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- Sixteen Key Appointments Announced At Bath Iron Maritime Reporter, Dec 15, 1980 #22
President John F. Sullivan Jr.
of Bath Iron Works recently announced 16 key appointments in a major managerial realignment to strengthen the shipyard's production and marketing capabilities.
"We are pleased that all the appointments came from within the company," he said. "They reflect the depth and strength of our organization." The following promotions and organizational changes were announced by the chief executive.
Royce A. Young Jr. was promoted to vice president-operations.
Previously vice presidentproduction, he is a native of Topsham and a 1958 graduate of the BIW Apprentice Program.
Henry M. Stupinski was promoted from program manager- FFG Program to director of marketing for new ship construction.
Prior to coming to BIW in 1977, Mr. Stupinski was general manager of Steel Span, Inc. of Avon, Mass., for three years.
Gordon H. Fait Jr., who previously served as manager of marketing- overhaul, was named director of marketing for overhaul and repair, where he assumes additional responsibilities. Mr. Fait has been employed at BIW for more than 20 years.
Steven G. Buttner was promoted to director of program management, having previously served as program manager of commercial new construction and Navy overhauls. He joined BIW in August of 1972 and has held a variety of engineering and planning posts.
Harland D. Hatch was promoted from production superinendent to production manager. In his new position, Mr. Hatch will be in charge of all production and shipbuilding functions in the yard.
He will be directly responsible for such areas as structural services, machinery, sheetmetal works, carpenters, new ship construction and ship conversions.
Abbott Fletcher was promoted to program manager of FFG new construction. He previously had served as assistant manager of the guided missile frigate program.
He came to BIW in 1953 from the Bendix Aviation Corp.
in New Jersey, where he worked as a founding engineer.
Frank C. Leavitt Jr., who had served as FFG administration manager, was named program manager for FFG support services.
A graduate of BIW's Apprentice Program, Mr. Leavitt has worked in the yard since 1955.
Robert J. Donovan was named program manager-commercial new ship construction. He previously had served as assistant program manager in that area. He started to work at BIW in 1972, after having served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.
Jerry L. Steiner was named program manager of Navy overhaul and repair. He had previously served as overhaul planning manager. Mr. Steiner worked as a naval architect for Litton Industries in Los Angeles before coming to BIW in 1973.
Richard E. Outhuse was designated to be project manager of the Sun Dredge contract which BIW was awarded on September 25. A graduate of the BIW Apprentice Program, he has served as project manager or superintendent of several ship contracts in the past, including recent work on the USS Conyngham.
Karl H. Finnimore, previously a project engineer, was promoted to assistant program manager of the FFG Post Shakedown Availability Program. Mr. Finnimore came to BIW in 1977 from Bethlehem Steel in Beaumont, Texas, where he worked as a project engineer.
Dennis P. Sullivan was promoted to general foreman of sandblasting and paint services. Mr.
Sullivan joined BIW five years ago.
Maurice J. Bisson was named general foreman of structural services, being promoted from a shipfitting foreman. He has been employed at BIW since 1953.
Donald J. Perron was promoted to foreman of shipfitting on the ways and water, after having previously served as an assistant foreman in that area. He has been employed at BIW for 17 years.
Maurice L. Cloutier was elevated from assistant foreman to foreman of the paint department.
He has been employed at BIW for 23 years, starting to work on the yard after his discharge from the Marine Corps.
Cleon V. Pinkham was promoted to foreman of sandblasting and cleaning, previously having served as an assistant foreman in that area. He has been employed on the yard since 1958.
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35James M. Sullivan, Ph.D. WITH NEW GAP FILL SONAR S2 6205 Executive Director, SWATH FAU Harbor Branch BATHYMETRY & SIDE SCAN James M. Sullivan, Ph.D., was pects of his former research position SONAR named the Executive Director, FAU – physically engineering new prod- Harbor Branch, three years after
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 2MTR 100 September/October 2023 Volume 66 • Number 7 THE 2023MTR100 Company Page Company Page Advanced Navigation 8 Metron 30 A.G.O. Environmental Electronics 42 Nauticus Robotics 36 All American Marine 14 Neil Brown Ocean Sensors, Inc. (NBOSI) 36 Alseamar 10 NORBIT 69 Arctic Rays 56, 76 NOVACAVI
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39FAU Harbor Branch: By the Numbers - The second largest (144 acres) campus in the FAU system. 250 people on campus, including 70 gradu- - ate students. - 40 research faculty members. We have both straight research professors who are not tenure track. We have joint appointments with colleges, so we
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 38ACADEMIA FAU HARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE While Sullivan misses some aspects of research, he said “I would not trade it for what I can do now, which is facilitate science on a much broader scale for all the scientists here and throughout FAU.” – Jim Sullivan, Executive Director, FAU Harbor
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37on just making those as best you can and pumping them out. Little did Sullivan realize that shortly thereafter, the executive That’s how business works; I get it. But if you’re a scientist director spot at FAU Harbor Branch would become vacant. who’s really into developing novel instruments for the
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36ACADEMIA FAU HARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE ames M. Sullivan, Ph.D., was named the Executive During his career, Sullivan received funding through most of Director, FAU Harbor Branch, three years after join- the major federal science agencies including the National Sci- ing the organization. In his
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35MTR recently traveled to visit with Jim Sullivan, Executive Director, FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, to discuss the work he has done and the work left to do to have this venerable facility’s name become synonymous with the world’s H top echelon of ocean research VAN institutions.
