Dan Arthur Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Interdisciplinary Scientist with the USGS National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP). Product Owner for the Registry of Scientific Collections (ReSciColl) and the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI), responsible for ensuring those metadata catalogs have the features and requirements necessary to support their stakeholders, including working with developers, contributors on project management, training, communication, and support.

University Park, Pa

• Plan, develop, and evaluate methods/protocols and procedures for the storage, retrieval, backup, and archiving of geographically-referenced and time-series data (e.g., water chemistry, land management, meteorological data) from a variety of sources, scales and lengths of record.• Collate data from a number of investigators and sampling platforms including working with relational databases and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Global Positioning System (GPS); observatory/sensor data; and other computer systems information management.• Construct platforms for new databases and user input/output interfaces.• Develop and incorporates data screening and quality control criteria into databases and document data quality processes using statistical procedures.• Evaluate unit databases and ensure protocols are compatible with various systems. Also ensure data integrity and availability during migrations as database systems improve and change.• Use current scripting and data management tools such as R and SQL, and GIS tools such as GRASS and ARC/INFO in data processing, data modeling, and presentation.• Extract database information to provide value-added services to meet a wide variety of unit and organization objectives.• Keep abreast of changing technology involved in the various systems to determine compatibility requirements.• Oversee and manage IT systems, telecommunications, and security responsibilities for the unit serving as systems administrator, management, and support.• Provide advisory services for IT policy, troubleshoot IT and telecommunications issues, manages software licensing and databases, and provide IT systems training for unit personnel.

Earth And Environmental Systems Institute

• Work with the Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) team on public outreach efforts.• Develop and maintain websites for the CZO and the Earth & Environmental Systems Institute (EESI).• Publish CZO data on the web.• Maintain (in coordination with CZO Watershed Specialist) precipitation data from all local CZO field instruments, including quality control.• Design and develop visualizations of CZO and other data.• Promote scientific efforts of the CZO and EESI online.• Assist students and faculty with data management, visualization, and web-based tools to promote EESI and its activities.

Earth And Atmospheric Sciences Department

• Investigated ice nucleation processes and parameterization of ice microphysics processes for forecasting precipitation and calculating precipitation efficiency in future climates, using both observations and numerical modeling experiments with the Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-ARW) model.• Participated in creation of daily weather forecasts and briefings, and provided current in-flight weather information for research aircraft during the Ice in Clouds Experiment - Tropical (ICE-T), in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, July 2011.• Investigated warm rain precipitation initiation and evolution in trade wind cumuli using research aircraft and dual-polarization radar data.• Worked with Purdue University Rendering and Perceptualization Laboratory (PURPL) to develop a new three-dimensional visualization application for combining radar and aircraft-mounted probe data.

Earth And Atmospheric Sciences Department

• Taught undergraduate laboratories in synoptic meteorology (I, II, and III) and atmospheric observations and measurements (class sizes averaged 18 students), including instruction in MATLAB and GEMPAK. Developed presentation materials, delivered lectures and assignments, graded all exams, quizzes, and assignments, and assisted students individually as required.• Graded and assisted with homework assignments, quizzes, and exams for undergraduate atmospheric thermodynamics, atmospheric dynamics (I and II), and atmospheric observations and measurements lecture courses (class sizes averaged 18 students).

Fishers, In

• Self-employed videographer, editor, and event, portrait, and art photographer.

Indianapolis, In

• Integrated several support units into one, from multiple locations and newly-acquired company facilities.• Managed implementation and maintenance of customer service information systems, procedures, third-party product issues, and tested laboratory infrastructure, including development and presentation of support team and value-added reseller training and development of support documentation.• Managed resources to meet service level requirements, coordinated with contract call center, supervised engineers responsible for handling support issues, and selected and evaluated personnel to ensure efficient operation of the department in a positive team environment.• Established and maintained communication with engineering/development, quality assurance, and product management on design, reliability and maintenance issues.

Indianapolis, In

• Managed implementation and maintenance of customer service information systems, procedures, third-party product issues, and tested laboratory infrastructure, including development and presentation of support team and value-added reseller training and development of support documentation.• Managed resources to meet service level requirements, supervised engineers responsible for handling support issues, and selected and evaluated personnel to ensure efficient operation of the department in a positive team environment.• Established and maintained communication with engineering/development, quality assurance, and product management on design, reliability and maintenance issues.• Assisted corporate management with integration of Truevision technical support into Pinnacle Systems technical support upon acquisition of Truevision by Pinnacle Systems.

Indianapolis, In

• Resolved product support issues from incoming phone calls, e-mail, web forum posts, and fax requests, including issues requiring additional expertise and/or delicate handling that were escalated from other agents and field personnel.• Served as technical lead, communicating with development and product management regarding product support issues. • Created, edited, and reviewed technical support documents.• Served as primary support contact for major third-party software developers.

Atmospheric Science, 3.82

(Research and Course work toward Ph.D.) Research Focus: Cloud microphysics, mesoscale modeling, ice nucleation, parameterization of ice.

Master Of Science (Ms), Atmospheric Science, 3.82

Research Focus: Cloud microphysics, giant aerosol, warm rain processes, radar and research aircraft observations, data visualization..

Ms, Information & Communication Science, 3.789

Research Focus: Usability of voice, video, and data communications technologies as they rapidly evolve and merge. Finished 2nd as part.

Ba, Liberal Arts - Communications, 3.287