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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Greater Atlanta Area

Deliver flawlessly at massive scale - fully responsible for tech, content, staff for ⅓ of The Weather Channel’s daily 50 Billion API calls.Lead fully the tech, content, and staff fulfilling ⅓ of the 50 Billion daily API requests powering The Weather Channel’s suite of applications, The Weather Company’s data offerings, and multiple private label applications.Manage a multidisciplinary and multinational 24x7x365 team of software, DevOps, & QA engineers + meteorologists who deliver massive amounts of content and data for some of the world’s most critical situations – end-to-end from sourcing, processing, and amplification to distribution and usability, all in an Agile fashion.Represent The Weather Company as corporate liaison on multiple policy and data concerns to various government agencies worldwide, including the U.S. National Weather Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the European Multiservice Meteorological Awareness body (EUMETNET / EMMA / MeteoAlarm).Deliver user experience guidance and weather data oversight for the online and application presence of The Weather Channel – named as America’s most trusted news source 3 years running (YouGov).Interface regularly with technical and operations leadership from across The Weather Company’s user base, including those from major device manufacturers, major airlines, external media entities, and other core partners.Serve as principal corporate Subject Matter Expert on government warnings and notifications, air quality forecasting, weather satellite operations, critical data acquisition methods, and more.Consult regularly on contract bids and proposals, including government and private sector opportunities.Oversee an impressive annual, multinational cloud computing spend.Developed The Weather Channel / Weather Company’s first global air quality forecasting capability and content offering.Managed multiple physical data-center-to-cloud computing transitions.

Developed critical products & data delivery to secure & protect the nation’s coasts, ports and infrastructure.Evolved core data content and technology related to realtime hurricane data operations and post-storm insurance settlements.Developed a GIS-based weather forecast system to support a major, international shipping port’s operational and homeland security requirements.Developed weather and ocean data capabilities and content for flagship consumer products and enterprise solutions.Collaborated with University of Utah / MesoWest scientists and programmers on an upstart commercial geospatial data venture, Synoptic

Asheville, Nc

Managed apps, access, content, and tech staff for the world’s official climate & weather archive.Managed Contract Data Apps & Access Team - largest group of subcontractors on major gov’t contract.Served as project management focal point for systems operations, including oversight of program policies, procedures, and processes.

Bowling Green, Ky

Built a statewide weather and environmental monitoring system from scratch.Excelled as principal technology leader for a NOAA funded grant to develop a statewide in-situ meteorological and climatological sensing network.Developed short- and long-term technology plans and defined technical requirements to facilitate overall project vision and goals.Deployed a statewide SCADA comms network.Led the application & DB design process, including authoring a robust data QA & QC platform.Supervised technology staff and students.

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Deployed the government’s most critical emergency monitoring and alerting technology.Served as a technical specialist for AWIPS, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System, NWS’s main weather workstation.Administered AWIPS and other Linux computing platforms for NWS Headquarters and Meteorological Development Lab.Migrated AWIPS from HP-UX to RHEL as part of environment team.

Managed the first national infrastructure delivering weather data to airplane cockpits at scale.Led as information technology, data center, and data operations manager for major weather data and systems vendor to broadcasters, emergency managers, and in-flight aircraft.Instilled lasting corporate culture of mission-criticality and continuity of operations.Supervised IT / network staff and data services meteorologists.Maintained 24x7x365 continuity, reliability, and quality of multiple, mission-critical data feeds, network operations centers, and data systems.Managed all corporate information technology, both for mission operations and backend office functionality.

Installed, managed, or utilized critical data acquisition and distribution systems.* Satellite Earth Stations, Digital Audio Broadcast Sys., Emergency Alert Sys., Graphics Generation Sys., Networking, Point of Sale Sys.

Produced graphical forecasts for website and consulting clients.Forecasted sky conditions, precipitation, snowfall, convection, fire weather, winds, and drought conditions. Maintained automated graphic generation scripts.[ Company later merged with AccuWeather ].

During a previous career focus, I performed as a broadcast journalist and/or general on-air talent for broadcast entities including several prestigious media outlets in top 40 U.S. markets. In addition to solidifying my communications and storytelling skills, these positions have helped me immensely in my understanding of the broadcast customer base critical to several of my key positions in the weather industry.

B.S With Special Distinction, Meteorology, 4.0 / 4.0 (Major); 3.94 / 4.0 (Overall)

M.S, Geoscience; Atmospheric And Geographic Information Systems, 4.0 / 4.0

Graduate Certificate, Geographic Info. Science; Geospatial Data Collection, Management

B.S, Mass Communication, Spanish, And Business Administration, 4.0 / 4.0 (Major & Minors); 3.94 / 4.0 (Overall)