Richard has more than 17 years of applied meteorological forecasting experience for a wide variety of both public and private industries. His extensive experience and common sense applications of how meteorological variables influence the decision-making process make him a valuable asset.

Richard's most recent experience has been providing his services to support the federal wildland fire fighting efforts across the western United States. He has spent the last three years as the Program Manager for Predictive Services in Nevada managing a team of professionals bringing together historical fire and weather analysis to develop new methods of forecasting future fire occurrence.

From 1999 through 2001, Richard was the Director of Retail Operations for Planalytics, Inc., managing a team of meteorologists responsible for the development of numerous customized deliverables for several Fortune 500 companies.

Previous to this, Richard held various positions as a Meteorologist for several private contract vendors providing meteorological and emergency planning support to the electric utility industry, U.S. Army"s chemical weapons program, and radio and television station clients while at Accu-Weather.

Richard holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from Syracuse University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from the State University of New York.