OBJECTIVE: To work as a meteorologist in a field that I will utilize my computer programming knowledge

EDUCATION

Master of Science (Meteorology), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (October, 2000)

Diploma (Computer Programming) Chubb Institute, North Brunswick, New Jersey (October, 2000)

Bachelor of Science (Honors), Meteorology (1988)

Diploma (Meteorological Forecasting)

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Certificate, Meteorology and its Applications in Japan, Japan Meteorological Agency, Akita, Japan (1993)

Certificate, WMO Training Workshop on Interpretation of NWP Products in Terms of Local Weather Phenomena and Verification, Wagenningen, Netherlands (1991)

Certificate, Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network (BAPMoN), Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Budapest, Hungary (1980)

Certificate, (Meteorological Observer), ZASTI (December, 1977)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Learn NWS procedures for preparation of forecasts for general public, aviation and marine use
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• Become familiar with NWS criteria and methods for weather warnings, watches and advisories
• Transmit weather information on NWS radi
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• Learn to use WS radar 88

• Recorded weather observations at New Brunswick Cooperative Weather Station and transmitted to National Weather Service

• Analyzed surface and upper air charts; wrote weather analysis and inference
• Aviation forecasting including preparing flight forecasts, Area Forecasts (ARFORs), Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs) and pre-flight briefings to pilots using NOAA’s TIROS satellite picture, weather radar and maps
• Forecasting for the general public including television weather presentation, preparing weather bulletins for national newspapers and radio; preparing medium range forecasts for farmers
• Air pollution monitoring that included measurements of sun’s turbidity using sun photometer, suspended particulate particles using a high volume sampler and collecting free fall precipitation using automatic precipitation collector
• Calibrated air pollution monitoring instruments and sent data to National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC
• Conducted research projects that included relationship between pollutants and meteorological parameters; forecasting techniques at the Central Forecast Office. Participated at domestic and international seminars and conferences.

• Shift supervision
• Organized seminars and conferences and acted as liaison between WMO, UNDP, UNEP and ZMD
• Teaching aviation meteorology that included weather hazards to both in-flight and parked aircraft, decoding synoptic messages (SYNOPs), Meteorological Reports (METARs), TAFs and ARFORs.

• Weather forecasting for aviation and general public use
• Television weather presentation
• Shift supervision
• Monitoring air pollution
• Writing national monthly synoptic weather summaries

Meteorological Officer, (Class III Meteorologist) ZMD (1979-85)

• Weather forecasting for aviation and general public use
• Television weather presentation
• Regional air pollution monitoring

• Weather observation
• Preparing hourly meteorological reports (METARs)
• Plotting, coding and decoding weather SYNOPTIC messages
• Transmitting and receiving weather messages by radio

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Programming Languages: QBASIC/BASIC, C/C++, FORTRAN 90/95 under some UNIX, Visual Basic 6.0
• Web Development: HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual InterDev 6.0
• Others: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Works, and Harvard Graphics

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS PRESENTED

• 'Observations and Analysis of Tropospheric Aerosols and Dry Deposition as Indicators of Changes in the Atmosphere', WMO No. 724 Special Environmental Report No. 17, p.105 (1989)
• 'The Relationship Between Suspended Particulate Matter with Some Meteorological Parameters', at the 2nd. WMO-RAI Southern and Eastern Africa Technical Conference (Kenya, 1990)

MEMBERSHIP

• American Meteorological Society
• Royal Meteorological Society
• WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences
• Rutgers University Meteorology Club

HIGHLIGHTS

• Chosen by WMO for panel of experts on planning better ways to monitor global air pollution (Halkidiki, Greece, 1991)
• Initiated first on-the-job aviation meteorology training
• Introduced awareness lectures on green house gases and air pollution activities in Elementary and High Schools