Kenneth Lott

Kenneth Lott is a CMCG Emergency Preparedness Consultant with over 22 years experience in governmental and private sector crisis management response, planning, training, drills and exercising.

Mr. Lott has been instrumental in creating plans and procedures that form the basis of a comprehensive all-hazards approach to emergency response while complying with federal guidelines regarding the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System. He has provided guidance to local and county emergency managers on the development and implementation of a wide range of emergency management programs.

In recent years, Mr. Lott has provided a wide range of support for the radiological emergency preparedness program in Orange County New York, where his duties ranged from creating critical equipment inventory management tools to developing responder training programs. He has also been an exercise controller for several radiological drills, tabletops and exercises involving the Indian Point Energy Center.

Mr. Lott served as a FEMA Public Affairs Officer for numerous federally declared disaster assistance programs including Hurricane Andrew and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. His work included writing and disseminating news releases and other promotional materials in support of federal disaster recovery programs, serving as direct liaison between FEMA and the news media on a wide range of issues and concerns, and

analyzing media coverage of program activities in order to provide input to federal emergency managers.

He has evaluated 46 emergency response exercises for nuclear power plants throughout United States, developed and prepared significant portions of the “Standard Exercise Report Format” for FEMA Headquarters and developed and conducted training programs for the emergency response program at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory.

Mr. Lott studied Communications at the State University of New York at Geneseo and Journalism at Southwest Texas State University.