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Welcome to Maritime Emergency Management Consulting and Instruction (MEMCI), LLC.  We are a partnership of experienced fire officers with comprehensive emergency management and marine backgrounds, dedicated to the development and advancement of training curriculum for emergency responders, mariners, USCG / Law Enforcement Agencies and key stakeholders within the maritime domain. 

Our partners are fully certified instructors with many years of applied experience in emergency management and real world marine emergency response. This fact provides MEMCI with a substantial foundation of practical knowledge and real world experience that can be applied towards meeting your organization's specialized training needs.


Please allow us to introduce the MEMCI partnership, as we look forward to meeting you in the future:
Captain Vassilios "Val" Pamboukes (Ret.) MEMCI, President

In 2008, Captain Pamboukes retired from Portsmouth Fire Department, Portsmouth, NH with over 35 years of combined fire service experience, retiring as a Shift Commander.  He has worked within every aspect of fire service delivery, including: traditional fire suppression, emergency medical services, municipal fire service instruction, mass-casualty planning and exercise, marine emergency management for: oil pollution spills, marine fire fighting and other marine incidents.

Val is a co-author of Command Strategies and Tactics for Marine Emergencies (DHS-Approved Course), and has worked closely with his MEMCI partners to form cooperative working relations with: Tri-State Maritime Safety Association, Maine Maritime Academy, Maine Emergency Management Agency and the Maritime Institute of Quebec (Institut Maritime du Quebec, Canada).  He has been instrumental in developing comprehensive, yet easily understood instructional materials on practical applications of emergency management and planning, preparedness, response and recovery within the maritime domain.

Still active as a Maritime Liaison for the Piscataqua / Merrimack - Maritime Incident Resources and Training Association (MIRT), Val serves as member of the USCG Sector Northern New England - Area Maritime Security Committee - and local marine industry pollution response for: NHDES and Piscataqua River Co-Op (PRC).  In 2008, Val was awarded the Meritorious Service Award by the New Hampshire Fire Service and EMS Committee of Merit, for humanitarian work performed in Greece during the major forest fire events of 2007.
 
Douglas B Dillon, USCG (Ret.)

Douglas Dillon is Executive Director of the Tri-state Maritime Safety Association and Chief of the DE/NJ/PA Maritime Incident Response Team.  He is a 23-year veteran of the United States Coast Guard.  He is the president of the Association of Marine Fire Fighting Organizations, a national non-profit created to address Maritime Consequence Management issues affecting first responders and our nations Maritime Transportation System.  He was the Port Safety and Security Officer for the Fifth Coast Guard District during DESERT SHIELD/STORM and was responsible for training and equipping the Port Security Detachment in the 5th District.  He supervised all port security at outload operations in the Port of Wilmington NC during OPERATION UPHOLD DEMOCRACY. 

He was a member of the Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Council (MTSNAC) Security Team.  He has served as a police officer in NJ and has been with the fire service since 1979 and is currently a chief officer with the Broomall Fire Company in Broomall, PA.  He serves as the Marine Safety Officer of the Camden City Fire Department, Camden New Jersey.  He is currently the chief instructor for the Delaware River and Bay Marine Fire Fighting Task Force.  He is currently a member of the IFSTA Marine Committee and a past member of the NFPA 1925 Fireboat Committee.  He has been involved in 13 significant marine fires in his career and numerous other vessel and waterfront incidents as well as the 2001 fatal Pier 34 collapse in Philadelphia, PA.

Allen Huelsenbeck, BC, Wilmington DE Fire Department

Battalion Chief Huelsenbeck is currently serving with the Wilmington Fire Department in Wilmington, Delaware.  He has a bachelor's degree in fire service management from the University of Maryland.  He is a 36-year veteran of the career fire service and has been serving as a chief since 1987 as a result of competitive testing.  He is a USCG licensed Master 100 Gross Tons Near Coastal. He serves as Deputy Chief, Operations for the DE/NJ/PA Maritime Incident Response Team as well as the Board of Directors of TMSA.  He is a fire service instructor in New Jersey and Delaware and currently part of the NJ Fire Officer training and certication cadre.  He is also a lead instructor with the Delaware River and Bay Marine Fire Fighting Task Force and with the curriculum development group that designed the marine fire fighting training.  

He has been involved in several major marine fires including the initial incident commander of the M/V Centaurus in 1989, which can be seen in the American Heat video series.  He is one of the leading professionals in Marine Fire Fighting in the U.S. having trained responders from the United States, Canada and Latin America.  He is a routine guest speaker on marine fire fighting throughout the country including a 2000 & 2001 presentation of Marine Fire Fighting Awareness, Operations & Technician hosted by the Boston Fire Department.  He was an instructor in Boston’s MIRT sponsored Train-the-Trainer Marine Fire Fighting program.  He was a contributor to the 2001 revision of NFPA 1405, USCG Incident Management Guidebook and IFSTA's Marine Fire Fighting for Land Based Firefighters manual.  He has presented the Marine Fire Fighting Training Program at the National Fire Academy.  Al is co-author of Rapid Intervention in the Marine Environment that appeared in the July 2001 issue of Fire Engineering.


Chief Craig H. Shelley (Ret.)  Instructor, MEMCI curriculum development specialist:

Chief Craig H. Shelley (Ret.) is a 40 year veteran of the fire and emergency services.  He has served with career municipal and industrial departments both nationally and internationally.  Craig retired from the City of New York Fire Department (FDNY) as the Chief of Marine Operations, Special Operations Command, where he was charged with emergency response responsibilities within New York Harbor as well as surrounding areas.  In addition, Craig had administrative responsibilities for three full-time marine companies, two seasonal auxiliary rescue craft, and the marine repair shops. During this period he served as the Chairperson, New York/New Jersey Marine Firefighting Work Group.  Chief Shelley revised the FDNY’s Marine Operations Manual as well as developed marine firefighting courses for the New Jersey State Safety Council. 

Since retiring from the FDNY Craig has worked as a technical advisor to a large oil company operating in the Middle East, at one point managing and teaching their marine and offshore firefighting programs.  In addition, Craig has consulted on marine firefighting, marine fire safety, and maritime security matters for Vela International Marine. Craig is the author of numerous artic les on marine firefighting and a co-author of Industrial Firefighting for Municipal Firefighters (PennWell, 2007).

Craig may be contacted at:  cshelley@memcillc.com

Captain Bill Sullivan, MEMCI Instrutor: 

Bill Sullivan is a retired fire captain from a Massachusetts seaport where he was responsible for implementing hazardous materials and shipboard firefighting training programs and initiating incident command and firefighter rehabilitation protocols. He served on the National Fire Protection Association task group that developed NFPA Standard 1005: Professional Qualifications for Marine Fire Fighting for Land-Based Fire Fighters, and is a former member technical committee member for NFPA Standard 1983: Special Operations Protective Clothing and Equipment.

 

The author of numerous articles in fire service professional journals, he served as editor of the Interoperability and WMD Vulnerability Study of the Port of Boston, a report commissioned by the Transportation Security Administration and the U.S. Maritime Administration in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Capt. Sullivan was a founding member of the Maritime Incident Resource and Training Partnership, a collaborative of first responder agencies and port industries working together to reduce the risks of marine emergencies in the greater Boston area.



            Maritime Emergency Management Consulting and Instruction (MEMCI)  91 Cutts Street, Portsmouth NH - USA 03801
                                                          (603) 765-9508    e-mail: vpamboukes@memcillc.com

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