Dave Thomas - Chair
Dave has been an active member of The American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) since January 2005. He has served as Assistant Publicity Chairman and Vice Chairman of ASNE Tidewater.
A retired Naval Officer with 26 years of service, Dave served on a destroyer tender, a battleship and numerous amphibious assault ships as both an enlisted sailor, E-1 to E-7 (Chief Electrician's Mate), and as a Commissioned Naval Officer, O-1 to O-5 LDO Surface Ship Engineer. Dave's industry Naval Engineering expertise includes the past five (5) years with BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair in his current role as Director of Shipyard Operations.
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| Kathleen Murray - Vice Chair |
Karyn Dukette - Treasurer
Karyn Dukette is a native of Annapolis, MD, and has been a member of ASNE since 2008. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from George Mason University in 1990. Karyn has 15 years of experience in government contracting. During her career she has worked in various positions including: Contracts Administrator, Contracts Manager, Subcontracts Administrator, and Accounting Manager. She is currently employed by URS Federal Services, Inc. |
Pamela Schools - Secretary
Pam Schools, a native of Fredericksburg, Va, began her Naval engineering career at NAVSEACENLANT as an Old Dominion University (ODU) Electrical Engineering Co-OP with the Major Caliber Gun Branch in 1989. Upon graduating in December 1991 and receiving a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and completion of MK 45 Mod 0 and 1 'C' schools, she worked as a MK 45 tech, CIWS Modernization coordinator, combat system modernization coordinator, and the Modernization coordinator and C5RA/HMERA scheduler/liaison on CNSL staff for NAVSEACENLANT/FTSCLANT from 1992 to 2000. Her next assignment was at Commander Regional Support Group, Norfolk where she established and directed the Mid Atlantic Regional Maintenance and Modernization coordination office (RMMCO) until 2005. She then worked various projects at Combat Direction Systems Activity supporting PEO IWS 1.0 and SEA 05, with her last assignment managing and supervising the Battle Management Organization and Human Machine Interfaces team, LINK 16 team and the System Interface Agents for the SSDS MK 2 Combat Systems. Presently she is at Naval Ship Support Activity Regional Maintenance Center as a liaison on Commander Navy Regional Maintenance Center Engineering staff working Submarine Fleet Technical Support issues.
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Ron Spano - Section Councilor
Ron Spano is a past Section
Chairman for the Tidewater
Section and a ASNE member since 1999. A retired Naval Engineering
Limited Duty
Officer with 23 years of service. In 1999 he was hired as a U.S. Navy
Port
Engineer in support of
Mid-Atlantic
Regional
Maintenance
Center
.
His naval
engineering service includes a Main Propulsion Assistant and two Chief
Engineer
Assignments at sea. He is currently the maintenance team coordinator
for the
USS Mesa Verde LPD-19. Ron currently holds a liberal arts degree from
Saint
Leo
University.
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Kathleen
Hinton - ASNE National President
Kathleen Hinton is a past ASNE National President. A
member
since 1987, Kathleen received her B.A. with High Distinction from the
University of Virginia and her MBA from Florida Institute of
Technology. She is currently the Contracts and Procurement
Manager for
Metro Machine Corp., a ship repair company based in Norfolk,
Virginia.
Ms. Hinton is very active in the Tidewater Section and has served on
National Committees. She is a National Vice President, chair of
the
National Audit Committee, and a member of the ASNE/SNAME Strategic
Alliance Committee. She received the 2000 Frank G. Law
award. She has
chaired or co-chaired several Fleet Maintenance Symposia and ASNE Day
functions and has been elected to serve in nearly all of the executive
business office positions for this Section.
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RADM
Jeff Brooks- Section Councilor
Rear
Admiral Brooks, USN (Ret) began his military career by enlisting in the
United
States
Navy in 1970. Key assignments included serving onboard
USS Paul
Revere (LPA 248) and as a nuclear plant instructor at the Naval Nuclear
Power Training Unit in Idaho Falls,
Idaho. In December 1976, he received his commission and a
Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Missouri via the Navy Enlisted
Scientific Education Program (NESEP), and
was designated a Surface Warfare Officer.
