Harvey E. Johnson, Jr., M.S., U.S.C.G. retired Vice Admiral became the deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in April 2006 after serving as commander, Pacific Area of the U.S. Coast Guard, since June 2004. Mr. Johnson has a wealth of emergency and crisis management experience, including support to Admiral Thad Allen and the Coast Guard's Hurricane Katrina response efforts by coordinating and deploying West Coast resources. His operational experience includes various Coast Guard efforts, including search and rescue, freighter grounding, and vessel break-up and pollution response for the motor vessel Selendang Ayu and the tank vessel Seabulk Pride in Alaskan waters. In addition, he participated in multiple Naval War College, Lead Shield, and Rogue Vessel exercises in response to simulated maritime homeland security threats, and the management of hundreds of Coast Guard law enforcement, search and rescue, and pollution response cases in the Pacific. Prior to this assignment, he was the commander, Seventh Coast Guard District, and served as the director, Homeland Security Task Force-Southeast, where he directed Operation Able Sentry, the Department of Homeland Security's response to the crisis in Haiti. In addition to these duties, he served as the executive director of the Coast Guard's transition into the Department of Homeland Security, and director of operations capability and director of operations policy. Mr. Johnson received a B.S. degree at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1975.  He earned an M.S. degree at the Naval Postgraduate School in 1983, and an M.S. degree in management at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.