Have unique NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) operational as well as NESDIS STAR research experience spanning 25 + years' in meteorology and climate studies at NASA-Goddard/NOAA-NCEP/NOAA NESDIS STAR and India's premier research institutes. Have 12 + years' experience in Software Development/Scientific Research at NOAA's NCEP Central Operations in a variety of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) operational applications. Member of the NCEP Global Forecast System (GFS) forecast skill dropout team, Model Evaluation Group, NCO's Software Development Team, visiting faculty/student mentor at the NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) Program at Howard University, Washington DC. Active in publishing scientific and technical papers in national and international journals and professional conferences. Reviewer to many national/international journals specializing in weather/climate studies.Worked as the Project Manager and Senior Research Scientist supporting NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) in its activities pertaining to Research & Technology Maturation for the Exploitation of Emerging Technologies (RTMEE) project with the objective of handling emerging technologies (observing systems, numerical techniques, data and products), and supporting advanced programs. Dr. Kumar is currently the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Program Coordinator and Senior Program Scientist at NOAA/OAR/Weather Program Office with responsibilities to develop and nurture cost-effective and innovative concept of operations by offering various short-and long-term funding mechanisms in support of operational implementation. His current focus is on EPIC research to operations (R2O) and developmental research on multiple HPC and Cloud platforms funded within the WPO office, providing technical, scientific and programmatic support and assisting with competition creation, documentation, and mission-support of funded projects. He is also the Executive Secretary of OAR Cloud Tiger Team with an integrated team of about 30 representatives from each OAR laboratories and various Program Offices.
Listed skills include Fortran, Science, Climate, High Performance Computing, and 21 others.