 Before he became a Giuliani commissioner he had previously run emergency management programs for the State of Indiana and IBM.On September 11, 2001, Jerome Hauer was a national security advisor with the Department of Health and Human Services, a managing director with Kroll Associates, and a guest on national television, because of his background in counter-terror and his specialized knowledge of biological warfare.Jerome M. Hauer was the first director of Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management.