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Appendix One Resumes of Project Team Leonard Matarese, Director of Public Safety Programs, ICMA Consulting Services Backaround Mr. Matarese is a specialist in public sector administration with particular expertise in public safety issues. He has 35 years experience as a law enforcement officer, police chief, public safety director, city manager, and major city Human Resources Commissioner. He was one of original advisory board members and trainer for the first NIJ/ICMA Community Oriented Policing Project, which has subsequently trained thousands of municipal practitioners on the techniques of the community policing philosophy over the past 15 years. He has conducted numerous studies of emergency services agencies with particular attention to matching staffing issues with calls for service workload, and is intimately familiar with the constraints on manpower deployment resulting from a 10 hour workday. Recognized as an innovator by his law enforcement colleagues, he served as the Chairman of the SE Quadrant, Florida, Blue Lighting Strike Force, a 71-agency, U.S. Customs Service anti-terrorist and narcotics task force, and as president of the Miami-Dade County Police Chief's Association. Mr. Matarese is currently a Steering Committee Member of the Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Leadership Initiative and a member of the Advisory Committee for the Department of Justice, COPS - "Linking Law Enforcement Internal Affairs Practices and Community Trust Building" project. He holds the Credentialed Manager designation from the ICMA, the Certified Professional designation from the International Public Management Association -Human Resources and the Senior Professional in Human Resources designation from the Society for Human Resource Management. Mr. Matarese holds a bachelor degree in Political Science from Rutgers University and a master's degree in Public Administration from Florida Atlantic University. Duties Mr. Matarese will serve as the team leader and on-site coordinator for the project. He will communicate with administrative staff and coordinate all on-site team efforts. He will also contribute to development of a community policing /problem solving strategy which will contribute to the ultimate scheduling configuration recommended. He is the individual to contact concerning questions about this proposal. Kenneth R. Chelst, PhD., ICMA Senior Consultant, Chair of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering of Wayne State University Backaround Dr. Chelst is an expert in the application of advanced mathematical models for all emergency resources planning, especially police. He lead a demonstration project for the City of Detroit Police Department which cut response times by 40% using continuous improvement and data driven decision making. Over the past two decades he has studied several dozen emergency services operations using data driven techniques to determine the most efficient organizational structures to provide public safety services. He holds a Ph.D. degree in operations research from M.I.T. where his dissertation topic was Mathematical Models of Police Patrol Deployment. His research interests include operations research models applied to emergency services, structured decision making. He is a nationally recognized expert on the merger of police and fire services into a public safety department and on the relative performance of one versus two officer patrol units.