Mike Grogan

Senior Director, Applied Meteorological Technologies @The Weather Company

Atlanta, GA, US

Own foundational weather & aviation data, technology, and delivery pipelines that keep major airlines flying, enterprises protected, and more than 330 million monthly consumers across 178 countries safe.Lead fully the tech, content, and staff fulfilling ⅓ of the 50 Billion daily API requests powering The Weather Channel’s suite of applications, The Weather Company’s data offerings, and multiple private label applications.Direct multiple, interdisciplinary and international teams of software engineering managers, project managers, software engineers, DevOps engineers, QA engineers, and meteorologists who deliver massive amounts of content and data 24 x 7 in some of the world’s most critical situations – end-to-end from sourcing, processing, and amplification to distribution and usability, all in an Agile fashionRepresent The Weather Company as corporate liaison on multiple policy and data concerns to various government agencies worldwide.Deliver user experience guidance and weather data oversight for the online and application presence of The Weather Channel – named as America’s most trusted news source 4 years running (YouGov).Interface regularly with executive, technical, and operations leadership across The Weather Company’s internal business units and externally – including major device manufacturers, major airlines, media outlets, and other core partnersServe as principal corporate Subject Matter Expert on government alerting and notifications, air quality forecasting, weather satellite operations, critical data acquisition methods, and more.Consult regularly on contract bids and proposals, including government and private sector opportunities.Oversee an impressive annual, multinational cloud computing spend.Developed The Weather Channel / Weather Company’s first global air quality forecasting capability and content offering.Managed multiple physical data-center-to-cloud computing transitions.