Assistant Chief, Research & Development
Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Scott is currently leading a multi-year, multi-million dollar research and development project assessing the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applied to Fire & Emergency Service Resource Allocation and Decision Support, incorporating Human Factors and Systems Design Engineering. Scott is the Assistant Chief of Research & Development for Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency, a licensed Critical Care Paramedic, and Board Member of the MedicAlert Foundation of Canada with over 30 years in emergency services.
Scott holds a BHSc in Paramedicine, a Master of Science in Healthcare Quality specializing in Human Factors and Quality Improvement, and is now a PhD Student at University of Waterloo's Systems Design Engineering Department in Ontario, Canada combining his passions in Fire & Emergency Services, Human Factors, and Technology Integration; to help understand how we can improve the safety, service, and work conditions for people in Fire & Emergency Services with the use of emerging technologies.
Scott's Academic work is focused on the application of resilience engineering for Fire & Emergency Services Services as Complex Adaptive Systems to help agencies, governments, and business prepare, mitigate, respond, recover, and learn from major incidents that challenge the bound of our capabilities.
You can engage Scott and our team through http://cescil.org, our not-for-profit innovation hub, to help evaluate, design, develop, research, and implement innnovative solutions for your agency.
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Leveraging AI and Machine Learning for Targeted Program Improvement
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM MST