January 2012 – North Shore Emergency Website

The North shore has a population of over 120 000 residents and is situated on the north side of the Greater Vancouver region. It offers arguably one of the most beautiful urban backdrops in the world and has a variety of communities contained within it from single family housing to high rise apartments.

The North Shore Emergency Management Office known as NSEMO (formerly the North and West Vancouver Emergency Program) was created in 1978 after the North Vancouver Emergency Measures Organization and the West Vancouver Emergency Program were combined. Serving the North Shore community through a single office provides improved efficiencies and effectiveness for emergency management programs, an increased volunteer pool, and most importantly coordinated planning, response, and recovery strategies.

NSEMO gives service on three fronts to guarantee the highest level of emergency readiness for the North Shore: municipal emergency preparedness, community emergency preparedness, and volunteer emergency response teams. NSEMO utilizes over 150 public safety lifeline volunteers in six unique groups: Emergency Social Services, North Shore Rescue, Emergency Education Instructors, Emergency Communications Team, General Services Unit, and the Emergency Management Team.

We are a team of five civil engineering students in CIVL 202 class who works on NSEMO website. Our client, North Shore Emergency Management Office, is currently re-developing their website to provide a more efficient tool for educating the community on emergency preparedness. Our task is to review NSMEO website and prepare a report on any data missing in their website in comparison with other emergency management websites. We are also asked to search for photos that can be good presentation of their mission. Overall, our team will provide recommendations on content, photos and layout of the website in order to make available information more user friendly.

Our first meeting was on Monday, January 16, 2012. Here is the more detailed introduction on team members:

Josh Weidner

Hello there!

My name is Josh Weidner. I’m a second year civil student here at UBC and I look forward to working with North Shore Emergency Management Office to improve their website which is clearly critical to disaster preparedness and response in North and West Vancouver.

If for any reason you need to contact me feel free by email or phone at

joshweidner@ymail.com

778 230 6787

Tahmineh Teymourian

Hello,

My name is Tahmineh Teymourian, and I am a second year civil engineering student at UBC. Working on an Emergency Planning or Disaster Relief Engineering project was what I was looking for, and I look forward to working on NSEMO website.

You can contact me by email at: t.teymourian@gmail.com.

Mauro Moya

Hello hello

I am Mauro Moya. Currently a UBC Civil Engineering Student, I wish to gain valuable experience and insight in website design by working with NSEMO.

Feel free to call or email me regarding any questions relating to the NSEMO website at:

mauro.a.moy@gmail.com

778 317 8844

Kristopher Hellens

Hey!

My name is Kristopher Hellens and I am a second year Civil Engineering student at The University of British Columbia. The thing that interests me most about civil engineering is the human impact of the projects I will be working on. Working with the North Shore Emergency Organization I am excited to be able to put the skills I am learning to use on a real world project that will be able to help thousands of people. From this project I hope to gain an improved understanding of the interaction of engineering within a community and look forward to our shared progress over the coming months!

Sadaf Farzanehfar

Hello

My name is Sadaf Farzanehfar and like all of you, I am in my second year of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia. I chose Disaster Relief and Emergency Planning because I want to help the community, and create a safer place for Canadians to live. I believe that the design of the North Shore

Emergency Organization Website is a chance for us to make a difference, and I am happy to be apart of this team.

Please feel free to contact me with the information below

604-726-9179

sadaf.frz@hotmail.com