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Denver, Co, Us

Greater Denver Area

Key leader of application expertise for groundwater and hydrogeology. Responsible for leading market strategy and supporting sales and rentals of environmental and water monitoring equipment, software, and data management solutions within the groundwater market. Work closely with counterparts in Surface Water and Agriculture/Aquaculture applications to understand key market trends, buyers, regulations, industries, and applications. Develop sales tools to enable direct sales team and channel partners to qualify and close deals faster. Develop and lead the execution of launching new products into the groundwater markets.

Responsible for developing key account relationships, delivering a superior rental experience for customers, and providing project level technical support to field sales team.

Responsible for delivering superior services to clients in the energy, real estate, manufacturing, and government sectors. Designed and managed multi-faceted projects; identified technical issues and developed innovative solutions; engaged and communicated with clients and stakeholders, and managed and supervised staff and subcontractors. Reviewed municipal, county, state, and federal regulations and managed permitting. Developed conceptual site models and integrated them into numerical models. Designed and prepared technical reports. Prepared cost proposals and qualification statements. Developed business with new and existing clients. Trained and mentored staff.

Designed and managed complex hydrogeological characterization studies for mining and water resources clients. Projects included mine dewatering feasibility studies, baseline water resources characterizations, stream flow characterizations.

Responsible for the technical and financial performance of an approximately 50-member team of environmental scientists and engineers located in the Rocky Mountain and Upper Mid-West regions of the U.S. Led development of division business sustainability and growth strategies. Collaborated with management team to shape operations-wide business strategies.The Environmental Division provided services in: - Hydrogeology - Surface Water Hydrology - Air - EHS and Industrial Hygiene - Environmental Impact Assessment - Geochemistry - Information Management/GIS - Contaminant Investigation and Remediation

Served in consulting and technical leadership roles. As a consultant, developed and implemented technical solutions to water and environmental issues for mining, oil & gas, manufacturing, waste management, land development, and water resources clients. Managed project budgets and schedules, led client communications and interactions, and developed business opportunities. Led and supervised project teams, reviewed technical work, and mentored junior and mid-level staff. Recipient of operation’s health & safety leadership award. Served on national quality control and business systems audit and development team.As the Hydrogeology Technical Community Leader for the U.S. Operations, oversaw technical development, training, and mentoring of over 80 hydrogeologists across the U.S. Coordinated marketing and business development of hydrogeology services, sharing of staff between offices, development of standard procedures, and technical peer reviews. Served on steering committee to coordinate technical community across global operations.

Performed hydrologic investigations to support characterization, remediation, water quality, water supply, hydrologic modeling, and decision support system design studies. Designed, supervised and conducted field activities including well installations, aquifer tests, soil and water sampling, and stream flow gaging. Utilized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support hydrologic investigations and modeling.

Hydrologist - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)Responsible for hydrologic and hydroclimate analysis and modeling of watershed systems. Experience with statistical analysis of hydrologic data (parametric and non-parametric), stochastic hydrologic simulations, computer coding, watershed management and modeling and decision support systems.Water Resources Engineer - Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES)Provided engineering support for RiverWare, a generalized river-basin decision support modeling tool. Tasks included modifying model methods, debugging model code, and assisting with training of new users.Hydrologic Researcher - Desert Research Institute (DRI)Responsible for data collection and analysis to improve stream flow forecasting in snowmelt dominated watersheds. Experience with snow measurements and pit analysis, meteorological data collection and station construction, remote sensing of snow, and watershed modeling.

Ms, Civil (Water Resources) Engineering

Thesis: Use of a Stochastic Weather Generator in a Watershed Model for Streamflow Simulation

Ba, Earth & Environmental Sciences

Field Camp: Juneau Icefield Research Program, Alaska and British Columbia

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