As the Manufacturing Group lead, Dale oversees the Electrical & Mechanical Tech departments and Machine shop. His major responsibilities are to ensure that the department provides the highest quality & timely service to the operations, science and engineering groups so that they can meet their strict deadlines for deployments.

In addition, Dale provides mechanical design and LabView development skills on numerous projects each year. This includes the management, operation, maintenance and design of the MiniROV system and includes the participation in all of the various deployments on both MBARI’s ships and other ships of opportunity around the world.