James Marshall's Work Experience

INNOVIM and NASA

When my graduate studies neared completion, I began my search for a regular job. I started with post-docs and fellowships, which is pretty standard when you're following the path towards an academic tenure-track position. However, I didn't have much success and decided that a break from heavy research might be good, so I looked for other teaching/tutoring positions or jobs in industry rather than academia. In May 2005, I was contacted by INNOVIM about a Software Engineer position they had open. They liked my science background and were looking for that more so than a straight computer scientist, so when I got an offer, I accepted it. It's a bit of a change, especially since the work is more in the Earth science field, but it's good opportunity that's helping to develop my skills and providing experience in some new areas. Since then, I've been promoted to Senior Staff Scientist. I work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which is conveniently located near where I live.

Currently, my primary task relates to the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument and documenting the implementation of science MODIS algorithms that produce MODIS data products. I was originally hired to work on a Software Reuse project, which also has a Reuse WG Facebook Group, a Reuse WG LinkedIn Group, and a Reuse WG Twitter Feed for those who want additional sources of news and interaction, and this was my primary task for about six years. My work on this task also earned me the Reuse WG's peer-recognition award in the peer education category in 2010. (See the web logo image below.)

Now or in the past, I have also worked on some other tasks, including doing some programming and web development for an element of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (previously called the NPOESS Preparatory Project) and providing some assistance to the systems engineering team, assisting in the development of the Ozone and Air Quality web site for ozone data and information which is basically a new version of the old TOMS web site, helping to provide more complete documentation of the TOMS ozone retrieval algorithm, and assisting in an outreach project for the ESIP Federation. I also serve as International Faculty on the International Institute for Interoperability Science currently in formation under the direction of Michael Leyton of Rutgers University.

Once in a while, I also provide some help with the business side of things, but the science and technical work is definitely my primary focus. Hopefully INNOVIM will grow into getting space science contracts, something I think they would like to do eventually, and I may get a chance to get back into astronomy research work again, which is my ultimate goal. On a related note, I am a member of a few different professional societies and have been in the astronomy and physics societies longer than the others.

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