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Robert A. Petitt Jr. - Ocean Engineer

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Location: Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

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Robert A. Petitt Jr. Ocean Engineer (508) 289-3311 [email protected] Woods Hole, MA Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Smith 309C Education M.S.E.E., Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 1989 B. S., Physics, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, 1982 Employment Senior Engineer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 7/11 - present Engineering and management services for projects including ocean sensors, vehicles and buoy-based systems Research Engineer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1995 - 2011 Participating in design of Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Designing new generation of CTD sensors for gliders and AUVs Participated in design and construction of cabled tsunami warning station Participated in the design of new observatories and vehicles Participated in design studies for future seafloor observatories Managed and participated in the design of H2O junction box electronics Ocean Engineer II, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1992 - 1995 Designed and developed electronics for instruments to measure low frequency electromagnetic fields, tilt and pressure Helped coordinate and participated in seagoing deployment and recovery operations Set up laboratory for maintaining and developing EM instruments Ocean Engineer I, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1990 - 1992 Developed, constructed and calibrated microwave radar systems for the measurement of sea surface backscatter Deployed and operated systems at sea Contributed to data acquisition, hardware development and data analysis RF Engineer, Merrimac Industries Inc., W. Caldwell, NJ, 1985 - 1989 Designed and developed RF and Microwave components Junior Engineer, Labred Electronics Corp., Bohemia, NY, 1984 - 1985 Developed and tested RF receiver subsystems Engineering Assistant, Electronic Designers Inc., Hauppauge, NY, 1982 - 1983 Constructed and tested digital systems Keywords: Massachusetts New Jersey New York