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Suggested Citation:"A Biographies of Committee Members." National Research Council. 1999. Applying Advanced Information Systems to Ports and Waterways Management. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6451.
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Appendix A
Biographies 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 the port's 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, an honorary fraternity for civil engineers. He has a B.S. degree in architectural engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. degree in architectural engineering from Oklahoma State University.

William A. Wallace, vice chair, 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 developing decision-support systems for industry and government. He has held academic positions at Carnegie-Mellon University and the State University of New York at Albany and served as chairman of the Statistical, Management, and Information Sciences Department at Rensselaer. 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 has a B.S. in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in management science from Rensselaer.

Anne D. Aylward is a senior consultant to the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, which advises the U.S. Department of Transportation on port and freight issues. She is past maritime director of the Massachusetts Port Authority and served as executive director of the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation. She has provided local and national leadership on port and intermodal freight issues while serving as chair of the American Association of Port Authorities and a board member of the North Atlantic Port Conference, North Atlantic Ports Association, Boston Shipping Association, and Boston Harbor Association. Ms. Aylward has also served on the National Research Council's Marine Board and is currently a member of the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Intermodal Transportation. She has an A.B. degree from Radcliffe College and an M.S. degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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. Previously with the Skaarup Group, Mr. Gray initially operated the Skaarup fleet and then managed special tanker projects, working with organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences and INTERTANKO. Mr. Gray also spent more than 22 years with Exxon Corporation working 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 previously served as vice chair of the Marine Board Committee on Tank Vessel Design. He has 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.

Jerrol Larrieu is director of management information systems for the Port of New Orleans, where he supervised the installation of the nation's most sophisticated automated port information system. Previously, he was a consultant to the port on its automation project, coordinating design teams for major portions of the community cargo release system. Prior to that, Mr. Larrieu was manager of computer services for the Ingram Corporation for nearly 10 years, providing corporate consulting services. He has 28 years of experience in

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advanced information systems, including service with General Electric Company and the Chrysler Corporation. He is currently chair 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. He has a B.S. degree in mathematics from Xavier University of Louisiana.

Robert G. Moore is president of Coastwatch, Incorporated, a maritime management and consulting firm involved in the design of vessel traffic service (VTS) systems. The firm has developed VTS design requirements for 23 U.S. ports. Previously, he was a career officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. As chief of military readiness, he was responsible for service-wide security, contingency and defense planning, and training. Capt. Moore also has 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's extensive experience with VTS systems includes visits to major VTS systems in Europe and service as 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 1991 Port Needs Study, a study for the U.S. Coast Guard that identified U.S. ports that require VTS systems. Capt. Moore has a B.S. degree in engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

J.S. Niederhauser is an active marine pilot and past president of Puget Sound Pilots. He is the pilot representative to the Port of Tacoma project for the 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, Capt. Niederhauser spent 19 years with Foss Maritime Company, where he gained sea experience on ocean, coastal, river, and harbor towing vessels. As a tug captain, he qualified for pilotage in British Columbia waters 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 also has considerable experience in recreational boating on Puget Sound and British Columbia waters. He 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 a wealth of experience in virtually all aspects of vessel operations and fleet management and has managed foreign-flag charter vessels as well as U.S.-flag vessels. 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 has 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.

Steve 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 boards 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 a member of 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 has a J.D. degree from the South Texas College of Law in Houston.

Cameron Williams is vice president for academic affairs at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He is also a professor in the Joint Diploma Program in Shipping and Port Management, Graduate College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware and Singapore Port Institute. Previously, he taught marine transportation, economics, and marketing at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He holds U.S. Coast Guard licenses as master of steam and motor vessels up to 1,600 tons (oceans), second mate of vessels of any tonnage (oceans), and radar observer. He is also 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 has 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. degree 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 one of the largest container ships in the world. He 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. Captain Woodill has expertise in marine navigation, ship management, ship construction, cargo requirements, and vessel operations. He has a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

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The future safety of maritime transportation in the United States—a major factor in the nation's international trade and economic well-being—will depend heavily on the quality of port and waterways information systems. Many U.S. ports and waterways lack adequate information services, although certain elements of advanced systems are now available in some locations. Barriers to improvements in information systems include the division of responsibilities for waterways management among multiple agencies at all levels of government, a lack of coordination among the federal agencies responsible for waterways management, inadequate budgets for some critical maritime programs, the high costs of some specialized technologies, stakeholder opposition to user fees, limited access to certain key data, the incompatibility of many independently developed systems, and the absence of standards for some attractive technologies.

In this report, the second phase of a three-year study by the Committee on Maritime Advanced Information Systems of the National Research Council, a strategy is presented for overcoming the major barriers and deficiencies and providing a minimum level of maritime safety information nationwide. In this phase of the study, the committee concentrated on maritime information systems that promote safety, which is the area of greatest need. The committee did not examine in detail the relationship between navigation safety and maritime transportation efficiency or evaluate information systems that promote efficiency; the committee believes, however, that these issues deserve further attention.

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