Patrick Cross

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Address: **** ******* **

City: Honolulu

State: HI

Zip: 96825

Country: USA

Phone: 808-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $120,000

Willing to Relocate

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Job History / Details:

Patrick S. Cross, Ph.D.

1465 Miloiki St.

Honolulu, HI 96825

abqrr6@r.postjobfree.com

808-***-**** (Mobile)

Objective: A senior position in the management of defense or private-sector scientific and engineering research and/or product development, with likely emphasis on oceanography, meteorology, ocean engineering and acoustics, ocean sensing, autonomous vehicles, other pursuits in the marine environment, and/or energy technologies.

Summary: Proven leader with 25+ years in the application and management of physical sciences and sensing solutions, from solid earth geophysics to physical oceanography to atmospheric science. Recent emphasis on the use of autonomous vehicles for tactical and scientific applications. Strong leadership and project management skills developed over the course of a 20-year career as an officer in the U.S. Navy, and continued over the last 7 years in the private sector. Comfortable interpersonal skills and professional demeanor conducive to workplace harmony and effective internal and external communications.

Professional Experience:

Senior Scientist, OASIS, Inc., Honolulu, HI, May, 2006-present. Principal Investigator, involved in a wide variety of past projects, including an ONR initiative to transfer ocean glider technology to the Naval Oceanographic Office (including adaptive sampling and data visualization techniques), CEROS and ONR marine mammal monitoring projects using gliders integrated with acoustic arrays and autonomous onboard processing, and a leadership role in a multidisciplinary ONR field collaboration with scientists in the US and Taiwan. Recent emphasis has been on a CEROS project involving improved assimilation of glider data into ocean models, marine mammal monitoring during Navy exercises, and providing coordination between ONRs Persistent Littoral Undersea Surveillance (PLUS) program and fleet commands, as that program moves toward transition. Acted as submarine rider, test plan coordinator, glider pilot and command/control coordinator for recent PLUS demos in CONUS and forward. Project Manager for an ONR program called Ocean Sentinel, in which an autonomous, unmanned, wind-driven surface vessel is being outfitted as a long-endurance multi-sensor surveillance platform. Maintain office at Pearl Harbor to provide liaison with SUBPAC, PACFLT, and other Navy commands.

Force Oceanographer, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, HI, 2002-2006. Managed all aspects of oceanographic, weather, and charting support to the submarine fleet in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Provided in-port and at-sea training to submarines in preparation for deployments, primarily to the western Pacific. Strong emphasis on fostering a closer relationship between the research and development community and the operational fleet. Initiatives included the use of ocean gliders in support of characterizing the ocean for submarine operations, development of ocean modeling techniques in conjunction with ONR and research interests, atmospheric propagation predictions onboard submarines for mast detection vulnerability assessment, ocean optics and bioluminescence, and the effects of ocean internal waves on submarine operations and acoustic propagation. Led a project to launch a Slocum glider from an SSN dry deck shelter. Assumed leadership role in submarine bathymetric chart issues in the wake of USS San Francisco grounding, with emphasis on the application of satellite altimeter-derived depths to poorly charted areas, use of gravity vertical deflection techniques for improved inertial navigation, providing inputs to chart developers at the Naval Oceanographic Office and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and providing training to submarine navigation teams.

Meteorologist/Oceanographer, Cruiser Destroyer Group Five, USS NIMITZ Battle Group, 2000-2002. Provided the full range of meteorology and oceanography support to battle group assets during all exercises and operations, including a South American deployment that involved avoidance of tropical systems, a challenging transit of the Drake Passage, and flight operations in fog-prone areas. Additional roles included battle group Training and Readiness, ASW, and Mine Warfare Officer.

Officer-in-Charge, Meteorology/Oceanography Detachment, Fallon, NV, 1994-1996. Supervised 12 civilian and military personnel providing weather support to all aircraft operating from Naval Air Station Fallon. Primary customers were carrier-based aircraft involved in strike warfare training prior to deployment to the Persian Gulf. Also served as tactical weather expert for the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, which deals with all aspects of strike warfare readiness, including the TOPGUN school.

Oceanographer/ASW Specialist, ASW Operations Center Bermuda, 1989-1991. Provided oceanographic support to ASW aircraft operating from Bermuda, including prediction of acoustic detection ranges and optimal placement of sonobuoys based on ocean conditions. Served as ASW flight briefer, covering all aspects of tactics and flight safety for supported P-3/S-3 aircraft. Held several leadership roles.

Sonar/Communications Officer, USS FLORIDA, 1987-1989. Fully qualified in all aspects of submarine operations, including strategic mission, with emphasis on sonar systems, tactics and communications.

Exploration Geophysicist, Getty Oil Company/Texaco, Inc., Denver, CO, 1981-1985. Position involved the acquisition and interpretation of seismic data for the purpose of oil and gas exploration in Oklahoma and Texas.

Education:

Ph.D., Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, 2003

M.S., Physical Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, 1993

M.S., Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, 1993

B.S., Geophysics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1982

Highlights Graduated with distinction from NPS masters program, finishing number 1 among oceanography/meteorology students in academic year 93/94.

Curriculum Vitae:

Paper presentation August, 2003. Topic same as doctoral dissertation. American Meteorological

Society Conference on Coastal Meteorology, Seattle.

Doctoral dissertation February, 2003. The California Coastal Jet: Synoptic Controls and

Topographic Influences. Naval Postgraduate School. A study, using analysis of

offshore buoy data and coupled ocean-atmosphere mesoscale prediction system

(COAMPS) modeling, of the low-level wind flow along the California coast. Primary

finding was that, in contrast to existing hydraulically supercritical channel flow

explanations, flow over topography must also be considered in describing low-level wind

accelerations in the lee of coastal capes and mountains.

Paper presentation November, 1999. Synoptic controls on the California coastal jet an analysis of

offshore buoy data in three synoptic regimes. AMS Conference on Coastal Meteorology, New

Orleans.

Paper presentation February, 1994. Topic same as masters thesis. Oceans Conference, San Diego.

Masters thesis December, 1993. Ocean mixed-layer dynamics in a sea-breeze influenced upwelling

regime (Monterey Bay, California). Naval Postgraduate School.

Security Clearance: Secret, upgradable to Top Secret, SCI

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