Eric Barron Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

• Responsible for overseeing agency’s central scientific software portfolio, managing license servers, and pro-viding support to scientific software users on Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms• Maintains databases [Postgres] of raw and compiled software usage data and statistics; analyzes and pre-pares reports on scientific software usage [SQL, Python]; developed billing software in Python/Pandas• Transitioning license servers to a CI/CD system to automate license and access list updates

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Oversees volunteers and explainers, runs astronomy education programming in the absence of a staff member

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Facilitates use of telescopes for, and demonstrates astronomy and physics principles to, museum guests

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsible for development, coding, and maintenance of algorithms and software used for almanac pro-duction [Fortran, C, Python]; calculation of astronomical data [Fortran, C]; typesetting and productionof The Air Almanac and sections of The Astronomical Almanac [(La)TeX]; production of ePub Astronomi-cal Phenomena; development of The Astronomical Almanac Online website [Flask, HTML, CSS, Javascript,MathJax]; verification of data and proofing of print publications• Modernized and streamlined page production software by applying modern web and container technologyto typesetting, resulting in excellent efficiency gains and saving days on annual production runs [Flask,SQLite, (La)TeX, Docker]• Initiated development of a Python framework for calculating a horizon profile for any location, to feed intorise/set calculators; mentored a summer student who continued the project• Wrote a package to replace a flat file of U.S. place names and coordinates (used to determine observer loca-tion for astronomical data services) with U.S. Census TIGER shapefiles [Python]• Mentored summer students with software and hardware (RaspberryPi and sensors) projects, astronomicalobserving, and the above mentioned horizon project• Developed an OpenGL replacement for an IDL-based service that displays the apparent disk of solar systemobjects [Python]• Wrote a Python wrapper for the C-version of the Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Software (NOVAS)• Initiated and led a tutoring program to teach colleagues Python and modern programming paradigms• Peer-reviewed numerous scientific manuscripts for the USNO Editorial Board• Oversaw standup of shared department resources, migration of data and tooling, and implementation ofnew workflows for the Astronomical Applications department [Gitlab, Docker/Podman]

Philadelphia, Pa

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Astronomy And Astrophysics

Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Astrodynamics And Satellite Navigation Focus

Education record