John Sullivan Email & Phone Number

College Park, Maryland

Support the NWS Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP) operational IT services as a part of the Onboarding Team.

New Braunfels, Texas

Support the Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service forecast office mission, including software, dataflow, programming, networking, and other IT tasks, along with general outreach and education.https://www.weather.gov/newbraunfels

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Project Tasks• Responsible for all back-end processing and front-end content on NHC website at www.nhc.noaa.gov• Dataflow: oversee large volumes of model/observational data into the center via DBNet and LDM feeds, products out of the center via PDS/AWIPS, and all web content via direct rsync to the NOAA Web Operations Center (WOC) mirrors• Develop and advise on the use of web and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies in the dissemination of data from the center• Plan and implement N-AWIPS to AWIPS II (NCP) migration• Assisted in planning and completion of NHC AWIPS I to AWIPS II migration• Design and implement new software and update functionality of current software to improve forecast efficiency• Write programs to process, manipulate, and display large volumes of meteorological data utilizing various programming languages, including interactive web pages• Develop programs to move data in and out of N-AWIPS, AWIPS, and ATCF softwareSupport & Service Tasks• Support operational forecast display systems: AWIPS, N-AWIPS, & AWIPS II• Evaluate, troubleshoot, and resolve data flow problems into and out of the center at time-critical moments• Primary support contact for operational website serving critical public information and data• Provide call-back technical support beyond normal work hours• Assist forecasters and other IT users with systems and software problems• Assist NWS partners and customers with technical questions regarding products and services• Respond to numerous public questions and comments as NHC webmaster• Perform Red Hat linux software installs, upgrades, and configuration on a wide variety of applications, from web services to AWIPS display tweaks and site-specific configuration modificationsGeneral• Participate as NHC technical contact on large and small coordination meetings, including other NCEP centers, NCEP HQ, NWS HQ, NWS regions, and WFOs• Assist in maintenance and certification of agency web compliance

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Federal ContractorNOAA/National Weather ServiceMeteorological Development Laboratory • Development of a customized four-dimensional weather software (IC4D) prototype to enhance aviation weather forecasts and determine role of the Meteorologist-In-The-Loop for the Weather Information DataBase - part of the overall Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) project• IC4D software used to create combinations of different sources of guidance (model blending)• Support of users at IC4D test and evaluation sites in Alaska and Hawaii• Software development focused in the following areas: object oriented programming (C++/Python), Graphical User Interface design and development, client-server system architecture• Manipulate gridded meteorological datasets in GRIB, GRIB2, and NetCDF formats• Knowledge of National Weather Service operations, products, and services

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Division of Water Resource Management, Bureau of Watershed Management• Provided support of radar-derived rainfall database and its utilization in hydrologic models for preparation of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) documents• Input on development of statewide TMDL for mercury-contaminated waters -- deposition from atmosphere & source-receptor relationships

Professor Fuelberg’s Research Lab [http://fuelberg.met.fsu.edu]Graduate Research Assistant• Modeling Streamflow Using Gauge-Only Versus Multi-Sensor Rainfall (thesis)• Quality-controlled Florida rain gauge data and prepared the FSU Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimator product• Forecasted and supported team members for the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the INTEX-B field campaign (Spring 2006 - ran trajectory model, created/updated products website, part of science team in Anchorage forecasting the best possible flight path scenarios for measuring pollution leaving the Asian continent!)Webmaster and System Administrator for lab computing• Over 15 users on networked workstations (Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux) and servers (Sun Solaris, Linux)• Heavily involved in decisions on hardware/software/printers/network design, purchases, and upgrades• Installed numerous software utilizing large datasets with requirements of RAID storage, multiple processors, fast/high memory usage, and rapid I/O to disks; incl. atmospheric models (i.e., WRF) and data visualization software (i.e., WDSS-II)• Created and consistently updated lab websiteResearcher• Developed process to create a GIS-accessible database of the FSU multi-sensor precipitation product (paper available)• Finished COMET-funded research project - created monthly precipitation frequency maps for the NWS Southern Region (see website for maps)More detailed information can be found at http://fuelberg.met.fsu.edu/~jsull

M.S., Meteorology, Gis, Hydrology

Activities and Societies: Chi Epsilon Pi, North Florida AMS webmaster

B.S., Meteorology, Computer Science, Math, Physics

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Chi Epsilon Pi, North Florida AMS