About this speaker
Daryl DeFrance Jaschen serves as Director of the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA). He previously served the territory in the Virgin Islands National Guard (VING), Joint Force Headquarters. He spent 11 years in the VING serving in various Deputy Chief of Staff Positions to include Strategic Plans & Doctrine, Exercise, Operations, Information Management, and in his last four years, Army Chief of Staff. He has 30-years of military service in the army as a field artillery officer in both the active duty and national guard components. He retired in 2016.
During hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, Jaschen volunteered at the VITEMA emergency operations center (EOC) on St. Croix as an emergency communications radio operator. He and a small group of fellow licensed amateur radio volunteers provided over 2,200 hours of support to the territory. He is the Virgin Islands Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) section emergency coordinator with the national American Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) and vice president of the St. Croix amateur radio club.
Director Jaschen holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in General Engineering & Mathematics from West Point, Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Management Information Systems from Oklahoma City University, and a Master of Science (MS) in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College. He completed the Harvard Kennedy School Leadership in Homeland Security program course.