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Riverside Technology, inc. is a privately held corporation, managed and operated by several principals, each of whom has extensive consulting and engineering experience in the areas in which Riverside specializes.

Riverside Principals


Dr. Larry Brazil (President and Chief Executive Officer)
Dr. Brazil is responsible for strategic direction and sustainable growth for Riverside. He specializes in developing and evaluating worldwide projects related to monitoring, using, and protecting natural resources. His technical role as a water resources engineer involves DSS development, deterministic and stochastic modeling, information system design, and data analysis. He leads technical assistance activities internationally focusing on forecasting water availability and use of hydrometeorological forecast information for flood mapping, water supply, hydropower, and emergency response and preparedness.

Mr. Douglas Greer (Secretary/Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer)
Mr. Greer is responsible for financial planning and directing budgeting and spending for the company. In addition to his CFO duties, Mr. Greer is responsible for managing software design, database design, and model development including decision support systems, hydrologic simulation, data acquisition, database development, and interactive software interface design. He also serves as Riverside's Contract Manager, responsible for administering and maintaining contracts between Riverside and its partners and clients.
Dr. Timothy C. Martin (Vice President and Director of Business Development)
Dr. Martin designs and applies information technology for land and water resources planning and management, and has participated as researcher or team leader for international development projects in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. As Director of Business Development, he is responsible for strategic business planning, and for maintaining and promoting relationships with project partners and clients.
Dr. Gerald (Jay) Day (Vice President and Chief Engineer)
Dr. Day specializes in watershed modeling, river forecasting technology, and decision support systems for water management. He has extensive experience in implementing these technologies and systems in the U.S. and around the world. Dr. Day serves as Riverside's Chief Engineer, and oversees the day-to-day technical operations for Riverside's office in Fort Collins.

Management Team Leaders

In addition to the principals of the company, Riverside's staff includes the following management team leaders:

Brian Ashe Brian Ashe (Manager of Business Development)
Mr. Ashe is responsible for developing business and marketing strategies at Riverside, as well as managing proposal development. As part of his job, Mr. Ashe represents Riverside at meetings and various conferences to communicate with potential partners and clients about Riverside's services.
Nils Babel, GISP (GIT Group Manager)
Mr. Babel specializes in geospatial science, geodatabase management, geoprocessing, cartography, remote sensing, irrigated lands mapping, and water utility mapping. As a senior GIS analyst, project manager, and GIT group manager, Mr. Babel is responsible for overseeing GIS projects and managing a team of analysts and engineers that design GIS solutions involving data, spatial analysis, and custom desktop or web interfaces.
Sarah E. Baldwin (Corporate Controller)
Ms. Baldwin manages the financial management system and contract accounting/project accounting reporting. Her areas of technical expertise include government contract accounting, project cost accounting, financial reporting and analysis, cash management, payroll, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.
Dr. Phil Burkhalter, P.E. (Water Resources Group Leader)
Dr. Burkhalter has more than sixteen years of experience in the civil engineering industry including consulting and academic research projects. As a water resources group leader, his primary responsibilities include overseeing the performance of the Water Resources Group and actively serving as a project manager. His technical experience includes a broad range of water-related projects with an emphasis on hydrologic and hydraulic modeling.
Ernest Daddio (Senior Program Manager, Silver Spring, MD Operations)
Mr. Daddio has more than 30 years of professional experience and holds Master’s degrees in Physical Oceanography and in Computer Science. He manages several of Riverside’s government contracts in science and engineering applications. Most notably, he manages Riverside's $115M, 5-year Technical Support, Systems Engineering and Engineering Service (TSSEES) contract with NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) that provides science, engineering and administrative services for NOAA’s satellite programs.
Omo Igiehon (Senior Program Manager, Silver Spring, MD Operations)
Mr. Igiehon is responsible for managing Riverside's Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS) contract with NOAA, and Riverside tasks within the National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Hydrologic Development (OHD) and International Activities Office (IAO). He has over twelve years of combined work experience as an engineer, program manager, and business operations specialist and received his MBA in International Business from Georgetown University. Additional areas of expertise include project management, management consultancy, and strategic planning.

