Objective
Naval architect, avid boating and marine enthusiast, will add value, ensure quality and advance state of the art through design, engineering and electrical construction experience and industry exposure.
Experience
PROFILE
• Flexible, efficient team worker, multi-task manager. Dedicated, focused, stable, responsible.
• Current Treasurer, New York Met Section SNAME
• Current East Coast Chairman and Editor for Society of Boat and Yacht Designers.
• Strong eye for detail; superior spatial visualization, design memory, drawing abilities.
• General Hydrostatics (GHS) User Training, proficient with FastShip 3D surface modeling, HydroComp NavCad, AutoCAD, training with Rhino 4.0
• Microsoft Windows/Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access.
• Skilled oral and written communicator who “has contributed ideas resulting in improved methods of presentation and technical quality [,] …reflected in the delivered product” (Supervisor’s performance review comment, 1992)
• Member: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Royal Institution of Naval Architects
American Society of Naval Engineers
Connecticut Maritime Association
International Superyacht Society
EXPERIENCE
AMSEC LLC, New York, NY July 2008 – Present; also April 2003 – May 2006
Engineering, design and life cycle support to the marine industry. ISO 9001 compliant.
Naval Architect 3. Prepared strength, stability analyses, hull forms, weight, speed/power calculations, reports, proposals, loading, trim and stability booklets. Developed transportation analysis supporting team effort earning consistently “Excellent” marks for New York City contract.
• Aided winning proposal efforts for Delaware River & Bay Authority – Cape May Ferry and New York City Dept. of Transportation – Staten Island Ferry engineering contracts.
• Using GHS, verified satisfaction of ABS requirements for stability, structural strength and endurance of US Navy missile tracking ship through detail design and construction.
• Developed naval architectural reports, responded to construction yard inquiries.
• Conducted passenger stability test to earn USCG Certificate of Inspection and Stability Letter
• Developed hull form, propulsion system, trim, stability and weights for 40-meter New York City Fire Dept. fireboat preliminary design to win Homeland Security funding grant.
• Determined propeller modifications for re-powering 55-meter Sandy Hook pilot boat.
• Conducted weight review to assure competitive construction bid proposal.
• Developed weights, stresses and bending moments for deadline-driven vessel upgrades.
• Prepared loading, trim and stability documents for National Cargo Board approval and issue.
• Met with clients, contacted vendors, verified and edited equipment specifications.
Gibbs & Cox, Inc, New York, NY June 2006 – June 2007; also 1985 – 2001
Naval architecture and engineering services since 1929. ISO 9001 compliant.
Engineer, Naval Architect. Cited as “effective member of the Naval Architecture Group” (1998), expanding design portfolio, product range, regional, national and global exposure.
• Ensured timely mass properties accuracy for hull structure, propulsion and auxiliary systems with multinational team and witnessed tank test on 137-meter destroyer contract design.
• Achieved specified characteristics with maximum precision for new hull designs with 3D modeling software under strict deadlines of 1 – 2 weeks or less.
• Prepared lines, arrangements and stability studies for design concepts with rapid turnaround.
• Wrote clear, concise loading/operating instructions and emergency procedures for crew use.
• Maximized efficiency for tanker design by investigating and refining forebody lines.
• Developed a computer program to publish damage control books, calculations and charts.
• Resolved stability and trim issues by optimizing fuel consumption and ballast plans.
• “Resident stability expert” reviewing and verifying intact and damage stability and reserve buoyancy for numerous naval and commercial ships, boats and barges.
• Ensured satisfaction of hull strength requirements. Developed section modulus and longitudinal strength calculations and drawings.
• Ensured rough-weather operability and crew comfort with seakeeping and motion evaluations.
• Satisfied weight control requirements through all phases of design.
• Ensured habitability and space requirements for new designs with compartment area and volume comparisons.
Electric Gale Corporation, Brewster, NY 1977 – 1985
Electrical Construction Engineering Contractor.
Assistant Office Manager. Managed office operations, customer relations, dispatched journeymen and performed numerous field electrical tasks. Assisted job pricing and estimation.
Ordered and purchased electrical fixtures, appliances, service cable and construction materials.
Education
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology 1984
Concentration in Ocean Engineering.
MacNaughton Group Yacht Design School program, Eastport, ME – Currently enrolled
• Advance focus on yacht and pleasure craft design.
• Rhino 3D modeling skills.
Technical Training:
Creative Systems, Inc. – General HydroStatics (GHS) User Training
Proteus Engineering, Division of Anteon Corp. – FastShip 3D Surface Modeling Software, 1997.
Gibbs & Cox, Inc. – Computervision CADDS, Versions 4X and 5, 1998.
Certification
Skils