A 35 year veteran of the fire and emergency services, S. Lee Price is currently a Risk Management Training Manager for Mcneil & Co. in Cortland, NY. He began his career as a volunteer FF and EMT for Cortland Fire Department in 1989. While working several ambulance services in CNY, he became a paramedic in 1994, served as a full-time fly-car medic and operations supervisor, then was hired as a career firefighter by the City of Cortland in 1997. During his tenure at Cortland, Lee served many department leadership roles including Truck Company Captain, Captain in the Code Enforcement office as well as EMS Officer. In 2019, Lee retired from the Cortland Fire Department as a Fire Captain and has returned to the volunteer ranks. Having been a NYS Certified Instructor Coordinator for over two decades, he is currently the Director of EMS Training at Tompkins Cortland Community College. He also serves in the US Navy Reserve as a Senior Chief Petty Officer, as the Senior Enlisted Leader of NR ASU BNCRFT HALL MED and as an instructor training military members in tactical combat care through a Navy-wide program he helped develop.

Eric Rensel formed Rensel Consulting, LLC in 2023 after a successful 25-year career in engineering consulting with a motto of helping clients turn thoughts of transformation into actions of empowerment. Throughout his career Eric has transitioned between many different aspects of transportation engineering and planning.  Eric has been involved with traffic incident management for 18 years including training emergency responders, developing training and standards, and helping teams work together effectively. Eric Rensel formed Rensel Consulting, LLC in 2023 after a successful 25-year career in engineering consulting with a motto of helping clients turn thoughts of transformation into actions of empowerment. Throughout his career Eric has transitioned between many different aspects of transportation engineering and planning.  Eric has been involved with traffic incident management for 18 years including training emergency responders, developing training and standards, and helping teams work together effectively.

Dwayne is the NYS Department of Transportation 

Supervising Equipment Operator Instructor at the Office of Transportation Maintenance.

Dwayne has been with the NYSDOT for 34 years serving in many roles in Highway Maintenance and Bridge Maintenance. He has coordinated skills training programs for the department including flagger training and work zone traffic control. Dwayne travels frequently across the state delivering the training and working with work zone safety initiatives such as sending digital notification of work zones to approaching road-users. He serves on the NYSDOT Work Zone Safety Working Group and enjoys spending time with his daughter Brielle.

Rusty retired as the Sergeant from the Lenexa Kansas Police Department after spending 30 years in law enforcement. Most of those 30 years were in Traffic Safety. Following his retirement, Rusty was the Law Enforcement Liaison for NHTSA in the Central Region. He was then hired as the first Incident Management Coordinator for KC Scout, the traffic management center in the Kansas City Metro Area. Rusty worked with responders in the KC metro area and developed an award-winning Traffic Incident Management Program, as well as enhanced the Traffic Mangement program for the area. 

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From KC Scout, Rusty transitioned to the dark side, going into the consulting side of Traffic Incident Management. Rusty worked with Gannet Fleming and TranSystems on projects around the country promoting Traffic Incident Management and TMC Operations. In addition, Rusty has assisted FHWA on a number of projects that are critical to the safety fo responders.

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Rusty currently provides TIM for Responders training for Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute. He is also the Safety Manager for J's Southland Tow Service in Raymore, Missouri, and serces on the Board of the Missouri Tow Truck Association. 

Victor Graves has been a Fire Protection Specialist with the NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control since 2011. Victor is an instructor for the OFPC’s Hazardous Materials Branch. He develops and conducts various courses related to battery emergencies and other emerging technologies. He has been a member of the West Albany Fire Department for 30 years. He is a past chief of the department and still serves as the Deputy Chief. He oversees the department’s hazardous materials team as well as a member of Albany County’s Hazardous Materials Team.

Dan joined the NYSPD in September 1988 and worked as a Trooper in Troops F and G Before being TDY to the State Police Academy in 1993.  There he instructed numerous laws and Collision Investigation to new Troopers.  In 1994, he was appointed Technical Sergeant and assigned to Traffic Services at Division HQ in Albany as the supervisor of the Collision Reconstruction Unit (CRU). Dan was then appointed to Technical Lieutenant in 2013 and assigned as Program Manager.  He manages two Regional CRU Senior Investigators who supervise the program in nine (9) Troops throughout the State.  

For the last 30 years, Dan’s management has grown the professional reputation of this specialized investigative function into a premier program revered by many throughout the country and Canada. Annually, over 500 reconstruction investigations benefit from his evolution of operational standards, constant training, and cutting-edge tools.  During his tenure, forensic mapping technologies have advanced from tape measures to total stations, laser scanners, global navigation satellite systems and drones. Many agencies have adopted similar operational methods. 

Dan has a BA degree in Mathematics, minor in Business Economics, and concentration in Computer Science from SUNY Potsdam (1986).  He has over 3000 hours of crash reconstruction training; attended/hosted many crash conferences; presented 199 times; and testified 17 times as an expert witness in multiple criminal and civil proceedings.  He has served on multiple boards including the New York Statewide Traffic Accident Reconstruction Society (NYSTARS) and New York Operation Lifesaver (railroad safety).  Lastly, Dan has been accredited through the Accreditation Commission on Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR)since 2014.