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Madison, AL, US

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama

• Physical science lead for machine learning applications for the NASA IMPACT project and leading two projects supporting NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS)
• Lead the development and implementation of two research-to-operations user interface applications for tropical cyclone wind speed estimation and atmospheric phenomena detection machine learning models
• Coordinate with NASA HQ on administering and analyzing survey responses from ~20 federal agencies to identify potential data gaps in NASA earth observation program of record
• Manage the migration and expansion of ~4 PB of harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 data to a global scale on the NASA cloud infrastructure
• Principal investigator and co-investigator on four proposals submitted to NASA and NOAA for external funding resources

• Member of the numerical modeling group responsible for the development and implementation of research-based and operational numerical models
• Utilize regional and global scale numerical models to investigate atmospheric thermodynamic and dynamic response to land use land cover change, particularly urbanization, in complex geographical settings
• Develop a python-based graphical user interface for visualizing numerical model and earth observation data used by multiple Master’s and PhD students for thesis and dissertation research
• Taught split graduate and undergraduate level course titled “Natural Hazards and Disasters”
• Participate in operational field deployments for collection of in-situ and remotely-sensed meteorological data for scientific research on severe weather and lake effect snow

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Acquired and formatted GRIB and NETCDF files from MERRA and ECMWF Reanalysis data archives from 1979-2013. Used Reanalysis data to analyze cyclone tracks using two separate tracking codes run on ORNL's TITAN supercomputer.

Culpeper, VA

• Member of the SWIFT operations team responsible for monitoring and resolving connectivity issues within the telecommunication infrastructure.
• Coordinate resolution of network outages between customer service agents, internet service providers, and global partners to ensure operational needs of banking institutions
• Implement software and hardware updates to SWIFT backbone infrastructure to support customer guarantee of 99.9% uptime
• Collaborate with network operations team to provide regular reports on network upgrades and service outages to supervisors through direct communication and ticket management system.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Atmospheric Science, 3.789

Activities and Societies: UAH AMS Student Chapter (2012 - Present) National AMS Member National AGU Member Student member on AMS Board on.

Master Of Science - Ms, Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology

Master Of Arts (Ma), Earth And Planetary Science, 3.86

Completed Master's Thesis on the effects of sunspots on incoming shortwave radiation at the surface.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics, 3.026

Activities and Societies: Varsity Swim team (2004-2007) Student Athlete Advisory Committee (2006-2007)