Terry Gitlin:  

Life Terry A. Gitlin Business Continuity Consultant CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer Walnut Creek, California Terry was hired in April 2004 by AAA -- then in San Francisco -- to provide corporate-level emergency management for the organization that provides AAA travel, automotive, services to its members in Northern California, Nevada, and Utah and sells insurance in 21 states. He comes from his prior experience as Director of Emergency Preparedness for Santa Clara County. In his four years there he led that County's transition from disaster preparedness to a focus on homeland security planning in the Silicon Valley post-9/11. Terry provides disaster preparedness guidance to plan the company's disaster resiliency and annual disaster drills. Additionally, he continues to work with other local, state, and federal representatives to better coordinate regional plans for the response to and recovery from major disasters that we anticipate in the future. Terry's professional experience includes coordinating disaster responses to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm when he was working for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department Office of Emergency Services for twelve years; the 2002 Croy Fire in Santa Clara County near Morgan Hill; as well as providing mutual aid to the Governor's Office of Emergency Services following the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Southern California; and coordinating homeland security initiatives in the SF Bay Area following 9/11. Terry has been an invited instructor at the California Specialized Training Institute near San Luis Obispo, CA, presenting on emergency center design and function, basic skills for emergency managers, and collaborating with community-based organizations in times of disaster. He assisted the Georgia Emergency Management Agency in its efforts to establish a cohesive statewide mutual aid system prior to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. At the 2002 Asia...Expand for more