My experience with synthesis is utilized daily while performing my job functions for the Waco Fire Department. As a station captain, acting battalion chief, and fire academy instructor I utilize synthesis to extract results and accomplish the requisite goal. Placing the right people in the right place is an essential part of my job at Waco Fire Department and at my part-time job at Austin Community College, is an essential part of staffing. Instructing is an essential function that I must perform as a captain for the Waco Fire Department and as an adjunct faculty at the fire academy for Austin Community College. As an acting battalion chief, prior to the establishment of a second battalion chief, we were responsible for staffing fourteen stations. Two airport fire stations with personnel requiring different security clearances falling under different jurisdictions. One of the airports is a commercial, regional airport falling under the jurisdiction of the FAA. The other airport falls under the jurisdiction of the DOD that the fire department operates under a contract with a…show more content… Prior to arriving at my assigned station, the crews were not capturing new buildings. Station 11’s district is a rapidly growing area of the city. Identifying this as an issue, I decided to divide up the streets in the district between the three shifts and have the crews work from one end of the street to the other. While traveling down the streets they will check the existing list of occupancies. After verifying the occupancies, they would conduct the pre-plan. If the building was no longer at the address it would be removed from the list, and if a new business occupied the building the information would be updated. Adding new occupancies and deleting old ones, cleaning up the database. In an area that is mixed with retail and industrial we added over one hundred occupancies in under a
