Our Team
Liz Valdes
Liz has 15 years of Disaster debris management, monitor training, and Monitor supervision experience and has served with DP&O (and former Disaster Operation & Training, Inc.) in several capacities-Debris Management specialist, Project Monitor Supervisor and Recovery assistant to DP&O Program director. She specializes in debris management, logistics and operations and ensures all debris removal tasks are performed and monitored per FEMA Hurricane Sandy Accelerated Debris Pilot Program. She is highly skilled for document control with damage assessments validations, emergency costs and contractor reconciliation and FEMA submittals review and preparation. Liz is very organized and efficient with review of field and client documents for accuracy and completeness. Her skillsets include assisting with reconciliation of force labor, equipment, and review of debris monitoring logs (collection, TDSR and disposal), and debris removal status reports and field tasks logs for discrepancies.
Liz is Project manager for Debris Projects in Florida The School Board of Brevard County, Florida and Homestead, and assisted in the 2016 Mississippi EF4 tornadoes recovery assisting with emergency debris removal documentation in utilities Right of way covering a 30 mile by 2mile wide path including: preparation of the FEMA required pre-disaster Utilities warehouse inventory and compared to purchased and installed inventory items; permitting the TDSR, performing truck certifications, daily supervision of monitor load/ haul and final disposal and daily reconciliation of load haul with disposal records. She Directs FEMA Project Worksheet submittals including preparation of debris removal progress reports, maps, force equipment and labor logs, and data entry. Additionally, Liz coordinated gathering, review all debris removal tickets and reconciliation for WM 2005, and 2005 projects which covered 12 cities located in Dade, Palm Beach and Broward counties. She assisted with FEMA submittals documentation for Categories A-G for El Portal, Key Biscayne, and Miami Springs.
FEMA certification/training courses:
Introduction of the Incident Command System IS-100,700 and FEMA - ICS for single Resources and Initial Action Incident IS-200 FEMA
Special Event Contingency Planning of Public Safety Agencies IS-15. A FEMA
NIMS Public Information System IS-702 FEMA
National Response Plan (NPR), an Introduction IS-800.A FEMA
Introduction to the Public Assistance Process IS-630 FEMA
Public Assistance Operation I IS-631; Principles of Emergency Management IS-230
Role of the Emergency Oper. Center in Community Preparedness, Response & Recovery IS-275
FEMA Debris Management Planning and Public Assistance
NIMS/ICS 100-800; HIPAA Chapter110 –Eligibility Criteria Specialist
2018 Governors Hurricane Conference Training Certification
TS11. (G202) Debris Management – Awarded 05/18/2018
TS12. Evaluating Debris Management and Monitoring RFPs – Awarded 05/18/201