Matt Laffin, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

As part of the mission control team, provide meteorological support for all Stratolite/balloon launch operations including, launch, wind trajectory navigation, station keeping/hover, and decent operations for remote sensing, business development, and space tourism missions.

Pacific Northwest

Develop and deliver precise written weather forecasts focused on maritime and coastal conditions.Analyze and interpret meteorological data relevant to wind patterns and weather phenomena.Communicate forecast information effectively to customers and team members.

Identified the impact of foehn/katabatic wind on the Antarctic and Greenland Ice sheets and their effects on ice sheet melt and ice shelf vulnerability.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Processed ocean sediment cores for sortable silt as a proxy to determine paleocurrent strength and sea ice extent for the Southern Ocean from the late Holocene through the Pleistocene.

Burbank, Ca

• Collaborate with executive and department management to identify pension inefficiencies, design research strategies, and implement solutions to those problems.• Model and create actuarial calculators via various database, in order to calculate and verify participant pension benefits, and pension adjustments.• Prepare and calculate retirement benefits in accordance with the Guild trust agreement and state and federal laws under strict deadlines. • Prepare and manage pension cash requirements to ensure payment of pension checks monthly. Maintain reporting and data information systems, using analysis to interpret and manipulate data.

Pasadena, Ca

MISR Smoke Plume Digitization ProjectAnalized smoke plume data using the MISR satellite instrument, to derive smoke injection height into the atmosphere both spatially and temporally.

Assessed isopycnal diffusivity interactions between model grid cells using the UVic (University of Victoria) Earth System Climate Model.

Burbank, Ca

• Conducted, led, and managed research related to customer retention and customer service expectations. • Conducted research for store Key Performance Metrics (KPM) related to sales, operations, and talent management.• Analyzed business results and risk, created strategies and implement strategies to maintain business objectives and discover efficiencies • Maintained and reconciled accounts, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and variance analysis.• Created measures to improve the cost efficiency and time effectiveness of the organization's processes• Maintain month end reporting with regional and corporate teams• Managed talent management, Created training and development plans for associate development

Duarte, Ca

Manager on Duty, overseeing up to fifteen employeesPerform weekly asset reporting to senior and regional managersLead administrator for vehicle sale funding, liens not recorded, and accounts payableAnalyze sales, purchasing, and D.M.V. situationsMonitor and manage CarMax auctions, store cash disbursements, and Business Office schedulingManager of Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

Glendora, Ca

Server responsibilities.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Earth System Science

Earth Science, Climate Science

Conducted undergraduate research under Dr. Andreas Schmittner studying the effect of isopycnal diffusively parameterizations.

B.S. Degree, Business Administration; Finance