HYPACK, Inc. announced that Vitad Pradith has joined the HYPACK support team.
In his new role, Pradith will work alongside HYPACk’s support team, providing customers with customer support, onsite trainings and system integration.
Pradith previously worked as a Physical Scientist at NOAA Office of Coast Survey for the past 11.5 years. His primary role provided the technical direction and support to the Coast Survey Navigation Response Teams (NRT) who are agile teams of hydrographers performing nautical chart updates and function as emergency responders during national incidents in the maritime domain.
Pradith was also involved with several maritime archaeology cruises as the chief mapping scientist, transitioned research and development projects into proof of concept and field operations, and advised contracting officers on technical procurements.
He has led sensor and technology evaluations related to hydrography and emergency response applications, as well as hydrographic data processing improvements using high performance computing systems.