DANIEL D.

HARTSOCK
danielhartsock@gmail.com M: 405-880-3720 Vineyard, UT 84058

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Experienced and educated physical scientist with strong computer skills and excellent
team member attributes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Salt Lake Community College
Adjunct Faculty
Taught the Natural Disasters GEOG 1700 course.

Taylorsville, UT
01/2016 Present

Vivint Solar
Orem, UT
Click Support Specialist
05/2015 - Present
Increased customer satisfaction by ensuring solar system install completion and
special exception scheduling.
Provided support as a solar team member through maintaining click scheduling
software and assisting local office managers, field technicians and account
coordinators.
Helped develop a Real Time Scheduling team, including providing daily weather
forecasts for next day installations.
University of Oklahoma/CIMMS
Norman, OK
Research Associate
10/2006 09/2014
Chosen as the Assistant Site Scientist at the Department of Energys Atmospheric
Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains facility.
Provided site operations scientific support including data base maintenance and
assessment, assisting the site manager, and scientific guidance to users.
Researched solar radiation climate over the SGP using ARM data. Produced 10-year
climatology of statistics, plots and analyses of pertinent radiation variables.
Lead weather forecaster during site specific field campaigns, presenting multimedia weather briefings, which received high praise.
Instrument mentor for a network of Soil Water and Temperature sensors at the SGP
facilities. Performed installations and daily monitoring of data quality, and
managed an effort to improve calibration.
Represented the site-scientist team at conferences and presented relevant work.
Led site tours and gave presentations to interested groups.
Utah University Meteorology Department
Salt Lake City, UT
Research Assistant
2004 2006
Master's thesis research under the advisement of Dr. Jay Mace, using ARM cloud
data and model predictions over the SGP site.
Wrote a technical thesis paper and presented a successful thesis defense:
Evaluation of Cirrus Statistics Produced by GCMs Using ARM Data.
Brigham Young University
Teaching Assistant, Weather Observer
Tutored and graded lower-level physics classes.

Provo, UT
2001 2004

Responsible for recording and reporting daily weather observations.

EDUCATION
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
M.S., Meteorology, GPA: 3.7
2007
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT
B.S., Applied Physics, GPA: 3.2
2004

SKILLS
Proficient in Microsoft Office, UNIX, IDL, Python

ACHIEVEMENTS
NASA award recognition for forecasting during MACPEX
Eagle Scout

OTHER WORK
Club Volleyball Coach (2009-2016)
Substitute Teacher (Alpine Utah District)
Volunteer Missionary Service in France (1998-2000)

REFERENCES
Don Morgan Retired Professor (BYU)
don.mrgn@gmail.com
(208) 345-5779
John Schatz ARM CRF Operations Manager
johns@ops.sgp.arm.gov
(331) 318-3354
Mark Miller Rutgers State University
m.miller@envsci.rutgers.edu
(732) 932-9800
Jay Mace University of Utah
jay.mace@utah.edu
(801) 585-9489
Kylen Zibetti Vivint Solar Click Supervisor
kzibetti@vivintsolar.com
(801) 310-8988