User:Hillman S. Mitchell

Currently, I am the Director of the Office of Emergency Management for King County, WA. I manage two programs: 1. the Emergency Management Program; responsible for Preparedness, Mitigation, Response and Recovery for disaster both natural and man-made (including cyber-attack) and 2. the Enhanced 911 Program Office; responsible for the Development, Implementation and Support of all technology for E911 centers in King County. King County has a population of 1.9 million people (the 14th largest county in the US and includes 39 cities, 148 Special Purpose Districts (including the Port of Seattle (the 4th largest sea port in the US) and several major companies including Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, Google, Starbucks, etc.

I started my professional career with DuPont Research as a Computer Scientist, followed by a career with Microsoft, managing Microsoft Consulting Services. I have been active with W3C incubator projects, the publishing of studies with the National Research Council, development of systems with the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advanced Research Program, National Laboratories including: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers Advanced Research Center, Microsoft Research, etc.