[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 114 (Friday, July 30, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1516]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING PAT BELLAMY

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                            HON. GENE GREEN

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 30, 2010

  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, I rise today to commend Pat 
Bellamy. Patrick Bellamy was the Chairman of the Houston Ship Patrick 
also served as a member of the Houston-Harris County Homeland Security 
Advisory Council and is the retiring Director of the Southwest Public 
Safety Technology Center at the University of Houston (SWRC). In these 
roles Mr. Bellamy planned with federal, state and local government 
entities relative to Homeland Security and related issues.
  Mr. Bellamy has been involved with government, information 
technology, communications infrastructure deployment and first response 
for over forty years and has completed AAS, BS and MA degrees. Prior to 
his retirement from what is now AT&T, Mr. Bellamy was Regional Vice 
President and Executive Director responsible for Technology Planning, 
Market Development, Technical Sales/Support, Program Management and 
Technology Certifications/Assurance.
  In his various roles, Mr. Bellamy has deployed a variety of 
``firsts'' as part of planning the St. Louis, San Antonio, Tulsa, 
Houston, Paris, Chilean and other complex networking and defense 
systems. He was also involved in a variety of government and industry 
emergency response teams and in the development of related process-
oriented efforts. Mr. Bellamy's organizations also coordinated the 
implementation and ongoing management of complex technologies for 
international, national and other industry systems. Similarly, his 
organization coordinated sensitive government-oriented systems plus 
implementations for the Economic Summit (G7), the Republican National 
Convention and other strategic events. He also wrote the technology 
planning document for the 2012 Olympic Game effort.
  While a member of the U.S. Air Force, Mr. Bellamy was educated at 
Chanute AFB as an electrical-electronics engineer and assisted in the 
planning, design, implementation, testing, first response and 
maintenance of guidance and control systems, nuclear payloads, 
addressing systems, networking systems, first response systems and 
other functions associated with the strategic Minuteman Inter-
continental Ballistic Missile defense system.
  Among his community involvement efforts, Patrick Bellamy was the 
Founder of the UH Cullen College of Engineering's Houston InfoComm 
Technology Initiative and co-Founder of the Houston Area Technology 
Advancement Center. Similarly, Mr. Bellamy has been a board member of 
the Houston READ Commission and has also served as the Chairman of the 
Executive Board for the Gulf Coast Alliance for Minorities in 
Engineering. Mr. Bellamy currently serves on a number of public/private 
advisory boards. Along these lines, Mr. Bellamy played a leading role 
in the creation and development of the Houston Ship Channel Security of 
District. And, with the assistance of HSC2, local governments, the 
Houston Ship Channel Security District Board, Houston Ship Channel 
Industry Participants (including EHCMA), HSC2, the Port of Houston 
Authority, the USCG and other key players, led the transition process 
associated with the evolution of this ``first-of-its-kind'' key 
Homeland Security-oriented effort.
  And so it is with great pleasure that I recognize and congratulate my 
long time friend, Pat Bellamy.

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