Sunny Wescott

Sunny Wescott is a Federal Emergency Response Official Chief Meteorologist with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) specializing in national extreme weather hazards and climatological studies for impacts to public and private sector key resources. As the only Chief Meteorologist across DHS, Sunny Wescott pioneered an entirely new path of extreme weather implications for critical infrastructure across all sectors, all regions, and expanded across international partnerships. *Supervisors describe Ms. Wescott as extremely bright and motivated, with a selfless commitment to the CISA mission and exceptional expertise. She is noted for her incredible work ethic, ambition, affability, and being an engaging teammate. Her ability to deliver professionally researched presentations with both a scientific and humorous approach is also highlighted. She is seen as a "true force of nature" and a "next generation leader". Ms. Wescott provided CISA with the ability to approach extreme weather risk as an integral part of stakeholder engagement, leveraging her expertise across the enterprise to compile ongoing, localized and/or event specific extreme weather analysis, collaborate with stakeholders and infrastructure owners and operators, and deliver products and tools focused on resiliency. During her time in the US Air Force as a Lead Meteorologist, Ms. Wescott trained on continental and oceanic weather as the Top Forecaster for her support region and is considered a subject matter expert for multiple events such as drought, subsidence, wildfires, tropical cyclones, and winter storms. Her previous roles within CISA focused on working with emergency response operations for telecommunications, critical infrastructure, and executive briefing support integrating her operational forecasting background from her military experience, Ms. Wescott’s current role with CISA’s Infrastructure Security Division, Assistant Chief of Staff office, enables Extreme Weather Outreach by providing focused reports for regions and critical infrastructure operators before, during, and after disasters. Areas of Expertise  Project management  Cross-Agency collaboration  Emergency planning and response  Radar and Satellite operations  Data analysis and collection  Quality assurance  Public presentation  Technical writing  Planning and evaluating  Learning and innovation  Lead Meteorologist  Subject Matter Expert – Atmospherics  Geospatial Analyst – Critical Infrastructure