Ryan Guerry

About Ryan Guerry

Empowering and innovative Emergency Management Director with considerable progressive experience leading, implementing, and maintaining emergency management and disaster preparedness plans, policies, and procedures for large geographic areas and organizations. Recognized as a subject matter expert and strategist when ensuring the sustainment of operations, community programming, infrastructure, and systems during crises and disasters. Showcases strong leadership, influencing, and consensus building along with demonstrated problem solving and decision making while simultaneously remaining calm and collected in disruptive, high-stress situations. Adept at collaborating with diverse, multi-disciplinary teams to mitigate and minimize risk while protecting community members, property and assets, and vital resources. Committed to the high-quality delivery of programming in response to natural disasters, climate change, and other adverse events.

Experience

1. Disaster Resilience & Mitigation Officer

   Richland County Government

   Oct 2021 — Present · Columbia, SC, US

   Administers a wide variety of block grants focused on minimizing risk and resiliency associated with climate change, including intense heat, hurricanes, storms, and flooding. Ensures appropriate county response to crises and emergencies. Responsible for office and program development while also reconciling and auditing the spending of grant money and expenditures. • Leads and spearheads county initiatives related to weather and climate emergencies to protect citizens and ensure effective preparation for future events. • Advocates for the implementation of stricter development codes/processes to safeguard critical infrastructure. • Functioned as Program Manager on multiple endeavors, including a $30.7 block grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a $1.2M flood reduction project, and an $800K critical infrastructure project to secure the county’s water supply; ensured the application of the project through all comprehensive phases.

Education

• Emergency Management Institute

  National Emergency Management Basic Academy Graduate

  2015 — 2015

• Clemson University

  Master of Public Administration - MPA, Concentration on Emergency Management

  2019

• University of South Carolina

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science & Foreign Policy

  2008

Skills

• Invoicing
• Tax
• Continuity of Operations
• Emergency Management
• Community Outreach
• Public Policy
• Research
• Federal Grants Management
• Leadership
• Government
• Training
• Logistics Management
• Microsoft Office
• Continuity of Government
• Employment Law
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Disaster Response
• Policy
• Auditing
• Disaster Logistics
• Public Speaking
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Strategic Planning
• Management
• Outlook
• Disaster Management
• Process Improvement
• Customer Service
• Microsoft Word
• Legal Writing