Engineer Development

Joseph C. Park, PhD, P.E.

abozyw@r.postjobfree.com

Joseph Park has a broad spectrum of applied research and operational experience in

oceanographic, acoustic, electromagnetic, electronic, sensor, instrumentation, signal

processing,

control, numerical modeling, and software systems for government and private industry. He

currently leads the Development Engineering team at NOAA's Center for Operational

Oceanographic Products & Services (CO-OPS). Dr. Park is also the President and founder of

the

Software Literacy Foundation, a tax-exempt public charity who s mission is to educate and

inspire young people to pursue a career in software development.

As a senior scientist with the National Center for Physical Acoustics, he performed

research

tracking and characterizing tornadoes with remotely sensed infrasound. At the University

of

Hawaii he directed an underwater multi-sensor observatory which included design,

procurement,

fabrication, integration, testing, software development, deployment, and operation. He

also

developed models extracting coastal wave properties from terrestrial remote sensing of

infrasound, and developed a controllable infrasound source. As a faculty member of the

Florida

Atlantic University Department of Ocean Engineering he instructed courses in Acoustics,

Digital

Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, Mechanical Dynamics, Structural Analysis and

Vibration

Control. Research included AUV sensor and navigation development, sensor data fusion,

development, implementation and evaluation of AUV acoustic communication and control,

oceanographic surveys and data analysis, and application of information discrimination

measures

to optimization algorithms of neural networks.

With the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) he was an electrical & ocean engineer

focusing on the analysis, development, troubleshooting and maintenance of underwater

acoustic

and terrestrial electromagnetic communication and tracking systems. Other areas of

primary

responsibility included weapon firing evaluations of operational Naval ordnance. Work

encompassed full spectrum testing and evaluation including systems analysis, development

of

operational test plans, directing and conducting at-sea operations, data collection,

developing and

applying specialized signal-processing algorithms, data reduction, report generation and

technical recommendations. As an ocean and mechanical engineer for NAVSEA he reviewed,

inspected and tested Navy Deep Dive System components onboard the ASR 21, ASR 22 and IX

501. He also verified hydraulic systems for Los Angles and Ohio class submarines.

Other work involved research for ONR to develop fault-tolerant distributed control

systems for

Naval vessel command and control. His PhD research included the development of a

microwave

shielding composite, a bias-controlled directional piezoelectric sensor, extension of

Rayleigh s

orthogonalization of the electromagnetic field for interacting particles to non-

spheriodal shapes

and proposed a biomimetic analog based on neural network critical transitions for

electromagnetic composite behavior. Dr. Park is a certified Scientific Diver, and has

significant

at-sea experience on Naval research and support vessels, as well as university research

and

support vessels.

Professional Associations

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Florida Registered Professional Engineer #42687

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Oceanic Engineering Society (OES)

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)

Education

Bachelor of Science Ocean Engineering (1985, FAU)

Master of Science Ocean Engineering (1989, FAU)

Doctor of Philosophy Electrical Engineering (1994, FAU)

Curriculum Vitae Joseph C. Park, PhD, PE

Professional Experience

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

1305 East West Highway, Silver Spring MD, 20910

2012 - presentElectrical & Ocean Engineer

Design & development engineering for the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products

and

Services (CO-OPS). Analysis and design of new sensor technologies. Operational planning

and

deployments for NOAA water level and current monitoring special projects.

National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA)

University of Mississippi

1 Coliseum Dr, Oxford, MS

2011 - 2012Senior Scientist

Research demonstrating the ability to track and characterize tornadoes using remotely

sensed

infrasound. NCPA sensors provided the first high-fidelity, broadband recordings of

tornadoes.

Analysis provided solid evidence that tornadoes and the associated vortex turbulence

aloft can be

detected and tracked using infrasound. Higher frequency analysis (enabled by the NCPA

sensors)

found a quantitative link between the acoustic spectral energy and dominant turbulence-

eddy

length scales, suggesting a method to remotely monitor the dynamics and strength of the

storm.

Developed Python applications to interface with, control and monitor NCPA infrasound

sensors.

South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD)

3301 Gun Club Rd., West Palm Beach, FL 33402

20022011Principal Scientist

Analysis of coastal sea-level dynamics and their relation to regional climate indices

(http://jpark.us/Oceanography). Statistical analysis of extreme event dynamics. Mesoscale

atmospheric modeling with the Ocean Land Atmosphere Model (OLAM) .

Characterization of coastal aquifer transport properties and response to ocean tidal

hydraulic

forcing via remote sensing of monitor wells. Application of spectral coherence and linear

systems

models in the frequency domain provided new methods for application of analytical

transport

models.

Analysis and quantification of temporal predictability limits of nonlinear hydrological

processes

based on nonlinear dynamical systems theory. Analysis of dynamic system models for

evaluation

of water resource control strategies.

Lead developer (C++, Python) for the Regional Simulation Model (RSM), a finite-volume

fluid-

dynamic numerical model encompassing South Florida Water Management District hydrology.

