David Novak
Summer 2007 WAS*IS
 I am a meteorologist and product developer at AccuWeather Inc. I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania where I learned to love the weather and my favorite mesoscale weather phenomenon – lake-effect snow. In 1996 I graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in meteorology. After graduation I accepted a position as an operational forecaster with AccuWeather. In my time spent as a forecaster at AccuWeather I have produced forecasts for a variety of media and commercial sector clients which have covered a wide range of meteorological events and circumstances. I created web based tools to aid operational forecasters and prepared interactive weather stories for AccuWeather's public and private web sites. In recent years I have moved from operational forecasting into system engineering and product development. I work with a team of engineers to develop and maintain a data ingest, storage and display system for meteorological data. I provide consultation to current and future clients and help to develop custom datasets and data feeds to meet their weather information needs. I'm currently a member of a team of meteorologists and programmers working to integrate weather data into geographic information system enterprise applications. I'm ecstatic to be part of the 2007 WAS*IS summer workshop. One key lesson I have learned from working in the private sector of operational meteorology is the importance and need of properly communicating forecasts. I'm delighted to have the opportunity to work with a dedicated group who share the same interest in improving how weather information is communicated to the end user.
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