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2007 National Campus Security Summit
Speaker Profiles
Amy
Hamel
Project Manager, National
Infrastructure Institute Center for
Infrastructure Expertise
Amy Hamel is a project manager
with the National Infrastructure
Institute (NI2) Center for
Infrastructure Expertise in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. At CIE,
Mrs. Hamel manages the Safe & Secure
Schools Project, writes grants,
manages events and is assigned other
special projects by the Director.
She began her career in public
safety with the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts in the Office of the
State Fire Marshal as a research
analyst, responsible for the data
collection, analysis, and
dissemination of three state
reporting systems: the Massachusetts
Fire Incident Reporting System (MFIRS),
the Massachusetts Burn Injury
Reporting System (MBIRS), and the
Property Insurance Loss Registry
System (PILRS). She worked with the
Fire Investigation Unit and assisted
State Police with their
investigations by doing insurance
and fire incident background checks.
While at the FMO, Mrs. Hamel was the
instructor at the Massachusetts
Firefighting Academy for the MFIRS
class and was a guest lecturer for
the Donahue Institute of the
University of Massachusetts. Mrs.
Hamel wrote the annual report of the
State Fire Marshal for fires and
burn injuries and provided support
to the public information officer
with media relations and public
education efforts. In 2000, she
joined the Massachusetts Office of
the Attorney General in the
Insurance and Unemployment Fraud
Division as a paralegal and
investigator. She was trained at the
Reid School of Interviewing and
Interrogation and assisted
prosecutors in all phases of
criminal investigations, grand jury
proceedings, motion hearings and
trials, including conducting
investigations of suspects and
witness interviews, legal research
and writing. Mrs. Hamel also worked
for several years in fundraising and
development in private education on
Campaign Andover and in healthcare
for a local hospital's Cancer
Management Center, gaining
experience in marketing, event
planning and public relations.
Mrs. Hamel is a graduate of Saint
Anselm College in Manchester, New
Hampshire with a degree in Criminal
Justice. She serves as an advisor on
the District Crisis Response Team
for the Haverhill, Massachusetts
Public Schools and volunteers her
time with the parent groups from the
district.
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