As a Port Commissioner, with over 40 years of port related private engineering practice, I will bring qualifications seldom seen on the governing board of any publicly owned port in the World. 

 

Some important highlights are:

• World wide experience with ports, shipping companies, stevedoring companies, port investors, attorneys, and equipment manufacturers.

• Cargo handling equipment engineering specialist, primarily container cranes but also almost all other types of port equipment.

• Occasional contributing author to port trade journals and subscriber to several weekly and monthly port and crane related publications.

• Accident related engineering services ranging from simple repairs to major loss of port equipment and personnel. Author of several accident prevention journal articles and professional papers.

• Port construction claims engineering specialist.

• Expert retained by attorneys represented by plaintiffs or defendants in marine related accidents or construction claims.

• Last, but certainly not least, I am the leading port engineering specialist to collaborate with America’s top nuclear engineers and scientists to develop defense systems capable of eliminating the threat of containers being used to smuggle fully assembled atomic bombs or the raw fissile material that can be used to construct improvised atomic bombs in someone’s backyard shop.

Along with these activities and contacts, I have worked with and observed performance of all levels and specialties of port personal and port activities at numerous ports. This includes port commissions, port staffs, dock workers, port vendors, port consultants, and port marketing representatives.