{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Sean D. Egan",
    "label": "Applied AI and Machine Learning for Defense and Intelligence · Naval Information Warfare Officer, U.S. Navy Reserve · Atmospheric Scientist",
    "image": "",
    "email": "sean@theinformed.org",
    "phone": "",
    "url": "https://sean.theinformed.org",
    "summary": "Knows the mission from the inside and builds with the models every day; most people at the table know one or the other. Navy Information Warfare Officer and PhD scientist who uses agentic AI to build tools for partners in defense, Information Warfare, and the intelligence community, several now used in operations. Ten years on active duty leading operational science teams in the Pacific, Europe, and CONUS; now serving in the Navy Reserve. Seeking a senior role in applied AI for intelligence and defense.",
    "location": {
      "address": "",
      "postalCode": "",
      "city": "Norfolk",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "VA"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "sdegan",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdegan"
      },
      {
        "network": "ORCID",
        "username": "0009-0005-9318-8819",
        "url": "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9318-8819"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "The Informed",
      "position": "Founder and Lead",
      "startDate": "2020",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "A volunteer group of scientists and service members: seven work on it every day, and four lead it and work with the agencies · Alaska and Norfolk, Virginia",
      "highlights": [
        "Mission: Find problems in Navy meteorology, oceanography, and space that nobody has funded, build the solution, and hand it to the fleet free. Twenty-four tools and teaching sites; three weeks at the Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, connecting scientists with operators.",
        "Outcome: Demonstrations that showed Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Command what to ask the Office of Naval Research to fund; the weather models became the proven capability the command can bring to the admiral."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Naval Oceanography Operations Command (U.S. Navy Reserve)",
      "position": "Lieutenant, U.S. Navy Reserve",
      "startDate": "2025-08",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Previously activated in support of Fleet Weather Center Norfolk",
      "highlights": [
        "Current assignment: attached to the Naval Oceanography Operations Command (NOOC), supporting global undersea warfare and reachback.",
        "Activated in support of Fleet Weather Center Norfolk: redeveloped the command's tropical cyclone concept of operations and trained direct-commission METOC officers toward qualification."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Fleet Weather Center Norfolk, Aviation Detachment Germany",
      "position": "Officer in Charge",
      "startDate": "2022-02",
      "endDate": "2025-08",
      "summary": "U.S. Navy · Kapaun Air Station, Germany",
      "highlights": [
        "Command: Led a 30-Sailor geographically separated unit producing watches, warnings, and safety-of-flight packages for every ashore Navy and Marine Corps asset across EUCOM, CENTCOM, and AFRICOM; superior in command 4,000 miles away.",
        "Intelligence: Integrated Navy personnel into the 693rd ISR Group's all-source fusion (450th Intelligence Squadron, ELINT/SIGINT; 24th Intelligence Squadron, GEOINT/IMINT) supporting DCGS-4; led all-source analysis teams.",
        "NATO: Worked with the Multinational METOC Support Group (MNMSG) in Euskirchen to provide meteorology and oceanography support to NATO forces."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joint Typhoon Warning Center",
      "position": "Operations Department Head (N3)",
      "startDate": "2018-02",
      "endDate": "2022-02",
      "summary": "U.S. Navy · Pearl Harbor, Hawaii",
      "highlights": [
        "Operations officer: Led a watch floor of 52 personnel generating tropical cyclone forecasts and warnings across the Pacific, Indian, and Southern Hemisphere oceans. Qualified Typhoon Duty Officer and Command Duty Officer.",
        "Founded the Development and Innovation Group: Codified in command directive a coding group open to Sailors, Marines, and civilians, with a training pipeline, seminars, code review, and Scrum. Grew from 3 developers to 20; shelved projects shipped within months; adopted by sister commands.",
        "Advocacy through research: Co-authored the BAMS account of microwave satellite data in operational intensity estimation, paired with a classified report; the case won increased remote-sensing support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "H BAR LLC",
      "position": "Founder",
      "startDate": "2011-06",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Alaska, the legal entity behind The Informed",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "name": "Rasmussen University; University of Maryland Global Campus",
      "position": "Adjunct Professor, Chemistry; faculty",
      "startDate": "2020-03",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Germany, 2023–2025",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "name": "StraighterLine",
      "position": "Science and Math Subject Matter Expert",
      "startDate": "2020",
      "endDate": "2025",
      "summary": "Redeveloped the science and math curricula."
