David L. Michaud is currently the Director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Central Operations Central Operations (NCO), whose primary mission is to execute the NWS operational model suite, creating climate, weather, ocean, space and environmental hazard products. As Director, David is responsible for establishing, overseeing, and providing strategic direction for NCO, including governing the NWS information technology enterprise architecture. This involves developing and maintaining policies, procedures and standards necessary to ensure that ongoing enhancements to the NWS technology infrastructure are executed. 

David has served NOAA for over 20 years. Until 2024, he was the Director of the NWS Office of Central Processing, providing strategic direction and managing the allocation of resources for the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System, hydrology information technology initiatives, and the information technology infrastructure supporting NWS national centers and field operations. Previously, he was the Deputy Director of High Performance Computing and Communications for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), responsible for the management, coordination, and integration of NOAA’s high performance computing, enterprise network infrastructure services, and information technology research and development. David served as NOAA’s Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer for a short period in 2014. He was the Senior Production Analyst for the NWS National Centers for Environmental Prediction, where he was responsible for the management and operation of its numerical weather prediction suite of models running on NOAA’s operational supercomputers producing millions of public products daily.

David earned a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University and began his career with NOAA working day-to-day operations within multiple NWS Forecast Offices.

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