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Born: 12/28/60 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Mike graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering in 1983 and joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps as an Ensign. During his career in the NOAA Corps, he completed two sea tours as an officer aboard the NOAA survey ship Rainier, comprising four years of hydrographic surveying in Alaska. During the second of these tours, Mike served as the Field Operations Officer and directed surveying operations aboard Rainier and her four survey launches. Ashore, Mike worked in various parts of NOAA's hydrographic surveying program. This experience included working as a system engineer on the development of a hydrographic surveying and processing system for NOAA. In 1994 Mike became the manager of NOAA's electronic charting effort. He left the NOAA Corps with the rank of Lieutenant Commander and now serves as a civilian. In 1999, Mike completed a Master of Science in Management degree from the University of Maryland. Mike brings his engineering and management training, bridge officer experience and hydrographer's knowledge to his current position as ENC Product Manager for NOAA. He lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons.
Published papers and articles:
* With Mr. Jack L. Wallace, “Hydrographic Data Acquisition and Processing System, HDAPS,” Proceedings of the U.S. Hydrographic Conference 1988, presented at the conference.
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* “Development of Office Processing Functions on the Hydrographic Data Acquisition and Processing System,” Proceedings of the U.S. Hydrographic Conference 1992.
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* “The Development of the NOS Hybrid Nautical Chart,” Proceedings of the Hydrographic Symposium of the XVth International Hydrographic Conference, 1997, presented at the conference.
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* "Developments in the NOAA Electronic Navigational Chart Program," Proceedings of the U.S. Hydrographic Conference 1999, presented at the conference.
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* With Mr. David B. Enabnit, "Electronic Charting at NOAA," Sea Technology, July 1999.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 26 July 2006 )
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Mike Brown 
