Don Moldenhauer

Experience

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  KARE-TV

  May 1998 - May 2008

  Included all duties listed below in Weather Producer position plus:PROGRAM MANAGEMENT♦ Orchestrated entire weather program at major market television station that helped newscasts win key demographic ratings. Scheduled five employees to cover over two dozen weathercasts per week. Wrote budget requests for major capital projects in excess of $100,000. Developed and implemented severe weather coverage policies/procedures resulting in enhanced public safety. Redesigned weather studio in response to space constraints as well as provide a means for immediate access to breaking weather information.TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS♦ Initiated and managed process that placed weather data and broadcasts on the 24/7 weather channel and the most popular local weather website in market. Identified and purchased state-of-the-art weather technology including remote sensing instruments, weather presentation software along with Doppler radar system hardware and software.TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS♦ Email and verbal conversations with hardware and software vendors to determine whether their products met station technical requirements and meteorological needs.SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION♦ Oversaw installation and implementation of weather software systems freeing up engineer resources for other tasks. TECHNICAL TRAINING♦ Conducted storm spotter training for reporters and photographers to engage weather team. Attended professional conferences and read professional journals. Reported relevant information to colleagues to ensure our forecasts took advantage of the latest scientific advances. Staff training to ensure optimal utilization of significant software and hardware investments. Show less METEOROLOGY | DATA TRACKING | DATA ANALYSIS♦ Daily analysis of weather observations, numerical models, statistical models and remote sensing data to create weather forecasts. Monitored and interpreted station’s own live Doppler radar system for storm tracking during life-threatening severe weather events.MULTIMEDIA CONTENT PRESENTATION♦ Created supporting graphics for weeknight weathercasts and emergency weather coverage. Filled in on-air as needed. Crafted and provided weather information for print and digital audience through the St. Paul Pioneer Press, WeatherGuide Calendar and KARE11.comSOFTWARE TESTING♦ Presentation software power user / beta tester. Provided detailed and reproducible bug reports along with feature requests to vendors that were incorporated into future software releases.✷ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE✷EARTHWATCH COMMUNICATIONS ►Director of Meteorological Services♦Learned HTML independently to redesign 1st 3-D weather website, improving content and navigability and adding 1st recorded weathercast on the Internet, resulting in 5X increase in hits in 1 year.EARTHWATCH COMMUNICATIONS ►Customer Service Representative♦Supported mission-critical software for 120+ domestic and international customers remotely along with travel for installation and training.♦Coordinated software design, testing, release, and implementation processes reducing customer complaints. ♦UNIX system administration including scripting to solve customer issues. Show less

  • Executive Producer - Weather

    May 2001 - May 2008

  • Weather Producer

    May 1998 - May 2001
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  Garmin International

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2015

  Product Manager ► Product Owner/Business Analyst, Project Management, Program Management

  Garmin is a worldwide provider of navigation products in the automotive, aviation, fitness, marine, outdoor and sports markets. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT♦ Expanded weather data coverage beyond the United States. Researched and sourced data. Created and presented PowerPoint proposal for $1.5million data contract to executive management team. Proposal was approved. Coordinated cross-functional, co-located teams to implement data across the enterprise. Follow-up research resulted in savings of approximately 75% upon discovery of new vendor for one type of data. Program contributed to situational awareness and convenience for Garmin’s products around the globe enhancing sales.METEOROLOGICAL DATA CONSULTANT♦ Collaborated with six data services team members to design forecast algorithms, observational data processing methods and testing processes resulting in a 10% increase in worldwide automated weather forecast service accuracy. Identified, investigated and offered technical solutions to complex customer service problems with data seeking input from peers and management.AGILE & WATERFALL PROJECT MANAGEMENT♦ Collected requirements, prioritization, story estimation, milestone development, backlog grooming, and sprint management. Developed release schedule and communicated project status to internal and external customers as well as executive management team. Up to 5 concurrent projects that produced mobile apps and data services. PROCESS DEVELOPMENT | TEAM COACHING♦ Helped company transition from a start-up to its role within a large corporation. Coached teams of 5-10 members to adopt project management processes. Fostered positive team work environment functioning as a server-leader. Resolved conflicts. FULL LIFE CYCLE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT♦ Competitive analysis, documented requirements, facilitated UX/UI design and tested results for dozens of data products used in mobile applications and software programs. Language translation documentation. Show less

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  Honeywell Aerospace

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2017

  Sr. Product Marketing Specialist ► Product Management, Product Owner, Meteorological SME

  Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies used by a variety of commercial, consumer and government customers.METEOROLOGICAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT♦ Analyzed data needs and offered solutions saving over $250K per year in data fees. Designed unified displays of weather data across multiple products and platforms. Sourced differentiated, state-of-the-art data to drive value in customer offeringsPRODUCT MANAGEMENT♦ Collected voice of the customer feedback to prioritize development of weather-based electronic flight bag tablet and PC applications for the aviation industry. Developed business cases and oversaw entry into service including marketing, sales training, data contracts and product technical documentationPRODUCT OWNER♦ Championed Agile process by prioritizing development backlogs and providing feature requirements for iOS and Windows apps, web pages and PC software. Effectively lead multiple teams around the world.PROGRAM MANAGEMENT♦ P&L responsibility for multi-million dollar annual and long-range planning for cross-functional projects. Show less

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  Boston Scientific

  Jun 2018 - now

  • Engineer, Sr S/W ► Data Analytics, Splunk Administrator

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Engineer II, S/W ► SCM Software Administrator

    Jun 2018 - Aug 2022