IEM Leadership

Gary Scronce - Director of Preparedness Programs

Gary Scronce

Gary Scronce has provided emergency preparedness support for both natural and man-made hazards in more than 100 state and local jurisdictions. With a Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering, he served for eight years as a member of the River Bend nuclear power plant’s emergency response organization. In 2006, he managed the review of emergency plans in 65 state and local jurisdictions for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Nationwide Plan Review.  This work resulted in the largest repository of knowledge on the current state of U.S. catastrophic preparedness.

Mr. Scronce has overseen more than 150 technical assistance projects for state and local governments, spanning more than 25 areas of support.  Projects included:  emergency operations planning, continuity of operations and continuity of government planning, terrorism prevention, mass transit emergency planning, critical infrastructure mitigation, mass fatalities planning, and emergency operations center support. With a keen understanding of the challenges faced by Federal, state, and local officials charged with emergency preparedness, Mr. Scronce has provided expert reviews and directed revisions to key emergency management policy and guidance documents. He served as an expert reviewer for DHS’s National Preparedness Goal, Universal Task List, and Target Capabilities List; directed revisions to State and Local Planning Guidance 101 on behalf of a Federal agency; and managed the incorporation of NIMS into planning guidance for multi-million dollar Federal preparedness programs.

Focused on achieving efficiencies in emergency preparedness, Mr. Scronce has directed and provided subject matter expertise for the development of numerous tools that streamline preparedness-related activities for state and local governments. These include automated planning templates, collaborative portals, grant management tools, and decision guidebooks and matrices for all-hazards response. Over the course of his career, Mr. Scronce has directed evacuation studies for nuclear power plants and chemical weapons facilities and has developed and managed multiple state-level exercises, including performance-based exercises that resulted in documented evidence of consistent improvement in performance.

Mr. Scronce is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers and sits on the Private Sector Committee of the Emergency Management Accreditation Program Commission. Other memberships include the Iberville Parish (Louisiana) Local Emergency Planning Committee, the Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Association, the Louisiana Nuclear Society, and the American Nuclear Society. He has both a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering.