Manager, Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
January 2017 - Present
Manages the NASA Distributed Active Archive Center responsible for providing access to a wide range of global climate data, including atmospheric composition and dynamics, global precipitation, solar irradiance, and modeled assimilation and reanalysis datasets.
Program Manager, Earth Science Data Systems
NASA - NASA Headquarters
August 2015 - May 2017
Management of proposal solicitations to improve and extend NASA's distributed Earth science information infrastructure, coordination of multi-agency Climate Data Initiative, liaison to NASA mission and program scientists at NASA Headquarters.
EOS Project Scientist
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
US Geological Survey - USGS Earth Resource Observation and Science Center
July 2008 - January 2017
Lead scientist for the LP DAAC, funded under contract to NASA. Oversight of LP DAAC research & development, outreach & education, liaison to ASTER & MODIS Science Teams, convener and co-chair of the LP DAAC User Working Group. R&D includes OGC/OpenDAP and semantic interoperability, web client design and usability, information provenance services, product development.
Lead Project Scientist - Landsat Data Continuity Mission
SAIC - USGS Earth Resource Observation and Science Center
November 2005 - July 2008
Contract lead for LDCM Science Office. Geo/biophysical product development and validation, instrument calibration & characterization. Oversight of development activities for cloud detection, atmospheric correction and land surface temperature retrieval, and data system interoperability using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and related service technologies.