Ing. Jorge Luis Quijano

The engineer Quijano was born in Panama City, Republic of Panama and began his studies at the Colegio Javier. He completed his secondary education in Yokohama, Japan and Penang, Malaysia. He graduated in Industrial Engineering in 1973 and Master of Engineering with specialization in Industrial Engineering and Management at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, in 1974 He has also conducted professional Updates Advanced Executive Management, both at the Federal Institute Executives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

His first professional experience was with Texaco Oil Refinery Panama Inc., where he worked as a Process Engineer, Production Forecasts and Programming International Shipping.

His career in the Panama Canal began in 1975 and was advancing in different positions to fill the position of Director of Maritime Operations in 1999, a position he held for more than seven years. The Operations Department is the largest in the organization of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and is directly responsible for the operation and maintenance of infrastructure and the most critical equipment of the waterway. There he was responsible for overseeing five different divisions, whose functions accident investigation found, scheduling vessel transits, inspection of ships, tonnage and piloting, the lockage of vessels in the Canal, tugs, launches and Raceways , inventory management and motor transport and handling of emergencies and contingencies, including industrial firefighting and response to hazardous material incidents and oil spills.

The engineer has taught Quijano Ports and Channels Management at the Faculty of Law of the University of Panama. He has also given many lectures on the Panama Canal, maintenance and modernization programs at national and international level.

Since 2006, the engineer took the responsibility Quijano Expansion Program of the Panama Canal. To this end, in 2007, was named Executive Vice President of the Department of Engineering and Program Management. In this new appointment, he led a group of nearly 500 professionals responsible for managing the implementation of all components of the Expansion Program. The department is specifically in charge of preparing designs and specifications to bid, negotiate and oversee the execution of contracts for the expansion, including: the contract for Design and Construction of the New Locks; dredging of the Canal entrances both on the Pacific and the Atlantic; five works of various dry excavation, and other support under contracts; and the execution of the dredging of the Gatun Lake level to increase the maximum operating level, which are performed by personnel Panama Canal Authority (ACP). The department works in conjunction with an integrated external programs manager, hired by the ACP specifically to oversee the implementation of all the Expansion Program team. The department also integrates a dedicated group of construction risk analysis and hiring legal counsel.

During extraordinary meeting on March 8, 2012, the Board of Directors of the ACP Quijano engineer appointed as new administrator of the Panama Canal, replacing engineer Alberto Alemán Zubieta, from September 4, 2012.

According to the organic law of the ACP, the engineer Quijano administrator shall hold office for a period of seven years and may be reelected by the Board for an additional period.

Alberto Alemán Zubieta

The engineer Alberto Alemán Zubieta served as Administrator of the Panama Canal from 1996 to 2012 During his tenure, the waterway faced important moments like the transition of its operation and management from the government of the United States of America to the Panama and the start of expansion project, the largest project of modernizing the Canal since its opening in 1914. 

Before work in the Panama Canal, Alemán Zubieta began his career very young in the field of construction. For many years he served as president of one of the largest construction companies in the Republic of Panama. 

From 1996-1999, he served as Administrator of the former Panama Canal Commission - federal government agency of the United States, which was responsible for the administration and operation of the Panama Canal until December 31, 1999. 

In 1998, two years after his appointment as Administrator of the Commission of the Panama Canal, was appointed as Administrator of the ACP, the autonomous agency of the Panamanian government that manages the Panama Canal, from the time of their transfer to noon December 31, 1999 During the following years, he served concurrently as Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission and the ACP, thus ensuring that decisions taken under the Commission would have continuity under the new Canal Authority. 

Under his administration, the ACP implemented the vision of transforming the Canal into a world leader in services to the maritime industry, the cornerstone of the global transportation system, and a model of excellence, integrity and transparency. 

