MBA (Management); retired Captain, USNR; member of American Waterways Operators Executive Committee and Board of Directors; Instructor, Wagner College Graduate School of Business (Transportation and Labor-Management Relations); HMAA Arbitrator Training Experience: 50 years of experience in maritime industry; positions ranging from tugboat deckhand to President & CEO; VP of major oil company's domestic marine company; responsible for full scope of marine operations along all US coasts, Great Lakes and inland rivers; negotiated and managed commercial and government shipyard contracts from both sides of the table; negotiated and administered charters for tankers, tugs and barges; negotiated labor agreements; directly negotiated with marine insurance underwriters