Manager Project

Michael Herchenbach

**** * ******* *** * Macomb, IL 61455 618-***-**** **-***********@***.***

Summary

I am a hard-working and motivated individual. I have spent 4 years working at Six Flags Great America as a rides

operator and 3 years at Wendy’s as a crew leader. These experiences allowed me to develop outstanding

communication and interpersonal skills because of the duties I performed at these jobs. I have also built and

maintained computers and have basic programming knowledge. I have long term career goals to further develop these

skills as well as developing my math, GIS, and meteorology skills.

Education

Western Illinois University, Macomb, Il 61455

Graduation: May 2013

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Meteorology

Minor: Geographic Information Systems/Science and Mathematics

Experience

Synoptic Meteorology 1&2: Cyclogenesis, surface observations, weather forecasting, map analysis, upper air analysis

Dynamic Meteorology 1&2: Thermodynamic charts (STUVE, Skew-T), ideal gas law, vorticity, gradients, geostrophic

balance, cloud microphysics.

Principles of Meteorological Instruments: Types of instruments, how they work, data quality control, electric circuits.

Methods of Research: Quantifying and measuring ET for use in thunderstorm forecasting

Environmental GIS: Terrain Analysis, Hydrological Analysis, LULC, DEM, Field/Object based GIS Analysis

Thematic GIS: Census and other social data, data production, Interpolation, Network Analysis, Time in GIS, Terrain

Analysis, Raster and Vector data

Mathematics: Calculus 1, 2, 3, Ordinary Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra

Computer Science: Principals of Computer Science and Java programming

Physics: Motion, Newton's laws, forces, momentum, energy, work, rotation, and simple harmonic motion. Kinetic

theory, thermodynamics, wave motion, sound, optics.

Thematic GIS: Completed a course project which created a model of volcanic ash transportation from a hypothetical

eruption of Mt. St. Helens. This was done by recreating specific atmospheric characteristics in a GIS format

(May attach a copy of the project report if necessary).

Environmental GIS: Completed a course project which compared and analyzed various spatial interpolation methods

(Kriging, IDW, Spline, Natural Neighbor, Trend). The analysis was done both by visually comparison of

outputs as well as statistical methods (May attach a copy of the project report if necessary).

Methods of Research: Completed a research proposal that described a study area, data, methods, and expected results

of quantifying and measuring evapotranspiration. The future work section defined the use of this data which

was to aid in thunderstorm forecasting (May attach a copy of the thesis if necessary).

Technology

Software: Erdas Imagine, ArcGIS, IDV, Minitab, Microsoft Office, Idrisi, JGrasp/Java

**Can quickly learn use of basic electronics such as copiers, fax machines, or other office equipment.

Additional Experience

Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois: Operated rides trained for in a fast, safe, clean, friendly manner to provide

excellent world class service to guests.

Wendy’s, Macomb, Illinois: Crew Leader, did everything to assist with orders and help maintain cleanliness and

business of the store. Also, trained crew members about proper procedures and other techniques to be more

efficient in their work. Assisted manager with manager duties.

Interests

Researching and studying severe weather (tornadoes, hail, lightning), computer hardware/software, learning new

things.

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