Andrew focuses on high-impact, disruptive weather events, weather risk mitigation and severe weather safety. He contributes daily regional and macroscale meteorological forecasts, scientific analysis, and product curation for agricultural weather forecasts throughout the world while working with the science, product development, and outreach teams to develop and maintain Nutrien's weather platform.
Andrew founded Chambana Weather in 2014, a resource for weather information for Champaign-Urbana, IL, the University of Illinois, and surrounding communities of east-central Illinois. He has since successfully established contracts with multiple media outlets across Central Illinois providing daily weather forecasts for broadcast and live severe weather coverage. In 2021 Andrew was awarded a Regional Edward R Murrow Award for excellence in broadcasting for live coverage of the December 10th, 2021 tornado outbreak. He also developed a mobile application for Android and iOS devices along with a daily SMS messaging service which delivers daily weather forecasts and important weather alerts to subscribers each morning.
Andrew has spent the last two decades documenting tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms across Tornado Alley. His imagery has been licensed to/seen on networks such as The Weather Channel, The Discovery Channel, CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX.