Thomas Tommy Cook

About Thomas Tommy Cook

Currently serving as Vice President of the Professional Services Business Unit, providing executive-level leadership, strategic planning, and overseeing successful client service, project execution, and financial performance at Wildfire Defense Systems by for over 35 insurer clients across 22 states.I also serve as Chief Administrative Officer and Board Member for Wildfire Defence Systems Canada Inc.(WDS Canada), providing executive leadership for our Canadian Corporation. Incorporated in Alberta in 2025, WDS Canada, part of the WDS Response Network, provides wildfire loss intervention services for over 10 Canadian insurer clients across 5 provinces. Our National Coordination Centre, south of Edmonton, provides dispatch coordination, loss intervention services, and readiness planning and response actions throughout our service area.I also am LLC Manager for WD Fire Supply, a WDS company, providing field-tested and customized products for the wildfire and emergency services industry. As LLC Manager, I oversee all business operations including achieving revenue and profitability goals, vendor/supplier relationships, product innovation, manufacturing capacity, and customer relations. Prior to joining WDS, I was a senior project and program manager with CDM Smith, a global engineering and consulting firm, completing over 20 years of consulting, client service, and project delivery for a wide range of projects including environmental remediation, investigation, and time-critical response actions. Managed multiple multi-phase remedial investigation and construction projects for federal agencies including the EPA, USACE, DOT Volpe Center, NAVFAC, and the FAA throughout the western United States. Notable projects include managing multiple architect-engineering contracts for the Libby Asbestos Superfund Project in northwest Montana and remedial investigation/feasibility studies, occupational exposure, and remediation projects at legacy mine sites, military installations, and civil infrastructure facilities.

Experience

1. Vice President of Professional Services

   Wildfire Defense Systems, Inc.

   Jun 2022 — Present · Bozeman, MT, US

   Provides executive-level leadership for the Professional Services Business Unit including the Program Management & Client Relations and Reporting & Analytics Departments. Provide oversight and management of business development activities and successful project delivery of WDS Wildfire Intervention Services (WDS Service) for over 30 insurer client contracts across 22 states, Alberta, and British Columbia. Monitors WDS Service program execution and field operations to successfully reduce claims from wildfires for our clients, achieve WDS business goals, and drive WDS Service expansion opportunities.

Education

• University of Colorado Denver

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  2015 — 2019

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Master of Science (MS), Soil Science/Mine Reclamation

  1998 — 2000

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Soil/Environmental Science

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Environmental Consulting
• Project Management
• Team Leadership
• Soil
• Groundwater
• Environmental Science
• Hazardous Waste Management
• Asbestos
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Compliance
• Cercla
• Phase I
• Remediation
• Environmental Permitting
• Environmental Management Systems
• Remedial Investigations
• Stormwater Management
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Water