Lynn P. Maximuk became Director of NOAA's National Weather Service
(NWS) Central Region in Kansas City, MO, in April 2006. He oversees 38
Weather Forecast Offices (WFO), two River Forecast Centers (RFC), and
five Center Weather Service Units, which provide weather, hydrologic,
and climate observations, forecasts and warnings for 14 states and
adjacent Great Lakes waters. The NWS Central Region includes
Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, and
Colorado. NWS observational and forecast data form a national
information database and infrastructure used by other governmental
agencies, the weather enterprise, the public, and the global community.
Mr. Maximuk has over 30 years experience with the NWS and has held a
variety of forecast and management positions in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Missouri. He has extensive forecasting and severe weather warning
experience having served as a forecaster, hydrologist and Warning
Coordination Meteorologist early in his career. Mr. Maximuk was the
Meteorologist In Charge of the Weather Forecast Office in Pleasant
Hill, MO, for over 10 years before assuming the post as Regional
Director. Immediately prior to that assignment he guided the NWS
Central Region through a multi million dollar modernization and
associated restructuring. As Regional Transition Manager Mr. Maximuk
coordinated the development budgets, staffing models, construction of
new facilities, and deployment of new computer systems, radar and
observational technologies. Throughout his career he has been at the
forefront of modernization efforts and the implementation of new
technologies and service delivery methods.
A native of Cleveland, OH, Mr. Maximuk holds a Bachelor of Science
degree in Meteorology from Pennsylvania State University. Under his
leadership the Pleasant Hill forecast office earned the Department of
Commerce (DOC) Gold and Silver Medals, three DOC Bronze Medals, and
numerous Unit Citations for outstanding service to the public. Mr.
Maxmuk also has earned an individual NOAA Administrators Award, the
NOAA Diveristy Spectrum Award, and in 2004 he earned the Kansas City
Federal Administrator of the Year Award from the American Society for
Public Administration. He has published several papers relating to the
National Weather Service digital forecast process.