Melissa Peterson

Experience

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  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Aug 2009 - Jul 2012

  Presenting weather briefings to lecture hall; Developing grading rubrics and assessing students’ work; Performing statistical analyses of student test results; Composing homework/exam questions Performing thermodynamical analyses of winter cyclones using measurements from the Profiling of Winter Storms (PLOWS) field campaign using RAOB, IDV, and Matlab; Quality controlling rawinsonde and dropsonde data from PLOWS field campaign; Forecasting winter weather events for strategic deployment of field operations equipment; Developing algorithmic changes to RAOB, a software used in analysis of rawinsonde data; Presenting original research at national conferences

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant - Department of Atmospheric Sciences

    Aug 2009 - Jul 2012

  • Graduate Research Assistant - Department of Atmospheric Sciences

    Aug 2009 - Jul 2012
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  AvMet Applications, Inc.

  Aug 2012 - Mar 2024

  Senior Scientist

  For the first five years of my career, I provided technical and program management support to the Aviation Weather Division of the FAA (ANG-C6). I also spent 4 years as a member of the cross-agency Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR) team, providing direct support to the Program Manager (AJM-43).I am currently supporting the aviation weather division in their policy and requirements branch.

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  Freelance

  May 2024 - now

  Project Management Consultant

  Records and Information Management (RIM), Budget and financial tracking, process development and optimization, stakeholder management, marketing and social media management, schedule development and maintenance, technical writing, science communication