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Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
H. Thomas Kornegay (chair) is executive director of the Port of Houston Authority, which he joined in 1972. He previously served as planning and administrative engineer, chief engineer, director of engineering, managing director, and acting executive director. Mr. Kornegay is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, and Chi Epsilon honorary fraternity for civil engineers. He received a B.S. degree in architectural engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. degree in architectural engineering from Oklahoma State University.
Anne D. Aylward (vice chair) is a senior consultant at the John A. Volpe Transportation Systems Center of the Department of Transportation. Previously, Ms. Aylward was executive director of the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation. She is a past maritime director of the Massachusetts Port Authority, where she was responsible for the development, marketing, and operation of the Port of Boston. She is on the Board of Directors of the North Atlantic Ports Association, chair of the North Atlantic Port Conference, vice chair of the Boston Harbor Association, a member of the Board of Governors for the Boston Shipping Association, and the past chair of the Board of Directors and the U.S. Delegation for the American Association of Port Authorities. Ms. Aylward received an A.B. degree from Radcliffe College and an M.A. degree in city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the National Research Council Marine Board and the Transportation Research Board Committee on Intermodal Transportation R&D.
Alan Bartel is the director of product development for Maersk Data, Inc., of Morristown, New Jersey, and is responsible for the development of new information technology and special projects for Maersk Line (a major international container ship company) and other maritime clients. He is director of distributed information technology, project manager for a global information strategy for Maersk Line, and director for global information management. Mr. Bartel's work supports business units covering terminal operations, imports, exports, and electronic data interchange. He has previously held positions with AP Moller Steamship Company and Equitable Life Assurance Company. He graduated from Nichols College in 1979 with a B.S. in business administration and a major in management information systems.
M. Edward Gilbert is president of Gilbert and Associates, a consulting service. He has experience in crisis leadership, vessel traffic systems, coastal security and surveillance systems, and international telecommunications systems. Admiral Gilbert had a 35-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard that culminated in his final assignment as commander, 11th Coast Guard District. He was responsible for all operations and risk management in the Southwest and for carrying out the Coast Guard missions of law enforcement, maritime safety, port safety and security, environmental protection, military operations, and recreational boating safety. Previous assignments included resource director/comptroller where he oversaw an annual budget of $3.5 billion. Admiral Gilbert was also director of telecommunications. In that capacity he was chairman of an advisory group of government, industry, and labor leaders that established national standards for telecommunications. Admiral Gilbert holds a B.S. degree from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, an M.S. degree from the U.S. Navy Post Graduate School, and an M.S. degree in telecommunications from George Washington University.
William O. Gray is president of Gray Maritime Company, a marine consulting firm. He works closely with Intertanko, which represents 70 percent of the world tanker fleet, to promote safe waterway transits in the United States. From 1987 to January 1995, Mr. Gray served with the Skaarup Group, initially operating the Skaarup fleet and then managing special tanker projects, working with organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences and Intertanko. Mr. Gray spent more than 22 years with Exxon Corporation,
primarily in the development of very large tankers. He managed Exxon's Arctic Tanker Project (a successful transit of the Northwest Passage by the T/V Manhattan). Mr. Gray also spent four years with Bethlehem Steel working on the preliminary design of merchant ships, especially tankers. He holds a B.S.E. degree in naval architecture, with honors, from the University of Michigan and an M.E. degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University. Mr. Gray previously served on the Marine Board Committee on Tank Vessel Design.
Jerrol Larrieu is director of management information systems for the Port of New Orleans. He supervised installation of the country's most sophisticated automated port information system. He previously was a consultant to the port on its automation project, coordinating system design teams for major portions of this community cargo release system. Prior to that, he was manager of computer services for the Ingram Corporation for nearly 10 years, providing corporate consulting services. Mr. Larrieu has 28 years of experience in advanced information systems, including service with General Electric Company and the Chrysler Corporation. He holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from Xavier University of Louisiana. He is chairman of the American Association of Port Authorities Information Technology Committee and is a member of the Executive Board of the U.S. Customs Automation Advisory Committee.
Robert G. Moore is president of Coastwatch, Incorporated, a maritime management and consulting firm. A prime focus for Coastwatch has been vessel traffic service (VTS) systems design. The firm has developed VTS design requirements for 23 U.S. ports and is assessing VTS-2000 designs for 10 ports. Previously, Capt. Moore was a career U.S. Coast Guard officer. He was chief of military readiness and was responsible for service-wide security, contingency and defense planning, and training. He also had broad international experience. He was the U.S. State Department advisor to the government of Somalia and served in London as deputy commander, U.S. Coast Guard Activities Europe. Capt. Moore has extensive experience with VTS. He visited major VTS systems in Europe to determine their suitability for ports in the United States. He was the U.S. observer to the international committee that developed the traffic separation schemes for Dover Straits and the North Sea. He also played a leading role in the U.S. Department of Transportation Port Needs Study. Capt. Moore holds a B.S. degree in engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Captain J.S. Niederhauser is president of Puget Sound Pilots and an active marine pilot. A member of Puget Sound Pilots since January 1990, he serves in various capacities, including pilot representative to the Port of Tacoma project for computer simulation of large container ship navigation in the Blair Waterway. He holds an unrestricted pilot license for Puget Sound waters from the U.S. Coast Guard and the state of Washington and is a member of Masters, Mates and Pilots and the American Pilots Association. Previously, as an employee of Foss Maritime Company from 1971 to 1990, Capt. Niederhauser gained sea experience on ocean, coastal, river, and harbor towing vessels, primarily within Puget Sound but ranging as far as ports in Alaska. As a tug captain, he qualified for pilotage in British Columbia waters, including Vancouver Harbor and Fraser River pilotage areas, and pilotage while towing loaded petroleum barges on the Columbia River and southeast Alaska inland waters. A charter member and past commodore of the Pacific Northwest Fleet of the Classic Yacht Association, Capt. Niederhauser has considerable experience in recreational boating on Puget Sound and British Columbia waters. Capt. Niederhauser was educated at Western Washington State University in Bellingham.
