About
Experience
- Multi-faceted business professional and meteorologist, passionate about the impact of weather on our planet, determined to drive solutions that contribute towards a better society/future
- Over 4 decades of meteorological & business experience within private and public sectors
- UK Meteorological Office
- Vaisala
- Lives in Colorado, USA since moving from UK in 2002
- A trained meteorologist (UK Met Office) bringing a wealth of global knowledge in many business sectors, but with a particular focus on surface transportation
- Vast expertise in Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) gained with many of the leading Departments of Transportation (DOTs) around the globe
- Development and presentation of training courses for weather impacts on business and transportation
- Development of weather based performance metrics for business
- Facilitating workshops, seminars and conferences
- Building RWIS specifications to ensure smooth and successful bid processing
- TV and Radio weather presentations for BBC and independent channels
Memberships & Committees
- 2014 (to current) Standing Committee on Surface Transportation Weather -Transportation Research Board
- 2017 (to current) SAE Committee on V2V Communications Infrastructure
- 2016 Represented World Meteorological Organization at United Nations Group of experts on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for Transport Networks and Nodes, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2013 Joint recipient of National Road Safety Foundation awards, Washington DC
- 2012 – 2016 AMS Intelligent Transportation Systems/Surface Transportation Committee
- 2009 Excellence in Transportation – Awarded by Idaho Transportation Department for Road Weather Information System Build-out project
- Member of American Meteorological Society
Published Papers
- Integrating Meteorological Service Delivery for Land Transportation
- WMO Bulletin # Vol 65 (2) - 2016
- The Use of Performance Indices and the Advancement in their Development for Improved Accountability
- SIRWEC, Fort Collins 2016
- Maintaining visibility of data quality in a world of Big Open Data
- ITS World Congress, Melbourne 2016
- Winter Road Maintenance Solution and Its Valuation
- The 2nd China-Canada Winter Road Maintenance Symposium 2014, Harbin China
- Fixed anti-icing spray technology (FAST) in the 21st Century
- ITS World Japan 2013
- A study to determine the effects of employing a well maintained RWIS network on accident rates on major highways in the US state of Idaho
- Road Weather Information System (RWIS) &. Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS). Economic Value Tool (EVT)
- SIRWEC, Helsinki 2012
- Noninvasive Road Weather Sensors
- Transportation Research Circular TRB 2008 Fourth National Conference on Surface Transportation Weather
- The use of non-intrusive sensors within Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
- ITS World Congress, New York, November 2008