Wendy Marie Thomas

Overview: National Weather Service( NWS), Analyze, Forecast and Support Office, Decision Support and Integration (GS13)

(NOTE: SF-50 incorrectly reverted me back to 1340 when my duty station changed to WFO-Mt Holly. The error was caught when applying)

• Led the operational requirements gathering processes for the agency’s next-generation forecasting environment, named NWS Connect.
• Successfully organized the 160+ baseline requirements and manage oversight into development.
• Lead for the agency’s Tribal, Alaska Native and Pacific Islander Team, and receive a DOC Silver Award for advancing NOAA's capacity to understand and to honor Indigenous Knowledge.
• Innovator of 'Well-Being360: Your body, your brain, your fitness for life,' a wellness program that is being adopted by NOAA line offices in part.
• Collaborative style invites and maintains fluid communication between operational, research and development sides relative to NWS Connect within NWS and, when cleared, with NOAA.
• Worked with systems engineering to develop test questions and test criteria for NWS Connect during the testing phase.
• Awarded the AFS1-Divisional Issac Cline Award (2020) for my work in meeting deadlines and for delivering final product on time.
• Visionary leadership allows me to see ahead and develop structures to support next steps, such as the inclusion of a NWS Science and Technology Integration (STI) development member on operational teams and future requirements gathering.

Overview: National Weather Service( NWS), Analyze, Forecast and Support Office, Decision Support and Integration (GS13)

(NOTE: SF-50 incorrectly reverted me back to 1340 when my duty station changed to WFO-Mt Holly. The error was caught when applying)

• Led the operational requirements gathering processes for the agency’s next-generation forecasting environment, named NWS Connect.
• Successfully organized the 160+ baseline requirements and manage oversight into development.
• Lead for the agency’s Tribal, Alaska Native and Pacific Islander Team, and receive a DOC Silver Award for advancing NOAA's capacity to understand and to honor Indigenous Knowledge.
• Innovator of 'Well-Being360: Your body, your brain, your fitness for life,' a wellness program that is being adopted by NOAA line offices in part.
• Collaborative style invites and maintains fluid communication between operational, research and development sides relative to NWS Connect within NWS and, when cleared, with NOAA.
• Worked with systems engineering to develop test questions and test criteria for NWS Connect during the testing phase.
• Awarded the AFS1-Divisional Issac Cline Award (2020) for my work in meeting deadlines and for delivering final product on time.
• Visionary leadership allows me to see ahead and develop structures to support next steps, such as the inclusion of a NWS Science and Technology Integration (STI) development member on operational teams and future requirements gathering.

• Company Overview: Policy Program
• Advised international, national, and community-level decision-makers and practitioners on disaster risk reduction (DRR) opportunities concerning climate/weather scale impacts to human health and healthcare infrastructure (e.g., hospitals and clinics).
• Policy Program
• Formed the AMS’ first Board on Environment and Health.
• Wrote the first science policy document on the protection of hospitals from severe weather.
• Conducted economic analysis on the cost-benefit and investment analysis about hospital mitigation – from the supply chain, community, and residual economic benefits.

• Company Overview: Policy Program
• Advised international, national, and community-level decision-makers and practitioners on disaster risk reduction (DRR) opportunities concerning climate/weather scale impacts to human health and healthcare infrastructure (e.g., hospitals and clinics).
• Policy Program
• Formed the AMS’ first Board on Environment and Health.
• Wrote the first science policy document on the protection of hospitals from severe weather.
• Conducted economic analysis on the cost-benefit and investment analysis about hospital mitigation – from the supply chain, community, and residual economic benefits.

• Developed concepts to better explain the climate-weather relationship for the general public.
• Provided NBC with a communication plan and guideline for explaining hurricanes as a distributor of thermal energy within the climate system.
• Supplied content to reduce fear and angst about hurricanes through understanding their benefits and the human potential to mitigate against their potentially powerful impacts.
• Provided meteorological analysis for the dispersion of toxins.

• Developed concepts to better explain the climate-weather relationship for the general public.
• Provided NBC with a communication plan and guideline for explaining hurricanes as a distributor of thermal energy within the climate system.
• Supplied content to reduce fear and angst about hurricanes through understanding their benefits and the human potential to mitigate against their potentially powerful impacts.
• Provided meteorological analysis for the dispersion of toxins.

• Company Overview: Department of Applied Math and Physics
• Developed policy recommendations for the Administration’s Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR) concerning inter-agency and public/private sector partnerships to protect hospital infrastructure and promote healthcare continuity from severe weather and projected climate impacts.
• Led inter-disciplinary and inter-agency collaborations to foster climate science research to operations, with a focus on socio-economic impacts of climate and weather-scale events on human health in the U.S. and overseas.
• Led science policy study forums on hospital resilience and scientific technical sessions (involving over seven science and engineering disciplines), resulting in policy recommendations for new federal approaches and deeper cross-disciplinary research partnerships between government and science.
• Selected by NOAA/NWS to write the framework and content for a special meeting of the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) titled 'Cooperation between National Hydro‐ Meteorological and Public Health Services' January 2010, (Atlanta, GA).
• Topics included: extreme temperatures, air quality, storms and safety, climate change, and radioactive material release.
• Applied SERVIR and other integrated planetary modeling tools for health-risk modeling using climate/weather data.
• Converted climate data or model output into operational products such as analysis products or applications.
• Department of Applied Math and Physics
• Authored and was awarded a 5‐year $340,000 NOAA grant for a policy study series on severe weather impacts to healthcare infrastructure (2007) which resulted in policy forums, new partnerships, and the establishment of the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Board on Environment and Health.
• Also served on two federal agency grant review boards, and co-wrote 5-year federal grants for organization ($1.2 million) in 2010.
• Developed web-content that illustrated hurricanes as both a climate and weather phenomena, as a tool to explain Earth’s energy balance and transport mechanism.

• Company Overview: Department of Applied Math and Physics
• Developed policy recommendations for the Administration’s Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR) concerning inter-agency and public/private sector partnerships to protect hospital infrastructure and promote healthcare continuity from severe weather and projected climate impacts.
• Led inter-disciplinary and inter-agency collaborations to foster climate science research to operations, with a focus on socio-economic impacts of climate and weather-scale events on human health in the U.S. and overseas.
• Led science policy study forums on hospital resilience and scientific technical sessions (involving over seven science and engineering disciplines), resulting in policy recommendations for new federal approaches and deeper cross-disciplinary research partnerships between government and science.
• Selected by NOAA/NWS to write the framework and content for a special meeting of the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) titled 'Cooperation between National Hydro‐ Meteorological and Public Health Services' January 2010, (Atlanta, GA).
• Topics included: extreme temperatures, air quality, storms and safety, climate change, and radioactive material release.
• Applied SERVIR and other integrated planetary modeling tools for health-risk modeling using climate/weather data.
• Converted climate data or model output into operational products such as analysis products or applications.
• Department of Applied Math and Physics
• Authored and was awarded a 5‐year $340,000 NOAA grant for a policy study series on severe weather impacts to healthcare infrastructure (2007) which resulted in policy forums, new partnerships, and the establishment of the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Board on Environment and Health.
• Also served on two federal agency grant review boards, and co-wrote 5-year federal grants for organization ($1.2 million) in 2010.
• Developed web-content that illustrated hurricanes as both a climate and weather phenomena, as a tool to explain Earth’s energy balance and transport mechanism.