F.D.R. Posthumus is director of fleet projects for Sea-Land Services, Incorporated. He has had a wealth of experience in virtually all aspects of vessel operations and fleet management. He managed foreign-flag charter vessels as well as U.S.-flag ships. Capt. Posthumus was also manager of Marine Operations Europe, Booking and Equipment Control Europe, and vessel operations in several areas of the world. Prior to joining Sea-Land in 1970, Capt. Posthumus sailed extensively with the Dutch Merchant Marine. He holds a master's license from the Hogere Zeevaartschool and a license as chief engineer of unlimited powered diesel ships. He is a graduate of the Dutch Army Transportation Corps Officers Academy.
C.S. (Scott) Rockhold is chief engineer, maritime systems, at Hughes Aircraft Company, where he has worked since 1974. He is responsible for all technical aspects of projects for Hughes Maritime Systems. Major topic areas include surface search radar and vessel traffic services. Mr. Rockhold is responsible for research, defining operational requirements, developing systems, and quality control. Past assignments have included development of a command, control, communications, and intelligence system and a ship-based, multisensor correlation and tracking system for the U.S. Navy. In addition, Mr. Rockhold spent 10 years developing a variety of systems software related to antisubmarine warfare. Prior to that he was a scientific programmer in the Defense System Division of Sperry UNIVAC. Mr. Rockhold received a B.A. degree in mathematics from California State University, Northridge.
Steven Valerius is executive vice president of Hollywood Marine, Incorporated, one of the largest tank barge companies in the United States. He is active in numerous marine industry organizations, serving on the Board of Directors of the American Waterways Operators, Texas Waterway Operators Association, and Louisiana Association of Waterway
Operators. He is an advisory director of LaPorte State Bank and serves on the Texas General Land Office Oil Spill Commission. Mr. Valerius is also chairman of the Executive Committee of the Galveston Bay Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and holds a J.D. degree from the South Texas College of Law in Houston.
William A. Wallace is professor of decision sciences and engineering systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As a researcher and a consultant in management science and information systems, Dr. Wallace has more than 20 years of experience in research on and the development of decision support systems for industry and government. Currently he is engaged in the application of artificial intelligence and advanced communications and location technology to problems in planning and control. He has held academic positions at Carnegie-Mellon University and the State University of New York at Albany. He served as chairman of the Rensselaer Statistical, Management, and Information Sciences Department from 1983 to 1987. Dr. Wallace also has been a research scientist and visiting professor at a number of institutions abroad, including the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the National Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management Development in China. He has authored or co-authored six books and more than 100 articles and papers. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in management science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
E. Cameron Williams is director, Southern Center for Logistics and Intermodal Transportation, Georgia Southern University. He is also a professor in the Joint Diplome Programme in Shipping and Port Management, Graduate College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware and Singapore Port Institute. Previously, Dr. Williams taught marine transportation, economics, and marketing at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He also holds U.S. Coast Guard licenses as master of small steam and motor vessels, second mate of vessels of any weight, and radar observer. He is a captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve, specializing in naval control of shipping and convoy operations. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee and Intermodal Association of North America and a past member of the Chief of Naval Operations Advisory Board for Naval Control and Protection of Shipping. Dr. Williams holds a B.S. degree in marine transportation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, an M.A. degree in business management (marketing) from Central Michigan University, and a Ph.D. in business administration (marketing) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Russell Woodill is executive vice president and national positions chairman for the Council of American Master Mariners, which represents more than 1,500 shipmasters and pilots. He is also master of the Sea-Land Performance, which trades internationally and is among the world's largest container ships. Capt. Woodill has been active in the U.S. Merchant Marine for nearly 30 years, rising through the ranks of junior officers to his current position of licensed shipmaster, unlimited tonnage, any ocean. He has expertise in marine navigation, ship management, ship construction, cargo requirements, and vessel operations. Captain Woodill holds a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Charles A. Zraket, NAE, is adjunct research scholar at the Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a trustee and retired president and chief executive officer of MITRE Corporation. At CSIA, Dr. Zraket is engaged in policy research in the fields of national and international security, global environmental change, information policy, and the impact of science and technology on U.S. public policy and economic development. At MITRE, where he began working in 1958, he served in various management positions concerned with systems research, engineering, and the acquisition of large electronic systems for defense intelligence, space, air traffic control and other civil systems, and energy and environmental systems. Dr. Zraket is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an honorary doctorate in engineering from Northeastern University.
