Matthew Stephenson

- Qualified as an Instructor

- Primary duties include instructing Container Inspector Course, aiding DoD in preparation of hazardous material shipment, and coordinating Multi-Agency Strike Force Operations with Coast Guard units around the U.S.

Instructor with the Container Inspection Training and Assistance Team (CITAT). CITAT trains aspiring Coast Guard container inspectors and other government agencies how to properly and safely inspect intermodal containers for dangerous goods/hazardous materials consignment and container structural components. Also, as a subject matter expert, assists Department of Defense military branches prepare for upcoming deployments and their shipments containing hazardous materials.

- Qualified as a Pollution Responder

- Primary duties included pollution response operations, port facility inspections, and port state control examinations.

While at MSD Fort Macon, identified several issues at the North Carolina State Port in Morehead City resulting in an overhaul of the State Port's security escorting procedures, as well as identifying major inadequacies with the port's firefighting systems impacting the ability to transfer and store hazardous materials to, from, and on the port.

- Qualified as a Facility Inspector, Container Inspector, Port State Control Officer, and Foreign Freight Vessel Examiner.

- Primary duties were inspecting regulated facilities for safety and security compliance, inspecting intermodal containers for dangerous goods/hazardous material regulatory compliance, and examining foreign freight vessels for safety and security regulatory compliance.

Utilized vast knowledge of safety and security regulations following Hurricanes Irma and Maria expediting the reconstitution of all 22 of Puerto Rico's ports were able to operate properly to begin receiving aid to the devastated island. Furthermore, attended a European Commission Tabletop Examination in New York where he discussed facility inspection procedures utilized by Sector San Juan with inspectors from France, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, and Romania reinforcing uniformity across the Coast Guard and provided other countries with best practices.

- Qualified as an Inport Watchstander, underway Junior Officer of the Deck, Buoy Deck Rigger, Torch Operator, and Crane Operator.

- Primary duties included maintaining all equipment required for buoy deck operations and seagoing operations.

Contributed to the maintenance and servicing of 350 aids to navigation, allowing recreational and commercial vessel to navigate safely upon the coastal and inland waters of five major ports.