COLUMBIA-SENTINEL ENGINEERS, INC   - Professional  Naval Architect, Product Consulting, Performance Evaluation -

    

        

    Paul Zankich

PRINCIPAL NAVAL ARCHITECT

EDUCATION

1966 BSE Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Licensed Professional Engineer, Washington
  • National Society of Professional Engineers, member
  • American Society of Naval Engineers, charter member
  • Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, member and past chairman
  • Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, National Vice President representing Pacific Region
  • NSPE - Washington State Engineer of the Year, 1982


  • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    Columbia-Sentinel Engineers, Inc.
    June 1986 - Present
    Principal Naval Architect
    Project management, project engineering for USCG, Washington State Ferries, and shipyard support contracts. Specification writing, vessel design, stability calculation, vessel survey, drydock certification, cost estimating, customer coordination, and Security Officer. Designer of drydocks, crane foundations, piers, floating bridges, ramps and moorings.

    Marine Power & Equipment Company, Seattle, Washington
    April 1978 - June 1986
    Chief Engineer
    Supervision of Engineering Department; hull, mechanical and electrical. Principal designer of new EVERGREEN STATE Class ferries and designer of shipyard. Designer of tugs, barges, patrol boats, and barges. Engineering calculations, specification writing, rewriting, and review and customer coordination. All shipyard structural design including cranes, drydocks and piers.

    Todd Shipyards Corporation, Seattle Division
    June 1972 - April 1978
    Chief Naval Architect and Loft Foreman

    All trim and stability, resistance and powering, and other scientific work. Specification review, structural design, new design studies, and repair work, drydock calculations, all shipyard structural including cranes, drydocks, and piers.

    The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington
    May 1966 - June 1972
    Naval Architect/Design Engineer/Liaison Engineer/Research Engineer
    Design of new class of gunboats for NATO. Structural/ mechanical/electrical design of mods to existing hydrofoils. Design of missile support hardware for Minuteman silos. Research on thrust augmentation of waterjets.








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