Profile

Julie Buckingham

Resuscitation Academy Program Manager,
RQI-Partners

Contact Details

Resuscitation Academy Program Manager,
RQI-Partners
United States

Bio

I began my career in Public Safety Communications in 1998 when I was hired as a communications specialist at Eastside Communications (later known as NORCOM) in Bellevue, Washington.  

During my career I had the privledge of serving in the following capacity:
  • Telecommunicator  
  • CTO
  • Team supervisor
  • Tactical Dispatch Team/Team Lead
  • Peer Support Team Member
  • Training Coordinator
  • Professional Standards and Development Manager (interim)
I also served as a cadre instructor in the telecommunicator program at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission from 2005 - 2011 facilitating the following courses:
  • Telecommunicator 1 - Call Taker
  • Telecommunicator 2 - Police/Fire Dispatcher
  • Telecommunicator 3 - Emergency Medical Dispatcher
  • Communications Training Officer (CTO) 1
  • Communications Training Officer 2
  • Domestic Violence
  • Crisis Communications For Telecommunications
I was also a King County Criteria Based Dispatch (EMD) instructor from 2007 - 2017, and a Washington State ACCESS/NCIC instructor from 2008 - 2012.

In 2012 I joined King County EMS as the EMD Quality Improvement Program Manager. At this time I also became a faculty member with the Seattle/King County Resuscitation Academy, working with systems from around the world to improve their care of patients in cardiac arrest to save more lives. 

In 2018 I left government work to pursue what had become my passion and my mission; helping PSAPs and Public Safety Telecommunicators save more lives from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. I am currently the Resuscitation Academy Program Manger at RQI Partners, which is a joint venture by the American Heart Association and Laredal Medical. 

My past committee work includes:
  • American Heart Association ECC T-CPR TaskForce
  • NHTSA CPR LifeLinks Writing Committee and T-CPR Advisory Workgroup
  • APCO SDC PSC Center Key Performance Indicator Writing Group
  • APCO Standards Review Sub-Committee
  • APCO Standards Development Training Sub-Committee