W Lenhardt
EOL Data Management And Services Facility Lead
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolW Lenhardt is a strategic, boundary-spanning data and program leader with 11+ years building and operationalizing science data infrastructures across federal labs and research institutes. Currently leading EOL Data Management and Services at NCAR, W has a track record of accelerating large-scale archive ingest, improving project performance, and managing multi-disciplinary teams and million-dollar budgets. Known for securing funding (a 64% success rate on 28 proposals) and translating technical innovation into funded programs, W blends GIS, remote sensing, metadata, and archive expertise with interdisciplinary environmental research. They champion sociotechnical solutions—authoring influential Data Center 3.0 ideas—and have driven DOI adoption and agile practices in major archives. Equally focused on people and processes, W is an empathetic mentor who operationalizes DEI and cultivates strategic partnerships to scale impact. Based in Boulder, they pair deep domain knowledge with pragmatic systems thinking that reduces backlog and improves operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. student, Information Science/Studies, Ph.D. student, Information Science/Studies at UNC School of Information and Library ScienceB.A., Political Science, Graduated cum laude, with departmental honors., B.A., Political Science, Graduated cum laude, with departmental honors. at Middlebury CollegeM.A., Political Science, World Politics, M.A., Political Science, World Politics at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsLondon School of Economics and Political Science
French
Github Skills (10)
biodata9
bioinformatics8
catalyst6
incremental-learning1
health1
deep-learning1
medical1
firebase1
rapid1
closest1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rapid-research/nc_pr_virtual_workshop
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:147 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
agile-data-curation/workshop-proposal
Oct 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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