Senior Manager for Deck Department, the largest department onboard a 600+ crew on an amphibious ship. Trained, scheduled, motivated, supervised and evaluated the efforts of naval officers and 70 enlisted personnel. Directly responsible for operation and maintenance of small boats, deck equipment, a variety of ship operations. Managed and controlled expenditures against a $1M budget. Experienced in operating several small boats and crafts. Officer in a Charge for Assault Craft Unit for Landing Craft Utility Boats (LCU), Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), M-8 boats, Utility Boats (UB). Maritime Prepositioning Force Instructor and Ship-To-Shore Lead for Amphibious Assault.

Senior Technical Manger in the field of navigation and deck seamanship with practical naval experience in these areas. Supervised, planned, and directed activities of navigation and boat operations, in operational and maintenance functions. Developed and administered navigation and operations department training programs, organized, and supervised navigation and deck seamanship exercises and drills. Several areas of responsibilities and training ranging from junior to a senior manager level, while serving from enlisted E-1 through E-7, before being selected to the Limited Duty Officer program.

Responsible for the planning, programming, budgeting and execution of the entire US Navy's Port Operations Program. Managed $150M annual operation and maintenance Navy account, $5M other procurement Navy account. Responsible for all 37 Navy ports worldwide employing 916 military and civilian personnel.