Captain Perin's military career began in 1965. For twenty-four of his years in the U. S. Navy he served in ever increasing engineering and program management roles. He begin his career on shipboard tours aboard combatant ships, progressing to Program Director in the Naval Sea Systems Command of several major programs, including the Advanced Surface Ship Technology and Ship Design (Stealth) initiatives, and culminating in nearly three years experience as the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair (SUPSHIP), New Orleans, where he was responsible for over half the ships, boats and craft delivered to the U.S. Navy each year and all overhaul ships home-ported in his area of jurisdiction. He led a command of some 400 individuals, both military and civilian along with thousands of contractor employees. As SUPSHIP New Orleans, he delivered commissioned ships (mil-standard), T ships (modified commercial standard), craft and boats to the U.S. Navy and other federal agencies and delivered most of the craft and boats for Foreign Military Sales for the Navy. He was also responsible for the repair SUPSHIP duties for all ships/craft home-ported at Ingleside, Texas. Captain Perin's's engineering experience includes steam, gas turbine and diesel propulsion ships. He is qualified in weapons systems engineering, communication equipment and research and development.
Upon completing his shipboard tours, he was assigned to the US Naval Academy as a physics instructor and became the Research Chair in Physics. In addition to his teaching duties, Jeff Perin began research into the guidance of charge partial beams and became a co-inventor of the Plasma Antenna. He lead the Physics Honor Society efforts in the Space Shuttle experiment titled "Charged Partials in Space," conducted for the US Air Force, to determined the source of the charged particles that damage our satellites.
When Captain Perin was assigned to SUPSHIP Pascagoula in the 1980s, he began his tour as the Repair Officer, where he was responsible for advanced planning and execution of DD 963 class overhauls. As such, he performed shipboard inspections and tests to determine the material conditions of the ships and develop specifications for repair work, and held work definition conferences. When later assigned as the SUPSHIP Pascagoula Engineering Officer, he was responsible for all planning yard functions including ship alteration development and engineering test and inspection. He was also responsible for the design approval for the new AGIES Cruisers and engineering support for the reactivation of the battleships. He was subsequently re-toured at SUPSHIP Pascagoula, where he became the Program Managers Representative for LHDs, LCAC, T-AGOS vessels, and miscellaneous craft. He was responsible for engineering change proposals, claims avoidance, design reviews, progressing, cost analyses, and shipboard inspections, acquisition strategies, model test plans, ship design plans, testing programs, contract specifications, and contact clauses.
Captain Perin has worked with engineers, logisticians, shipsforce (both military and civilian), and numerous shipbuilders and their vendors and suppliers. As SUPSHIP New Orleans, he oversaw the development of technical manuals; logistics support documents, training programs, sea trials and ship construction and deliveries. As Project/Program Manager and Program Director, has supported program decision-making, lifecycle cost analysis, cost benefit risk analysis studies, statistical modeling, program milestone tracking and long range forecasting. As Program Director, he supported the Pentagon in systems analysis and design, integration of service engineering management analysis, engineering technical studies, economic analyses, technical planning, systems requirements analysis and systems integration planning.
When assigned to the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Captain Perin was Test Director for the U.S. Navy's stealth ship program.
Later assigned as the Program Manager for the development of the T-AGOS Small Water Plane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) ship program, he oversaw the engineering, design, development, testing and contract award for the Common Hull Program which included the T-AGOS 23 class ships, AGOR and T-AGS Ocean class SWATHs.
Captain Perin then became as Program Manager/Program Director for the U.S. Navy's engineering, development, design and programmatic for future warship design. In recognition of his engineering expertise, he was requested to oversee the troubled U.S. Navy's reversing reduction gear program. He assumed complete authority for the design, construction and delivery of the gears to the shipbuilder. This required him to institute critical path analysis and revise the entire quality assurance structure of the program. Since the contractor was essentially bankrupt a re-capitalization of the company was required using in part U.S. Government loans. As a result of his engineering expertise, business acumen and skilled leadership, the first ever reversing reduction gear for the U.S. Navy is considered to be highly successful and the prototype for future warships and a fully viable contractor paid back all loans.
Captain Perin is a graduate of Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) where he received his degree equivalent to a degree of Master of Business Administration in Government Programs and is a fully qualified acquisition professional. Captain Perin is considered to be an expert in Navy acquisition, who has developed acquisition strategies, model test plans, ship design plans, testing programs, contract specifications, quality assurance plans, logistics plans and contact clauses. He is also a graduate of the Navy's postgraduate school where he received his degree in Weapons System Management specializing in electro optics and laser technology (MS in physics). His undergraduate degree is in Chemistry from the University of South Florida.
After retiring from the Navy, Captain Perin leveraged his extensive experience in environmental regulation and management gained while serving as Supervisor of Shipbuilding where he was responsible for ensuring that all environmental regulations were met for both his land-based operations in the five states and the ships under his cognizance to enter the private sector as Chief Operation Officer and member of the Board Of Directors of a leading environmental company. Jeff Perin not only managed the company's operations but he developed innovative methods of handling hazardous materials, as well as training programs for personnel and incorporated advanced robotic methods into the industry and insured that these new technologies were in compliance with environmental regulations.
Captain Perin left the environmental business to join the world's leading below frigate class shipbuilder, Swiftships as Director of Military Programs. At Swiftships his responsibilities have included the development of advanced designs, marketing of Swiftships military boats and craft, and program management of all ongoing military and government programs. He is the architect of the Caribbean Initiative to rebuild the Navies/Coast Guards of the Nations of the Caribbean Basin. The first project of this Initiative is the rebuilding of the Navy of the Dominican Republic. Captain Perin has been responsible for the planning, developing, contracting, pricing, execution, and assisting the government in funding the Initiative.
Captain Perin has also been responsible for managing Swiftships' Company presence and its local representatives in 41 customer nations and established bases of operations for Swiftships in the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, and South America for foreign military sales support. He has conducted studies for waterborne commerce, facility security, waterborne medical support and waterborne educational support.
Because of his significant relationships with the military and civilian government leaders of the 41 nations and his extensive power, energy, communications, security and infrastructure management experience he has advised governments on the startup of programs for refineries, power plants and other infrastructure improvements.
Captain Perin has written numerous policy and technical White Papers for the U.S. Government as well as the contract language for both U.S. Procurement and foreign government laws and has provided expert consultation in the areas of business development, teaming and alliances, union relationships, claims settlement, bioremediation, ship and general program management, owner's representative and other ship and business related subjects.
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