Tiger Schmittendorf is Vice President of Recruitment & Retention Services for First Arriving, a full-service marketing and technology team headquartered in Richmond VA. He served as Deputy Fire Coordinator for the County of Erie Department Homeland Security & Emergency Services (Buffalo NY) for more than 20 years before retiring in 2018. There he was responsible for the recruitment, training, and mutual aid operations of 97 fire departments and 6,000+ firefighters. He is a Nationally Certified Fire Instructor and has actively served as a firefighter with the Evans Center Volunteer Fire Company in Angola NY since 1980, having served as Chief of Training, Public Information Officer (PIO), Recruiter and as his department's first-ever junior firefighter. He brings 15 years of experience in engineering, sales, marketing, and management to now marketing the product he loves: fire and emergency services. Connect with him at: tiger@firstarriving.com, via FireRECRUITER.com, RuntotheCurb.com, SoldierFirefighter.com, or on social media.