Dennie Templeton
Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness
Radford University
Radford, Va.
Notable Achievements:
- Developed and implemented emergency plans, protocols and strategies in 18 months, involving numerous campus constituents, including the university president, senior administration, faculty, staff and students
- Brought together campus constituents with local and regional first responder agencies in successful table-top exercises and full-scale emergency drills: 45 students volunteered to participate as “victims”
- Achieved cost savings by convening a committee composed of staff with expertise in communications, IT and budgeting to review and assess best buys in hardware and software to support a campus-wide mass notification system
- Developed plans to use existing distance education technologies in the event of a lengthy closure of the school to ensure academic continuity
- Manages two major units: the office of distance education and the office of emergency preparedness
- Worked with IT and emergency management personnel to research and recommend emergency preparedness enhancement resources and technologies, and established a Web-based port for the dissemination of information
Congratulations to all of our finalists!
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