Rear
Admiral Brooks' first commissioned tour was onboard USS Point Defiance
(LSD 31) as Deck Officer,
Engineering Officer, and Regular Overhaul (ROH) Coordinator.
After lateral conversion to the Engineering
Duty Officer (EDO) community and graduating from EDO School in January
1980, he was
assigned
to Naval Ship Repair Facility, Subic Bay, R.P., as Ship Superintendent
and subsequently Assistant
Repair Officer. From June 1982 to December 1983, he attended
Pennsylvania State University where he graduated
with honors with a Masters of Science Degree in Nuclear
Engineering. He was then assigned from
December 1983 to December 1985 to Charleston Naval Shipyard as a ship
superintendent and type desk
officer.
In January
1986, he reported to USS Cape Cod (AD 43) as Repair Officer, performing
nuclear and non-nuclear
repairs to Pacific fleet ships. He then served one year
(1988-1989) as Force Engineering Officer on the staff of
Commander, Naval Surface Force, Pacific. From April 1989 through
July 1991, he served as Maintenance
Officer at Readiness Support Group, San Diego, Calif. From August
1991 through August 1993, Rear
Admiral Brooks served as Commanding Officer, Shore Intermediate
Maintenance Activity, Long Beach,
Calif. In September 1993, he reported for duty as Repair Officer,
Supervisor of Shipbuilding,
Conversion and Repair, Portsmouth, VA.
From June
1995 to November 1997, he served as the Deputy, Supervisor of
Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Newport News,
VA. In November 1997, he reported as Director of the Supervisor
of Shipbuilding
Management Group (SEA 04X1), Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington,
D.C. From May 1999 to August
2001, he served as Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair,
Newport News,
VA, responsible for the U.S. Navy's Aircraft Carrier and Submarine ship
construction and refueling programs at
Newport News Shipbuilding. It was during this tour that he was
selected for Rear Admiral.
He
reported in September 2001 for duty as Deputy Chief of Staff for Fleet
Maintenance on the staff of Commander
in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. In September 2003, he reported to
his current assignment as the Director, Fleet
Maintenance on the staff of Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command.
Rear Admiral Brooks was selected
for his second star in May 2005.
His awards
include the Legion of Merit (three awards), Meritorious Service Medal
(five awards), Navy Commendation
Medal (two), Navy Achievement Medal (two awards), Navy Unit
Commendation, Meritorious
Unit Commendation (three awards), and the Battle Efficiency Ribbon (two
awards) in addition to various campaign
and service awards. He is a registered professional engineer.
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Orzali - Section Councilor
Rear Admiral John Clarke Orzalli is the son of a
retired Navy Captain. He graduated with distinction from the United
States Naval Academy and was
commissioned and awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine
Engineering in
June 1978. Following
transfer to the Engineering Duty Officer community, Rear Admiral
Orzalli served as the
Ocean Engineering Planning Officer, then Deputy Production Resources
Officer at
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard followed by a tour in the Operations
Department,
then Engineering and Planning Officer at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Rear
Admiral Orzalli served on the Staff of the Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations for Fleet
Readiness and Logistics. He was the 45th Shipyard Commander at Puget
Sound Naval
Shipyard. During his command tour he assumed additional duties in
establishing the Northwest Regional Maintenance Center. Rear Admiral
Orzalli previously served as the Deputy Director, Fleet Readiness
Division, OPNAV (N43B), in Washington, DC. Rear Admiral Orzalli is
currently the Commander, Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center. Rear
Admiral Orzalli holds Naval Engineer and Masters of Materials Science
and
Engineering degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a
Master of Science in Systems Management from Golden Gate University.
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Ray
Weber - National Awards Committee
Ray
Weber is a retired Naval Officer with
24 years of service, he served extensively in the AEGIS ship program
particularly on DDG 51 Class ships. His
work in industry includes 15 years with General Dynamics Bath Iron
Works where
he served as Director of Fleet Service and Manager of all BIW’s Navy
Homeport
Operational Facilities. In 2004 he
joined BAE Systems Ship Repair where he is the Director of AEGIS
Programs.
