Shannondor Marquez
Shannondor Marquez has 26 years of experience in emergency and disaster management, public safety, and emergency health services. He is recognized as a leader in disaster response and recovery operations management and in designing emergency management solutions for catastrophic events.
His experience includes the disaster response and recovery following the 1991 volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, conducting humanitarian evacuations from Somalia in 1993, response and recovery following the Northridge earthquake in 1994, several earthquake response and recovery missions in Central Japan from 1997 to 1998, emergency management of Southern California fire storms in 2003, and recovery operations following the Indonesian Tsunami in 2004. He also designed and implemented the first paramedic program for the New Iraqi Army and served as an expert in the development the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps in 2004. He retired from the United States Navy in 2005.
Marquez is employed by Innovative Emergency Management and serves as the contracted responsible manager for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s New Madrid Seismic Zone Catastrophic Earthquake Response Planning Project.
Marquez is a doctoral student in public policy and administration (homeland security) at Walden University. He holds a master’s in business management from the University of Phoenix and a baccalaureate in homeland security with a focus in disaster and emergency management from American Military University. His current research focus is community resiliency in catastrophic events, technological terrorism and its effects on response and recovery operations, and internal and external terrorist threats.
Marquez resides in Herndon, Virginia with his wife Nancy and their two children Madison and Connor.