Experience

University of Utah

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Scientist

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Current research revolves around air quality challenges within the greater Salt Lake region of Utah. In particular, how the local mesoscale and boundary layer meteorology can result in prolonged periods of high pollutant concentrations. I also provide assistance to the University of Utah MesoWest program (https://mesowest.utah.edu), the University of Utah UUNET mesonet network, as well as Synoptic Data PBC (https://synopticdata.com) in a contracting role to help collect real-time mesonet observations for the NOAA National Mesonet Program. Show less

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2020

• PhD Research Assistant

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2016

  NSF-funded research project involved analyzing high frequency (1 per second) pressure observations from the USArray seismic array field campaign, which is funded by the Earthscope program. Additional information available at http://meso1.chpc.utah.edu/usarray.

• Research Associate

  • Sep 2011 - Aug 2012

  Provide support for acquiring real-time mesonet observations for public display and dissemination (https://mesowest.utah.edu).



Northview AI

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Independent Contractor - Data Access and Display

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2021

  As a contracted developer, I assisted with the creation and maintenance of web visualization tools and products. As a contracted developer, I assisted with the creation and maintenance of web visualization tools and products.



Plymouth State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• M.S. Research Assistant

  • May 2010 - May 2011

  Primary research involved verifying performance of a lightning detection network utilizing a more robust detection network located in Cape Canaveral, FL.

• M.S. Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2009 - May 2010

  As a teaching assistant I taught 2 weather laboratory sections per semester for 2 semesters.



Mount Washington Observatory

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

  As an intern, I took weather observations, shadowed and trained under the observatory crew, took part in numerous projects both in and outside of the atmospheric field, and also assisted in giving tours at the Observatory and working in the Observatory museum. As an intern, I took weather observations, shadowed and trained under the observatory crew, took part in numerous projects both in and outside of the atmospheric field, and also assisted in giving tours at the Observatory and working in the Observatory museum.