June First Severe Weather Research is a company that I founded whose main goal is to use 21st century media and engineering methods to enhance the understanding of severe weather. From 2018 to 2021, June First was primarily focused on engineering research projects funded by Quinnipiac University to study supercell thunderstorms via custom-designed unmanned aerial vehicles and radiosondes. Starting in 2022, the focus shifted to educational and entertaining long-form YouTube content about severe weather. As of May 2026, the June First Channel has amassed over 90,000 YouTube subscribers and over 15,000,000 long-form video views. Learn more at www.junefirstweather.com

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

Producing long-form investigative and educational videos covering historic meteorological events, engineering analysis, and storm chasing. Conducting end-to-end production for all long-form video content, including research, writing, filming, hosting, editing, and distribution. Developing content that is engaging, entertaining, and informative that is optimized for retention and growth. Filming across the United States documenting severe weather events and associated human stories. Managing operations, including booking interviews and negotiating sponsorships.

Providing educational content, virtual lectures, and presentations on storm chasing best practices, safety, techniques, and tornado forecasting. Leading educational storm chasing tours with the primary goal of teaching forecasting and in-the-field skills.

Designed mechanisms, subassemblies, optical elements, and structural components for precise electro optical systems used for subsurface naval applications (periscopes and optronic/photonic masts). Collaborated with interdisciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams during design, first-build, and full production phases. Led a team to identify root-cause failures of design-critical components during system qualification testing and authored reports complete with recommended corrective actions.