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Germany

* Review metadata from instrumentation for completion and adherence to standards* Advise on data and metadata standards* Review, compare, and analyze data using tools and applications* Participate in international standards committees* Work independently to keep up with latest metadata standards

* Create downscaled climate projections for the Climate Change Knowledge Portal

* Develop statistical downscaling techniques to produce archives of high-resolution NASA Earth eXchange (NEX) climate data products* Advise on the use of climate model outputs and reanalysis products* Manage and curate large volumes (500TB+) of data* Present work at scientific conferences and meetings* Contribute articles to scientific journals

Boulder, Co

* Coordinated the stewardship of all data products created by NCAR/UCAR scientists* Managed and curated the Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX)* Served as liaison between scientific staff, repository staff, and management* Created metadata records for various types of datasets* Lead effort towards CoreTrustSeal certification

* Supported the research needs of School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (SE3) * Maintained materials collection and research support for the school's departments and their related labs and research groups* Provided faculty and students with instructional support for SE3 undergraduate and graduate courses * Assisted research through consultations on various topics at the Branner Earth Sciences Library* Purchased books, journals, online databases and other resources by request for students and faculty

* Served as a taxonomist/information scientist for NCEI's World Data Center for Paleoclimatology * Created controlled vocabularies and thesaurus for paleoclimate variables* Conducted domain, subject, and facet analyses of data archive* Implemented TemaTres controlled vocabulary server for thesaurus administration* Created SKOS representation of thesaurus terms

• Created MARC records for historical maps using the RDA content standard• Applied the RDA cataloging standard to the creation of cartographic metadata• Created discovery metadata to facilitate the search and retrieval of cartographic materials• Developed an understanding of various relevant metadata schemas

* Analyzed subjects of scientific journals in order to add appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings to articles from these journals that are stored in the digital repository.* Identified born-digital materials that should be preserved by the Library though ingest into the digital repository (Islandora).* Described born-digital materials by creating metadata in MODS.* Utilized library/archives systems including ArchiveIt and Islandora.

Stanford, Ca

* Serviced all programmatic data analysis requests within and for the department* Lead efforts to restructure, create, administer, and analyze annual commute survey distributed to almost 60,000 people* Created and implemented improved methodologies for analyzing survey data, including latent class analysis* Performed cost-effectiveness analysis of all department programs* Created price elasticity model for determining effect of possible permit price increases* Created and maintained Pentaho BI dashboards for each department manager* Reported to management on various findings

* Performed downscaling of the CMIP3 and CMIP5 global climate model simulations* Rewrote and improve code base of statistical downscaling software packages* Analyzed effects of applying bias correction* Managed and prepared data for dissemination* Prepared proposals for funding and computational resources* Presented results at various venues and in scientific journals

* Supplemented and adapted regional climate model code base (Fortran) to make use of global paleoclimate data* Created and manipulated NetCDF data files to test experimental cases* Used NCL and GrADS to visualize and analyze climate model output* Presented model output results at various venues

* Used theory and observations to research climate of Mars* Created finite differencing model of subsurface heat flux * Analyzed scientific data using IDL and Fortran* Prepared graphics for presentation and publication

* Created product and technology demonstrations for top executives* Developed and maintained web-based database applications using PL/SQL* Developed and maintain web-based campaign reports using Oracle Reports 6i* Created new database schemas for Content Management System

Ph.D., Earth & Planetary Science

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis

B.S, Engineering & Applied Science