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Served at sea on large passenger vessels as a senior officer for 25 years+. Maritime experience totals over 50 years. Expert in emergency preparedness, survival at sea, survival crafts, training, command and control, confined spaces, marine firefighting, emergency navigation procedures, marine occupational health and safety, environmental compliance and systems, risk management, accident investigation and prevention programs, root cause analysis, shipboard security, workings of all types of small vessels.

All aspects of Large Passenger/Cruise vessels, maritime industry in general especially small craft, oil spill procedures, shipboard environmental systems.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Selected as Senior Marine Advisor for CPSC Transcom Ltd. & General Consultant for Hammurabi & Co.
• Selected to develop & implement fleet wide Emergency Towing Procedures (Royal Caribbean).
• Selected to develop a fleet wide Marine Maintenance Manual for the Deck Department. (Royal Caribbean).
• Successfully spearheaded a multidisciplinary team in creating, monitoring and adapting a ship wide safety/accident reduction program ship wide for 850 employees. Royal Caribbean International (“Monarch of the Seas”)
• Prime mover in a senior management team which led the vessel in achieving top levels across the board resulting in being selected “Ship of the Year” amongst a fleet of 21 vessels. (“Monarch of the Seas”)
• Key player in developing a fleet wide marine brand quality/compliance monitoring self-audit database and served as a traveling fleet assessor/auditor.
• Led a specialized group of shipboard staff in an aggressive onboard and community based Environmental Program focusing on innovation, recycling and waste management. As a result, the vessel (“Adventure of the Seas”) was honored with two prestigious awards; “Environmental Ship of the Year” and “Innovative Ship of the Year”.
• Selected to participate in a specialist team, which successfully developed a comprehensive outbreak prevention plan dealing with Norwalk and other pathogens for an entire fleet of over 22 ships. Eventually the plan became an Industry Standard.
• Created, produced and perfected a great number of highly successful, specialized training tools; including videos, manuals, pamphlets, committees and strategies with which to train large numbers of ship board employees.