After almost 17 years with the state of Ohio I decided it was time to move on.  On December 15th I began working for a government contractor called L-3 Communications.  They are the 9th largest contractor to the Feds and part of an even larger conglomerate.  I am assigned to the Ohio Emergency Managment Agency and tasked with working on a team that develops and delivers exercises to the state agencies and the counties of Ohio.

I'm in Emmitsburg at the Emergency Management Institute as part of the instructor cadre for the Series 11 Master Exercise Practioner Class.  They will graduate in on Thursday.  A very interesting group including the first Chinese national to take the class.

Yesterday I attended the Morrow County Pandemic Flu Exercise in Mt. Gilead, Ohio.  It was a small well run exercise with many good things realized and other problem areas identified.

The Northwest Exercise was completed last week and was realitvley successful.  Attended the Delaware County design meeting as well as the combined Hardin-Wyandot meeting.

Yesterday was a blur.  I spent almost 2 hours on the phone with 2 poeple talking about how their MSEL should be built for the upcoming functional exercises.  Leslie fom Columbus is doing a good job and is always eager to try new things.  NE has had some design problems and hopefully they are on the right track now.  The evening was uneventful, the kids went with their dad.  The computer crashed again for the third time.  I began reloading the software last night,  I didn't check to see if it finished.