ROBERT W. ROSS

VICE PRESIDENT

Robert (Bob) Ross is the Vice President of Delta’s Disaster Preparedness Solutions team. In that role, Bob assesses the issues challenging Delta Development Group’s private- and public-sector emergency management, public health, and healthcare clients and then works with them to formulate sound, viable strategies for answering those challenges.  He emphasizes an all-hazards approach in emergency planning and the need to integrate and coordinate planning within an organization and with external agencies and departments. 

Prior to joining Delta, Bob spent several years working for a homeland security consulting firm in the National Capital Region, providing public health preparedness and general technical assistance for federal, state, and local clients. His projects included preparing public health- centered exercises and plans, developing guidance documents for the federal Department of Homeland Security, and participating in the development of Comprehensive Preparedness Guides 101 (planning) and 301 (special needs). 

Previously, Bob was the Administrator for the Public Health Preparedness Section of the Delaware Division of Public Health and was responsible for the planning, training, and operations functions of the section.  He was the primary author of Delaware’s systems approach to surge capacity planning, the Modular Medical Expansion System, which integrates command and control, Strategic National Stockpile receipt, distribution and dispensing, and victim medical care and transportation.  Bob served as an Emergency Support Function #8 Coordinator in several weather-related activations of the Delaware Emergency Operations Center and as the Operations Section Chief of the Delaware State Health Operations Center during Hurricane Isabel in 2003.  Bob also was instrumental in building a coalition of public health preparedness leaders from state and federal agencies in the Mid-Atlantic region for coordinated planning activities. 

Over the past 25 years, Bob, a former nationally registered paramedic and volunteer firefighter, has served as a county-level Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Training Officer, EMS Operations Chief for a small city, and EMS Training Coordinator for the state of Delaware.  Bob was also an EMS Field Instructor for the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute as well as an instructor cadre for Basic Trauma Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support in Maryland. 

Bob holds a bachelor’s degree in human resource management from Wilmington University in Delaware, and is currently enrolled in a Master of Public Health program focusing on public health preparedness.  He is a graduate of the Mid-Atlantic Health Leadership Institute program at Johns Hopkins University.  He has completed numerous independent study courses through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and has completed coursework in ICS-300, ICS-400, IS-100, IS-120, IS-15.a, IS-200, IS-200.a, IS-235, IS-700, and IS-800 levels.

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