Hollywood CERT Instructor Gregg Vollman was born in Hollywood, Florida in 1964. After graduating South Broward High School in 1982, he joined U.S. Army Intelligence and studied morse code & high-speed intercept operations. With a top secret clearance he served 4 years in Okinawa, Japan and in San Antonio, Texas. In Japan, at the rank of E-2 (Private First Class), he received the Army Achievement Medal for collecting highly sensitive foreign military data. At Kelly AFB, Texas, he took part in the communications studies of the nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

After his honorable discharge from military service, Gregg began his career in telecommunications engineering. From 1987 to 2006 he programmed and maintained telecommunications systems at major call centers across the U.S. and abroad including the design and construction of communications systems at the world-renowned resort Atlantis, Paradise Island (Bahamas). In 2007, Gregg made a career move to the automobile insurance industry with Farmers/Bristol West Insurance Group and is currently a Claims Technician. He has acquired his Claims Adjuster's License (ACA) and is currently working towards advancing his career in appraising damages and adjusting claims. Gregg is also the sole owner of EZ Duzit Websites. He has been a graphic designer and webmaster for more than 10 years. He is currently the webmaster for this website (Hollywood CERT) and for other successful web-based companies. While living in Hong Kong in 2006, Gregg married a Singaporean woman named Chin Lay Yuen (nickname: Moon) and is adopting her daughter, Hiu Sin (Grace). Gregg's son, Vijay is from a previous marriage and lives in south Florida also.