David is a 25 year member of the fire service and currently serves as a Lieutenant and HAZMAT Training Officer with the Columbia County Fire Rescue (Ga.) and a Firefighter with Grovetown (Ga) DPS. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Georgia State Firefighter's Association, National Volunteer Fire Council State Director, Georgia Pipeline Emergency Response Initiave Board of Directors, NFPA’s Working Group on Flammable Refrigerants, and was Secretary of IFSTA's Pumping Apparatus Driver Operator 3rd Edition Curriculum Committee, Pipeline Emergencies 3rd Ed Curriculum Committee, contributor to the “Training Officer’s Desk Reference”, The Lavendar Ribbon Report, and development of rail response training for TRANSCAER and PHMSA’s Pipeline Response Toolkit . As an active instructor for the Georgia Fire Academy and Georgia EMS Association, David is constantly engaged with teaching live fire, leadership, HAZMAT, and Farm Machinery Extrication. Involvements withing the NVFC include a member of the Health, Safety, and Training Committee, Training Branch Director, HAZMAT Committee, alternate delegate for Incident Management and Fire Officer NFPA Standards, and representative to Underwriter’s Labratories Live Fire Fuels Research Panel.