Marvine Paula HamnerMarvine Hamner has over 20 years of experience working and managing a variety of projects from research grants to multi-million dollar commercial programs in aerospace as well as computer science/information systems and technology. She has been engagd in higher education for 15 years including academic positions at George Washington University, Hood College and Frederick County Community College. While at George Washington University, Dr. Hamner was affiliated with the Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management for eight years. During this period, Dr. Hamner was responsible for re-engineering the Disaster Services Human Resource System for the American Red Cross and completing a systems engineering study of the Emergency Departments at hospitals in the District of Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Maryland. Dr. Hamner earned her B.S. from M.I.T. and her M.S. from Purdue University. Dr. Hamner earned her doctorate from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis in Engineering and Public Policy. Dr. Hamner served on the National Research Council/National Academies of Science Assessment of NASA Laboratory Capabilities Committee and was an invited expert participant in the National Academies-U.S. Institute of Peace Roundtable: Workshop on Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding 2012. She has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Read More Read Less