NEW LONDON, Conn.- After more than 20 years of service in the U.S. Coast Guard, Cmdr. Richard Roncone retired on July 18 at a ceremony held in the Alumni Center at the Academy.
Roncone, a 1988 graduate of the U.S Coast Guard Academy, earned his bachelor's degree in Management. He began his Coast Guard career aboard the cutter Vigilant in New Bedford, Mass., as the Assistant Engineering Officer and Damage Control Assistant.
Throughout his time in the Coast Guard he also served on the cutter Reliance, based in New Castle, N.H., in the Office of Intelligence and Investigations, and in the busiest Coast Guard command center in the world at the Seventh Coast Guard District headquarters in Miami.
His later units included serving as the executive officer aboard the cutter Sassafras in Honolulu, the Assistant Branch Chief of Aids to Navigation in Boston, as an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the Coast Guard Academy and lastly as the Chief Information Officer at the Academy.
Commander Roncone also earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Masters Degree in Computer Information Systems from Bentley College. Most recently he earned an Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from MIT's Sloan School of Management and completed the Southeastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program.
Roncone resides in Colchester, Conn., with his wife Michelle, daughter Gabriella and son Nicholas.