Our Story

Built at the Intersection of
Operations, Preparedness & Resilience

Fianna Emergency Consulting exists because the organizations that protect our communities face a problem no single discipline can solve alone. Emergency managers understand disasters but not always technology failures. IT departments understand networks but not what a CAD outage means at 2 a.m. Cybersecurity firms understand threats but not operational reality.

Our founder sits at the center of all three. Thirty-one years as a working paramedic. ICS 400 incident command certification. A doctorate in cybersecurity. Statewide critical infrastructure coordination for the NJ Office of Homeland Security. The result is a consulting practice that speaks every language your organization needs — and delivers one outcome: you stay operational no matter what.

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Founder & Principal Consultant
Fianna Emergency Consulting

A career that has never fit neatly into one box — and that's exactly the point. From the back of an ambulance to statewide critical infrastructure coordination to doctoral research on 911 center vulnerabilities, every chapter has added a layer of perspective that no single-discipline consultant can replicate. Fianna's founder doesn't approach client engagements as a cybersecurity consultant, or an emergency manager, or an IT advisor. The approach is simpler: find every way your organization could fail to protect the community it serves, and close those gaps.

Doctor of Information Technology — Cybersecurity
31-Year Licensed Paramedic
ICS 300 / 400 / 401 — Incident Command Certified
Former Critical Infrastructure Coordinator, NJ Office of Homeland Security
HIPAA, CJIS & NIST Framework Expertise
OT/ICS/SCADA Security Architecture
Published Researcher — PSAP & 911 Center Resilience
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The Name

Why Fianna?

The Fianna were the legendary warrior bands of ancient Ireland — elite protectors who served in the gaps between society and the threats it could not see coming. They were called when a single discipline wasn't enough. They operated at the boundaries: in the forests, on the margins, in the uncertain spaces between safety and chaos.

They weren't just fighters. They were required to be scholars, physicians, musicians, and strategists. The Fianna were multi-disciplinary by design — because the threats they faced didn't respect single-discipline boundaries.

That's exactly the position this firm occupies. The threats facing public safety organizations today — ransomware, CAD failures, hurricanes, mass casualty incidents, data breaches — don't stay inside the lanes of cybersecurity, or emergency management, or clinical operations. They overlap, compound, and cascade.

Fianna Emergency Consulting operates at that intersection — not because no one else does, but because that's where the mission requires us to be. The name is a promise: we show up where it's difficult, we stay until it's resolved, and we prepare you for the next one.

⚔ Elite protectors — operating at the edges
📖 Multi-disciplinary by design, not accident
🛡 Called when a single discipline isn't enough

Fianna (Irish: fíanna) — "warrior bands of ancient Ireland; protectors of the community in times of threat"

Mission

Protecting Those Who
Protect Others

Our mission is simple: help the organizations that protect our communities stay operational under any condition. Not just cyber threats. Not just natural disasters. Not just system failures. All of it — because real-world incidents don't stay neatly inside one category.

We bring operational experience, technical expertise, and strategic perspective together in every engagement — because our clients can't afford to hire three different consultants to solve one problem.

Our Journey
1995
Public Safety Career Begins — First calls as an Emergency Medical Technician, building decades of frontline operational knowledge across EMS and emergency services in New Jersey.
2001
Advanced to Paramedic — Earned Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic certification, providing advanced life support in urban, suburban, and rural settings across New Jersey.
2013
State-Level Leadership — Joined the NJ Department of Health, Office of EMS as Assistant Data Manager and Lead Investigator, overseeing statewide compliance, audits, and data systems.
2020
Doctoral Achievement — Earned a Doctor of Information Technology in Cybersecurity from Capella University, with dissertation research on PSAP (911 center) cybersecurity capabilities.
2022
Critical Infrastructure Security — Served as Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Coordinator for the NJ Office of Homeland Security, leading statewide outreach and cyber resilience programs.
2026
Fianna Emergency Consulting Founded — Combining 31 years of public safety experience, emergency management expertise, and doctoral-level cybersecurity to build the resilience firm first responders and healthcare organizations deserve.
Core Values

What We Stand For

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Mission First

Every recommendation we make is filtered through one question: does this help the agency protect their community more effectively and safely?

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Operational Realism

We don't prescribe solutions built for Fortune 500 IT departments. Our recommendations work in the real-world constraints of public safety agencies and healthcare organizations.

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Evidence-Based Practice

Our work is grounded in established frameworks — NIST, ICS, HIPAA Security Rule, and CIS Controls — adapted for the operational realities of the agencies we serve.

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Partnership, Not Transaction

We build long-term relationships with our clients. Resilience and security aren't one-time projects — they're ongoing commitments, and we show up accordingly.