Ms. Fitzpatrick brings over a decade of experience with a diverse background supporting the spill response industry. Beginning her career in management consulting, she transitioned into an emergency response position supporting a deepwater well containment company in the US Gulf of Mexico.
In this role, her focus was to enhance industry wide preparedness efforts by working with operators, government agencies, and other industry partners to define and institutionalize new standard response practices for subsea incidents. She conducted trainings and developed exercises, both internally and in conjunction with member companies, to ensure readiness and effectiveness in response strategies. Ms. Fitzpatrick also served as Deputy Planning Section and Deputy Operations Section Chief on the organization’s Response Team. More recently, she supported a large US Oil Spill Response Organization (OSRO) in both Customer & Government relations capacity, as well as an internal business performance consultant.