In Panama, the German engineer Zubieta was instrumental in promoting a sense of pride among Panamanian Canal. Internationally, the maritime industry has recognized his leadership in transforming the waterway in a successful model of operation. For these reasons, it is requested to participate in various forums to present and share your thoughts and best practices. 

For their accomplishments and contributions to maritime, German industry as Zubieta received several awards Canal administrator, including the "William Ross Medal" award, presented in 1992 by the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (CAPAC); the "Honorary Fellow" in 1997 and "Federal Engineer of the Year" in 1998 awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers; the "Florencio Icaza Award" granted by the Panamanian Society of Engineers and Architects (SPIA), on merit and outstanding performance as a professional engineer and public figure; the "Maritime Personality 2001" award from Seatrade; "The Executive of the Year 2002" by the Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDE); and "Order of Rio Branco", awarded in 2003 by the Government of Brazil; "Public Employee of the Year" award from Financial Capital; and the "Outstanding International Alumnus Award from the University of Texas A & M" award in December 2003. 

The German engineer Zubieta is a member of various international and local organizations such as the International Advisory Board of the University of Texas A & M, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, "Chief Executives Organization" (CEO), the Panamanian Chamber of Construction, the Panamanian Society of Engineers and Architects (SPIA), among others. 

A native of Panama City, Republic of Panama, the German engineer Zubieta is a graduate of the School of Civil and Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas A & M. He lives in Panama with his wife, Ana Matilde and her three children.

GILBERTO GUARDIA FABREGA

Gilberto Guardia was born in Panama City, Republic of Panama, on 13 February 1930 His parents were Thomas and Licia Guardia Fabrega. He married Maria Teresa Garcia de Paredes in 1949 In 1950, he graduated Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the University of Santa Clara, California in the United States.

From 1950 to 1951 he worked as an estimator for the Ministry of Public Works in the City of Panama and worked from 1951 to 1952 as a Civil Engineer in the Panama Canal Company.

Guard was President and CEO of Wayne Enterprises and Guardia, SA; Architecture and Engineering, Construction Management and General Steel Light Manufacturing 1952-1990.

Mr. Guardia was also a member of the Board of Industrial Development Bank; Panama Trust Bank and Bancshares Incorporated Dadeland in Miami, Florida. He was also Director of the National Council of Private Enterprise, the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of the Panamanian Association of Business Executives and the Panamanian Chamber of Construction.

Mr. Guardia was appointed Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission on September 20, 1990 and served in this position until 17 August 1996 and was the first Panamanian administrator of the Panama Canal.

The tenure of office of Director Mr. Guardia excelled due to various maintenance programs and improvements made ​​to the Canal, focused on the widening of the Pacific entrance where more than 7 million cubic yards of material was removed; widening and straightening the area eight miles narrow Gaillard Cut Canal increasing the minimum width of 500 to 630 feet; installing a new defense system of locks, the construction of a new station signal in the Atlantic sector and the installation of a ship handling simulator for training pilots Canal.

During his administration, the 1st. October 1992, was also increased for the sixth time in history, Canal tolls. In 1994 the Universal Measurement System Panama Canal (PC / UMS), which established the formula for measuring tonnage of vessels implemented.

Guard officially announced his resignation on October 7, 1995, but continued to serve until the appointment of a new administrator.

DENNIS P. McAULIFFE

Dennis P. McAuliffe was born on April 8, 1922 in New York City. His parents were Michael and Mary Ryan McAuliffe. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States and was appointed second lieutenant of Field Artillery on June 6, 1944 He was assigned to the Eighty Nueveava Infantry Division as an officer in Battery; he worked in the Division of Wartime Deployment in late 1944 In 1946 he married Kathleen Bolton.

From 1946 to 1948 he was assigned to the Military Government of the United States Army in South Korea stood in for the role of advisor. He earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1950; in June 1950, he joined the Board No. 1 Field of the Armed Forces of the Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina for two years and was the official test with the new artillery radar and electronic equipment; in 1952 he participated in the total operational effort and preparatory to shoot the first nuclear bomb artillery.