Design, development and implementation of the Management Simulation Engine (MSE), a

systems engineering multilayer control hierarchy of the RSM incorporating a suite of

information

processing and optimization algorithms such as: PID, Setpoint, Fuzzy, Sigmoid, hybrid

Fuzzy-

Setpoint, Heuristic and Linear Programming (LP) modules.

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Curriculum Vitae Joseph C. Park, PhD, PEUniversity of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology

HIGP, SOEST, Honolulu, HI, 808-***-****

2007 - 2009Researcher

Design and deployment of a cabled underwater observatory at Keahole Point, Hawaii,

providing

realtime measurement of acoustic and oceanographic variables. Electronic system design,

sensor

specification, procurement, fabrication, systems integration, deployment logistics, inter-

agency

coordination and permitting, field-testing, field-deployment, software development,

verification of

operational capability, analysis of data streams. (http://jpark.us/OE)

Development and analysis of a controllable infrasound source for the Defense Intelligence

Agency

(http://jpark.us/Acoustics).

Creation and implementation of acoustic radiation models characterizing infrasound

generation by

breaking ocean waves and anthropogenic sources (http://jpark.us/Oceanography).

Evaluation and testing of power and communication system components of the Kilo Nalu

Oceanographic Observatory (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/OE/KiloNalu/). This effort

quantified

electrical noise characteristics of the system, identified and corrected system

deficiencies, and

provided improved deployment and operational procedures for the Observatory.

University of Hawaii Scientific Diver.

Zenith Inc. (President)

7 Osprey Court, Ocean Ridge FL. 561-***-****

19982007Oceanographic-Acoustics Consultant for Boeing Corporation: Analysis of oceanic and

geophysical infrasound propagation and detection for a proposed communication system.

Control Systems and Software Consultant for Office of Naval Research (ONR) SBIR and STTR

contracts (C and Python) :

1) Reliability analysis and development of distributed control and power systems.

2) Development of a self-healing DC power system for shipboard control system

electronics.

3) Integration of RF control system communication nodes to increase survivability to

damage

events.

4) Coupling of Model Based Reasoning into distributed control system executive functions.

Software ConsultantAscential Software, 2424 N Federal Hwy, Suite 250, Boca Raton, FL,

now a

division of IBM Information Management Division. Designed and developed C++ middleware,

messaging and database modules for the Mercator Electronic Data Interchange application.

Customers included: IBM, Dell, Boeing, Coors, Kodak, Nestle, Philips, Panasonic,

Hersheys,

Weyerhauser, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Eli Lilly, Mutual of Omaha, Swiss Air, John

Deere,

CitiBank, S2 Systems, Abbot Laboratories, APRIA Healthcare, Principal Financial, Pioneer-

Hybrid and others.

Research Scientist - Research into dynamical system information content of global network

transmissions through a chaotic network infrastructure (Internet). Development and

application of

information-theoretic (entropy-based) discrimination measures to neural network

optimization.

Structural Engineer Analysis, design, specifications, project coordination and

supervision for

numerous residential and commercial construction projects across South Florida. List of

projects

available upon request.

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Curriculum Vitae Joseph C. Park, PhD, PE

Florida Atlantic UniversityDepartment of Ocean Engineering

777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 561-***-****

1996 - 1998Assistant Professor - Teaching courses in: Acoustics, Digital Signal Processing/Data

Analysis,

Noise and Vibration Control, Digital Electronics, Mechanical Dynamics. Development and

supervision of digital electronics, vibration control, and radiated acoustic

laboratories, including

the use of digital and analog electronics, anechoic chambers, accelerometers, dynamic

signal

analyzers, DAT recorders, sound level meters, integrated circuits and computer design.

Thesis and

Dissertation supervision.

Research: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) development and deployment, including

oceanographic test planning, deployment, operation, data collection, analysis and

documentation.

Design and implementation of AUV remote acoustic data communication, and command-and-

control systems. Development of AUV onboard navigational and control systems employing

distributed processors and shared memory objects in a real-time operating environment.

Development and application of sensor data-fusion for AUV navigational processing and

control.

Development and application of cross-entropy information metrics to the accelerated

training of

neural networks applied to nonlinear data analysis.

Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center

(AUTEC)

Code 3813 WPB, 801 Clematis St., West Palm Beach, FL 33401 561-***-****

1989 - 1996

Measurement and analysis of oceanographic and meteorological processes via in-situ and

remote

sensing. Analysis of oceanographic, meteorological, acoustical and geophysical processes.

Development and application of specialized DSP. Modeling of wave propagation in

heterogeneous

media. Extensive at-sea deployment and data collection. Analysis of ocean wave

interactions and

coupling to breaking wave momentum transfers, and the vertical directional spectrum of

the

oceanic acoustic ambient .

Testing and Evaluation of acoustic and electromagnetic communication and tracking systems

including AM, FM, Analog and Digital systems transduced by acoustic, electromagnetic and

optical sensors. Test design, numerical modeling, logistical set-up, data acquisition,

data

reduction, statistical analysis, correlation of results with models, report generation

and

recommendations.

Tactical and performance analysis of MK-48 and MK-50 (ADCAP) torpedo firings from U.S.

and

British Navy submarines participating in combat training and weapon firing tests.

