BILL TURNER

  billturner90@gmail.com, github.com/bill-turner/resume
cell: (630) 967-4456

Permanent: 1377 Notre Dame Dr • Lemont, IL 60439 Address: 808w Illinois St, #34 • Urbana, IL 61801 Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ¬College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ¬Bachelor of Science, Major in Atmospheric Sciences ¬Expected Date of Graduation: May 2014 Work Experience PLOWS Research Assistant (www.atmos.illinois.edu/plows/) Urbana, IL May 2013 to Present • Used Matlab to analyze data gathered from the PLOWS (Profiling of Winter Storms) Field Campaign • Primary focus was the data gathered from in-situ probes measuring cloud properties • Developed a library of functions allowing for simple interaction with data • Created NETCDF database, used various techniques to visualize the cloud probe data

Unpaid Research & App Development January 2013 to Present • Developing a Ruby on Rails app to visualize GFS/NAM MOS Forecasts • Basic exposure to and comprehension of HTML, CSS, SQL, and Javascript • Experience designing an app for mobile devices using Twitter’s Bootstrap

College of Media IT at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Entry Level Tech Support Staff - August 2012 to Present • Perform general entry level PC/Mac/Linux maintenance • Basic troubleshooting for College of Media faculty and staff • General networking involving multiple computers and printers

GfK MRI, (www.gfkmri.com) Chicago, IL Intern - May 2011 to August 2011 and May 2012 to August 2012 • Used proprietary cross tabulation software to gather marketing data • Worked with Excel and PowerPoint extensively for data analysis and creating presentations • Interacted with a variety of co-workers ranging from sales people to software engineers. ¬

Skills Communication: Ability to clearly articulate ideas and viewpoints in both written and oral form to different audiences Meteorology: I have completed or am currently participating in courses on Thermodynamics, Dynamics, Climate Processes, Atmospheric Radiation, Synoptic Scale Meteorology, Forecasting, Mesoscale Meteorology, Cloud Physics, FORTRAN/NCL, Matlab, and Weather Instruments. Mathematics: Completed Calculus and Differential Equations courses. Capable of applying the theoretical concepts learned in the classroom to a computer program that can model physical systems that are much less well behaved than those studied in a classroom setting. ¬Technical: Multiple years of IT experience, scientific software development, and visualization and analysis of large datasets using a variety of technologies like Excel, Matlab, FORTRAN, Java, and NCL. Experience building web apps with Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

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       Meghan Smith                               Eric Snodgrass
Help Desk Manager                       Director of Undergraduate Studies
UIUC College of Media                Department of Atmospheric Sciences
810 S Wright St. Rm 18                110 Atmospheric Science Bldg
Urbana IL, 61801                          Urbana IL, 61801
mlsmith2@illinois.edu                  snodgrss@illinois.edu