Steve Malers Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

As Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer at the Open Water Foundation (OWF), I spend much of my time immersed in software technologies for water resources, including developing software and integrated data management and analysis systems. However, because OWF is a small organization, I also am heavily involved in marketing, sales, operations, and other organizational activities. The OWF focuses on software product development, support, and integration, in order to support and amplify the efforts of other organizations, including government, consulting companies, universities, and other nonprofit organizations. I work with customers in water resources and talk the language of water and information technology.I continue to work on projects to enhance, support, and implement Colorado's Decision Support Systems (CDSS) and other software and am focused on leveraging previous work with new innovations to benefit a wider community of users. Additionally, I am working with the OWF team to implement a nonprofit social enterprise business model and culture that results in a sustainable business and also provides substantial benefits to the world.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

I founded TriLynx Systems with Markus Ritsch in order to take over support and development of the NovaStar5 software from HydroLynx. NovaStar5 is a software platform for collecting and managing real-time environmental data for flood warning and other operational decisions. TriLynx enhances the NovaStar5 platform and provide services to integrate the platform with clients' systems and business processes.

Fort Collins, Colorado

I applied and was accepted for a position on the Fort Collins Water Board in 2011. I appreciate having the opportunity to work with Fort Collins staff and Water Board members on water issues in Fort Collins, and serve the community. I have served in the following leadership roles: Chairperson 2013-2015, Vice Chairperson 2012

I served as software systems group leader, project manager on software/systems development projects, team leader on technical tasks, and software developer. As a developer, my role varied from software programmer to architect of large data management, analysis, and modeling systems, primarily related to water resources.Major projects involved development of significant software components in Colorado's Decision Support Systems (CDSS, http://cdss.state.co.us), including software and system integration projects for the Colorado River Decision Support System (CRDSS), Rio Grande DSS (RGDSS), South Platte DSS (SPDSS), Instream Flow DSS (ISFDSS), FloodDSS, Basin Needs DSS (BNDSS), Statewide Water Supply Initiative (SWSI), and support of the Colorado River Water Availability Study (CRWAS). CDSS tools have been applied in other projects, including the State of Georgia's water availability study, modeling the Tennessee Valley Authority's system, and Nebraska's Integrated Network of Scientific Information and GeoHydrologic Tools (INSIGHT). While at Riverside I also led Phase I and II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant projects to develop a climate information management toolkit for producing drought data products.

I worked at Harza in the IT department, providing support for engineering services. I helped Harza move from a mainframe computer to a Stardent UNIX workstation for their 3D finite element modeling of large dams, and integrate various applications such as CAD with analysis programs. I also helped better integrate basic services to more efficiently used software on the network servers. Periodically I worked on engineering projects, given that I did actually have degrees in civil engineering! Chicago was great but, alas, I had to get back to Colorado.

Ms, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, American Society of Civil Engineers Worked as a TA for materials and concrete design courses..

Bs, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, American Society of Civil Engineers Lived in Green Hall (now torn down) for 2 years and worked.

Water Leaders Program

I participated in the CFWE's Water Leaders Program in 2014, receiving a scholarship from the CFWE. I am using the skills learned.

Education record

I received training for Scrum and became a certified ScrumMaster in May 2014. Scrum is an agile process commonly used for software.

Education record

I participated in the Kaufmann Foundation's FastTrac TechVenture program organized by Rocky Mountain Innosphere in Fort Collins, CO. This.