Taylor Blunt
Crisis Manager & Public Safety Transformation Advisor
Specialties & Interests
Emergency Response
As an experienced public safety professional, I’ve responded to thousands of emergency calls and managed highly complex incidents. As a consultant, I help governments with their response to disasters and advise them on strengthening their capabilities for future events.
Emergency Management
I help state and local government agencies with their response and recovery operations for major disasters, such as hurricanes, pandemics, and other catastrophes. I’ve helped manage multi-million dollar state and local recovery programs and have provided emergency staffing support.
technology
As a technophile and forward thinker, I help governments conduct assessments of their current technologies and provide them with specialized options for short and long term improvements based on current trends in the industry.
ABOUT
Serving others has been my family’s business for over three generations. As a freshman in high school who witnessed 9/11 unfold on television, I became hyper-focused on the idea of following in my father’s footsteps. As a Fire/EMS captain with the Arlington County Fire Department, he responded to the Pentagon along with thousands of other heroes. He didn’t come home until a week later, but my family considered ourselves lucky when so many other first responders were lost. In 2004 I began interning with government agencies including law enforcement, public health, mass transit authorities, emergency management offices, and fire departments. After completing my graduate degree in 2011, I joined the Arlington County Fire Department (my dad retired a week after I joined) and served there for ten years. The personal and professional growth earned from a job in public safety is second to none, and I consider myself lucky and very proud of my time served.
Since then, I’ve become a father and work in the private sector helping governments in the US and Canada respond and recover from disasters. I also assist them with exploring ways to serve their communities more efficiently, utilizing incredible next-generation technologies that will change the public safety game in the years ahead. Although I now work in the private sector, I will never forget where I came from. Being a part of the public safety all-stars who make up the CHDS network keeps me engaged and eager to do more.
CHDS AFFILIATION
- Executive Leaders Program, May 2019 – February 2020 (1901)
You’ll never know until you go. Put yourself out there and prepare to be amazed with the possibilities. Surround yourself with good people and do the hard jobs.
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