can someone get paul wong? he might be in the speaker's lounge. ll move paul wongup to be the next speaker. okay. art just left, too. okay. i'll let people shift some spaces. i just need to turn on the projector for one second. >> mr. fischer: okay. we'll go ahead with paul and brian burns will be next. paul is a branch chief in the department of homeland security, federal emergency management agency mitigation director. paul collaborates closely with fema's 10 regional offices, a multitude of staffing contractors and closely with local, state and federal officials. he also collaborates with local and state and coordinates data collection and risk communications ensuring optimization of local and federal resources. there is someone who knows about management and collaboration, i think it is paul wong, that is why i invited him here today. paul. [ applause ] >> paul wong: thanks, ken, and thanks for having me today. last night i was thinking about going over my presentation once and not until ken said a note that says, c-span will be there. i though

so my name is paul wong.l emergency management agency in the department of homeland security. admiral allen was a terrific help about five years ago now in hurricane katrina and his leadership surely was, should be commended so i was excited when i ard he was the keynote speaker. what i do with the mev branch even what we call the mitigation director our job iso help reduce losses of life androperty through mitigative actions, so that means stronger building codes of buyouts, building stronger's disaster, working with communities t make sure they ardoing the right thing so when a disaster does happen they are prepared and those risks are mitigate one of those things also is it you didn't know, the micelles what insurance to transfer some of that risk to the federal government and that is one of e programs i work on. so a little bit of overkill on what i will cover today. i will talk about leadership and collaboration. the program we launched this year, the performance based measures is an example of a challen