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Jeff Donovan
Director of Information Technology
Ocean Circulation Group
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science
140 7th Avenue South
Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701
E-Mail:
jdonovan@marine.usf.edu
voice: (727) 553 - 1116
fax: (727) 553 - 1189
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Congratulations to the Florida Gators
2006 National Champions in Basketball
AND
2006 National Champions in Football
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History:
As you can probably tell by the logo on this page I am a Florida Gator. I graduated from the University of Florida in 1985 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer and Information Sciences.
Immediately following graduation I took a position with a steel building manufacturing company in Ft. Myers, Fl. I was hired to implement and staff a computer drafting department and assist in its coordination with the existing drafting and engineering departments. I served as the head of this department for the next year.
After a year in Ft. Myers I longed to return to the St. Petersburg area where I grew up. I found an advertisement in the local newspaper looking for a computer programmer/analyst at what was then the Department of Marine Science at the University of South Florida. With a life long love of everything that has to do with the ocean, it looked like the perfect position for me. The rest is history, and I have been working here at the University of South Florida since December of 1986.
Since starting here 20+ years ago I have been involved in every aspect of the work that goes on in what is now known as the Ocean Circulation Group at the College of Marine Science. On the operational side this means everything from loading shipping containers, to instrument package design, preparation and setup, to buoy deployment/recovery, to instrument download and data analysis, to participating in research cruises to any part of the world where we may be working. On the computer systems and data management side this includes everything from system design and acquisition, to hardware and software installation and setup, to programming and data analysis, to graphics programming, to database design and management, to data archival and dissemination. I have also been involved in the design, development, coding and administration of a pair of state of the art web sites, one for the Ocean Circulation Group and the second for the Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System (COMPS), which is our real time ocean observing and modeling system on the West Florida Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico
Current Duties:
I currently serve as the "defacto" Director of Information Technologies for the Ocean Circulation Group. The bulk of my time is spent as the system administrator for all of the group's computer systems which range from desktop PC's and Macintosh computers to UNIX and Linux workstations to our high end UNIX and Linux SMP systems and clusters. I am also the group's data manager, which means that every piece of data we collect, including real time data, crosses my desk at some point (sometimes multiple times). I assist Professor Robert Weisberg, the director of the group, in the day to day operations of the group, and have recently been given the unenviable task of trying to take care of the accounting duties for all of the research grants which provide funds for the continuing operations of our group. And finally, now only on an as needed basis, I assist in the operational mooring portion of the group.
I am also active member of the Data Management and Coordinating Committee (DMCC) of the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEACOOS) and Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association (SECOORA). As a member of the DMCC I participate in the design and implementation of a multi-institutional real time data archival and dissemination system. We are also working on developing and documenting a set of data standards and quality control procedures that others can use to have their data included in the SEACOOS/SECOORA system.
I also serve as a member of a continuing multi-agency effort to address the Quality Assurance of Real Time Oceanographic Data (QARTOD). Members of this group are working on developing procedures to address the quality control and assurance of real time data as well as a standard method of assigning quality flags to the data.
A copy of my vitae (resume) is available here. (PDF)
Disclaimer: As is always the case, my web pages are the last thing to get worked on and are therefore in very bad shape. Please excuse the mess.
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