Engineer Project
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Allentown, PA ******.********.**@*****.***
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Dennis M O Donnell Jr.
Education 2004-2006 University of Wyoming Laramie, WY
Researched cumulus cloud development in the Caribbean
Finished with a 3.17 GPA
2000-2004 Millersville University Millersville, PA
Graduated with a B.S. in meteorology in May 2004.
Experience
September 2010-April 2012 First Solar Electric Bridgewater, NJ
Energy Planning Engineer
Advised engineers on climactic conditions at potential project sites around the
world
Frequently visited sites to maintain weather towers.
Analyzed large data sets collected at multiple utility scale solar PV sites,
ranging in size from 5MW to 80MW.
Worked closely with instrumentation engineers on placement of sensors
throughout the large PV power plants.
Developed new meteorological station mast for use in FS plants.
Regularly worked with MATLAB, PVSyst, and MSSQL.
June 2006-2010 Weather Trends International Bethlehem, PA
Sr. Systems Meteorologist
Monitored weather conditions across the globe and alerted a wide range of
clients (retail, investors, snow removal companies, etc) to changing weather
conditions.
Analyzed long range weather forecasts (10 days through one year) and
reported information to a number of clients in fields from retail to investors.
Developed tools to increase productivity and automate repeated tasks. I was
able to cut time needed for analysis by 75% keeping employee headcount low.
Developed a web-based tool using to perform a multiple regression analysis of
retail sales to several weather variables.
Frequently coded using Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML with occasional coding in
Fortran
Created and published meteorological maps using ArcMap.
January 2005 University of Wyoming Laramie, WY
Graduate Research Assistant during the RICO field campaign
Planned and executed the King Air flight plan during the student flight .
Flew in and operated instruments in the Wyoming King Air and the NCAR C -
130 research aircraft.
Winter 2004 Millersville University Millersville, PA
Lead Student Researcher
Led group of students in particulate study funded by MANE -VU.
Was in charge of scheduling and training other students on the many different
instruments used in the project.
Made wind, precipitation, cloud base height and pollution forecasts to
determine which days were acceptable for the goals of the project.
Professional Affiliations
Member of the American Meteorological Soc iety (AMS) sub-committee on renewable
energy. (Jan 2012 - Present)
Member of the local and national American Meteorological Society
Vice President of the SE Wyoming Chapter of the AMS
Graduate Student Representative for the University of Wyoming Engineer ing Fund for
Enrichment (UWEFE)
Graduate Student representative
Voted on how money from the enrichment fund was dispersed
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