Jon Saltzman

Jon has spent over 22 years in public service. Jon started his EMS service career in the NY Capital District area before working at American Medical Response in NYC as an operations supervisor and quartermaster/inventory control specialist. He quickly transitioned to municipal service. Jon joined the FDNY in 2008 working as a paramedic in Brooklyn, spent 2 years with the Office of Medical Affairs SmartCPR research initiative, 3 years as an APCO certified EMS citywide senior dispatcher in a service handling almost 2 million EMS calls a year. With National Incident Management training from US DHS, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 2015. After a year as a tour supervisor for the FDNY Operations control center (FDOC) he is now a tour supervisor at FDNY EMS Bureau of Communications Emergency Medical Dispatch.

His extensive background and experience have led him to the position of Director of Communications for ParaDocs overseeing dispatch operations and MEDCOM and as a joint agency operations liaison for large-scale events. He provides operational planning and logistics initiatives and authors many agency SOP’s. Jon has authored the company's ever-expanding inventory management control system needs with the proprietary PICSys software program. He has spearheaded the development of an internal event medicine educational enrichment initiative. He also heads up ParaDocs brand merchandising and web store.

In his free time, Jon is an avid outdoorsman, minimalist camper, leathersmith, a preparedness and wilderness survival practitioner, an EMS instructor and pursuing a masters degree in Emergency Management.