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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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