John retired as a Captain in the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Naval Reserve after 38 continuous years of service and is President of Vickerman Associates, LLC, a firm specializing in the planning and design of port, intermodal and freight logistics facilities worldwide.

John is a true visionary in the global maritime and intermodal industry. He has worked on major port and intermodal rail projects throughout the United States, North America and the world for more than 35 years. 67 of the 90 U.S. deep-water general cargo ports have benefited from John’s strategic port master planning and development designs. His international practice includes consulting assignments for many of the Canadian Ports, the Ports of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, Melbourne Australia, the Panama Canal Authority, various African Ports, the intermodal freight analysis for the Eurotunnel between England and France, the Port of Pecém, Brazil, the new Port of Castilla, Honduras and emerging new Transshipment Port and Logistics Projects in Latin America.

John has served as a member of the USDOT Freight Roundtable Advisory Board to the US Secretary of Transportation. He completed three terms as Chairperson for the Intermodal Freight Terminal Design and Operations Committee under the purview of the Transportation Research Board (TRB)/National Research Council (NRC), National Academy of Science. He has served on many national Policy Committees for the TRB and was an advisory board member to the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Global Maritime and Transportation School. John currently serves as a Board Member of the United States Maritime Resource Center Inc. (USMRC) and the Maritime Simulation Institute (MSI), Newport County, Rhode Island (ISO 9001 – Multiple Vessel Full-Mission Visual Bridge Simulators).

John and his wife live in Williamsburg, Virginia.