Our Team
Meet the Tablet Command team!
Will began in the fire service in 1998 as a full-time firefighter while pursuing a degree in Information Systems from San Diego State University. He has worked in the San Diego region as a firefighter, paramedic, fire dispatcher, and flight rescue medic. He began his career with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District in 2005, leaving at the end of 2020 as an Assistant Fire Chief. While at Contra Costa County Fire, Will oversaw the Communications Division of the Fire District, including the 911 Center, Radio, Telecomm, and Information Technology. Will is passionate about fire communications systems, computer networking, database, integration systems, computer programming, and bringing functional mobile technology to the fire service industry. He represents an unusual mix of fire service insight and technological expertise.
Andy has more than 25 years of experience in the fire service in California and in Washington State. He is currently a Battalion Chief with a large Northern California Fire Department. Andy has a visionary mind and has provided many of the conceptual aspects that are foundational to Tablet Command. Andy is passionate about continuing to improve the Tablet Command solution as a daily user in the field. He also spends a considerable amount of time learning from other users throughout the North American fire service. Prior to working as a firefighter, Andy was a science teacher and a NCAA student athlete at USC and Middlebury College in Vermont, where he completed his BA in biology.
With more than 17 years of professional programming experience, Marius has been with the team since the first line of code was written in April 2012. His experience ranges from Linux system administrator, PHP, mySQL, Postgres, Sybase/SQL Server, C#, .net, Hadoop via Azure, and broad web and mobile technologies. More recently, he has been focusing on Objective-C, Swift, and Node.js.
John brings a unique combination of fire service and technology experience, which started when he worked for CMC Rescue in college. Later, he was the Vice President of Lee & Associates Rescue Equipment training and equipping firefighters all over California. Most recently, John was the Director of Technology for Ojai Valley School, an independent college preparatory school, where he modernized the network and server infrastructure, managed the technical aspects of the school’s web site and implemented student and course management systems. He is excited to be working again with the fire service!
Thom began public service as a US Marine in 1983. He continued serving as a Graduate Public Service Intern at the University of Illinois while earning an MBA. Thom then had a 20 year award-winning career with IBM in software sales. He began working with fire departments as an executive at Target Solutions in 2010, leading the company to significant financial growth. Thom joined the Tablet Command team as the Director of Sales in 2016.
WIth over a decade of professional programming experience, Steven came onboard in 2015 as the lead integration engineer, working with clients to enable Enterprise functionality with their respective CAD systems. Experience with C#, .Net, SQL Server, Java, and PHP. He has direct experience with Emergency Communications, Dispatch Center operations, and Fire Service operations, supporting all aspects of technology, from servers to devices in the field, and CAD/RMS/PCR vended applications to full-stack in-house development.
Mike has worked for fire and EMS organizations in Southern California since 1992. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology, with a concentration in Systems Analytics from the University of Phoenix. The majority of his career was spent with the Redlands Fire Department, where he retired as a Captain. Mike has been instrumental in implementing services for many of the organizations within San Bernardino County. These services include, but are not limited to, incident reporting, fire prevention inspections, electronic patient care records, station alerting, staffing management, CAD services, and Tablet Command, as well as configuring mobile devices using mobile data management services and collaborating with big hardware and cellular vendors. He is excited to be part of the Tablet Command team and improve the technical capabilities and success of the fire service.
Chris has over 20 years of experience in software testing andautomation. She has worked in a wide breadth of industries as a software consultant and a member of small but effective agile teams. She specializes in building automation and manual testing suites from scratch and implementing technology and testing processes that work best for the team.

