Meteorology and Weather Forecasting Expert Consultant Resume

• Meteorology
• Atmospheric Science
• Hurricane Planning

This expert has a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL

This expert received a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI.

This expert has a B.S. in Meteorology from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

Meteorology and Weather Forecasting Expert Consultant Resume

This expert specializes in atmospheric science, hurricane emergency management, operational advice and establishment. Related experience includes staffing, training, equipping and implementation of national weather service forecasting offices. Other expertise includes warnings and forecast, and severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.

As an atmospheric scientist and hurricane specialist, this associate provides advisories and warnings on tropical cyclones, hurricane evacuation plans, damage surveys and training workshops, evaluating hurricane forecast accuracy and error characteristics, and flood and cyclone warnings.

Additional specialties include tropical cyclone disaster consulting, ways to mitigate effects of future tropical cyclones, satellite image interpretation, and hurricane evacuation plans. This expert also specializes in weather and forecasting, applied meteorology, operational techniques for forecasting tropical cyclone intensity and movement.

This expert is highly experienced in areas including models of tropical upper tropospheric cold core cyclones, hurricane seasons, hurricanes and tropical meteorology, and models for the prediction of tropical cyclone motion and intensity.

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Hurricane and Tropical Storm Operational Consultant

Meteorologist in Charge, National Weather Service Forecast Office, Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Deputy Meteorologist in Charge and North Carolina Area Manager, National Weather Service Forecast Office, Raleigh, NC

Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Hurricane Specialist and Guidance Forecaster, National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL

Served as consultant to the U. S. Agency for International Development, on the Bangladesh Flood and Cyclone Warning Project to assess the country's warning system, to critically evaluate the AID-funded project, and to coordinate the AID project with ongoing projects in Bangladesh.

Served as mission leader of Hurricane Liaison Mission to the Western Caribbean and Central America to coordinate hurricane operational plans with government officials in Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Honduras, Belize and Mexico.

Served as consultant to the India Foundation following the Andhra Pradesh tropical cyclone disaster. Upon completion of an inspection tour of the disaster area and forecast centers, prepared a report on the causes of the disaster and recommended ways to mitigate the effects of future tropical cyclones.

Leader of an international team of tropical cyclone specialists at World Meteorological Organization sponsored meeting in Bangkok, Thailand to formulate the contents of the WMO Tropical Cyclone Forecast Manual. Edited the manual, which was published.

Member of Hurricane Liaison Mission to the Eastern Caribbean. The mission team coordinated hurricane operational procedures with officials in Curacao, Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, and Puerto Rico.

Served as WMO consultant on satellite meteorology at the Caribbean Meteorological Institute in Barbados. Taught at short course in satellite image interpretation to meteorologists from ten countries.

Participated in the NATO Advances Study Seminar on the Boundary Layer of Oceans and Atmospheres, which was held on the Isle of Man, United Kingdom.

Lectured at the World Meteorological Organization Region IV Hurricane Committee Conference in Nassau, Bahamas.