Quality Assurance Project

Kenneth S. Pelman

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Meteorologist and GIS Application Designer

Objective: To provide lightweight, efficient, customizable GIS solutions.

Profile: Innovative problem solver and excellent application developer. Team leader with a focus on meeting the customers needs and finishing projects early and under budget. Developed new techniques to better enable organization to meet its mission goals. Helped bring GIS into organization, making workflow more efficient, saving hundreds of hours of work. Skills summary:

Project Management ● ESRI's ArcGIS ● Google Maps API ● HTML ● Javascript ● Python MySQL ● PHP ● Perl ● XML ● Fortran ● C ● C++

Professional Experience

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER, Camp Springs, Maryland ● 2002-Present

One of eight National Centers for Environmental Prediction within the National Weather Service, focused on delivering climate prediction, monitoring, and diagnostic products for timescales from weeks to years to the Nation and the global community.

Meteorologist: Led team that consolidated and updated 30-year climatologies and was completed 3 months ahead of schedule. Converted all Climate Prediction Center (CPC) forecasts into GIS shapefile format, making CPC the first National Center for Environmental Prediction to do so. Developed new automated forecasts that led to significantly improved skill scores over older method. Participate in group whose job is to improve operational computer programming and documentation standards as well as quality assurance of operational codes. Leader in teaching operational processes to co-workers to eliminate single points of failure.

Education

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Masters of Science, GIS, 2011.

For thesis, developed a web application using Google Maps API that allows emergency managers to plan for evacuations by allowing them to select an evacuation area, and receive detailed reports on the population to evacuate, and the routes they would take to arrive at designated shelters.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Masters of Science, Meteorology, 2002.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelors of Science, Meteorology, 2000.

Publications

Pelman, Kenneth and Viviane Silva. An Update of How CPC is Utilizing GIS, presented at the 34th Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Monterrey, California, 2009.

Viviane Silva, Lloyd Thomas, Kenneth Pelman, Mike Halpert and Wayne Higgins. An Update of the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center (CPC) GIS Project, presented at the 33rd Climate

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Diagnostics Workshop, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2008.

O’Lenic, Edward, David A. Unger, Michael S. Halpert, and Kenneth S. Pelman. Developments in Operational Long-Range Climate Prediction at CPC. Weather and Forecasting, Volume 23, Issue 3 (June 2008) pp. 496–515

Probabilistic Forecasts of Extreme Precipitation Events for the U.S. Hazards Assessment, presented at the 32nd Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Tallahassee, Florida, 2007.

Verification of CPC’s 2004 Heat Index Forecasts, presented at the 29th Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, 2004.

Halpert, Mike, and Kenneth Pelman. Regional Verification of CPC’s Seasonal Forecasts, presented at the 29th Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, 2004.

Using MM5 to Forecast Nocturnal Radar Ducts over Mountains, presented at the Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations conference, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2001.

Fast, Steven A., George S. Young, Jason Nathaniel Bode, and Kenneth Pelman. A Three Dimensional Matching Method for Tropospheric Features. Radio Science, 35(5), 1065-1073, 2000.

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