Objective
25 year maritime safety and security, contingency planning and preparedness expert seeking international opportuntities.
Experience
Professional Experience
American Systems August, 2010 – Present
Foreign Military Advisor, Lebanese Armed Forces
Navy Training Team Leader, Beirut, Lebanon
Develop, deliver and manage Lebanese Navy training program. Develop Program of Instruction (POI) and lesson plans with emphasis in the areas of contingency planning, continuity of operations, and crisis command and control, including National Incident Management System Incident Command System (NIMS ICS). Liaise with Lebanese Navy senior leadership to ensure delivery of quality training, provide guidance and recommendations on training needs, prioritization, scheduling, personnel, etc. Provide guidance to and oversight of training staff.
Great Lakes Consulting Services, Inc. August 2004 – August, 2010
President/Founder
Manage security programs for 30 + maritime terminals. Plan and implement security training programs. Perform Facility Security Assessments, identify risks and develop programs/policies to mitigate/reduce exposure. Assess security training and exercise needs. Design, develop, execute, and evaluate training and exercises. Expert in the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) and International Port Facility Security Code (ISPS). Represent facility operators to the U.S. Coast Guard to ensure compliance with the MTSA. Assist Canadian companies with ISPS compliance. Develop maritime security training courses including maritime security awareness, regulatory compliance, contingency planning, post-incident management and operational continuity. Perform audits of security programs. Perform risk-based analysis of port and facility operations, assess supply chain criticality.
• Have trained over 400 port facility personnel in Southeast Michigan, Ontario, Canada, and Ohio
• Port of Detroit Risk Assessment: Wrote Trade Resumption and Resiliency Plan (Continuity of Operations) Strategic Risk Management Plan for the Port of Detroit, prioritizing spending of over $5M of grant funds, identified critical port functions, key resources, and interdependencies.
• Member of Southeast Michigan Area Maritime Security Committee
• Chairman, Maritime Transportation System Recovery Subcommittee
United States Coast Guard, 1983-2004
Port Security Specialist (civilian)
Implemented MTSA throughout Southeast Michigan. Wrote charter for Southeast Michigan Area Maritime Security Committee (SMAMSC); Chaired Facilities and Critical Infrastructure Subcommittee. Oversaw the review and approval of Facility Security Plans.
Chief, Port Security, Sector Detroit, Michigan
• Directed Port Security activities along the international border between US and Canada; prioritized security patrols, oversaw maritime security training, spearheaded collaboration amongst multi-national, multi-jurisdictional agencies to create the first ever SMASMC.
• Implemented MTSA throughout Sector Detroit AOR, including enforcement policy, facility inspection standards, facility inspector qualification standards, trained facility inspection personnel, providing awareness training to waterfront facility operators.
• Developed guidance for assessing security standards at waterfront facilities
Senior Investigating Officer, Sector Detroit; Conducted post-casualty investigations of maritime industry personnel and vessels to determine cause of marine casualties.
• Developed risk-based policies to focus marine casualty and pollution prevention efforts in the maritime industry; reduced occurrences of marine casualties.
• Conducted bi-national, cross-jurisdictional investigations along US/Canada border.
• Provided guidance to maritime industry reduced risk of death, injury, pollution and property loss.
• Presented civil cases representing US Coast Guard before Administrative Law Judges; made oral arguments, written motions, etc.
Chief, Port Operations, Sector Detroit, Michigan
Chief, Port Operations, Marine Safety Office Juneau, Alaska; Managed facility inspections programs to reduce risks of death, injury and environmental damage. Maintained Area Contingency Plan (ACP), implemented to prevent and respond to oil spills and hazardous materials releases in the coastal zone.
• Wrote and maintained multiple contingency plans including shipboard firefighting, marine salvage, natural disaster, mass casualty. Planned/facilitated exercises with commercial passenger vessels, waterfront facility operators, federal, state and local response agencies.
• On-Scene and Incident Command Staff experience in high profile pollution and casualty incidents including major cruise ship groundings, fishing vessel sinkings, waterfront facility fires, etc.
• Managed facility inspection and container inspection programs; performed inspections of bulk oil and hazardous materials handling facilities, initiated/evaluated oil pollution exercises involving facilities and commercial vessels.
Asst Chief, Port Security Division, 17th CG District
• Managed Special Interest Vessel Program; coordinated intelligence resources to observe/monitor vessels of targeted classes and flag states. Interacted with foreign embassies and shipboard personnel to gather intelligence, assess force majeure claims, determine safety of operations.
• Oversaw facility inspection and enforcement program; wrote civil and administrative cases, briefings, motions, etc. for presentation to Hearing Officer.
• Member of Joint Forces Alaska planning staff.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Organizational Management, Daniel Webster College, Nashua, New Hampshire, 2001
Certification
USCG Officer Candidate School, 1992
USCG Senior Marine Casualty Investigator
USCG Port Facility Inspector
FLETC Seaport Security/Anti-Terrorism Training
Advanced Marine Firefighting, Texas A&M University
TWIC Holder
Skils
Past experience as shipboard electronics technician, navigator, small boat crewman.
Available for employment after November 15, 2010. Currently working in Beirut, Lebanon and will be finished with this project on 11/12/10.