Chief Executive Officer
Don Rawson Associates
Escondido, CA
Don Rawson recently served as the Emergency Services Coordinator for the City of Carlsbad. Don has provided disaster preparedness planning and developed incident response frameworks for the Carlsbad Municipal Water District, Carlsbad, CA; City of Carlsbad, CA; City of Escondido, CA; City of San Marcos, CA; North County Fire Prevention District, Fallbrook, CA; and Palomar College, San Marcos, CA.
Don has 13 years of emergency management experience in Emergency/Department Operations Center operations, all-hazards planning, and development of incident response “best practice” frameworks. Don has served as an Incident Commander during several San Diego County Firestorms, EOC Coordinator during the Southwest Regional Power Outage, and provided leadership and support to COVID-19 mitigation and response operations.
Prior to his career in emergency management, Don served 29 years with the Carlsbad Police Department, retiring at the rank of Police Lieutenant. Don’s law enforcement career included management of patrol operations, internal affairs, professional standards, criminal investigations, traffic, media relations, and community outreach including special-events planning.
Don is a graduate of the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) National Academy, the California Police Officers Standards and Training Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute, and the Centre for Organizational Effectiveness Public Management Academy.
Don has a Master’s in Public Administration and a Certificate in Management from San Diego State University, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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