (9 years). Have represented the IFCA on the National Volunteer Fire Council as a State Director and on the Idaho National Fire Plan Committee. Retired in 2010 and moved to Georgia, but continued to serve as Vice-President of Operations and, until January 2015, served as their webmaster. Doug is a Life Member of the IFCA.

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  Sandy Springs Fire Dept

  Sept 2011 - Aug 2021

  Division Chief - Fire Marshal

  Responsible for leadership and management of the Fire Marshal's Office for the second largest city in the metro Atlanta area with a fixed population of 106K residents and a weekday population of over 200K people. Provide direction and support for two Deputy Fire Marshals and five Fire Inspectors. Oversee numerous fire prevention programs and efforts including commercial building inspections, plan reviews and fire investigations. Responsible for fire and life safety for over 5K businesses including three major hospitals and 62 high-rise buildings including several Fortune 500 corporate headquarters. Current building boom has over a dozen new mid-rise mixed-use buildings under construction and several new high-rise buildings proposed. Our focus is to provide exemplary customer service to citizens, businesses and visitors to Sandy Springs helping to ensure their safety and that of our firefighters. Graduate of Leadership Sandy Springs - Class of 2018. Show less

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  Georgia Association of Fire Chiefs

  Apr 2013 - Mar 2015

  Program Manager - Georgia Pipeline Emergency Response Initiative

  Recommended by the Georgia Pipeline Operators and Emergency Responders Coalition Steering Committee to coordinate, organize and develop a statewide training program, through the Georgia Association of Fire Chiefs. That program is the Georgia Pipeline Emergency Response Initiative (GPERI). Detailed information on the program is available at www.gafc.org/projects.php. The program delivers instructor-based training to emergency responders in prevention, response and recovery from natural gas and hazardous liquid pipeline incidents. The project's co-operators include numerous pipeline operators, the Georgia Public Safety Training Center / Georgia Fire Academy and the Georgia Public Service Commission. The program offers 16, 8 and 4 hour modules of training at no cost to emergency responders who have hazardous materials pipelines in or within mutual aid range of their jurisdictions. The program is being developed as a national model for pipeline safety training in consortia with USDOT / PHMSA. Show less

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  City of Sandy Springs - Fire Department

  Aug 2021 - Jan 2021

  Retired - Division Chief / Fire Marshal

  Happily retired following a 53 year career in the fire service and public safety.