Charles F. Barker, P.E. - Transportation Risk Management

Mr. Barker has 25 years of experience in the maritime safety and security field, with an emphasis on national and international regulatory compliance issues. He provided safety and security design and consulting services for the New York City DOT ferry division, in conjunction with their new ferry acquisition project as well as the existing ferry fleet. This 19 million passenger per year operation include the highest capacity (6,000) passenger vessel in the U.S. fleet. Mr. Barker also is the Vice-Chair of the ASCE Transportation Security Committee, providing guidance to the transportation security efforts of this 120,000 member professional society.

Mr. Barker served 20 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, with assignments that included Port Security field leadership positions, as well as vessel design analysis and national/international marine standards development.  Mr. Barker was project officer for development of the Coast Guard’s “Ports and Waterways Risk Assessment Guide,” participated in a partnership with the Passenger Vessel Association (PVA) to develop risk analysis tools for small passenger vessels, researched and wrote a report to Congress on the cost and effectiveness of a proposed towing vessel inspection program, and developed responses for numerous Coast Guard and NTSB accident recommendations. Mr. Barker served at Coast Guard Marine Safety Offices in Philadelphia PA and Mobile AL, where he was responsible for facility and vessel security assessments, casualty investigations, material inspections, and environmental compliance enforcement activities on container ships, oil tankers, bulk freighters, passenger vessels, offshore drilling rigs, and a variety of other merchant vessels. Mr. Barker spent four years at the US Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Center (MSC) conducting structural, stability, structural fire protection and arrangement plan reviews for US flag merchant vessels.