Experience

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  United states air force

  May 2003 - Oct 2009

  Managed a ten-person team as technical expert charged with providing tailored weather information and climatological studies, supporting special operations forces, intelligence community, unified commands, field commanders, and major command planners.• Handpicked to lead center’s toughest operations team, producing 650 tailored products annually with over 99% on-time completion rate• Spearheaded creation of Department of Defense’s long range forecast for multiple operational theaters• Led 13 person team in research and development of 90-day outlook and verification of temperature, precipitation, clouds, drought, flood, dust, and snow conditions for Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, and Pakistan• Accomplished multi-continent tour to 10 agencies in England, Australia, California, Hawaii, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina; briefed long range forecast capability which led to an international research coalition• Authored climatological seasonal study of Southwest Asia long term means, current seasonal averages, and anomalies identifying atmospheric dynamic justification for regional climate deviations• Developed 2008 Beijing Olympics climate analysis used to create disaster response plan for VIP evacuations• Rated #1/4 company grade officers in the squadron; #1/22 in the group Show less Competitively selected for one of fifteen billets, out of forty-five applicants, to complete a Master of Science degree in Meteorology in support of Department of Defense operational research topics.• Developed and adapted first-ever, universal statistical forecasting method for Southwest Asia region, providing probabilistic seasonal forecasts of temperatures and precipitation for specified regions, with specific efforts geared towards identifying climate extremes and anomalies in connection with large scale climate oscillations• Commended by meteorology department for operational relevancy of thesis work Show less Led 24-member flight of civilian, Air National Guard, Marine, and Active Duty Air Force personnel responsible for providing aircrew members, ground forces, mission planners, combat weather teams, command post, Combined Air Operations Center Officials, and senior leaders around-the-clock weather information in support of planning and executing combat operations throughout 4.6 million square mile United States Central Command area of responsibility, directly supporting Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM.• Hand-selected to lead flight two years ahead of peers, responsible for creating 20K+/annually detailed, accurate weather planning products for United States Central Command area of responsibility as a second lieutenant• Led completion of over 700 tailored products to aid Coalition forces for the Southwest Asia data-sparse region, utilizing combination of regional climatology, satellite, and numerical resources• Streamlined scheduling, training, production to improve accuracy and manpower by 84%• Lauded by deployed senior weather officer: “more confident when (formerly known as) Lt Moss was on shift” Show less

  • Chief, Climate Support Team

    Apr 2007 - Oct 2009

  • Weather Officer

    Aug 2005 - Mar 2007

  • Flight Commander, Graphics Operations, US Air Forces Central Command

    May 2003 - Jul 2005
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  Engility formerly dynamics research corporation

  Oct 2009 - Apr 2010

  Senior staff technical analyst/liaison to headquarters, air force weather

  Facilitated the implementation of Department of Defense Air and Space Natural Environment Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent policy and procedures encompassing, but not limited to, planning, programming, research, development, requirements management, and other activities of interest to Air Force Weather.• Co-authored business plan/technology demo to leverage research and development and operations and management funds totaling $12 million dollars.• Identified technical errors in weather output for war-gaming simulators such that corrections ensured output was in compliance with World Meteorological Organization requirements• Led research effort on creating a program office for the modeling and simulation projects, saving the Department of Defense one manpower position and several hundred thousands of dollars Show less

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  The baldwin group, inc.

  Apr 2010 - Mar 2013

  Executive officer

  • Migrated center-wide process and tools to the cloud, resulting in a streamlined and electronic system for coordinating all associated communication with DOC, NESDIS, and NCEI staff. • Re-structured communication models and facilitated the execution of executive-level meetings, to include sensitive information.

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  Lmi

  Mar 2013 - Dec 2013

  Scientific data management program coordinator

  • Co-chaired the Data Management Interagency Taskforce that resulted in co-authorship of an NCA policy on the use of the U.S. Global Change Research Program Global Change Information System, providing scientists, decision makers, and the public access to key global change information.• Created an NCA citations database, resulting in the curation of more than 10,000 NCA references.

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  North carolina institute for climate studies

  May 2019 - Jan 2023

  • Spearheaded the first IQA and EBPA federal policy compliance strategy for the NCA, resulting in a complete transformation of the NCA to the first-ever fully transparent, accessible, reproducible, and openly accessible government asset and strategy adoption by state, federal and international agencies (NC DEQ, DOE, EPA, NOAA, USGCRP, and IPCC).• Lauded by the DOC CDO as the “the poster-child for information quality in the U.S. government”.• Chartered a partnership with NOAA General Counsel on data policies, processes, licensing, and agreements, resulting in the consolidation of efforts from three offices into a single authoritative resource for NCA policies and information.• Architected ACE, the inaugural enterprise NCA governance and collaboration system, which merged program data and information from five separate systems, resulting in a master repository and complete stewardship of NCA data and information.• Designed the NCA Metadata Viewer, providing interactive access to the full suite of NCA data and metadata and adoption by the USGCRP Climate Change Indicators program. Show less Initiated a first-ever formal evaluation of Institute Organizational Health, resulting in a formally endorsed University Committee.• Authored Committee Charter and business rules.• Led biweekly meetings, gathering employee input on topics prioritized out of the Institute Organizational Health Survey, such as, professional development and career progression, communication, training, formal recognition, and equity, diversity, and inclusion.o Formal recognition efforts resulted in a university-endorsed formal employee recognition program, The NCIS Staff Awards for Excellence, with allocated funds for award recipientso Professional development and career progression efforts resulted in a first-ever University-level employee career progression model, which now specifies advancement objectives previously undefined within job titles.o Equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts resulted in a formal program to enhance diversity and inclusion efforts within the Institute and integration with broader University programs. Show less

  • Data Architect for The National Climate Assessment

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2023

  • Research Scholar

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2023

  • Founder and Chair, Employee Committee

    May 2019 - May 2021
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  Case consultants international

  Dec 2022 - Sept 2023

  Program manager

  Program Management support for NOAA's National Weather Service Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI), Research to Operations (R2O) Team

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  National weather service

  Sept 2023 - now

  Physical scientist

  Climate Program Lead for the Office of Science and Technology Integration Research to Operations Team. I work with NOAA Line Offices to define operational requirements for climate tools, products and services for operations and core partners.