The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Naval and Maritime: About the Maintainer

What qualifies me to maintain this list?

Naval Service: 21 years active duty in the United States Navy (Jun 1973 to September 1994)
- graduate of the United States Naval Academy
- service as a flight instructor in both advanced undergraduate helicopter training and in an SH-2F Seasprite fleet replacement squadron
- Student Control Officer for U.S. Navy advanced undergraduate helicopter training (equivalent to college Dean of Students & Career Development Director combined)
- two deployments on United States Naval Service vessels manned by civilian mariners, giving me good insight into and understanding of the civil mariner and maritime issues
- three at-sea deployments as a helicopter detachment Officer-in-Charge
- aviation detachment and squadron Operation Officer tours; SH-2F squadron Tactics Officer, Administrative Officer, and Safety Officer tours
- flagship Aviation Officer for a UNITAS (South American) deployment with a U.S. helicopter detachment, a drone detachment, and an Argentinian helicopter detachment under my direct authority
- Anti-Submarine Warfare Range Officer for Helicopter Sea Control Wing One
- Navy ROTC instructor
Academic credentials: former Assistant Professor of Naval Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
- taught Naval Weapons Systems and Seapower and Maritime Affairs
- my direct influence (combined with that of my mentor and plebe-year Seapower professor, Dr. Kenneth Hagan) resulted in distribution of Sir Julan Corbett's Green Pamphlet to all new NROTC Seapower instructors; this act, coupled with the adoption of Hagan's This People's Navy as the textbook, signalled a shift away from the classic Mahanian concepts of Naval warfare to those of Corbett, considerably more in line with current strategic emphasis on littoral warfare and joint service operations
Web pioneer
- Created first homepage for the United States Naval Academy, fall 1994
- After establishment of the official United States Naval Academy Web site, maintained USNA Candidate Guidance pages for over a year
- Created first Web site for alumni of the United States Naval Academy, originally called It's Not Shipmate!; now called Homeport
- Responsible for technical management of the Illinois Institute of Technology homepage from 1995 to 1999; ranked as one of the top 1,000 sites on the Web in terms of volume
- Sole author of a Webmaster curriculum accredited at the Technical Fundamentals level by the Association of Internet Professionals Certification Accreditation Council
- Member of the Association of Internet Professional's Certification Accreditation Council (http://www.accredit.net/
- Subject Matter Expert for the Computer Trade Industry Association's (CompTIA) i-Net+ certification (http://www.comptia.org/certification/inetplus/)
- Member of the Council of the World Wide Web Virtual Library
- Manage multiple Web sites with a variety of focii
See my homepage for more about me