TRAINING STAFF

We are so thankful for our additional adjunct staff from Lake Country Fire & Rescue and area departments that frequently participate in the training programs offered through the Training Center. Here are a few of our lead instructors!

TANYA REYNEN  

Deputy Chief / TRAINING CENTER COORDINATOR

Tanya Reynen joined Lake Country Fire & Rescue in January of 2017 as the Coordinator of the Lake Country Training Center.  D/C Reynen, an experienced Firefighter/Paramedic/Educator, is dedicated to the on-going growth and development of the Training Center & programs offered. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fire Emergency Response Management from UW Oshkosh, additional training in education and leadership from the National Fire Academy and began the Executive Fire Officer Program in spring of 2022.

Lead Instructors:

Andrew Olson

Lead EMS Instructor Coordinator

Andrew joined the training center in 2021 as an adjunct then lead EMS instructor. He was hired in Fall of 2022 as our Lead EMS Instructor Coordinator. Andrew is an experienced Critical Care Paramedic working at various Waukesha County fire departments. Andres also has experience in private EMS, medical companies, technical colleges, and emergency departments ranging across Eastern WI. Having held certification at all levels of EMS from EMR to CCP he seeks to make EMS education engaging and hands-on. Andrew remains engaged in education not only as an instructor but as a student completing additional instructor development and general study courses. 

Adjunct Instructors

Nicole Cummings

Nicole Cummings comes to us as a longtime member of the Town of Delafield. She dedicated much of her time serving the citizens of the community through ire & EMS. Since merging with Lake Country Fire Rescue Nicole has joined our training team at the Training Center. We are excited to have her patience and expertise to share with our students. Nicole worked for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and brings extensive knowledge on care of children and other medical emergencies that are usually low frequency, high stress calls.

Amy Wolf

Amy Wolf joined Dousman Fire District in May of 2013 after pursuing nursing and realizing during school that was not the route she wanted to take. She completed EMT-basic and continued to grow with the department as it became Western Lakes Fire District. Amy is Firefighter 2, Paramedic, Rescue Diver, and Adjunct TEMS instructor. She has worked in many fields including the ER, OR, NICU, Mom/baby and now with a dental clinic role doing pediatric sedations with an anesthesiologist.

Kevin Lovelace

Kevin has been involved in emergency services since 2008 and currently as a full time EMS Captain at Hartford Fire & Rescue. Kevin’s a Critical Care Paramedic and with many backgrounds in health care including Tactical EMS, Combat Medic experience in the Army, OR experience with Froedtert Milwaukee Hospital and he worked as an Organ Procurement Coordinator with the Blood Center of Wisconsin. Kevin, in all his experience has definitely developed a passion for prehospital emergency medicine and clinical instruction.

Nadia Voytovich

Nadia Voytovich started in EMS while studying for her Bachelors Degree in Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She worked with a private ambulance company in Milwaukee where she ran 911 calls on a BLS ambulance. She quickly began seeing topics of her public health classes firsthand in the EMS world. After she graduated from UWM, she decided to take Paramedic and now serves Waukesha County communities as a FF/Paramedic. With her love for the prehospital setting and patient care, she chose to begin assisting the next generations of EMT-Basics with hopes of creating passionate and strong EMS providers.

MEDICAL CONTROL

Dr. Chris ‘CJ’ George & Al Davies RN

Dr. George and Al Davies have been partners together as Aurora Summit’s EMS Team since 2016. Dr. George graduated from Loyola Medical School in 1999, completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin. He has worked in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Watertown before joining Aurora Summit in 2011.

Al Davies first started as an EMT in Arizona in 1987, then moving on to Nursing, and eventually focusing on EMS and Emergency Management training for over 20 years.