Janay is an experienced leader with more than 32 years as a creative innovator addressing the dynamics of public safety in fire department, EMS, and dispatch center operations. With an emphasis on CQI and disaster preparation, she is known for driving innovative outcomes and aligning all elements of public safety to unify response. Her career spans fire department operations and finance, EMS (as both paramedic and registered nurse), training and education, and emergency command centers—providing extensive synergistic experience related to multiple elements of public safety. She is licensed as a paramedic in the state of California and is currently a facilitator at Loma Linda University Health in Loma Linda.
Janay recently retired as a Health Facility Evaluator Nurse with the State of California with an emphasis on state and federal compliance, and she previously held the positions of Nurse Educator with Orange County Fire Authority and Fire Captain with CAL FIRE Emergency Command Center, San Bernardino. She also held a variety of positions during her more than 25 years with CAL FIRE where, in each function and role, Janay focused on organizational effectiveness, communication, and autonomy to empower employees to be effective in their careers. Throughout her own career, she has been tasked with leadership roles to streamline each element, branch, division, and resource in all-risk emergencies and continuity planning. She has played a critical role in communication with employees, training, building work platforms, and the redesign of multiple processes.
Janay earned a bachelor’s of science degree in nursing from State University of New York, Excelsior, Albany, and an associate of science in paramedicine from Crafton Hills College, Yucaipa, California.
“Thank you very much for a comprehensive report. Thank you.”
Palm Springs
“[Stu Gary’s] knowledge, expertise, and demeanor were invaluable in our efforts to ferret out a fair agreement with the City. I could go on and on about Stu, but you already know all of the superlatives.”
AAE, General Manager Monterey Regional Airport
“I am very much appreciative of Citygate’s comprehensive view of all the issues. And you have been very candid and very forthright in the problem areas that you have identified and we appreciate that. Quite often sometimes people choose to gloss over those issues and therefore we never can get a real good handle on the problem to resolve it. And I very much appreciate your insight and your intuitive natures that you have all experienced in your government services and trying to identify where our problem areas are so we can identify for the public. I very much appreciate the idea and the comments that you made that we are talking about the citizens who come to the planning Department as customers. And so you’ve done a great service for us and we are certainly appreciative of all your efforts.”
Commissioner Jackson County
“I think Citygate has done a great job. It seems like you’ve been most thorough and even-handed in your evaluations and you’ve given us certainly a lot of suggestions and guidelines to work with.”
City of Vista, CA
“I really want to express my appreciation for this work that’s been done in a collaborative way in which the study was put together. . . . I’ve seen a number of studies start in the fire department and this is the first one I can remember that has actually been fully completed and brought to the council, and it was done in a very thorough fashion. This is the best assemblage of comprehensive information about the fire department today, as well as what our needs might be in the future, that I have seen. So thanks to everyone. Thank you, Stewart, for giving us our money’s worth on our consultant contract with you.”
City Manager City of San Luis Obispo
“Thank you so much for this training. This was the best PIO training I’ve ever received.”
S-403 Information Officer class participant