    },
    {
      "name": "U.S. Navy",
      "position": "Enlisted service, Officer Candidate School, and Information Warfare officer training",
      "startDate": "2015-08",
      "endDate": "2018-02",
      "summary": "commissioned March 2017",
      "highlights": []
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of Alaska Fairbanks",
      "studyType": "Ph.D.",
      "area": "Atmospheric Chemistry",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "2019"
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Alaska Fairbanks",
      "studyType": "B.S.",
      "area": "Chemistry",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": ""
    },
    {
      "institution": "Naval Postgraduate School",
      "studyType": "Graduate Certificate",
      "area": "Space Systems Fundamentals",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "2021"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Agent systems",
      "keywords": [
        "Claude API",
        "Claude Code",
        "Codex",
        "tool use",
        "multi-agent orchestration",
        "retrieval pipelines",
        "prompt caching",
        "guardrails",
        "evaluation gates",
        "cost ledgers"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Models and deployment",
      "keywords": [
        "PyTorch",
        "multi-GPU training",
        "vLLM",
        "quantized serving (AWQ)",
        "LoRA",
        "DoD HPCMP",
        "Slurm",
        "Docker",
        "AWS incl. GovCloud",
        "mutual TLS and CAC"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Science",
      "keywords": [
        "satellite meteorology",
        "tropical cyclones",
        "space weather",
        "orbital mechanics",
        "SAR",
        "WRF-Chem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Intelligence",
      "keywords": [
        "all-source fusion",
        "SIGINT/ELINT",
        "GEOINT/IMINT",
        "DCGS-4",
        "space systems operations"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Leadership",
      "keywords": [
        "department head (52 people)",
        "officer in charge",
        "founded a command coding group that grew from 3 to 20 developers"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Programming",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "Fortran",
        "C/C++ (graduate research)",
        "today I design and review, and coding agents write most of the code"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Native speaker"
    },
    {
      "language": "German",
      "fluency": "Full professional proficiency"
    },
    {
      "language": "Spanish",
      "fluency": "Full professional proficiency"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [],
  "references": [],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "OrbitWatch",
      "description": "Reports satellite maneuvers in the public catalog of 68,809 objects, with email and text alerts. Maritime Space Officers have started using it, and Information Warfare uptake is new and growing. Detection holds a measured false-alarm bound; a self-hosted LLM writes each report, and code checks every number. Two papers under review."
    },
    {
      "name": "Operational weather and ocean viewer",
      "description": "Built the viewer for operational METOC work and trained its models for radar nowcasting, satellite-derived radar, and super-resolution. Held-out scores are published for every training run."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bob, an agent for deployed service members",
      "description": "Keeps four service members in touch by web, phone, and text across time zones and poor connections. Rebuilt an open-source agent gateway around a custom memory with nightly curation; grounding evaluation found 0 leaks in 352 verdicts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Multi-agent engineering",
      "description": "Runs eleven coding-agent seats (Claude Code, Codex, Grok) on shared code across five machines to build and maintain 26 sites, with concurrency checks, a shared memory, and per-call cost ledgers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Model serving and secure deployment",
      "description": "Serves a 235-billion-parameter open model on two NVIDIA DGX Sparks behind an OpenAI-compatible API. Shipped a CAC-gated AWS GovCloud site the day the account was approved."
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "Meritorious Service Medal",
      "date": "",
      "awarder": "U.S. Navy",
      "summary": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal",
      "date": "",
      "awarder": "U.S. Navy",
      "summary": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Joint Service Achievement Medal",
      "date": "",
      "awarder": "U.S. Navy",
      "summary": ""
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "Does station-keeping relax before retirement? A registered, population-scale observational test in the geostationary belt",
      "publisher": "Zenodo (preprint)",
      "releaseDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22884814",
      "summary": "Egan, S. D., and Conklin, D. (2026). Submitted to Acta Astronautica (under review)."
    },
    {
      "name": "A continuously audited, publicly gated false-alarm control for manoeuvre detection from two-line element sets",
      "publisher": "Zenodo (preprint)",
      "releaseDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22884816",
      "summary": "Egan, S. D., and Conklin, D. (2026). Submitted to Acta Astronautica (under review)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Application of Microwave Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) Data for Operational Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center",
      "publisher": "Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.",
      "releaseDate": "2022",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0180.1",
      "summary": "Howell, B., Egan, S., and Fine, C. (2022). 103(10), E2315–E2322."
    },
    {
      "name": "Modeling volcanic ash aggregation processes and related impacts on the April–May 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull volcano with WRF-Chem",
      "publisher": "Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.",
      "releaseDate": "2020",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2721-2020",
      "summary": "Egan, S. D., Stuefer, M., Webley, P. W., et al. (2020). 20, 2721–2737."
    },
    {
      "name": "Inclusion of ash and SO2 emissions from volcanic eruptions in WRF-Chem: development and some applications",
      "publisher": "Geosci. Model Dev.",
      "releaseDate": "2013",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-457-2013",
      "summary": "Stuefer, M., Freitas, S. R., Grell, G., et al., and Egan, S. D. (2013). 6, 457–468."
    }
  ]
}