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Biography - Christopher M Reynolds

Dr. Chris Reynolds, CEM has over 30 years of higher education experience in both the traditional and online classroom. He currently serves as the Dean for the Center for Teaching and Learning. He formerly served as the Director for the Emergency and Disaster Management and Homeland Security programs. He is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers. Dr.Reynolds is also a recently retired Division Fire Chief and Emergency Manager with over 33 years of experience in a large metro-county fire-rescue organization. His emergency management experience includes the Oklahoma City Bombing, Hurricanes Andrew, Elena, Opal, and Katrina; Haitian Earthquake, and the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Dr. Reynolds is a certified emergency manager (CEM) through the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), a graduate of the National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program (EFO), and is a Chief Fire Officer Designee (CFO) through the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). Additionally, he holds the Military Emergency Management Senior Specialist (MEMS) badge. He is also a registered Paramedic in the State of Florida.

Dr. Reynolds is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida as an Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer (EPLO) assigned to Air Force Northern Command, 1st Air Force. Air Force Northern Command is the Air Force component of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command (NORAD/NORTHCOM), responsible for all military support to civilian authorities in times of disaster. His prior assignment was as an aeromedical evacution operations officer assigned to MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. His team was activated under the Presidential Partial Mobilization order issued shortly after September 11th attacks and deployed to the Afghanistan/ Pakistan theater in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Chris served as the OIC of an Aeromedical Evacuation Liaison Team at two forward operating bases and was responsible for tactical evacuation of coalition and US casualties. They were the only Aeromedical evacuation capability in the immediate area and directly supported combat search and rescue operations.

He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Officer Training School and the Air Force Air Command and Staff College.