About CrowdCAD

Team

CrowdCAD was created by a team within the Berkeley Medical Reserve Corps. The project brings together operational experience in event medicine (including our own volunteer operations), dispatch workflow insight, software development, and research into how event medical systems function in practice.

Evan Passalacqua

Evan Passalacqua

Founder & UX/UI Lead

Evan founded CrowdCAD and designed its UX after thousands of hours of event EMS experience highlighted the need for a fast, organized, and intuitive dispatch interface. He currently manages the platform's ongoing development.

Ivan Zhang

Ivan Zhang

Co-founder & Backend Developer

Ivan is a co-founder of CrowdCAD who developed the backend software and system architecture. He focuses on turning operational requirements into a functional, maintainable web application.

Sophia Levin

Sophia Levin

Dispatch Operations Lead

Sophia brings event dispatch experience across a wide range of contexts and has contributed significantly to feature development and testing, in addition to building CrowdCAD's training curriculum for new collegiate EMT dispatchers.

Deren Bog

Deren Bog

EMS Research Lead

Deren has helped connect the project's design choices to the broader context of event medicine, volunteer EMS, and field operations research. This work helps ensure that CrowdCAD is informed both by practice and by published evidence.

Kayden Mei

Kayden Mei

Backend Developer

Kayden is leading the incorporation of TAK GPS tracking into CrowdCAD, bringing live field-unit positions into the dispatch interface so dispatchers can see where their teams are in real time.

Eva Reineck

Eva Reineck

Translation Lead

Eva leads the translation of CrowdCAD's dispatch elements, working to ensure each term is rendered accurately so the tool can be used by teams in other languages.