208 Monell

61 Route 9W

Palisades, NY 10964

http://iri.columbia.edu/~bhoch

Home: (201) 263-9272

Work: (845) 680-4444

Fax: (845) 680-4488

Email: bhoch@iri.columbia.edu

• EDUCATION:
  
  

  • M.S. Atmospheric Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 1997.
    Thesis: An evaluation of a one-way coupled atmosphere-lake model for Lake Erie, 226 pages

  
  
  • B.S. Earth & Atmospheric Sciences/Meteorology, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, 1994.
  
  

• PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
  • 1997-Present: Systems Analyst/Programmer, International Research Institute for climate prediction, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
    • Created, administrated, and maintained a heterogeneous network of servers, computers, terminals, and peripherals for rapidly expanding climate research facility.
    • Provided systems administration expertise for user management, security issues, samba, software installation, web based calendar database, troubleshooting, etc.
    • Advised senior management in technical, financial, and policy areas related to computational infrastructure. Authored short and long term planning strategies.
    • Managed procurement of computer hardware, peripherals, service contracts, software licenses based on cost/need criteria.
    • Automated rollout of heterogenous Microsoft based workstations to increase productivity among junior staff.
    • Designed and maintained a real time weather data acquistion system via satellite/internet based feeds.
    • Managed, maintained and coordinated all departmental audio-visual conference facilities. Provided special event support.
    • Trained personnel to use climatological datasets and computer hardware/software. Presented interactive training seminars.
    • Assisted in operational climate forecasting from model runs to map production.
    • Implemented terminal server based computing solution allowing access to alternative OSs from desktop workstations/thin clients.

    
    

  • 2001-Present: Adjunct Professor, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
    • Full responsibilty teacher for introductory meteorology course designed for non-science majors.
    • Designed and authored laboratory curriculum from the ground up.
    • Administrated and maintained course website.

    
    
    
    
    

  • Winter 2001-2002: Consultant, HETCO, New York, NY
    • Provided assistance, recommendations, and scripts for download of realtime numerical weather prediction data.
    • Coordinated development of database for real-time model data.

  • 1994-1997: Graduate Research Associate, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
    • Generated, analyzed, and displayed nowcast/forecast output for the Great Lakes in an operational setting.
    • Researched performance of an experimental coupled 3-D model for Lake Erie.
    • Installed, maintained, and serviced hardware/software in a heterogeneous computing environment.
    • Provided support for internet weather data server, including acquisition and display of meteorological data.
    • Taught introductory college course in earth science/meteorology.
    • Maintained library housing meteorological journals and other educational materials.
    • Managed department office serving 25 faculty, 75 graduate students.
  
  

• TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:
  
  

  Languages	Applications	Operating Systems	Peripherals
  C-shell Fortran Html Perl Samba C++	Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Framemaker Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Netscape Syncsort/BackupExpress, UpdateExpert Symantec Corporate Antivirus Server FLEXLM, Cyberscheduler, ACT, ArcGIS LDM, NCAR Graphics, GEMPAK, IDL	MS Windows 3.x/9x/NT/2000/XP (including Terminal Services/Metaframe) Red Hat Linux Solaris (Sun), IRIX (SGI) Digital/Compaq Unix some Cisco, some MacOS	HP Ink Jet/Laser Printers Tektronix Laser/Solid Ink Printers X-Terminals, Scanners Videoconference Codecs All Types of Audio-Visual Equipment

• AWARDS:
  
  
  • 2001, Special Award for developing the first U.S. coastal forecasting system to make routine operational predictions of currents, temperatures, and key trace constituents, American Meteorlogical Society, Boston, MA
  
  
  
  • 1994, Cook College Leadership Excellence Award, Cook College, Rutgers University.
  
  
  
  • 1994, Cook Campus Center Service Award, Cook College, Rutgers University.
  
  
  
  • 1990, Virginius D. Mattia Community Service Award, Hoffman La-Roche, Nutley, NJ.