Andy Read Email & Phone Number

Espoo, Fi

Espoo, Fi

New York, Ny, Us

Worked public sector accounts throughout North America, including risk transfer programs across Federal Agencies, State Residual Market Facilities, and Municipal Pooling Entities. Served as part of the leadership team for the flood practice for North America, supporting reinsurance programs for nation-wide private flood program in addition to NFIP placements. Co-Authored the Community-Based Catastrophe Insurance Concept Paper with the Wharton Risk Center. Led related Community & State engagements for Guy Carpenter's Public Sector Practice.

Washington, Dc, Us

Advise and provide direct support to Executive Leadership of the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA)Oversee Front Office operations for FEMA's Mitigation, Risk Management, Environmental Historic Preservation, and Federal Insurance DirectoratesLead a team of advisors to the Associate and Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation providing oversight of FEMA’s the National Flood Insurance Program, Hazard Mitigation Assistance Program, Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (MAP) Program

Washington, Dc, Us

Supported implementation of more than $220 million in annual flood hazard mapping study as Post Preliminary Processing Lead for the Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP) Program Maintained guidance, standards, and geospatial policy for Flood Risk Product development nationwide for the Risk MAP Program As Coordinated Needs Management Strategy Lead, managed 1.1 million miles of flood hazard mapping data inventory directly supporting executive level resource allocation decisions and budget requests to congress for the Risk MAP Program Liaison to FEMA Regional Offices in Regions I (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, & VT) and VIII (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, & WY) regarding Risk MAP Projects and program implementation regionwide Additionally provided support related to the following areas: Congressional correspondence, executive correspondence, congressional briefings, stakeholder briefings, public meetings, hydrological modeling, hydraulic modeling, coastal engineering, levees, project management, program management, Flood Insurance Study (FIS) development, and Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) development.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Provided technical support to FEMA Region II (NY, NJ, PR & VI) related to flood hazard mapping and mitigation under the RiskMAP Initiative Directly led community outreach, meeting coordination, and public education regarding coastal and riverine flood risk on behalf of FEMA Region IIOversaw delivery of advisory flood hazard information throughout the state of New Jersey following Hurricane SandyHosted a series of bi-weekly briefings for New Jersey coastal communities in collaboration with the Executive Leadership at the New Jersey Governor’s Office, Department of Environmental Protection, and FEMA Region IIPerformed specialized geospatial analyses and GIS tasks related to FEMA floodmapping deliverables including terrain processing/preparation and map developmentProvided support for Hydrologic and Hydraulic modeling of flood risk for FEMA’s mapping partners and regional staffServed as Geospatial Data Coordination and Levee lead for Region IIDrafted correspondence related to flood control for political liaisons and community officials throughout FEMA Region II

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Performed Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling for FEMA floodmapping projects under the RiskMAP initiativeAssisted with all other engineering related to floodmapping deliverables for FEMA projects throughout FEMA Regions II, III, and VISpecialized in GIS/HEC-RAS modeling as well as floodmap creation for both coastal and riverine flooding sourcesPerformed analysis related to FEMA's Coordinated Needs Management Strategy (CNMS)Conducted coastal fieldwork related to coastal flood risk assesment