Senior Analyst
Forecast Department, Production Section, Integration
Summary:
Main responsibility is for the delivery of the operational production suites. This involves:
- Leading the integration team managing the hand-over, integration, testing and implementation of changes affecting the operational production systems.
- Planning and coordinating the development and maintenance of the operational suites with other groups at ECMWF and in Member/Cooperating States.
- Organise and participate in the team's on-call support.
- Part of Change Management Board at ECMWF.
- Also help run the ECMWF training course on ecFlow.
Professional interests:
- Numerical modelling: Post-doctoral work on modelling of optical scattering and previously to that on Galerkin techniques for modelling electromagnetic fields
- Software design, testing and training
- Change management in an operational environment
- Over 20 years project management experience: Prince 2, Agile
- Efficient running and optimisation of operational systems
- Knowledge transfer from research to an operational environment
Career background:
- 2014 - Senior Analyst/Team Leader Integration Team, ECMWF
- 2004 - Senior Analyst/Group Leader Operational Suite Management, Meteorological Applications Section, Operations Department, ECMWF
- 2003 - Analyst/Consultant Data Acquisition and Preprocessing, Meteorological Applications Section, Operations Department, ECMWF
- 1999 - MetDB Manager, Met Office, Bracknell
- 1997 - MetDB Analyst, Met Office, Bracknell
- 1994 - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Imperial College, London
External recognitions
- Campbells Prize for Academic Achievement
- Rank-Taylor-Hobson Prize, Imperial College
- Innovations Award for FRASIA imagery archive in category "Most innovative improvement to operational systems", Met Office
- British Computer Society Professional Development Scheme Supervisor
- Associate of the Royal College of Science
- Chartered Physicist
- Former UK representative for WMO Expert Team on Data Representation and Codes