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Norfolk, VA

Naval Oceanography Special Warfare Center (NOSWC), Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

• Lead a team of 30 personnel in the production of atmospheric, oceanographic, and electromagnetic propagation products, assisting Navy SEALs in mission planning and execution.Major accomplishments include:
• Implemented an electromagnetic propagation modeling tool (Interactive Scenario BUILDER), capable of ingesting atmospheric conditions, improving awareness in communication and radar detection ranges.
• Spearheaded a project to improve atmospheric sampling by outfitting a quadcopter with an iMet-XQ weather sensor. Used Python to extract data and transform data for ingestion into mesoscale weather and EM prediction.

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), Norfolk, Virginia, United States

• Responsible for safety of navigation, safety of flight operations, and electronic warfare defense for aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush.Major accomplishments include:
• Lead advisor for oceanographic support, safely evacuating 30 warships from Naval Station Norfolk in response to Hurricane Florence.
• Serve as the ship’s Security Manager, overseeing the maintenance of 3,070 security clearances, protection of classified material, and certification of 203 classified spaces.
• Led a team of 14 as ship’s METOC Officer in the production of over 1700 meteorological forecasts, observations, and decision aids supporting safety of navigation and fleet operations.
• Oversaw the maintenance and repair of the AN/SLQ-32 system, and the installation of the Passive Counter Measure System (PCMS) while serving as the ship’s Electronic Warfare Officer. Efforts ensured maximum readiness.
• Drafted a destructive weather plan for the ship during a prolonged maintenance availability. The procedure was subsequently tested during the passage of Hurricane Dorian proving an invaluable resource protecting lives.

Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

• Responsible for tropical cyclone analysis and forecasting to DoD and U.S. agencies in the Pacific and Indian oceans.Major accomplishments include:
• Led 41 personnel in the production of over 1400 mission critical forecasts and warnings on 72 tropical cyclones. Efforts were a major contribution to the center’s lowest track error rate in its 57 year history.
• Team lead responsible for facility management consisting of over $200,000 in IT equipment, and ensured onsite networks and services remained online.
• Analyzed, interpreted, and synthesized disaggregated data repositories, using proprietary software (Linux ATCF), MATLAB, and Excel, to deduce information about the structural characteristics of tropical cyclones..

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

Fleet Weather Center San Diego (FWC-SD) San Diego, California, United States

• Responsible for the quality assurance and production of aviation, maritime, and station forecasts servicing U.S. Navy, Marine, and Coast Gard units operating in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Major accomplishments.
• Led a team of 15, providing environmental analysis and recommendations for the safety of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships, operating in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
• Orchestrated the establishment a new quality assurance division, standardizing workflows, and implementing a process improvement system, resulting in an improvement in both worker efficiency and forecasting accuracy.
• Development and implemented a typhoon/hurricane inundation decision making tool in Microsoft Excel, assisting executive level sortie decisions, ultimately saving the U.S. Navy thousands of dollars in unspent fuel and.
• Wrote an xml script for Google Earth that automated a process transforming environmental data files into a graphical display, providing users faster access to information in an easily digestible format.

Charleston, SC

University Of Maryland, College Park, MD

White House Military Office (Camp David), Maryland, United States

• Presidential support duty, responsible for the operation and maintenance of base security systems, communication systems, audio/visual/network equipment, and Lenel administration. Other duties included computer lab.
• Nominated and selected for the Seaman to Admiral 21 (STA-21) academic scholarship, and awarded the presidential service badge.
• Responded to over 200 trouble calls repairing fiber optic cables and connectors, cat5e cables and connectors, LAN switches, security cameras, badge readers, security sensors, and associated servers, maintaining the.
• Designed and implemented a base-wide intranet using Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in a 30% increase in administrative productivity.
• Commissioned Camp David’s first Learning Resource Center. By designing and orchestrating the assembly of an UNCLASSIFIED computer network consisting of 16 terminals, crew personnel gained dedicated access to pursue.

Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sigonella, Italy

• Performed preventative and corrective maintenance on radios, radars, weather, and navigational electronic systems at an OCONUS air base providing support for the Mediterranean, NAVCENT, U.S. SIXTH Fleet units and 44.
• Selected as NAS Sigonella Air Traffic Control (ATC) Technician of the year and nominated for the Vice Admiral William P. Lawrence ATC Technician of the Year award.
• Lead technician in the diagnosis and repair of the base’s Doppler weather radar system primary magnetron, waveguide pressure sensor switch, and the control station video processing board enhancing flight line safety.
• Designed and installed a phone monitor circuit and audio recorder into the base ATC station, improving quality control of flight planning service, and establishing a mishap monitoring system for official investigations.
• Lead technician in the certification of the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (FLOLS) for three consecutive years, resulting in the only Mediterranean 24-hour emergency divert airfield.
• Deployed to Souda Bay, Greece as lead technician of 5, repairing an Automated Surface Observing Station (ASOS) and Doppler radar, restoring the local weather office’s equipment that was down for over six months.

USNS Niagara Falls, Apra Harbor, Guam

• Responsible for performing preventative and corrective maintenance on all ship’s electronic equipment. The ship was previously a unit of Military Sealift Command, forward deployed to Guam, providing logistics support.
• Supported USS Carl Vinson Battle Group during Operation Enduring Freedom, maintaining navigational radars, satellite communication (SATCOM), and line of site communication systems at 100% readiness.
• Troubleshot and repaired two shipboard HF radios and one UHF SATCOM radio, restoring onboard communication systems to 100% operability for the first time in over a year.
• Repaired a faulty NAVMACS microprocessor, restoring the ship’s message traffic network.
• Served as the department 3M coordinator ensuring 100% compliance with preventative maintenance schedules.
• Isolated and repaired faulty cat5 network wiring affecting three terminals, restoring full productivity in Radio Central.

Master Of Science - Ms, Meteorology And Physical Oceanography, 3.43

Master Of Engineering Management, Engineering/Industrial Management, 3.68

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physical Sciences, 3.40