GIL ROMANO, CHAIRMAN
Gil Romano, is currently a senior at the
University of New Or-leans and will be graduating in May 2009. Having
grown up on Long Island, he learned to surf and fish at an early age.
His family has owned several boats, spending most of their leisure time
travelling and fishing the eastern seaboard from Nantucket,
Massachusetts to the waters off of Nassau, Baha-mas. During high school
and his first years at UNO, Gil worked as a mate on a variety of
vessels, mostly sport fisherman. His long love for the water and boats
sparked his interest in naval architecture. While at UNO, he has served
as the Treasurer, Vice Chairman and Chairman of their SNAME Stu-dent
Section, Vice President of the Engineering Student Leadership Council,
and is a member of their Electric-Boat Team. He currently works
part-time as an intern with Elliott Bay Design Group in their New
Orleans office. While not at school studying or working with Elliott
Bay, he can often be found fishing off the small Bahamian islands of
Bimini. Future plans include finding a full-time job, getting his PE
license, and owning his own naval architecture firm and/or shipyard.
MORGAN PARKER, VICE CHAIRMAN
Morgan Parker, is a student at the University
of Michigan, Class of 2009. He is currently the Service and Social
Co-Chair for the Quarterdeck Society, which is the U of M’s SNAME
student chapter, and is also the Vice President of UM::Autonomy, an
autonomous sur-face vehicle team that competes annually. He has enjoyed
internships with Baja Marine and Mercury Racing, and is seeking to
expand his experience into other marine sectors. Morgan believes that
NA&ME is a wonderful field to be in because of the quality of people
involved, and is looking forward to working with his classmates and
peers in the future as well as the industry leaders of today. The
majority of Morgan’s life is spent inside the NA&ME design lab. With
no spare time his former interests were engine repair, large bonfires,
self produced pyrotechnic displays, camp-ing, boating of all forms,
shooting sports and sleeping. Morgan enjoys volunteering as an adult
leader for his local scout troop as well as with disabled children at
his church. After gradua-tion, Morgan will likely attend graduate school
at the University of Michigan.
JACOB GENAUER, SECRETARY/TREASURER
Jacob Genauer, is a junior at Webb Institute
where he studies Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He’s been a
member of the NY Metropoli-tan SNAME section since 2006. He’s also Vice
Chair for Webb’s student section, a member of the O-36 Panel on maritime
eco-nomics and the SNAP panel. He’s enjoyed internships with Aker
Philadelphia, MSC, C.R. Cushing & Co., and this winter he’ll work at
Maran Gas Maritime. His interests include propel-lers, law, economics,
and, perhaps most of all, fine tea. Jacob looks forward to helping
student members get involved in their SNAME parent sections and T&R
panels.
J. GASTON DOUCET, COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR
J. Gaston Doucet, currently serves as the SNAME
Treasurer at the University of New Orleans where he is a junior in the
NAME program. He has a passion for sport fishing around the world,
notably in the Gulf of Mexico. He has held many jobs on sport fishing
yachts and holds a USCG 100 Ton Captains License. Over this past summer
he held an internship with Trinity Yachts, LLC where he was able to put
his education to the test. Cur-rently Gaston interns during the week at
Tidewater, Inc., working with engineering in new construction. Career
interests include the recreational industry, especially mega-yachts.
ERIC GIESBERG, ELECTRONIC MEDIA CHAIR
Eric Giesberg, is currently getting his B.E. at
Stevens Institute of Technology in Hobo-ken, NJ. Eric works part-time
at the Davidson Labs in the towing tank. He has worked for over 6 years
as a contract designer/developer on various websites and is looking
forward to developing the current SSC website.