Todd S. SHAW
Upper Marlboro,MD
Summary
Professional Meteorologist with a proven track record for dependability, leadership and teamwork. Able to work efficiently in a high impact environments with short suspense deadlines.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Marine Forecaster
Ocean Prediction Center
College Park, MD
01.1994 - Current
- Provides accurate and timely regional scale analysis and forecast products to users.
- Actively ensures that all products and quality control data sets meet established deadlines.
- Provide timely high seas analysis and forecast, graphical and alphanumeric, to users.
- When appropriate, coordinates with other parts of NCEP, field offices, and other NOAA units to ensure product compatibility.
- Acts as lead forecaster when required; actively ensuring that the forecast team is equipped with tools and guidance need to complete timely quality controlled forecast and reports that are compatible with other NOAA units.
- Successfully served as Supervisory Lead Forecaster (GS-14) to assist division in filling management gaps during supervisory vacancies.
- Participated in Synergy training at TAFB on several occasions.
- Was a member of the Products Review Team for a two year period.
- Has served as the focal point for the Boulder forecast from 2000-present. During this time I facilitated the transfer from a phone based system to a computer based means of voice recording. This switch provided a dramatic increase in the quality of the audio broadcast. It was the single biggest development in over 20 years of providing the boulder broadcast.
- Assistant graphical verification focal point.
- As the assistant focal point for Time and Attendance, I coordinated with other staff members to ensure their schedules where correct. When I was involved with the time card process, I made no errors in time card compilation or transmission.
Surface Analyst
National Meteorological Center
Camp Springs, MD
01.1992 - 01.1994
- Successfully performed northern hemispheric and U. S. surface analysis and developed report maps to illustrate analysis findings.
- Provided daily comprehensive map briefings of short and medium-range weather forecast when required.
- Performed U.S. surface analysis and used findings to produce the Daily Weather Map and prepared it for publication and archiving.
- Actively participated in NEXRAD training to keep abreast of best practices with current and developing weather technologies and assisted other team members when needed.
Meteorologist Intern
National Meteorological Center
Camp Springs, MD
01.1991 - 01.1992
- Performed data entry of aviation high and low-level data progs and transmitted using Intergraph technology to various stakeholders.
- Conducted basic office management duties to assist forecasters in meeting analysis and forecast reporting deadlines.
- Managed dissemination of incoming fax data to ensure that it reached to proper forecaster for interpretation and reporting.
- Under general supervision, produced high and low-level aviation progs using incoming raw data.
Meteorologist Intern
WSO
Caribou, Maine
01.1990 - 01.1991
- Collected and disseminated surface observations.
- Collected and disseminated upper-air data.
- In addition to the normal duties of a meteorologist intern, while at Caribou I managed the SAWRS program for northern Maine.
Education
B.S. - meteorology
Pennsylvania State university
01.1984
Timeline
Marine Forecaster
Ocean Prediction Center
01.1994 - Current
Surface Analyst
National Meteorological Center
01.1992 - 01.1994
Meteorologist Intern
National Meteorological Center
01.1991 - 01.1992
Meteorologist Intern
WSO
01.1990 - 01.1991
B.S. - meteorology
Pennsylvania State university