POSTED 04-27-2026 We are pleased to welcome Chief Vaughan Miller, Ret., to Wendel’s Public Safety team in our Columbus office. Vaughan brings 35 years of service with the Ventura County Fire Department in California, where he advanced through the ranks and retired as Deputy Fire Chief, overseeing daily operations and administration. He holds a Bachelor of Science in architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and now supports our clients as a public safety designer with Wendel, Five Bugles Design, and Mitchell Associates Architects, focusing on station design, staffing, and organizational studies. Vaughan is passionate about future fire service operations, emerging technologies, and equipment, with a clear goal of helping fire station design keep pace with a rapidly evolving profession. Robert Krzyzanowski, Director of Emergency Services, stated, “We are extremely excited to welcome Vaughan to our public safety design team here at Wendel! His history in the fire service speaks for itself, and we look forward to utilizing his design strengths on projects nationwide with an emphasis on growing the public safety market in the Ohio region.”