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Charles Pfeifer -
National Ways & Means Committee
Mr. Pfeifer is a 30-year
ASNE member and a 1997 recipient of
the prestigious Frank G. Law award for dedication and service to the
Society. Mr. Pfeifer has chaired or supported numerous
conferences and
symposia and held nearly every elected position in the chapter.
Mr.
Pfeifer earned bachelors from the U.S. Naval Academy and a M.S. in
Mechanical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. He
served as a
Fleet Navy Officer with three Chief Engineer tours and later as an
Engineering
Duty Officer serving at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and COMNAVSURFLANT Staff
until his retirement in 1987. Mr. Pfeifer would like to help the
society
increase its membership especially among public sector uniformed and
government
service personnel.
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| Captain Paul F.
Siebeking - Region III Councilor
Captain
Siebeking is the Membership Chairman, Region III Councilor and
a Charter member of the Tidewater Section, having joined ASNE in 1970. A retired Engineering Duty Officer with 24
years of service, he has had tours at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Naval Sea
Systems Command, CNO Staff and Atlantic Fleet Headquarters. His experiences include engineering
maintenance,
waterfront repair planning and execution and resources and requirements
development. He continued his naval
engineering service for 15 years in the commercial sector as Group
Manager for QED Systems,
Inc. Captain Siebeking achieved his
Professional Engineering Registration for the state of Virginia in 1981.
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Michael J.
D'Amato - National Councilor and Programs Chair
Mike
D’Amato
is a native of Staten Island, NY. He graduated from State
University of New
York Maritime College with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering
in 1983
and later earned a Masters in Business Administration from New
Hampshire College.
Mike
has 25
years of civil service and industry experience proudly supporting the
U.S. Navy
and U.S. Coast Guard in the areas of ship construction, design,
engineering,
maintenance, modernization and life-cycle sustainment. Following
graduation from NY Maritime in 1983,
he began his career at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in various engineering
assignments. These included waterfront production support for
propulsion and auxiliary systems on several aircraft carrier complex
overhauls,
development of condition-based maintenance programs, and an off-site
position
at Supervisor of Shipbuilding Bath, Maine, to help incorporate
life-cycle
planning considerations into the design of DDG-51 USS Arleigh Burke
Class
destroyers.
Mike joined
Bath Iron Works (BIW) in 1988 and helped establish their first planning
yard
life-cycle contract for the DDG-51 Class two years prior to lead ship
delivery,
and later expanded the contract to include support for FFG-7 Class
ships. He held several positions of increasing
responsibility in engineering, design and engineering management over a
nine
year span at the shipyard in Bath,
during which time he also attained his master’s degree in Business
Administration. He continued his
professional development with that of BIW’s life-cycle programs through
two off-site
assignments. The first being four years
in Washington DC
as principal liaison to the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and the
PEO-Ships
Program Office, followed by six years managing their fleet support
operations in
Norfolk, Virginia.
As Norfolk Operations Manager, Mike was responsible for planning yard
and new
construction warranty support on 26 ships stationed in the homeport.
In June
2006, Mike made a career change after 18 years at BIW to join AMSEC
LLC, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding which
specializes in
fleet maintenance, modernization and related technical and logistics
services. He is a Senior Consulting
Manager at AMSEC, with a focus on corporate business development and
strategic
campaigns.
Mike’s
affiliation with the American Society of Naval Engineers began with his
transition to the Norfolk
area and the waterfront maintenance community in 2000. His
engagement with the Tidewater Section
grew in parallel with, and proved very supportive of, his professional
growth
within the fleet maintenance community. He has served ASNE as Chairman
for
Fleet Maintenance Symposium 2007; Tidewater Section Chairman, Vice
Chair and
Secretary; Papers Committee Chair for FMS-03 and ASNE Day 2005; and
currently
serves as National Councilor, Tidewater Section Councilor, and a member
of the Long-Range
Planning Committee.
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