DANIEL C. GOODRICH, MPA, CEM
Instructor
Master of Science in Transportation Management
Mineta Transportation Institute
San Jose State University
Mr. Daniel C. Goodrich is an Instructor for the Master of Science in Transportation Management (MSTM) Program at the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) of San Jose State University. He is also a research associate at MTI, working on emergency management planning, training, and exercise projects.
Previously, Mr. Goodrich was an emergency management coordination specialist for Lockheed Martin Space Systems and a management analyst for a county public health department. He also worked in emergency management for a major city government, where his work focused on developing disaster-resistant Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs). His use of redundant computer systems and cloned hard drives for EOC process recovery was used as an example in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 1999 guide to EOC development.
Mr. Goodrich is a widely published author of articles on security, post-earthquake business resumption, and training and exercises, and he has delivered professional papers at eight conferences in the United States and overseas. He recently completed Emergency Management Handbook for State-Level Transportation Agencies and The Role of Transportation in Campus Emergency Planning with Dr. Frances Edwards, published by MTI in 2009. He also peer-reviewed a model set of Incident Command System/National Incident Management System-compliant generic emergency plan checklists for use by universities. Mr. Goodrich’s most recent book chapter is “Supply Chain Security and the Need for Continuous Assessment” in Supply Chain Security: International Practices and Innovations in Moving Goods Safely and Efficiently, also with Edwards. He co-authored a chapter with Edwards, “Organizing for Emergency Management” in the International City/County Management Association “Green Book” Emergency Management, Second Edition. He has three entries on nuclear topics in The WMD Encyclopedia.
Mr. Goodrich has been an active member of the San Jose Metropolitan Medical Task Force, a CBRNE response unit, since 1999, where he has served as exercise director for eight facilitated exercises, a type of exercise that he developed. Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government has selected the creation of this exercise style for a case study in its Executive Management series.
Mr. Goodrich was a guest of the Turkish government in 2007 for the 2nd Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, where he delivered a paper on police response to disasters. He was a 2006 Fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, studying terrorism at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He delivered a paper at the 2006 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) STS-CNAD meeting for 20 nations in Portugal, and in 2004, he chaired a session on “First Responders” at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Germany. He has also been a member of an Expert Working Group for NATO on nuclear security issues.
Mr. Goodrich served in the U.S. Marine Corps, including Security Forces, and in the Army Reserve Military Police. He was recalled to active duty in 2003 to train reserves being deployed to Iraq and Iraqi civilian officials, for which he earned an Army Commendation medal. His other military honors include the Navy Achievement Medal (1991 and 1993) and the Army Achievement Medal (1997).
Mr. Goodrich is attending the conference to learn what advances have been made in emergency management higher education. He is particularly interested in the teaching of logistics and security. He teaches Security Issues for Transportation Professionals (SITP) within the MSTM program, which also offers a post-baccalaureate security certificate program with SITP as one of the core courses.
April 6, 2010