Gene Cross (AKA: Eugene W. Cross, Jr.)

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Gene Cross (AKA: Eugene W. Cross, Jr.)’s Summary

A 30 year track record of success in achieving form, fit, function, financials, and pizzazz factor in more than a dozen significant new products, from submillimeter diameter medical devices to airborne laser radars and meter class telescopes.

Philosophy:
"Our greatest failures come not in our knowing, but in our doing." -GC, June 3, 2008

Gene Cross (AKA: Eugene W. Cross, Jr.)’s Specialties:

Product development, from feasibility to system and component design, and delivery of functioning and documented hardware. Design and tolerancing of optics and opto-mechanics for producibility.

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Gene Cross (AKA: Eugene W. Cross, Jr.)’s Websites:

• Profile, Astro
• Publications

Gene Cross (AKA: Eugene W. Cross, Jr.)’s Groups:

Optical Society of America, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Optical Society of Northern California, Peninsula Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society (elected Fellow, London, 1978), New York Academy of Sciences (1971), Optical Society of San Diego, Orange County Astronomers

•    Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Alumni
•    OSA Members
•    Hughes Aircraft Company
•    Optical Networking Group
•    GENERAL DYNAMICS CONNECTIONS
•    SPIE
•    Photonics
•    KLA-Tencor Corporation Alumni Group
•    Digital Camera
•    Optical Design
•    Los Alamos National Laboratory Alumni
•    Optical Engineers Only

Gene Cross (AKA: Eugene W. Cross, Jr.)’s Honors:

Team Excellence Award, for outstanding accomplishment in the development of new technology for missile defense, Space and Strategic Missiles, Lockheed Martin, 2006.

Team Excellence Award, for outstanding accomplishment in the development of new technology for defense, Space and Strategic Missiles, Lockheed Martin, 2003.

Group Achievement Award, SIM Beam Launcher Development Team, for outstanding accomplishment in the development of a new class of picometer laser metrology beam launcher, which will enable the Space Interferometry Mission and Terrestrial Planet Finder, NASA, May 30, 2002.

Joint Services Commendation Medal, Department of Defense, 1973.

Air Force Commendation Medal, USAF, 1973.