Applied Measurement Systems, Inc.

1 Oakwood Blv. Suite 180, Hollywood, FL 33020 954-***-****

1986 - 1989

Electrical, acoustical, mechanical testing & evaluation of advanced U.S. Navy sonar

arrays

including the TB-23 and TBX towed arrays. Duties included test set-up and logistics, data

acquisition, processing and analysis, report generation and recommendations.

Developed software for underwater acoustic data acquisition and processing, and real-time

underwater vehicle tracking for the U.S. Navy.

Construction, testing & evaluation, documentation of computer controlled serial

communication

devices and electronic switch matrices.

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Curriculum Vitae Joseph C. Park, PhD, PEMare Island Naval Shipyard

Code 282, Ocean and Ship Engineering, Vallejo, CA

1985 - 1986

Design of fluid power/hydraulic shipboard systems for the U.S. Navy Deep Dive Systems

onboard

the submarine rescue ships ASR-21 (USS PIGEON), ASR-22 (USS ORTOLAN) and the Deep

Dive support ship IX-501 (USS ELK RIVER). Shipboard inspections and verification of

hydraulic

systems.

Review of shipboard hydraulic systems for Los Angles Class SSN and Ohio Class SSBN

submarines.

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[52] Neelakanta P. S., Park J. C., Neural Network Modeling of Electroelastic,

Magnetoelastic

and/or Electroviscous Synergism in Composite Materials, 16th International Conf. on

Computers & Industrial Engineering, March 7-9, 1994, Ashikaga, Japan

Magazine Articles

[53] A Peer-to-Peer Communication Protocol, the Sea Technology Communications Feature

article in the May 1998 issue of Sea Technology, Compass Publications, ISSN 0093-3651,

10-15

Books

[54] Handbook of Electromagnetic Materials, Monolithic and Composite Versions and Their

Applications, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, ISBN 0-8493-2500-5, TK7871.N44, contributing

author with P. S. Neelakanta

[55] Information-Theoretic Aspects of Neural Networks, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, ISBN 0-

8493-3198-6, 1999, contributing author; Editor: P. S. Neelakanta

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Curriculum Vitae Joseph C. Park, PhD, PE

Department of the Navy (DoN) Technical Publications

[56] Component Level Multimedia Communication Technology for Survivability, SBIR, Office

of

Naval Research, 15 August, 2001, Proposal #: N012-0808, Topic #: N01-134, Adept Systems

Inc. (U)

[57] Application of Network Fragment Healing Technology to a Reconfigurable 24 VDC Power

System, MSD-50-TR-2001/6, June 15, 2001, Anteon Corporation, Machinery Systems Dept.

[58] Reconfiguration of Component Level Control Network Automation Systems, Final Report,

Office of Naval Research STTR, December 15, 2001, Adept Systems Incorporated, Johns

Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, STTR Phase I Final Report: N013-0058,

Contract #: N00014-01-M-0211 (U)

[59] Survivable Shipboard (CLIDCS) Automation Infrastructure Development, Final Report,

Office of Naval Research SBIR, Contract No. N00014-99-C-0384, Data Item No. A0012,

July 30, 2001, Adept Systems Incorporated (U)

[60] Ocean Explorer AUV Operations Report, Naval Oceanographic Office Hydrographic

Survey:

September 6-11, 1997, Florida Atlantic University, Advanced Marine Systems, Technical

Report AMS9701, September 22, 1997 (U)

[61] Ambient Noise Transfer Function for the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center

Tracking Hydrophones, March 1996, NUWC TM 96123 (U)

[62] Sound Speed Profile Prediction for Underwater Tracking Systems using Ocean Boundary

Temperature and Acoustic Tomography, June 1995, NUWC AUTEC TM, NUWC TM

952101 (U)

[63] A Large Area, Low Cost Shallow Water Position Indicating System based on

Differential

References

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Funding - Contracts

Current - none

Completed

1. FY08, National Consortium for MASINT Research (NCMR) Defense Intelligence Agency

(DIA), Development of a Controllable, Portable Infrasound Source, ($280K)

2. FY07 SFWMD Integration of the two MSE Assessor methods ($40K)

3. FY06 Boeing Corp., Research leading to the development of an Infrasound Communication

System, ($30K)

4. FY06 SFWMD Development of Linear Programming and Management Simulation Engine

for Regional Operations in the RSM ($42K)

5. FY05 SFWMD Development of Linear Programming and Management Simulation Engine

for Regional Operations in the RSM ($42K)

6. FY02 ONR SBIR Component Level Multimedia Communication Technology for

Survivability ($100K)

7. FY02 ONR STTR Reconfiguration of Component Level Distributed Control Systems

($100K)

8. FY95 NUWC Nonlinear estimation of spatio-temporally localized ocean sound speed

profiles

based on an empirical orthogonal function expansion coupled with acoustic tomography

($77K)

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Curriculum Vitae Joseph C. Park, PhD, PE

9. FY94 NUWC Shallow Water Position Indicating System based on Differential Acoustic

Absorption ($50K)

10.FY90 NUWC Development of Underwater Acoustic Intensity Analysis and Measurement

Sensor ($10K)

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