Emergency Management of Colorado

Principal

Alan Colon, MBA

pronounced koh-LOHN

Alan Colon is a principal of Emergency Management of Colorado, the trade name of Crisis Management Group LLC, a Colorado limited liability company formed in 2009. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Regis University and a Bachelor of Science in Management from DeVry University.

Since 2012 he has served as a regional field coordinator for ESF #13 — the public safety and security Emergency Support Function — in the Rocky Mountain states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. In that role he writes and maintains multi-state emergency plans consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS), plans and directs exercises, and works with state emergency-management agencies and federal law-enforcement partners. He has deployed to major federal disasters since 2012, including the 2013 Colorado floods and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.

He served as president of the Colorado Emergency Management Association from 2018 to 2022, after serving as the association’s treasurer from 2015 to 2017 and vice president from 2017 to 2018.

From 2002 to 2012 he was Emergency Management Director for the City of Commerce City, Colorado, the city’s first emergency manager. There he established the Office of Emergency Management, designed the city’s first emergency operations center and mobile command post, and created Colorado’s first law-enforcement-based incident management team. He also served as a police officer with the Commerce City Police Department.

From 1995 to 2010 he served with the National Disaster Medical System as security unit leader on the Colorado Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT CO-2) and, from 1997 to 2005, as logistics section chief for the National Medical Response Team for weapons of mass destruction, Central region. He taught hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction response to police, fire, emergency medical, hospital, and public health personnel at the Colorado BNICE Training Center. He later served on the board of the Denver Urban Area Security Initiative and led the region’s first-responder credentialing program.

He is a State of Colorado Incident Command System instructor for ICS 100 through ICS 400, and an instructor in hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction response, medical care, personal protective equipment, and decontamination through Denver Health.

Principal

Wendy Colon, RN, BSN, MBA

Wendy Colon is a principal of Emergency Management of Colorado. She is a registered nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Business Administration. She has served as an emergency department director and has practiced trauma nursing for forty years. She holds Emergency Nurses Association provider credentials in the Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) and the Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC).

She is a former commander of Colorado’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT CO-2), a federal team of the National Disaster Medical System under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response. She also commanded the National Medical Response Team for weapons of mass destruction, Central region, an NDMS team organized to provide mass decontamination and emergency medical care during hazardous-materials and weapons-of-mass-destruction incidents.

She is a weapons of mass destruction specialist and a hazardous materials technician. She served as incident commander during the COVID-19 response and directed the mass vaccination clinic in Brighton, Colorado.