After attending the Artillery Advance Course at Fort Sill (1953-54), he joined the Field of Six Hundred Sixty Thirteenth Artillery at Fort Bragg as an operations officer; From 1955 to 1956 he worked as a battalion operations officer in Okinawa; in 1957 he was appointed as Secretary of the General Staff in the Operations Headquarters Army of the United States in the Ryukyu Islands; from 1958 to 1959 he was a student at the Army Command of the United States and the College of General Staff at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

McAuliffe attended from 1963-1964 at the National War College and then worked for thirteen months in Korea as Assistant Commander of the First Corps Artillery; was appointed Chief of the Army in 1966; in 1967 he was appointed Chief Executive of the President of Heads of States sets; in 1969 he joined the First Infantry Division.

McAuliffe was appointed Deputy Director of Age in the Third Corps Military Region until 1970; he returned to Europe and in 1973 was sent to Fort Leavenworth as Deputy Commanding General until 1974; 1o. October 1979 was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as the first manager of the new Commission of the Panama Canal, position created by the new Canal treaties Panama signed in 1977, and provided that McAuliffe retired American Army .

The tenure of office administrator McAuliffe from 1979 to 1989 was marked by many challenges and changes shepherding the newly organized agency Canal through its first decade of existence. During his administration Canal tolls were increased three times: in 1979, 1983 and 1989 In 1983 the permanent transit reservation system was implemented; the channel deepening project in 3 feet of the Canal was completed in 1985; construction of a water station at Rio Piedras in Madden Reserve in 1985; and widening project was completed Hut in 1989.

Dennis McAuliffe died on July 31, 2012 in Ft. Belvoir Virginia. His work during the first ten years of the transition process to Panama Canal was widely recognized. In the Panama Canal, a tug bears his name and those members of the workforce who worked with him remember him for his affable nature and mediator.

HAROLD PARFITT

Harold Parfitt was born in Coaldale, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1921 His parents were William Parfitt and Elizabeth Patterson Parfitt. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States in 1943; in 1948, he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in 1955, he graduated from the College of Command and General Staff; in 1962, he graduated from the Canadian College of National Defense; in 1967, he graduated from Advances in Management Programs at Harvard. He married Patricia Rose Scully on June 4, 1955.

Parfitt was appointed Second Lieutenant in the United States Army in 1943 He rose to the rank of Major General in the year 1971 he worked as General Commander of the Center for Engineering Command of the Army of the United States at Fort Belvoir, Virginia in the latter part de1973 until March 1975.

From August 1962 to May 1965 and later was Deputy District Engineer Division of Engineers South Atlantic in Jacksonville, Florida. In June 1965, did Lieutenant Governor of the Canal Zone and Vice-President of the Panama Canal Company, where he worked until September 1968.

From December 1969 to August 1973, he was Division Engineer Engineers Southwest, Dallas, Texas. From 1968-1969 Parfitt was Commanding Officer of the twentieth Engineer Brigade in Vietnam.

Parfitt was appointed as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone on 1o. April 1975 and served in that position until 30 September 1979 Under his administration, the General Parfitt, was more aware, more than any other administrator Canal, the realities and sensitivities arising from the operation of the Canal Panama in Panama. Was given more support apprenticeship program as a vital phase of the Company agencies / government. Completion of the separate school for Latin American students were recommended and regulation of housing was changed to consolidate housing formerly assigned separately to citizens and non citizens of the United States. Under his rule, in 1976, the Canal had its second increase in the rate of tolls, and the United States and Panama signed the new Panama Canal treaty on September 7, 1977.

Parfitt was the last of the Governors of the Panama Canal.

DAVID STUART PARKER

David Stuart Parker was born in Fort Huachuca, Arizona on March 22, 1919 His parents were Roscoe Stewart Blossom and Margarite Parker. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States in 1940; He graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of California in 1949; and the Army War College in 1957 He married Betty Hamilton on May 2, 1942.

