Eric Wertz Email & Phone Number

Yorktown, VA, US

Niceville, Florida, United States

• Led brewing process at a 1bbl facility
• Responsible for determining the production schedule, tracking inventory, and maintaining the brewing facility and its equipment
• Developed new computer program and spreadsheets to better track processes
• Trained new assistant brewer
• Leaving role here shortly ahead of move to Virginia!

• Subject matter expert on sales and customer calls to discuss meteorological and geospatial product offerings
• Assisted sales representatives in achieving and exceeding sales targets
• Proposed technical solutions and developed prototypes that addressed customer requirements and generated sales
• Communicated complex concepts to prospective users clearly and with constant customer focus
• Facilitated functional and technical discovery sessions with team members, customers, potential customers and vendors

• Responsible for maintaining and growing Maxar's relationships with a portfolio of over 100 clients including major energy companies, agricultural companies, banks, hedge funds, and commodity trading organizations
• Responsible for engineering and ultimately procuring sales of data-intensive requests from prospects and clients
• Frequent speaker at Weather Risk Management Association (WRMA) conferences in the US and Europe discussing seasonal forecasts and timely information and insights on weather data
• Frequently travel to meet/video conference with current and prospective clients about their weather needs and vulnerabilities across the US and Europe
• Responsible for quality-controlling weather data submitted to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for traded high-profile weather stations

Gaithersburg, MD

• Daily interaction with energy, agriculture, and weather-derivative clients
• Studied and interpreted numerical weather prediction data to predict long and short-range weather conditions
• Frequently led in long-range forecast skill among colleagues
• Wrote weather forecast discussions for clients and frequently consulted via phone, email, and instant messenger

• Began research and graduate work the fall semester of 2007. MS thesis was a statistical analysis of electricity load forecast updates made by the New York Independent System Operator.
• Managed class commodity trading project in collaboration with Constellation Energy and Mars Snackfood
• Coordinated conference calls and facilitated interaction between students and employees at the two companies
• Assisted with classroom management, document coordination, and grading to maintain a positive learning environment

• Created forecast maps and discussions for soybean rust product that predicted potential expansion of the disease that is transmitted by particular weather conditions. The product was displayed on official USDA website
• Compiled various sets of climate data, created long-range forecasts and wrote climate-related articles for the Pennsylvania State Climate Office's monthly newsletter
• Wrote Central Pennsylvania winter weather forecasts for Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to assist in decision-making and resource allocation