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FEMA Residential Earthquake Damage Inspector (Federal Emergency Management Agency). 1989-1984

Author, Howard Cook: "Seismic Retrofit for Cripple Walls", The Journal of Light Construction. 15 April, 2006

Course Instructor: "Principles and Practice of Earthquake Retrofitting" for the Association of Bay Area Governments

Mayoral Appointee to the Berkeley Disaster Commission 2005 and 2006 as an advisor on Berkeley's Earthquake Retrofit programs.

Former member and current consultant The Structural Engineer's Association's Existing Buildings Committee on residential wood-frame retrofit procedures.

Featured Contractor: "The Coming Bay Area Earthquake" PBS, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, April, 2006

Featured Contractor: "The Hayward Fault. Predictable Peril. KQED, Channel 9. October 2008

Committee Member / Co-Author: Earthquakes and Hazards Program http://quake.abag.ca.gov/residents/planset/

Co-Author: Bay Area's Retrofit Guidelines: Standard Plan A, Residential Seismic Strengthening Plan, San Francisco Bay Area: The International Code Council, 2005.

Lecturer on Retrofit Principles and Practice for the American Society of Home Inspectors

Co-Author: Wendy, Allen P.E. Anchorage Systems Engineer for Simpson StrongTie and Howard Cook, "Retrofit Mudsill Anchorage Systems" Unpublished, 2007

Mayoral Appointee to the Berkeley Disaster Commission 2005 and 2006 as an advisor on Berkeley's Earthquake Retrofit programs.

Five-time graduate of the course "Earthquake Retrofit for Wood-Frame Homes" presented by the Association of Bay Area Governments, starting with the first course in 1995.

Volunteer on City of Oakland committee to upgrade/improve Standard Plan A and ABAG Multi-Family Soft Story inventory survey of Oakland

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