Lieutenant O’Connell is a port engineer for the medium-endurance cutter product line, tasked with planning and managing depot maintenance on five Famous-class cutters. He previously served on board the USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) as a student engineer and the USCGC Kimball (WSML-756) as the assistant engineer officer. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2015 with a degree in mechanical engineering and from MIT in 2021 with master’s degrees in naval architecture and mechanical engineering.
