Jon Barry has more than 20 years of international management operations experience in field deployments and more than 9 years of experience responding to emergency disasters with the National Guard. As a logistics officer for the National Guard, Barry’s expertise includes incident response management for flooding, COVID-19 and other natural disasters in the United States.
He brings his field expertise to Harbor, serving as product director for wellness and emergency response for the Michigan-based company that recently pivoted expertise to create Rapid Deployment Modular Room System (RDMRS) gym kits designed specifically for emergency congregate shelter to meet CDC guidelines.
In addition to his time serving as an officer for the National Guard, Barry is also an entrepreneur and business owner and was asked by the Missouri Governor’s office to lead the “No Kid Hungry Missouri,” program and has held two positions with the Missouri Secretary of State’s office starting as the Director of Business Outreach before being promoted to Deputy Director of the Business Services Division.
Barry is available for interviews and to elaborate on:
CDC social distancing guidelines and other emergency best practice
Implementing plans to house displaced persons in real time
Deployment of housing in emergency situations.