Welcome to Advanced Preparedness Consultants - We wamt to help your business be safer, better prepared, more survivable, and recover faster from significant unplanned events.

Advanced Preparedness Consultants was formed in response to the needs of the business community to address the ever-growing need to be better prepared to respond to a vast variety of situations that could force them to lose business due to natural, man-made, or security-related incidents.

Advanced Preparedness Consultants have over 35 years of collective experience in disaster preparedness training with knowledge of the tailored contemporary technologies. Advanced Preparedness Consultatns are just what organizations of all types need to fill the gap in the specialization-focused preparedness industry by being able to bring context and tie together the entire gamut of an organization's emergency management and preparedness effort. Advanced Preparedness Consultants will work with your team to develop the optimum plan to maximize the safety of your organization during a significant incident as well as the restoration of business activities afterward.

Principals:

Olden Henson, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, holds both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Physics. He is also a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ Counterterrorism Academy as well as the FEMA Preparedness School. A former physicist for General Electric Corporations’ Nuclear Division, he transitioned into the political arena by getting elected to the Hayward, California City Council in 1993. He utilized his training as a physicist as a member of the National League of Cities’ Public Safety Committee Member in 1994 and making public safety technology, disaster preparedness, and interoperability key focus issues for the organization. He became chairman of the committee in 2000 and helped the National League of Cities produce the Guide to Resources in Combatting Domestic Terrorism, a local government bible.

Olden has given testimony before seven U.S. Congressional and Senate committees on subjects ranging from the need to continue funding for local government technologies and the need for resources and information sharing in preparation and response to disasters natural and terror generated. He has been a keynote speaker at two Defense Week Symposiums and has been a panelist sitting with 4 star generals. He currently is a member of the U. S. Justice Department’s NTFI, the National Task Force on Interoperability, a group consisting of local, federal, law enforcement, defense, and IT officials for the purpose of establishing seamless voice, data, and imaging on demand communications with every critical entity in the country. He has hosted a CSPAN on Public Safety Technologies. Olden continues his role as an elected official in Hayward while chairing the technology committee in his city.

Dexter Chan has over 15 years of experience with governmental, public, private, non-governmental, and research-related organizations of all sizes. With a Bachelor's in Environmental Sciences from UC Berkeley and a Master's in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco, Dexter served as a member of the National Response Team in Washington, DC and has responded to numerous incidents involving the accidental release of oil and hazardous materials including the Exxon Valdez and the Kuwaiti oil fires. His extensive business process improvement, instructional designer/training, and planning background has been frequently tapped by government agencies, high-tech, bio-tech, and non-governmental organizations to help them develop preparedness plans, innovative training programs and materials, and perform business process analyses. He managed the CAMEO Certified Instructors program for a number of years, was a member of the federal committee that wrote the HMTUSA national training guidelines for emergency responders, served as an instructor at the California Specialized Training Institute, was recently an invited participant in the OSD NII-sponsored multinational civilian-military humanitarian aid Strong Angel II demonstration project writing the official preliminary findings and recommendations report for OSD, and was an invited speaker at two Clark County, Nevada symposiums on the ABCs of Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems, Public Safety, Security, and Emergency Management.

Papers and Presentations:

Chan, Dexter, 2005. Communities, Communications, and Culture: Lessons Learned from Civilian-Military Collaborative Operations. Presented at the ABCs of Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Public Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Symposium II, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Chan, Dexter, 2005. Presentation (in PDF)– Communities, Communications, and Culture: Lessons Learned from Civilian-Military Collaborative Operations. Presented at the ABCs of Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Public Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Symposium II, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Chan, Dexter, 2004. Presentation (in PDF) – Rural Perspectives on Integrating Public Safety and ITS. Presented at the ABCs of Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Public Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Chan, Dexter, 2004. Strong Angel II: Designing the Edge. Preliminary Overview, with Early Results and Selected Findings. Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Information Integration Department.

July 2005

Advanced Preparedness Consultants is a leading consulting, planning, and public safety-focused company.

Chan, Dexter, 2005. Communities, Communications, and Culture: Lessons Learned from Civilian-Military Collaborative Operations. Presented at the ABCs of Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Public Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Symposium II, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Chan, Dexter, 2005. Presentation (in PDF)– Communities, Communications, and Culture: Lessons Learned from Civilian-Military Collaborative Operations. Presented at the ABCs of Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Public Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Symposium II, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Chan, Dexter, 2004. Presentation (in PDF) – Rural Perspectives on Integrating Public Safety and ITS. Presented at the ABCs of Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Public Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Chan, Dexter, 2004. Strong Angel II: Designing the Edge. Preliminary Overview, with Early Results and Selected Findings. Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Information Integration Department.