Adam Theisen
Instrument Operations Manager
Lake Elmo, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Theisen is an Instrument Operations Manager with over a decade of experience running large atmospheric measurement programs and leading instrument planning and field operations for the ARM user facility. He combines hands‑on technical leadership with strong data skills—Python, data visualization, QA/QC workflows—and leads the open-source Atmospheric Community Toolkit (ACT) used across the climate research community. With an M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences and a background in radar and airborne sensing, he bridges research, operations, and software to make complex observational systems reliable and reproducible. Colleagues rely on him for scaling instrument networks, mentoring analyst teams, and translating field challenges into automated tools and reproducible analyses.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology at The University of North Dakota
Github Skills (55)
meteorology10
visualization10
python10
model-driven10
retrieval10
time-series10
conda10
weather-data10
conda-forge9
weather9
data-visualization9
arm9
spatial6
ocean6
netcdf6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-Development/RadTraQ
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
Radar Tracking of Quality
Contributions:8 releases, 6 reviews, 262 commits in 3 years 2 months
qualityradartracking
AdamTheisen/ACT
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Atmospheric Community Toolkit
Contributions:216 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 2 months
atmosphericpythoncommunity-toolkit
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