Amanda K. Young

· Completed FY21 New Hire Course in 12/2021.

· Awarded Special Action Award for the period of 5/2022-11/2022 for efficient work updating and maintaining office Storm Data program.

· Provided feedback for several NBM Evaluations as part of the WPC WWE Lantern project.

· Proficient in use and manipulation of various AWIPS II 18(series) application tools to include Forecast Builder, TAF builder, GFE, D2D, WARNGEN, and HAZARD Services.

· Proficient in the manipulation and display of various web image applications to include; DSS Builder, GraphIDSS, CANVA, NextCast, and WAVE, to enhance social media interface with general public and the media.

· Proficient in the use and information transfer to various social media portals, i.e., Facebook, Twitter, to quickly engage and inform the general public, as well as various media, government and private stakeholders of rapidly changing meteorological and hydrological conditions.

· Actively engaged in and support of outreach with the local community to provide STEM education and mentorship to various youth orientated organizations and to K-12 education programs.

· Within the AWIPS Forecast Builder Framework, makes effective use of NOAA, DOD, and private ensemble tools to verify National Blend of Models (NBM) forecast performance characteristics and make measured changes within management guidelines.

· Provided assistance in the forecast preparation and warning of impending weather, water, fire or climate hazards to include building effective weather story and partner hydro-meteorological briefs to enhance impact-based decision support services (IDSS) for local partner activities and operations.

· Analyze, monitor, interpret and brief state-of-art deterministic, ensemble numerical, and climatological weather prediction products from various NOAA, DOD, private, and institutional sources to produce both short and long range hydro-meteorological forecasts to ensure optimum aviation safety and resource protection of personnel and property.

· Revised and implemented software updates for Cold Advisory Newborn Livestock (CANL) application used to forecast winter extreme temperature and wind effects on area livestock. Created webinar based training to increase operational awareness and usage of this forecast tool.

· Proficient in use and manipulation of various AWIPS II 18(series) application tools to include Forecast Builder, TAF builder, GFE, D2D, and WARNGEN.

· Proficient in the manipulation and display of various web image applications to include; GraphIDSS, NextCast, and WAVE, to enhance social media interface with general public and the media.

· Proficient in the use and information transfer to various social media portals, i.e., Facebook, Twitter, to quickly engage and inform the general public, as well as various media, government and private stakeholders of rapidly changing meteorological and hydrological conditions.

· Actively engaged in and support of outreach with the local community to provide STEM education and mentorship to various youth orientated organizations and to K-12 education programs.

· Within the AWIPS Forecast Builder Framework, makes effective use of NOAA, DOD, and private ensemble tools to verify National Blend of Models (NBM) forecast performance characteristics and make measured changes within management guidelines.

· Provided assistance in the forecast preparation and warning of impending weather, water or climate hazards to include building effective weather story and partner hydro-meteorological briefs to enhance impact-based decision support services (IDSS) for local partner activities and operations.

· Analyze, monitor, interpret and brief state-of-art deterministic, ensemble numerical, and climatological weather prediction products from various NOAA, DOD, private, and institutional sources to produce both short and long range hydro-meteorological forecasts to ensure optimum aviation safety and resource protection of personnel and property.

· Completed FY19 Radar & Applications Course (RAC): Full Course (Summer Release) in 09/2019.

· Proficient in use and manipulation of various AWIPS II 18(series) application tools to include Forecast Builder, TAF builder, GFE, D2D, and WARNGEN.

· Proficient in the manipulation and display of various web image applications to include; GraphIDSS, NextCast, and WAVE, to enhance social media interface with general public and the media.

· Proficient in the use and information transfer to various social media portals, i.e., Facebook, Twitter, to quickly engage and inform the general public, as well as various media, government and private stakeholders of rapidly changing meteorological and hydrological conditions.

· Actively engaged in and support of outreach with the local community to provide STEM education and mentorship to various youth orientated organizations and to K-12 education programs.

· Within the AWIPS Forecast Builder Framework, makes effective use of NOAA, DOD, and private ensemble tools to verify National Blend of Models (NBM) forecast performance characteristics and make measured changes within management guidelines.

· Provided assistance in the forecast preparation and warning of impending weather, water or climate hazards to include building effective weather story and partner hydro-meteorological briefs to enhance impact-based decision support services (IDSS) for local partner activities and operations.

· Analyze, monitor, interpret and brief state-of-art deterministic, ensemble numerical, and climatological weather prediction products from various NOAA, DOD, private, and institutional sources to produce both short and long range hydro-meteorological forecasts to ensure optimum aviation safety and resource protection of personnel and property.

· Performs meteorological aviation weather forecast and surface observer watch tasks to include; taking, evaluating, recording, encoding, and disseminating surface weather observations

· Analyzes and interprets mesoscale and global scale numerical weather prediction products from various DOD and NOAA resources to include monitoring local and national digital weather radar data and satellite imagery to write Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAF) and issue weather warnings, watches, and advisories.

· Provides DD-175-1 aviation flight weather and canned route forecasts, and conducts over-the-counter pilot briefings.

· Operates the Pilot to Metro Service UHF radio and receives and disseminates pilot reports (PIREP).

· Operates closely with Naval Air Station Fallon operations and air traffic control personnel to ensure optimum aviation safety and resource protection of civilian and military personnel and property

· Assigned and completed tasking on model performance and environmental analysis of operational verification & validation (V&V), model performance, and environmental forensics.

· Provide support to and answer inquiries about V&V and environmental and model analysis from staff, warfighters, mission planners and other DoD and USG agencies, or as directed.

· Interface regularly and coordinate support based on operational requirements with other cognizant divisions in Fleet Numerical Meteorology Oceanography Center (FNMOC) and other Department of Defense (DoD) and US Navy Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) enterprise activities.

· Ensure developed products and tools that are formatted in such manner that they can be accessed via standard means by supported FNMOC users.

· Under guidance from lead climatologist, follow FNMOC software standards and configuration management process to develop and automate programs to facilitate model V&V and forensic studies.

· Participate in operational briefings, meetings, working groups, or committees to provide authoritative perspectives. Participate in and develop command briefs for internal and external distribution and presentation.

· Fleet aviation strike weather tactical decision aid subject matter expert and trainer.

· As lead tactical meteorologist, responsible for the development and implementation of specialized scenario based training to include meteorology based Tactical Decision Aids (TDA's). Subject training placed emphasis on possible synoptic, mesoscale and microscale meteorological impacts upon resource management and tactical deployment of US Naval Air Force platforms, sensors, and munitions.

· Acted as principle tactical decision aid (TDA) trainer to detachment strike forecasters and Strike Group Oceanography Team (SGOT) fleet forecasters in support of Carrier Air Group (CAG) initiatives and goals

· As Information Assurance Technician I, completes timely IAVA software and hardware updates for a suite of Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental Systems IV (NITES IV) and the Supplemental Weather Radar (Doppler) at NAS Fallon.

· Ensured system changes are reviewed and implemented properly without compromising information system security integrity and reports update results via the DoD joint online compliance reporting system.