Donald J. Walter

 5253 East Hidden Lake Drive

East Lansing, Michigan   48823

 Voice: 517-351-0917          E-Mail: Don.Walter@attbi.com

1991 to Present – Michigan Municipal Risk Management Authority

Regional Risk Manager.  Owner and President of sales, service, liaison and risk control consultation firm, providing services to 60 member municipalities of the MMRMA.

1990 to 1991 – Touch-Tech Training and Assessment, Inc.

Executive Vice President.  Responsible for sales, development of programs, promotion and distribution of interactive video training programs. 

1987 to 1990 – Governmental Risk Managers, Inc.

Risk Control Manager.  Supervise risk control and support staff in the delivery of risk control services to 1,400+ Michigan municipalities.  Assess, design and deliver information and training seminars.  Report directly to the corporate President.  Attend executive staff meetings to formulate policy.  Responsible for coordination and direction of risk control staff in delivery of services.  Provide corporate legal counsel as required. 

Law Enforcement Risk Control Specialist.  Assess law enforcement functions of insured municipalities for compliance with state standards, legal precedents and national guidelines.  Provide responses including resource data, recommendations and training.  Emphasis was on intervention for prevention or reduction of liability.

1978 to 1983 – Independent Consultant/Trainer

Design, develop and deliver training in the areas of jail operations and management, small jail management and train-the-trainer seminars.  Provide programs and analysis in the areas of intake screening and health education for jail officers, civil liability and the reduction of incidences of liability, risk management and governmental liability, handling abnormal persons in jails and suicide intervention and prevention in jails for several public and private firms.  Clients included the National Institute of Corrections Jail Center, the Indiana State Medical Association, the North Dakota Medical Association, the Medical Association of Georgia, the Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters, Training Associates and the Wyoming Law Enforcement Training Academy.

1973 to 1981 – State of Michigan, Department of Corrections

Supervisor of Jail Training.  Responsibilities included supervising the training of jail officers throughout the State.  Also responsible for supervision of program development and presentations on such topics as human interaction skills, suicide intervention and prevention, institutional security and search and security skills.  Other responsibilities included analyzing training needs, maintaining field contact with agency administrators, delivering training packages, evaluation of training impact, and recording and analyzing statistics.  Administrative responsibilities involved development of grant proposals, preparation and management of the budgetary process, assessing and reporting training effectiveness and coordination of training with other office and department goals and functions.

Jailer Training Officer.  Provided training to jail officers in all counties throughout the State.  Responsibilities included assisting in determining training needs, and delivering and evaluating the resultant programs.  As a member of the Office of Jail Services staff, my duties required involvement in other functional areas, such as jail architecture, statistical data gathering and analysis, operations analysis and enforcement of performance standards.

1971 to 1973 – State of Michigan, Department of Social Services

Overdose Aid Coordinator, Western Michigan Region.  Maintained liaison between American Red Cross and Project A.D.U.L.T. (Adolescent Drug Use Limitation and Treatment), responsible for the development and delivery of training programs.  Served as instructor trainer for new instructors, coordinated the schedules of 50 instructors and evaluated instructor performance.

Overdose Aid Instructor.  Conducted Overdose Aid courses designed to reach the high risk population in a non-judgmental and factual manner, in order to facilitate decisions concerning drug use. 

Coping Group Leader.  Facilitate group sessions for delinquent youths using the Reference Group Dynamics Model, which emphasizes and reinforces positive behavior through peer pressure.

Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police (past member)

Michigan Sheriff’s Association (past member)

American Society for Law Enforcement Training (member in good standing, and member of ASLET Ethics Committee)

Michigan Criminal Justice Educator’s Association (past member)

Michigan Jail Rehabilitation Services Association (past member)

Lansing Smoking Withdrawal Clinic (Volunteer Group Leader and member of the Board of Directors)

American Red Cross (Trainer and Instructor Trainer)

Governmental Risk Managers of Ohio (Vice President/Secretary)

American Jail Association

United States Army, 1966 to 1968.  Honorable discharge.

Frequent speaker at various conferences and conventions, at both the state and national level.

Author of three chapters in the North Dakota Corrections Officer’s Training Manual, Suicide in Jails, Crisis Intervention and Management, and Substance Abuse in Corrections.

Jail Resource Training Guide, National Institute of Corrections, co-author.

Detention and Corrections Case Law Catalog, co-author.