Shari has over 20 years of emergency management and exercise design experience having conducted more than 300 trainings and exercises at the local, state and federal level. She is currently a member of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT), specializing in logistics. Shari also trained and worked search and recovery K9s for 18 years and was part of the Indiana K9 Task Force with her human remains detection dog.