REGION 5
Bill joined the Florida CERT Association Board of Directors in September of 2019. He is a native of Washington State, during all of his growing up years. He has been a Florida resident since 1964.
Bill has been going to the Florida CERT conferences since 2015. Bill is a group leader of his community CERT Team #62, at the Clarcona Resorts, in Apopka, Florida, for many years now as their leader and trainer.
Bill joined the Florida CERT Association Board of Directors in September of 2019. He is a native of Washington State, during all of his growing up years. He has been a Florida resident since 1964.
Bill has been going to the Florida CERT conferences since 2015. Bill is a group leader of his community CERT Team #62, at the Clarcona Resorts, in Apopka, Florida, for many years now as their leader and trainer.
Bill volunteers many hours a month to different events in and around the Orlando , Florida area, such as Bike-a-thons; Walk-A-thons; HamCation, CERT Trainings for the County EOC, as well as other events.
Bill, is a Ham Radio Operator, as well as a Volunteer Examiner, who does testing and training’s for new Technicians who want to get their Ham Radio License. Bill holds a General Class Ham Radio License. Bill is the Chair for HamCation, in Logistics as well as the many other hats that he wears, during HamCation he donated 90 working hours to this event in 1 week. Bill was in charge of the set-up and tear down for the event.
Bill sat in as a Volunteer Examiner at the very first Ham Radio Technician License testing session held at the pre-conference class.for CERT PRE-CONFERENCE at Naples, Florida, in September 2019, where 10 new Technician Ham Radio Operators were created..
Bill’s primary Goal is to make contact with all of his City and County EOC’s and all of his CERT Team Leaders in Region 3, to help motivate them and to help them in anyway he can to make them successful. Bill is a major team player and honest and a hard working CERT Board Member. Bill is on 3 Committees where he resides either as Chair or Co-Chair, as well as property management for different people in his community.
Bill is retired, and served 3 terms in Viet Nam when he was enlisted in the Navy.