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STEVE WARNSTADT

Training Coordinator The Security Institute Western Iowa Tech Community College Sioux City, Iowa [email protected]

Mr. Steve Warnstadt has served as the Training Coordinator for The Security Institute (TSI) at Western Tech Community College since June of 2010. He is a colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard, serving as the State’s director of Military Support prior to his present assignment as commander of the 671st Troop Command. Prior to working at TSI, he was an adjunct professor of history at Western Iowa Tech Community College, and served 16 years in the Iowa legislature.

TSI at Western Iowa Tech Community College provides students and first responders with exceptional training in real-life, real-time conditions of crisis. The college offers Associates of Applied Science degrees in Cybercrime Investigation; Emergency and Disaster Management; Emergency Medical Services; Fire Science; Network Administration and Security; Police Science– Corrections; Police Science–Forensics; and Police Science–Technology. TSI also offers diplomas and certificates in 15 other programs.

In addition to college credit programs, TSI offers many non-credit programs and courses. TSI hosts one of Iowa’s three law-enforcement certification academies, and coordinates the annual northwest Iowa Fire School and the annual regional Emergency Medical conference. TSI delivers courses throughout its six-county region. During the past 2 years, it has delivered more than 60,000 credit hours of training to 12,000+ students.

TSI received the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) only public safety-oriented Community-Based Job Training Partner grant 2 years ago. The grant has enabled TSI to purchase and deliver programming over a video conference suite; develop dozens of reusable learning objects; provide financial assistance to more than 500 students; and design a unique DOL competency model for public safety.

TSI is located on the Sioux City campus of Western Iowa Tech Community College. It operates in a facility that provides classroom space for its programs, houses the Woodbury County Emergency Operations Center, and the regional dispatch center and 911 call center, as well as backup storage space for a regional telecommunications provider.

April 14, 2011