Parker was promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Army of the United States in 1940, and was promoted to the ranks to reach the Major General in 1967 In 1945, he was appointed to the administrative staff of Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur. From 1945 to 1945, he was Chief of the Construction Division of the Office of the Chief Engineer in Tokyo, Japan. From 1949 to 1952 he was an instructor and later professor of military topography and graphics at the Military Academy at West Point United States. From 1954 to 1956 he was Assistant to the USACE District Engineer in Portland, Oregon; 1957 to 1960 he was Head of the Strategic Planning Group of the Office of the Chief Engineer.

Parker was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1963 to 1965 From 1968 to 1969, Parker was Engineer Troop Commander in Vietnam. On 3 March 1971 he was appointed Governor of the Panama Canal Zone and worked in this position until March 23, 1975.

As Governor, Parker, he was directly involved in frequent changes and improvements, among which were the leader and the leadership necessary to develop the basis and presentations of the first toll increases in History Channel. A further change was the center of a new Marine Traffic Control, located in La Boca officially unveiled at the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Canal. Under his tenure, the Office of Equal Opportunity and Federal Women's Program was established.

Among his innovations in the field of personnel and organization are: assigning a Foreign Service Officer in the administration of the Canal; the appointment of a Coast Guard Officer to the Navy Office; creating a new Security Division; the creation of an educational advisory council; and a greater effort to use the Civic Council of the Canal Zone with substantial contributions in the process of decision making. Parker died on 9 May 1990.

WALTER P. LEBER

Leber P. Walter, son of Walter and Bonnie Vera Leber was born in St. Louis Missouri on September 12, 1918 He graduated from the Missouri School of Mines in 1940; and in 1951 he earned his Master's degree in Business Administration from George Washington University, and also graduated from the College of Command and General Staff in 1956 In 1950 he married Bernice Jean Palus.

Leber 1940-1941 worked as a petroleum engineer in the company Stranolind Oil Gas; in 1941 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States; rose to the rank of Major General in 1967 I was assigned to the Office of the Chief Engineer and was promoted to Secretary of the Communication Area Theater of Operations in Europe from 1942 to 1946.

He was appointed to the office of the Manhattan Engineer District in Oak Ridge from 1946 to 1947 was appointed Head of the Technical Division with us Links Military Command from 1947 to 1949; 1949 to 1950 he was assistant district engineer Officer Executivo in Seattle and Walla Walla District; from 1951 to 1955 he was assigned Staff General Logistics Department of the Army; from 1956 to 1957 he was engineer of the Eighth United States Army in Korea.

He was appointed Chief Executive of the Chief Engineer of the Army of the United States from 1958 to 1961 Leber was Lieutenant Governor of the Panama Canal Company in the period from 1961 to 1963; was assigned to the Division of Engineering Division of Engineers United States Army in the Ohio River from 1963 to 1966; engineers was director of the Office of the Chief of Engineers of the Army of the United States in Washington from 1966 to 1967.

In 1963, Leber was promoted to Brigadier General and then was appointed Governor of the Canal Zone to Panama on 21 February 1967 served in that position until March 2, 1971 He was the only governor the Panama Canal Zone who did not graduate from the Military Academy at West Point.

Under his tenure studies of Interoceanic Canal for the purpose of determining the feasibility of building a sea-level canal began in 1970; program completion Gaillard Cut widening in 1970 marked the end of a great improvement project designed to provide a safer transit through the Canal. After his term of office as Governor, Leber traveled to Washington, DC to work in the Security Anti-Missile System bales America.

Leber was awarded the medal of the two clusters of oak leaf of the Legion of Merit medal Bronze Star, the medal of a cluster of oak leaf Army Commendation, the Order of the British Empire, and The order of King Leopold II (Belgium.)