With my wife, Ellen, I founded the “I Love U Guys” Foundation in 2006 following a school shooting that took the life of my daughter, Emily. Since its inception, the Foundation has collaborated extensively with first responders, school districts and other safety professionals to create specific and easy-to-implement protocols to train for, address and respond to crisis situations.

The resulting Standard Response Protocol (SRP) and the Standard Reunification Method (SRM) have been adopted by more than 25,000 schools, agencies, municipalities and government organizations across the United States and Canada as well as within Department of Defense International American Schools around the world. In support of the Foundation’s work, I travel the country speaking to audiences made up of students, educators, schools administrators, law enforcement professionals, first responders and federal leaders focused on school safety and community preparedness.

My career experience prior to my work with the Foundation included graphic design, communications, writing, software and database development.