Michael Kane, P.E., CFM (Director, Fort Collins Operations)
Mr. Kane specializes in the development and implementation of real-time river forecasting and decision support for water resources systems. He has managed projects involving these systems throughout the US including at the TVA and BPA, and internationally in India, Panama, El Salvador, South Africa, Viet Nam, and Uzbekistan. As Director of Operations, Mr. Kane is responsible for the overall operation and performance of the technical staff within the Fort Collins office.

Dr. W. Robert Laitos (Senior Development Specialist)
Dr. Laitos has extensive experience managing and implementing USAID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and FAO water and development projects in countries located throughout South, Southeast, and Central Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa and the Mid-East; and Eastern Europe. He specializes in water and land institutional analysis, strengthening, and capacity building at field, regional, national, and transboundary levels.
Gary Merriman, SPHR (Director of Human Resources)
Mr. Merriman is responsible for Riverside's Human Resources, Organizational Development, and Program Management. Mr. Merriman is also Riverside’s Facility Security Officer (FSO) due to Riverside’s work as a Department of Defense contractor.
Laura Nielsen (Contract Specialist and Project Coordinator)
Ms. Nielsen reviews and edits all contract documents supporting Riverside’s consulting services. As part of her administrative responsibilities, she aids in the development and maintenance of Riverside’s Contracts Management budget and operating plan. Ms. Nielsen tracks the deliverables and budgets for the majority of Riverside’s contracts/projects, ensuring that the project is delivered on time and within budget.
Dr. Ward Seguin (Senior Program Manager)
Dr. Seguin has over 36 years in data management, applications software development, systems engineering, and strategic planning experience through his career with NOAA as division chief at the National Climatic Data Center, as deputy laboratory chief of the NWS Meteorological Laboratory, as the systems engineer for the NWS AWIPS Program, and program leader in the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. He brings this experience to enhance Riverside's capabilities to meet client needs for strategic planning and project development.
Dr. George Smith (Senior Program Manager)
Prior to joining Riverside, Dr. Smith spent 33 years with NOAA supporting and leading the Hydrology and Water Resources Program, NWS river forecast system development, and NOAA strategic planning and programming for weather and water initiatives. He brings this experience to Riverside's expanding focus in decision support, sustainable environmental solutions, and climate change. Dr. Smith is also responsible for leading strategic initiatives and developing relationships with both domestic and international clients and partners.
Susan Sutherland (Senior Program Manager)
Ms. Sutherland assists Riverside with business development, proposal activities and identification of strategic business directions. She retired from NOAA after 34 years of service in June 2006 as the Director of the Mountain Administrative Support Center in Boulder. Ms. Sutherland was the budget officer for the $4 billion NOAA National Weather Service modernization, providing integrated budgeting and scheduling for AWIPS, NEXRAD, ASOS, Construction, transition activities, and associated planned product improvements.
Michael Thiemann (Water Resources Group Leader)
Mr. Thiemann specializes in forecast and decision support system implementation, hydrologic model development, calibration, and software design. As a senior water resources engineer and group leader, his responsibilities include project management, development and implementation of the RiverTrak® data acquisition and forecasting system, and model calibration for the National Weather Service River Forecast System (NWSRFS), RiverTrak® and the NWS Research Distributed Hydrologic Model (RDHM).
Mark Woodbury (Water Resources Group Leader)
Mr. Woodbury specializes in conceptualizing, developing, and directing the implementation of projects involving water resource management systems. His expertise includes project management, training development and delivery, and technical development and review in data collection and analysis, model calibration, and system implementation. As a Water Resources Group Leader, Mr. Woodbury is responsible for the overall operation and performance of the Water Resources Group within the Fort Collins office.
Stan Woodcock (IT Manager)
Mr. Woodcock oversees the administration and maintenance of the company's IT infrastructure including UNIX-based computer systems and PC networks. He manages planning and implementing major modifications to Riverside's supporting regional infrastructure. In addition to IT management, Mr. Woodcock specializes in watershed sciences, hydrology, and hydrometry, and designing, populating, and troubleshooting relational database systems including Informix, SQL Server and Microsoft Access.
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