Tim is a native of Tampa, Florida and the son of school teachers. He graduated from Florida State University in Marine Biology. Earning two graduate degrees at Louisiana State University, he was awarded a Fellowship in the NOAA Sea Grant Program and worked as a staffer in the U.S. Senate. He added another four years of Senate staff experience before joining the Washington office of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB Inc) Corporation, a manager in public, private infrastructure contacts and projects. Tim rejoined NOAA when offered a position in it’s headquarters offices. Working in groups dealing with NOAAs support of U.S. military forces during the first Gulf War (oil fire smoke plumes modeling and oil spill tracking and response), he also worked on NOAA’s budget and appropriations support, formulation and strategic planning. Tim was offered a position to start and grow the first restoration and damage assessment programs in NOAA, a collaborative effort between NMFS and NOS. In these efforts and  program , Tim oversaw and coordinated a number of restoration projects, including the first large scale underwater coral reef restoration project in the Florida Keys- the Elpis and Maitland Reef Restoration Projects. After a number of years in oil spill response, damage assessment and restoration, Tim was a coordinator in the establishment of the Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Program in coastal Louisiana. For several years, Tim coordinates the participation of NOAA NMFS and other offices in the program, award of grant funding to state partners and the engineering, design and construction of numerous restoration projects.  After a tour of work at the NOS AA’s office, Tim was offered a chance to work on the Gulf Coast, first for the Coastal Services Center and, long term, for Coast Survey. Located in Louisiana, Tim has been on scene and working for over sixteen years across the Gulf responding to 19 or more hurricanes and tropical storms as well as Deepwater Horizon, numerous maritime incidents as well as advancing Coast Survey’s mission in improving charts, planning and supporting thousands of miles of new surveying, an advocating and planning a greater and more effective and responsive Coast Survey and NOAA presence along the Gulf.  In family life, Tim has a daughter getting her Doctorate in Physical Therapy in Austin, a son recently graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University and a wife that is a super computer systems administrator for the National Institutes of Health.