As a member of the model product management group at RMS, Kevin is responsible for the product requirements and subject matter support of RMS climate-peril models for the Americas, including severe convective storm, winter storm, hurricane, and wildfire products. Prior to RMS, Kevin was a graduate research assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he authored a thesis on tornado-genesis and severe convective storms. Kevin holds a master’s degree in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and bachelor’s degree in atmospheric science from Purdue University. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the Roofing Industry Committee on Weather Issues (RICOWI, Inc.), and a voting member of the ASCE Standards Committee on Wind Speed Estimation in Tornadoes.