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4Editorial raveling to visit companies and organizations where they work is one of the things I Tmissed most in the nearly three years of restricted travel during Covid. Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly © Nicolas Winkler Photography www.marinetechnologynews.com enjoyed being off the road after nearly
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 2May/June 2023 On the Cover Volume 66 • Number 4 An OTN Teledyne Webb Research Slocum glider. © Nicolas Winkler Photography 14 Vehicle Tech Crawlers in the Surf Zone The tumultuous surf zone presents many challenges. Bayonet Ocean crawlers can help bridge the gap. By Kira Coley 19 Family Affair
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February 2023 - Marine News page: 26Feature Training & Education Seafarers International Union institutions. In 2019 and 2020 the report tells that there were wind energy programs available at Clinton Commu- nity College and Sullivan County Community College. But only two students completed the program at Clinton. State of? cials are
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January 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 45in the autonomous underwater ve- group. Rounding out the additions to and CEO role to Greg Reid. Reid joined hicle market. staff, we were able to bring Dennis Doan Kraken more than seven years ago as onboard through the DOD SkillBridge CFO and since 2019 has been COO. program, which connects military
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January 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42In the Shipyard Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs and at anchor for up to two weeks before refueling. In addition, it offers double duty as an “in-? eld” DC charging station for electric harbor tugs and other smaller service vessels. An independent ultra-low emission and nearly silent one MW
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December 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4(9 printed issues) $140.00; two years $180.00 (18 printed issues) including postage and handling. Bryant Goldberg Bellona (current fuels advisors to Dennis Bryant is with Bryant’s Murray Goldberg is CEO of Ma- the European Commission), Wil- Maritime Consulting, and for 20 rine Learning Systems, maker
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November 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15The Author Bryant substantial threat of a discharge of oil or Dennis Bryant is with Bryant’s a hazardous substance. Maritime Consulting, and for 20 The absence of broad responder im- years was a contributor to Maritime munity under current law may lead some Reporter & Engineering News. responders to
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November 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4(9 printed issues) $140.00; two years $180.00 (18 printed issues) including postage and handling. Bryant in maritime ? re? ghting, today Stoichevski Dennis Bryant is with Bryant’s serving as Technical Director for After a honing the media cam- Maritime Consulting, and for 20 Marine at Jensen Hughes
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March 2022 - Marine News page: 43People & Companies Fuentes who will serve dual roles as sec- Vekich Swon in as FMC retary and treasurer. Each will hold their Commissioner positions for a two-year term. Max Vekich was sworn-in as a Com- Vekich Kastner missioner of the Federal Maritime Com- New Leaders at MITAGS mission for a term
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January 2022 - Marine News page: 19Feature Passenger Vessels tems from ABB) to be named Wishkah. The boat, similar to its existing Olympic Class vessels, is expected to enter service in 2025. Ferries are also bene? ting from established federal pro- grams. In early December, the U.S. Maritime Admin- istration (MARAD) awarded $12.6
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November 2021 - Marine News page: 40elsewhere. One regional project that will affect operations in 2022 is the ongoing replacement of the Merchants Bridge, a rail- road bridge at St. Louis. Dennis Wilmsmeyer at ACP said that the ? rst new span was installed in September. Plans are to replace a second 520’ truss span in March of 2022, closing
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November 2021 - Marine News page: 35is there and growing, but we need to be able to make sure the people precipitation comes.” are in place to load and unload them.” Marine highways – Dennis Wilmsmeyer, Wilmsmeyer’s notion of pivoting is important. On the Executive Director, one hand, it implies preparing for a rebound, having per- America’s
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November 2021 - Marine News page: 34strengths Mother Nature always in charge change, so do the economics. Mike Steenhoek is Executive Director of the Soy Trans- Low water was also cited by Dennis Wilmsmeyer, Execu- portation Coalition, an organization established by 13 tive Director of America’s Central Port, in Granite City, Ill. state soybean
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May 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 17operators and SMFF resource providers. © Maksim /AdobeStock The Author MARITIME SAFETY Bryant Safety in the maritime industry has improved dramati- Dennis L. Bryant is with Bryant’s cally over the years. The challenges, though, can be dif- Maritime Consulting, a regular ferent than they were in the
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May 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14Government Update © videotrinkets /AdobeStock Reflections By Dennis L. Bryant This will be my last monthly article for Maritime Reporter & Engineering News. I started writing these articles in ear- CONTAINERIZATION Placing cargo in a sealed box ly 2002, just over 19 years ago and during that time I have
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May 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6Circulation our “Government Update” segment from Reporter TV (bit.ly/3nMikNt) segment Kathleen Hickey [email protected] 212-477-6700 ext 6320 Dennis Bryant, who informed me earlier recently to break down the company’s ? ve- Sales this year that he was turning the page and step plan toward decarboniz