Mark Forest Email & Phone Number

Reno, NV, US

Reno, Nevada, United States

With over four decades in water resources engineering, I am passionate about building and supporting teams that assist communities to be more resilient. As the Water Resources Technical Director at Consor, I specialize in flood control planning and design, floodplain management, stormwater master planning, and hydraulic modeling. My career spans both.

Reno, Nevada Area

Mark provides support for HDR's floodplain management, modeling, mapping and regulatory compliance practice globally. He is responsible for development of technical best practices and training in these disciplines, oversight of practice groups and providing technical leadership and risk management on projects involving floodplain analysis or impacts and.

Principal Professional Associate is the highest tier in HDR's technical leadership track, equivalent to a Senior Vice President in the operations track. A PPA is recognized for their unique prominence in their profession and sets the state of practice for HDR's activities in their field. I still also remain as the Senior Business Class Leader for.

Reno, Nevada

Practice leader for HDR's floodplain management, modeling, mapping and regulatory compliance practice globally. He is responsible for development of technical best practices and training in these disciplines, oversight of practice groups and providing technical leadership and risk management on projects involving floodplain analysis or impacts and.

Albuquerque To Anchorage

Water resources business class director for the Western Region of the United States which included providing marketing, technical and operational support. This included technical performance oversight of the West Region Water Resources program (Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico), assistance.

Reno, Nevada Area

Managing principal as office grew from a staff of 2 to over 30 professionals supporting both Northern and Southern Nevada.

Reno, Nevada

Managing Principal - Water resources engineering firm performing a variety of water resources projects, including; floodplain mapping, FEMA LOMC submittals, highway drainage design, flood control design, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, flood control/drainage master planning and engineering support to the Corps of Engineers Truckee Meadows Flood Damage.

Reno, Nevada Area

Managed the water resources practice for the Reno office of Harding Lawson Associates and supported offices in Southern Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona. Projects examples included: SR28 Erosion Control Demonstration Project for NDOT (winner of the FHWA water quality project of the year), Lake Mead Drive drainage design for NDOT (Las Vegas), White Tanks Wash.

Reno, Nevada Area

Managed the water resources practice for Northern Nevada and supported Southern Nevada and Northern California. Projects included; Drainage design for McCarran Airport (offsite and onsite drainage for airport expansion), FEMA LOMC's throughout Nevada, hydrology and drainage design support for the rail access from Caliente Nevada to Yucca Mountain.

Reno, Nevada, United States

Responsible for developing the technical best practices for producing flood certifications for lenders and appraisers using the best available data available at the time. This was during a time frame when FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps were available only in paper form. I also provided supervision of a group of map determination technicians and QC review.

Reno, Nevada Area

Project Manager for FEMA Flood Insurance Studies in Nevada and other water resources engineering, flood control and drainage design projects.

Processing of floodplain use permits, review of subdivision and development drainage and flood control designs, and inspection of completed projects prior release of trust assurances.

Tucson Active Management Area

Processed grandfathered water rights claims filed under the newly adopted 1980 Groundwater Management Act for the Tucson Active Management Area and assistance with the development of processes for documentation and validation of water use.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Field Laboratory - Maintenance of equipment and rainfall-runoff experients, data collection from rainfall-runoff experimental plots at the field laboratory that conducted runoff experiments and constructed rainfall simulators for use in in-situ runoff experiments.

Hydrology, Hydrology, Civil Engineering

Geology