Robert T. Bradshaw
Robert T. Bradshaw is Managing Partner of Contingency Management Consulting Group, LLC (CMCG). He is a senior consultant with over twenty-five years experience in governmental and private sector crisis management response, planning, training, drills and exercising.
Mr. Bradshaw’s hands-on consulting experience is diverse. Recent projects have included serving on Entergy Nuclear’s Independent Expert Task Force, advising the utility on radiological emergency management issues, and participating on the Exercise Design Team for the most comprehensive fixed nuclear facility terrorist threat exercise conducted in the US to date. Other recent projects have included serving assisting the US intelligence community with continuity of operations training, test and exercise programs; a major US energy company in developing a corporate crisis management program; an international construction materials corporation in developing a global corporate crisis management capability, including support to their Egyptian, Philippine, and Costa Rican business units; developing a global crisis management plan and conducting a tabletop exercise for the corporate crisis management team of a biotechnology company involved in genetic research; a business recovery plan for a major international consumer product company; an integrated contingency plan for a Pennsylvania-based technology firm; conducting a benchmarking study of global response capability; and developing a crisis management plan for a large manufacturing complex.
In addition, Mr. Bradshaw has responded to a number of high profile crises on both the national and international levels. In particular, Mr. Bradshaw was called upon to respond to the events of September 11th to assist a US airline in establishing and operating an emergency center to respond to the Pentagon disaster.
He has directed a major project for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Pipeline Safety to support facility oil spill response plan review process. Mr. Bradshaw also responded as a DOT representative to the San Jacinto River Pipeline incident in October 1994 and was a principle author of the San Jacinto Post-Incident Assessment. For FEMA and the US Department of Justice, Mr. Bradshaw also helped to develop and present programs on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism designed for local responders.
He has facilitated numerous crisis and emergency tabletop exercises and assisted corporate clients in such industries as petroleum, energy, pharmaceuticals, paper products, chemical, financial institutions, food and beverage, lodging and the cruise industry.
As a Project Manager for a major emergency management consulting firm, Mr. Bradshaw coordinated emergency management planning and training, exercising and drill support for all client project work. This included managing the offsite radiological emergency preparedness program for Philadelphia Electric’s Limerick Generating Station, where he developed a number of county and municipal plans and several school and health care facility plans. He also prepared and conducted two full-scale federally evaluated exercises for this facility. Mr. Bradshaw also served as the utility’s primary expert witness for emergency planning in Atomic Safety Licensing Board hearings.
He is a former Emergency Planner for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, where he developed and reviewed state and municipal emergency plans, revised the state’s vulnerability analysis and served as Controller/Evaluator for six full-scale federally evaluated exercises. He was also the State’s on-site planning liaison for major hazardous materials incidents.
Mr. Bradshaw has a B.S. in Environmental Science from Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and did graduate work in Urban and Regional Planning at Pennsylvania State University.