Meet the Team

The Seattle Maritime Academy faculty are all active or retired merchant mariners with years of experience and real-life sea stories to enhance the curriculum. In addition, our dedicated staff – many of whom are also former mariners – are committed to each student’s successful completion of their training program.

Administrative/Operational Staff

• Dale Bateman – Associate Dean
• Danny Blanchard (on leave through June 2023)
• Kelly Greenwood – Port Captain & Vessel Captain
• Barbara Ceiga – Administrative Assistant
• Reade Simmons – Port Engineer
• Mark Pickett – Simulator Operator & Vessel Captain

Faculty

• Meredith Anderson – Engineering Instructor
• Al Bruce – Engineering Instructor
• Thomas Crotty – Engineering Instructor
• Christopher DiNottia – Deck Instructor & Vessel Captain
• Robert Earle – Deck Instructor & Vessel Captain
• Robert Reeder – Deck Instructor
• Steve Rochester – Engineering Instructor
• Robert van Kregten – Engineering Instructor