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JASON McNAMARA
Jason McNamara currently serves as Chief of Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. His career spans more than 15 years of staff-level and supervisory experience in emergency management legislation, policy, planning and operations, including eight years with FEMA, 1993 - 2001.
Before returning to FEMA, he served as an Associate Vice President and the Director of Emergency Management/Homeland Security for Dewberry & Davis LLC, an A&E consulting firm headquartered in Fairfax, VA. Prior to joining Dewberry, Mr. McNamara served as a Professional Staff Member for the U.S. House Select Committee on Homeland Security, leading the Democratic staff efforts for the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness and Response, and as an Assistant Vice President for Program Management at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he was the Deputy Division Manager for SAIC’s Readiness and Response Division.
Prior to joining SAIC in 2001, Mr. McNamara served as the Acting Chief of the Interagency and Catastrophic Planning Section at FEMA. In this role, he managed day-to-day Federal response planning activities with all Federal Response Plan signatory agencies, and implemented changes and additions to the Federal Response Plan. He also served as Operations Section Chief for Headquarters-based National Emergency Support Team in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and as agency liaison officer to the U.S. Capitol Police Board in response to the Anthrax attack on the United States Senate.
Throughout his career at FEMA, Mr. McNamara participated in the planning, execution, and evaluation of FEMA sponsored disaster response exercises and actual emergency response operations. His field assignments included the Oklahoma City bombing (1995), Hurricane Opal (1995), the Northridge, CA Earthquake (1994), and numerous other floods and hurricanes.
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