Nestor Flecha

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EXPERIENCE KXTX Telemundo, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Chief April 2013 — Present • Meteorologist for the 4:30pm, 5pm and 10pm Newscast Skills • Forecast, Produce All Graphics and Present Weather • Weather Analysis: • Develop Weather Coverage Plans • Proficient in GRLEVEL3 & • Daily Use of WSI MAX Weather Softwares GR2Analist • Daily Use of WSI MagicTrack • Proficient in Numerical • Weather Forecast for www.telemundo39.com, Social Media and Weather Weather Prediction (NWP) Models App • Familiar with AWIPS • Public Appearances & School Visits • Technical Knowledge of Doppler Radar & Dual- WAPA TV, San Juan, PR Meteorologist Polarimetric Doppler Radar Operations June 2011 — April 2013 • Broadcast • Meteorologist for the Late Evening News and Weekend News Software: • Forecast, Produced All Graphics and Present Weather • Super User with WSI MAX • Researched and Wrote Feature Science Package Software • Daily Use of Weather Central: Fusion:LIVE, 3D:LIVE, ESP: LIVE, ESP: • Familiar with INews • Proficient with , Microcast and Metline Central Software • Weather Forecast for www.wapa.tv and Social Media • Computer Environment: • Public Appearances & School Visits • Proficient in MatLab and LATEX WMTJ TV, San Juan, PR Meteorologist, Weather Expert • Operating Systems: Macintosh, Windows, Linux August 2012 — March 2013 • Familiar with Perl • Meteorologist and Weather Expert • Familiar with Mobile • Forecast, Produced All Graphics and Present Weather Weather Applications • Analysis of High Impact Weather Events Algorithms • Services when Requested

National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarter, Education Ft. Worth, TX Intern Mississippi State University— 2010 Starkville, MS • Research: Adding Value to the Guidance Beyond Day Two: Temperature Masters of Science in Geoscience • Forecast Opportunities Across the NWS Southern Region with Concentration in Applied • Identification of synoptic patterns that bias against the MOS Guidance Meteorology producing temperature error by ten or more degrees Fahrenheit University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus—Mayagüez, National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarter, PR Ft. Worth, TX Intern Bachelor of Science in Theoretical 2009 Physics & Atmospheric Science and Meteorology • Research: Temperature Forecast Opportunities Across the NWS Southern Region Meteorology Certification Series • Better understanding of the MOS Temperature Guidance in order to 1340 account the number of times that the Guidance was in error by ten or more degrees Fahrenheit

National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office, Memphis, TN Social Media 2007 Intern • Research: The Memphis Tornado Project: Discriminate Between Severe NestorFlecha Weather (Tornado and Non-Tornado) Environments to Improve Severe in the Mid- South @nestorflechatv 69.3K followers ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS @nestorflecha • American Meteorological Society (AMS) Certified Broadcast Meteorologist 12.1K followers (CBM) (January 2015-Present) @nestorflecha • EMMY Award Winner: Best Meteorologist/Weather Presenter (2014), Lone 2.7K followers Star Chapter • EMMY Award Winner: Best Meteorologist/Weather Presenter (2013), Lone Star Chapter • Research presentation at the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction in the 91st AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington (January 23-27, 2011). (http://ams.confex.com/ams/91Annual/webprogram/Paper182928.html) • Research presentation at the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences in the 90th AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA (January17-21, 2009). (http://www.ams.confex.com/ams/pdf- papers/159871.pdf)

• Authored my first publication in the NWS Peak Performance Newsletter (September 2009, Pages 7-8)