达琳里

Darlene is a Director in the Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation Division out of Southern California, where she also leads the firm's 减轻野火风险 全球 Service Line. Her 20+ years of experience have earned her international recognition as an expert in structural fire engineering, 代码咨询, wildfire resiliency and disaster risk management.

Her current focus is on developing holistic wildfire risk mitigation strategies and action plans at building, 包裹, 企业, and city/county levels to support decision-making, 政策发展, and wildland-urban-interface risk management. This includes several large projects in utility wildfire regulations and evaluations, wildfire evacuation assessments, regional and local Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs), post-disaster investigations, and subject matter advisory roles (e.g.， fema, hud, sfpe).

Darlene volunteers with a variety of professional and private organizations such as Ventura County Wildfire Collaborative, the Advisory Board of HUD’s Residential Resiliency Working Group, IAFSS’ Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment (LOF&BE)工作小组, SoCAL FPO Wildland Urban Interface Committee, SFPE’s Very Tall Building Task Group, 千橡飞镖 & CERT programs and Ojai Valley Fire Safe. She has taught graduate-level courses in Structural Fire Engineering at the University of Maryland and CalPoly SLO for several years and is also active in the professional development of wildfire and fire industry guidance documents, 规范和标准, 出版物, 政府研讨会, university programs and continuing education, including working with FEMA on wildfire/fire national programming.