Power Authority Selects Niagara Veteran to Head Northern New York Region
Contact Michael Saltzman 914-390-8181 michael.saltzman@nypa.gov
July 13, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WHITE PLAINS—The New York Power Authority Friday announced the appointment of Randy D. Crissman as Regional Manager for Northern New York, based at the St. Lawrence-Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project in Massena. The appointment is effective July 23.
Crissman, general maintenance superintendent at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston, replaces Ronald W. Ciamaga, who recently was named Regional Manager for Western New York and transferred to the Niagara Project.
Crissman joined the Power Authority staff in 1986 as a senior hydraulic engineer. He was promoted to general maintenance superintendent at Niagara in March 1999. He has served as project manager for the design and construction of the icebreaker William H. Latham, and also as manager of a multi year evaluation of measures to reduce ice jamming in the upper Niagara River, a project that resulted in a new design for an ice boom at the entrance to the river.
He has been the Power Authority's representative on the working committee of the International Niagara Board of Control and coordinates with Ontario Power Generation, NYPA's responsibilities for maintenance of jointly operated facilities on the Niagara River.
Crissman earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering and also an MBA from the State University of New York in Buffalo.
He and his wife Karen, an interior designer, are the parents of two adult daughters, Erin and Lindsey.
