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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Associate Solutions Architect, valid through November 26, 2025 - Verification

Technical lead for the award winning AWS 2020 best cloud HPC solution developed by Maxar Technologies - Link

Computing:
Proficient in: Python2/3 and several different modules; Certified AWS Solutions Architect with experience using several different AWS services, utilities, and softwares; Unix/Linux computing environments including shell scripting and system management; High-performance Computing (HPC) and cluster design and implementation in cloud or bare-metal environments.
Experienced in: GrADS, Fortran, Structured Query Language (SQL), meteorological data formats (netCDF, GRIB1/2, HDF, etc.), and LaTeX word processing

Other:
Adept in: Scientific technical writing and presentation preparation, including patent material; Personnel and project management, with an emphasis on tasking prioritization, cost estimates, and work plans.

Cousins, E. D. and S. F. Cecelski, inventors; Athenium LLC, assignee. 2020, Jan 14. Formulation and Delivery of Dynamic, Severity-Based Weather Peril Scoring. United States patent 10,534,784.

Cousins, E. D. and S. F. Cecelski, inventors; Athenium LLC, assignee. 2017, Nov 28. Automated Severity-Based Risk Scoring for Ice Storms and Freezing Rain. United States patent application 16/200,805.

Cecelski, S. F., L. A. Munchak, and S. T. Daigneault, inventors; Athenium LLC, assignee. 2017, Oct 11. Corrective Ensemble Forecasting System for Tropical Cyclones. United States patent application 15/666,959.

Jones, J., L. A. Munchak, and S. F. Cecelski, inventors; Athenium LLC, assignee. 2017, Aug 30. Radar Artifact Reduction System for the Detection of Hydrometeors. United States patent application 15/690,746.

Cecelski, S. F., and D.-L. Zhang, 2016: Genesis of Hurricane Julia (2010) within an African Easterly Wave: Sensitivity to Ice Microphysics. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55, 79-92. Download:

Zhu, L., D.-L. Zhang, S. F. Cecelski, and X. Shen, 2015: Genesis of Tropical Storm Debby (2006) within an African Easterly wave: Roles of the bottom-up and midlevel pouch processes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72, 2267-2285. Download:

Cecelski, S. F., 2014: On The Genesis and Predictability of Hurricane Julia (2010). University of Maryland, http://hdl.handle.net/1903/15241, 195 pp. Download:

Cecelski, S. F., and D.-L. Zhang, 2014: Genesis of Hurricane Julia (2010) within an African Easterly Wave: Sensitivity Analyses of WRF-LETKF Ensemble Forecasts. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 3180-3201. Download:

Cecelski, S. F., D.-L. Zhang, and T. Miyoshi, 2014: Genesis of Hurricane Julia (2010) within an African Easterly Wave: Developing and Non-Developing Members from WRF-LETKF Ensemble Forecasts. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 2763-2781. Download:

Cecelski, S. F. and D.-L. Zhang, 2013: Genesis of Hurricane Julia (2010) within an African Easterly Wave: Low-Level Vortices and Upper-Level Warming. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 3799-3817. Download:

Lazarus, S. M., J. M. Collins, M. A. Baxter, A. C. Hanks, T. M. Whittaker, K. R. Tyle, S. F. Cecelski, B. Geerts and M. K. Ramamurthy, 2013: 2012 Unidata Users Workshop Navigating Earth System Science Data. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00214.1.

S. F. Cecelski, 2019: Running HPC in the cloud for global Numerical Weather Prediction. AWS re:Invent 2019: Powering global-scale predictive intelligence using HPC on AWS (AIM227-S), Las Vegas, NV, USA. Recording; Presentation.

Cecelski, S., 2015: Python, Weather Data, and Amazon’s Cloud Computing Services. 2015 Unidata Users Workshop - Data-Driven Geoscience: Applications, Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges, Boulder, CO, USA.

Cecelski, S. F. and D.-L. Zhang, 2014: The Impact of Cloud Microphysics on the Genesis of Hurricane Julia (2010). Thirty-first Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, CA, USA. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 12A.3. Download:

Cecelski, S. and D.-L. Zhang, 2012: Tropical Cyclogenesis from an African Easterly Wave: Hurricane Julia (2010). The Ninth Annual Symposium of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics. University of Maryland, College Park MD. Poster:

Cecelski, S. and D.-L. Zhang, 2012: Genesis of Hurricane Julia (2010) from an African Easterly Wave. 2012 Graduate Student/Post-Doctoral Symposium hosted by the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics. University of Maryland, College Park MD. Technical Session III. Presentation:

Cecelski, S. and D.-L. Zhang, 2012: Genesis of Hurricane Julia (2010) from an African Easterly Wave: Wave Structure and Possible Triggers. Thirtieth Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra, FL, USA. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 2C.6. Presentation:

Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. August 2009 - May 2014.

M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. August 2009 - May 2012.

B.S. in Meteorology, Minor in Mathematics. Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA. August 2005 - May 2009.

Graduated Cum Laude from Millersville University of Pennsylvania with a 3.97 GPA within the meteorology major.

Dean's List at Millersville University for the Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, and Spring 2009 semesters.

Undergraduate courses:
Atmospheric Dynamics I/II; Atmospheric Thermodynamics; Physical Meteorology; FORTRAN; IDL for the Earth Sciences; Mesoscale Meteorology; Synoptic Meteorology; Climate System Dynamics; Atmospheric Chemistry; Boundary Layer Meteorology; Satellite Meteorology; Statistical Meteorology; Numerical Weather Prediction/Modeling; Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations; Statistics; and Linear Algebra.

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Graduate courses:
Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics I/II; Mesoscale Meteorology; Synoptic Meteorology; Atmospheric and Oceanic Climate; and Atmospheric Modeling; Data Assimilation and Predictability.

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