2007 - to date. Chairman of the OpenMI Association. An independent international organisation set up to support and continue the development of the Open Modelling Interface standard (OpenMI)1982 -2010 Principal Hydrologist at the UK Natural Environment Research Council's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Led the digital mapping of the UK river network. Chief architect for the Water Information System - a 4D database for the storage and analysis of all types of scientic and technical water data. Chaired NERC's Land Ocean Interaction Study's Data Committee. Coordinator for the EC FP5 HarmonIT project which Developed the OpenMI. Coordinator for the LIFE Environment project OpenMI-Life, which turned a research output into an operational standard and set up the OpenMI Association. Also worked on substantial overseas contracts either for the World Bank or in support of consultants - countries include India, South Africa, Kenya, Malaysia and the US among others, 1974 - 1982 UK Department of the Environment. Initiated and led the design and development of the UK National Water Archive System. Initiated the digitising of the UK river network.1970 - 1974 Rofe, Kennard and Lapworth, Consulting Engineers. Hydrologist and water resources modeller. Developed time series models of the water resource systems supplying the North West of England and applied dynamic programming to determine reservoir operating rules.1969 - 1970 Voluntary Service Overseas working for the Hydrological Survey of Zambia. Reopend and ran the Hydrological Survey for the Northern and Luapula provinces.1965 - 1969 Taylorwoodrow and Balfour Beaty. Civil Engineering Trust Scholar. Worked on construction of the nuclear power stations at Wylfa and Dungeness B.Specialties: International research project managementDatabase design for scientific dataIntegrated modelling
Listed skills include Hydrology, Water Resources, Water, Modeling, and 16 others.