In June 2004, Julie started working at NCAR as a student assistant on the DICast project. After graduating from the University of Colorado in June 2005 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Julie was hired by NCAR as a Software Engineer to work on the In Situ Turbulence project. She has worked with scientists and engineers contributing to the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) project, the Pikalert project, and the Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG) and Graphical Turbulence Guidance Nowcast (GTGN) projects.
Julie started working in the Joint Numerical Testbed program, a collaborative facility within RAL that is connected to an international network of collaborators, on the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) project in the fall of 2012 and has been working solely on the METplus team since 2019. The Model Evaluation Tools (MET) is an internationally recognized software package used for the verification of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP).
Julie provides software engineering support to the the Developmental Testbed Center working on METplus, a verification framework that spans a wide range of temporal (warn-on-forecast to climate) and spatial (storm to global) scales. The METplus system is deployed in both research and operational settings at multiple institutions, including the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operational centers (e.g. EMC, NHC, WPC, SPC, OPC) and labs (e.g. ESRL, NSSL), along with the United States Air Force, the Naval Research Laboratories, and the Met Office. Representatives from these institutions form the METplus Governance Group which meets routinely to define priorities and coordinate development.
Julie has led the effort to organize, document, and transfer RAL technology to external partners on multiple occasions, including the first successful transfer to NOAA's Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS).
