Jeff Cox - President

Jeff Cox was born in Kingsport, TN where he lived until he enlisted in the US Army.  Mr. Cox served in the United States Army for 3 years, stationed in Bad Kissengen, West Germany and at Ft. A.P. Hill, VA. His MOS was 95B (Military Police). He acheived the rank of E-5 (Sergeant).  Jeff was awarded the Army Acheivement Medal, First Oak Leaf Cluster, Overseas Ribbon, and the Good Conduct Medal.

With over 15 years of experience in the fields of Emergency Response and Hazardous Waste Management, Jeff brings extensive experience to Rapid Response USA.  His experience includes emergency response management, hazardous sampling, lab packing, environmental site auditing, RCRA, OSHA, DOT, CERCLA, TSCA, SARA regulatory compliance. Mr. Cox also has certifications for completion of the following FEMA courses:

• IS-100.FW    Intro. to the Incident Command System for Federal Disaster Workers
• IS-340           Hazardous Materials Prevention
• IS-631           Public Assistance Operations
• IS-700           NIMS Course Summary
• IS-200           Incident Command System for Federal Disaster Workers
• IS-3               Radiological Emergency Management
• IS-704           NIMS Communications and Information Management

Al Bouldin - VP of Sales & Marketing

Al Bouldin was born in Eden, NC where he lived until he attended college.  Mr. Bouldin graduated from Morehead High School and attended Central Wesleyan College where he studied mathematics and theology.  Al has more than 21 years experience in environmental management as well as emergency and disaster response.  Mr. Bouldin has served as Safety Manager and as Project Manager in the field on many projects.  Al most recently served as National Manager of Emergency Response for a national environmental services company that had annual revenues that exceeded 0.5 billion dollars.

Mr. Bouldin has many years experience in regulatory compliance, lab packing, sampling, identifying unknowns, teaching HAZWOPER and other environmental courses, performing environmental site audits, and managing emergency and disaster responses.  Al worked on the EPA START Team for five months after Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans, LA area.  He also spent several weeks overseeing projects in the Houston, TX area after Hurricane Ike.  In addition, he acted as Senior Project Manager on a multi-million dollar cleanup of almost 16,000 gallons of diesel spilled in the Pacific Northwest for a Fortune 100 client.  Al then spent 5 weeks overseeing a crew that was dispatched to help cleanup a 430,000 gallon spill of #6 fuel oil on the Mississippi River.

Mr. Bouldin also has certifications for completion of the following FEMA courses:

• IS-100.FW    Intro. to the Incident Command System for Federal Disaster Workers
• IS-200            Incident Command System, Basic, for Federal Disaster Workers
• IS-340            Hazardous Materials Prevention
• IS-631            Public Assistance Operations I
• IS-700            NIMS Course Summary
• IS-704            NIMS Communications and Information Management
• IS-253            Coordinating Environmental and Historic Preservation Compliance
• IS-275            The EOC's Role in Community Preparedness, Response & Recovery
• IS-331            Introduction to Radiological Emergency Preparedness
• IS-3                Radiological Emergency Management
• IS-197.EM     Special Needs Planning Considerations for Emergency Managers

Donna Briggs - VP of Operations

Donna Briggs was born in Kingsport, TN where she has resided all of her life.  Ms. Briggs has earned numerous FEMA certifications in the field of emergency response.  Donna's entire environmental career has been dedicated to managing emergency responses.  Ms. Briggs has managed more than 1,500 emergency responses throughout the United States in her career.  Donna previously served as an ER Coordinator for a national environmental services company that has annual revenues of more than $500,000,000.00.

Ms. Briggs is HAZWOPER 40-hr. trained and has maintained her annual updates.  She is also trained in the fields of chemical compatibility, hazardous waste classification, hazardous waste manifesting and transportation,  as well as emergency & disaster response management.  In 2008, Ms. Briggs spent a month supervising a crew that was responding to a barge accident in New Orleans, LA.  The accident created a spill of more than 430,000 gallons of #6 fuel oil on the Mississippi River that impacted approximately 90 miles of river as well as the east and west shorelines.  

Ms. Briggs has certifications for the completion of the following FEMA courses:

• IS-5.A          An Introduction to Hazardous Materials
• IS-55             Household Hazardous Materials
• IS-340           Hazardous Materials Prevention
• IS-100.FW   Intro. to the Incident Command System for Federal Disaster Workers
• IS-700           NIMS Course Summary