Our Team

JGA’s team of instructors and consultants is the reason Fortune 500 companies throughout the world have sought out and continue to utilize the level of training that we provide.

Each member of our team is professionally skilled and trained on DOT, IATA, IMDG and AFMAN 24-604 regulations, and instructors tally over a cumulative 150 years of experience in the transportation, supply chain, and logistics industries.

Staying in tune with the constantly evolving and demanding hazmat industry is our business, and we incorporate the latest industry best practices into our courses, ensuring your knowledge and instruction is informed, competent, and up-to-date. Our instructors understand the complexity of a larger picture and the subsequent and necessary steps needed to accomplish your mission—all the result of current and prior practical experiences.

Meet Our Instructors

With over 150 years of regulatory, compliance, and Department of Defense experience. JGA instructors are highly qualified to educate and share real-world scenarios with students in the following subject matter. Hazardous Materials in Transportation, Dangerous Goods in Transportation, Transportation of Radioactive Materials, Military Airlift in Accordance with AFMAN 24-604 and various Military Specification Packaging and Government Contract Requirements courses.

Tom Ferguson PG, CHMM, DGSA

President and Owner of JGA

Tom has nearly 30 years of compliance experience with emphasis on the safe and efficient transportation of dangerous goods. He is currently the President and Chief Technical Officer for Currie Associates, and Administrator for the Council on Safe Transportation of Hazardous Articles (COSTHA) and the International Vessel Operators Dangerous Goods Association (IVODGA).

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Jerry Green

A graduate of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, Jerry’s expertise is in the area of radioactive shipments. He has over 50 years’ experience in regulatory compliance and hazardous materials transportation, including 24 years conducting regulatory compliance training. He has served as Associate Staff to the US DOT's Transportation Safety Institute in Oklahoma City, and formerly served on the instructional staff at George Washington University's Aviation Safety and Security Management Program.

He also holds the status of Diplomate With Honors in Dangerous Goods Instruction awarded by the International Air Transport Associated in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mike Williams

A graduate of California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a retired Fire Captain, Mike's experience in the transportation of dangerous goods comes from over 20 years of logistics as a team member for one of FEMA's 28 National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) teams. He shares real world experiences of moving all types of rescue and life saving equipment over the road, by commercial airlift, and by Military airlift in support of disaster responses nationally and internationally. Mike has been an instructor with JGA since 2022 and although he specializes in the movement of the FEMA US&R caches, he also assists in the delivery of our public courses.

Additional Instructors

We’re excited to expand our instructor team and service offerings through our collaboration with Currie Associates, enhancing our capabilities in regulatory training, auditing, and consulting. This partnership allows us to offer a wider range of dangerous goods transportation training, including ADR (Europe), Transport Canada (TDG), and Mexican NOMs. We’re also now able to provide customized e-learning solutions tailored to your company’s needs, as well as training in Spanish and French.

View the Currie Associates team here.

Administrative Team

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Marsha Oliva

Marsha has served as the Training Coordinator of JGA for over 18 years. Ensuring a positive experience with students and clients she is your first line of contact via phone call, email and website inquiry. She collaborates closely with the regulatory compliance team to ensure access to current training resources, including the JGA Study Guide, online training programs, and supplemental regulatory publications and handouts. Dedicated to client satisfaction, Marsha manages online, private, and public training sessions from beginning to end—including, student contact and relations, training discovery and advisories, proposal development and quoting, scheduling, public training registration processing, inventory planning and coordination, invoicing, issuing completion certificates, training record managment, website management and marketing.

Ariel Adams

As an Administrative Assistant Ariel brings more than 10 years of customer service experience to support and assists with JGA mail, book orders, inventory managment, as well as handles shipping student materials to include training materials and printables from our Tyrone, GA office.

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