Natasha Mcgrady Email & Phone Number

Londonderry, NH, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Leads the solutions engineering team for the entire company. Team is responsible for all private sector and government sales for Tomorrow.io

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Washington, DC, US

• Led a cross functional team to design a user interface that would provide UAV pilots interactive timely forecasting, decreasing organic forecaster interaction by 75% and increasing situational awareness for the pilots.
• Leads 100 people providing full spectrum actionable meteorology support to military aircraft and airfields, military base facilities, and deployed ships involved in all Navy operations over half the globe.
• Managed team of software engineers and IT specialists responsible for forecasting software, satellite ground station hardware, and satellite feeds to support operational mission of command.
• Initiated a new reporting structure that streamlined the flow of information in the department by reducing key performance reporting requirements by 50%.
• Rated as best Lieutenant Commander ever ranked by evaluator; recommended to promote to Commander early

Washington, DC, US

• Excelled at leading a team of 13 people providing meteorology support for Navy and Marine Corps operations, ensuring overall safety of navigation of 4 ships, 20 aircraft, 4,500 personnel and billions of dollars of.
• Initiated cross functional team of 4 information warfare departments for the purpose of integrating data to streamline decision making and reducing risk.
• Created critical operational efficiencies through the reengineering of business processes and effective change management enabling successful completion of all requirements for overseas deployment for 3,000 people.
• Took initiative to fill a critical role as safety officer and redesigned the structure of the safety department to include missions critical SMEs which was so successful that it was adopted by other ships and resulted.
• Rated as #1 of all Lieutenant Commanders on the ship; recommended as future commanding officer

Washington, DC, US

• Successfully managed meteorology support for Ice Exercise (ICEX 2016) coordinating across ten Navy commands; resulted in first successful full-length mission in five years, significant scientific testing and research.
• Managed training and staffing of 95 people who deployed as full spectrum environmental support teams for different operations worldwide; managed yearly budget of $90,000.
• Initiated the innovative redesign of personnel placements to support more requests for operational meteorology teams providing efficient allocation of resources, increasing filled personnel requests by 25%.
• Identified over utilization of meteorology teams as a primary cause of attrition rates, presented findings and proposed solutions to leadership, which influenced major policy change that increased retention for 6.
• Rated as #1 of all Lieutenants; nominated as navy-wide Oceanographer of the Year for two years in a row.

Washington, DC, US

• Identified schedule-induced extreme fatigue in long range transport flight operations and used fatigue modeling to predict increased future pilot performance. Proposed modified flight schedules to reduce potential.
• Compiled and correlated pilot survey data to prove suspected inflight gear issues; analysis justified ejection seat replacements, dramatically improving ejection survival probability of pilots.
• Served as Junior Officer pilot in VFA squadrons
• Graduated fighter jet training as #1 pilot receiving Commodore’s List with Distinction, Distinguished Graduate, and top bomber award.

Washington, DC, US

• Primary presenter at the 40th International Conference on Environmental Systems in Barcelona, Spain on neutron testing of spacesuit radiation sensor which is currently in use today.
• Planned, coordinated and executed 10-day orientation for 12 incoming four year students and 3 day orientation for semester exchange students with a $2k budget. The program aided in the 100% graduation rate of exchange.

Masters Of Science (Ms), Oceanography & Meteorology

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering