Thomas Wakeman III is currently is Principal, Resilience Engineering Services, New York. Formerly (for 11 years) he was Research Professor, the Associate Departmental Director, Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering Department, and the Deputy Director of Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Previously he worked in government for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York, for 13 years (including Dredging Manager, General Manager, Waterways Development, and Strategic Planning Manager) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco and Sacramento Districts, California for 24 years (including Civil Engineer, Research Hydraulic Engineer, Technical Director, Bay Delta Model, and Project and Program Manager). In 2004, he was the Principal Maritime Advisor, Coalition Provisional Authority, working in Iraq and responsible for reopening the country’s ports. His educational degrees include Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Master of Arts, Marine Biology, San Francisco State University, California, and doctorate of engineering-science, Columbia University, New York. His publications include more than one hundred technical papers, three book chapters, and as co-author/editor for three books.