Millennium Magazine_5th Ed

290 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine Manual” in 1990. For his unequivocal service, Mr. Vattilana received the Distinguished Service Award from the State of Delaware in 1986 and the Lamont DuPont Jr. Memorial Award from the Delaware Chapter of the American Red Cross in 1989. In 1992, he accepted the National Safety Award from American Traffic Safety Services. He was also named an honorable staff officer by the Delaware State Police in 1994. Mr. Vattilana is an honorable life member of the Delaware State Fire Police Association and Wilmington Manor Volunteer Fire Company, and life member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He previously served as the president of the Delaware State Fire Chief’s Association, the First State Chapter of the American Society of Highway Engineers and the New Castle County Volunteer Firefighter’s Association. In his free time, he enjoys woodworking, gardening and fishing. A fter his friend found him a job as a heavy equipment mechanic, Joseph William Vattilana knew he wanted to forge a different path. From 1966 to 1970, he attended Delaware Technical Community College, and then transferred to Pennsylvania State University, studying there from 1976 to 1980. Following his first position with the Department of Highways and Transportation as a heavy equipment mechanic from 1963 to 1970, Mr. Vattilana spent the next nine years as their equipment supervisor. From 1979 to 1984, he was a highway safety engineer, and beginning in 1984, he was their chief safety inspector. Most notably, however, Mr. Vattilana has been the owner of his own eponymous company, Joe V. Safety LLC, since 1994. He also serves as a safety consultant for a private engineering company. A certified field instructor, instructor for radiation control, work zone safety supervisor, director of fleet maintenance and flagger instructor, Mr. Vattilana has been an instructor for the Delaware Chapter of the American Red Cross for more than six decades. In addition to these roles, he is the author of “Do Something: Traffic Controls for Emergency Services Personnel,” “Equipment Certification Manual” and the 1986 safety manual, “Pass the Word.” Mr. Vattilana also contributed to the “Delaware Traffic Control JOSEPH WILLIAM VATTILANA OWNER Joe V. Safety, LLC Wilmington, DE LAW AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

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