"Engineering and consulting services for the marine industry."

Joseph Kennedy, PE

A licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Washington, Joseph has over 20 years of experience in the maritime industry, both at-sea and shoreside. He spent five years in the United States Navy, serving aboard the USS Higgins as a Hull Maintenance Technician. He spent eight years as a commercial fisherman in Alaska's Bering Sea. After returning to school to become an engineer, Joseph has accumulated a decade of experience related to vessel stability, structural and machinery modifications, and lifting operations, for commercial and government vessels, including US Navy submarines. He thinks about engineering problems from the perspective of the end user: the crewmember. He has a Merchant Mariner Credential (100 ton Master, 200 ton Mate, AB Unlimited) and a Bachelors Degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of New Orleans. He is also US Top Secret clearance eligible.

Kyle E. Marlantes, PhD

Kyle is a technical expert in ship hydrodynamics, ship motions, and dynamic stability. With nearly a decade of experience developing and supporting custom hydrodynamics software tools for the maritime industry, if a tool doesn't exist to do the job -- or to do the job well -- he often creates it. He has consulted on topics related to hydrodynamics, seakeeping, crew comfort, and high-speed vessel seakeeping, and has published extensively on related topics. Before forming Highliner Maritime, LLC, he was a part-owner and Vice President at Creative Systems, Inc. the company behind the naval architecture software program GHS. His software tools have been used worldwide on marine construction, salvage, marine transportation, and seakeeping evaluations by companies, government agencies, universities, and classification societies. He holds PhD and MSE degrees from the University of Michigan, and a BSE from the University of New Orleans, in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

Complete CVs are available upon request.