Projects

Clean Water Services
Research & Innovation
Tigard, Oregon

Enterprise Data Warehouse Phase 2 Planning and Lean Governance Support (2026),
Senior Information Technology Advisor

Hazen supported Clean Water Services in advancing the next phase of its enterprise data warehouse and WIMS integration strategy following the completion of its Data Management Master Plan. The effort focused on translating strategic recommendations into a practical delivery framework for an initial MVP, including Lean Governance, Objectives and Key Results, Agile/Scrum practices, backlog development, role definition, and stakeholder engagement. Hazen developed workshop materials and discussion prompts to help technical and non-technical participants evaluate systems of record, data ownership, source-system dependencies, and MVP readiness. The work emphasized a pragmatic approach to enterprise analytics using WIMS as an initial curated use case while considering the broader architecture needed to support SCADA, LIMS, GIS, and other utility data sources over time. Hazen’s planning support helped establish a shared vocabulary for governance, delivery cadence, data stewardship, and iterative implementation, positioning CWS to move from enterprise data strategy into structured execution.

South Platte Renew
Englewood, Colorado

Information Technology Assessment and Operating Model Evaluation (2025),
Senior Information Technology Advisor

Hazen evaluated South Platte Renew’s current and future IT operating model to help the organization understand how technology services should scale with the needs of a regional water resource recovery utility. The assessment compared a hybrid shared-services model, relying in part on municipal IT support, with a more autonomous in-house IT structure capable of supporting utility-specific operations, cybersecurity, infrastructure, applications, and OT/IT coordination. Hazen reviewed current cost structures, staffing assumptions, software and infrastructure responsibilities, and the organizational risks associated with continued reliance on city-oriented IT service models. The project included budgetary modeling, personnel scenario development, and evaluation of how future IT responsibilities could shift under a more independent governance structure. Hazen’s analysis helped clarify the staffing, cost, service delivery, and risk management implications of each model, providing SPR leadership with a practical basis for evaluating IT capacity, resilience, and long-term organizational readiness.

Metropolitan Water District of
Salt Lake & Sandy
Salt Lake City and Sandy, Utah

IT Master Plan Strategic Roadmap and Governance Support (2025),
Senior Information Technology Advisor 

Hazen supported the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake & Sandy in aligning its Information Technology Master Plan with broader business objectives, risk management needs, and executive communication priorities. The project focused on strengthening IT governance, improving the way technical risks and decisions are communicated to non-technical leadership, and establishing a structured process for prioritizing future IT initiatives. Hazen’s work included strategic discovery, review of business objectives, evaluation of risk management frameworks such as NIST RMF, and development of a risk communication methodology for executive decision-making. A series of executive stakeholder workshops were designed to capture cross-functional input on business needs, operational priorities, risk factors, and opportunities for IT innovation. Hazen then applied a value-versus-effort prioritization process to categorize initiatives as quick wins, strategic priorities, low-risk improvements, or potential time sinks. The effort culminated in an IT strategic roadmap and executive presentation intended to provide leadership with a clear, business-aligned framework for future IT investment, governance, and risk mitigation.

Clean Water Services
Research & Innovation
Tigard, Oregon

Data Management Master Plan (2024),
Senior Information Technology Advisor 

Hazen focused on evaluating the current and future software, hardware, integration, and staffing requirements needed to establish an enterprise data analytics platform. Hazen began by reviewing existing data sources, workflows, and system architectures across representative departments. A comprehensive needs assessment followed, involving World Café-style stakeholder workshops to identify critical data management challenges and opportunities. Hazen then developed a prioritized list of objectives, including the Data Improvement, Maintenance, Systems, Network, and Integration opportunities aligned with best practices in data governance and cybersecurity while leveraging an enterprise medallion data architecture. Finally, Hazen delivered a strategic roadmap outlining recommendations for an Agile/iterative approach in delivering self-serve analytics aligned with the organization’s strategic vision. 

LA Sanitation & Environment
Los Angeles, California

Business Model Assessment and Program Risk Evaluation (2024),
Senior Information Technology Advisor 

This project provided strategic guidance for the formation of a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) to manage the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for the Dominguez Channel Watershed Management Group (DCWMG), which includes over 200 Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional (CII) entities and 9 cities. The project focused on establishing the JPA’s governance structure and conducting an information systems needs assessment to ensure effective permit compliance, public transparency, data tracking, and regulatory reporting. The first step involved guiding the JPA formation, helping stakeholders define roles and responsibilities to align across all entities. The project then proposed technology solutions to integrate existing systems into a cohesive platform with scalability, accuracy, and ready access to compliance information. The JPA also aligned the new systems with NPDES regulatory requirements, including best practices for tracking compliance and pollutant discharge reporting. Finally, a phased implementation roadmap will be developed, including timelines, budgets, and performance metrics, ensuring successful system deployment and JPA formation. This will results in a JPA capable of managing the NPDES permit and a scalable, integrated system for compliance and data management across all participating entities.

American Water Works Association
Denver, Colorado

Data Strategy Development Project (2024),
Senior Information Technology Advisor 

Hazen evaluated the American Water Works Association’s (AWWA) data management practices to support their Water:2050 Vision relative to data and technology. By engaging with AWWA staff and stakeholders, Hazen developed a strategy focused on artificial intelligence (AI), real-time monitoring, and predictive analytics, to support objectives such as: Climate Resilience, Equity, Affordability, and a Circular Economy. A World Café style stakeholder workshop underscored AWWA’s role as a trusted facilitator and innovative tool provider, poised for digital transformation. Stakeholders identified challenges in data awareness, benchmarking, search, and analytics were factored into a digital transformation strategy. Hazen recommended a data governance framework built around Objectives and Key Results, interactive dashboards, and leveraging AI for advanced analytics. Including an Information Technology (IT) strategy that aims for full cloud enablement by 2025, addressing resource constraints and system integration. This approach is designed to ensure AWWA’s leadership in the industry’s digital transformation, maximizing impact and returns on investment.

scientify RESEARCH
Stockholm, Sweden

scientifyRESEARCH (sR) is a comprehensive research funding database that connects researchers with relevant funding opportunities. It provides tailored search filters, curated funding lists, and alerts to help researchers discover and apply for grants suited to their specific needs. The platform covers a wide range of funding sources, including academic grants and private foundation awards, making it a valuable tool for researchers at all career stages and in various fields. By centralizing funding information, sR simplifies the process of finding and applying for research grants, thereby supporting researchers in securing the necessary resources to advance their projects. Blair serves as Senior Information Technology Advisor 
for this early-stage start-up with an objective of creating a custom curated scientific research funding database to simplify the process of aligning researchers to suitable funding opportunities.

Misawa Air Base
Misawa, Japan

Served as the Client Relationship Manager in the implementation of a first of its kind integrated, online Comprehensive Civil Infrastructure Development Plan for the Air Base using the Microsoft technology stack integrated with data visualization via Environmental System Research Institute digital maps.

Bay Area Air Quality
Management District
San Francisco, California

As client service manager for the Air District responsibilities include: positioning for future contractual engagements by working in collaboration with their business services division. Also provide project management oversight on a legacy system upgrade with an initial focus on creating a Microsoft SQL Server database pilot system for the authority to construct regulatory business processes. Project elements include business process mapping, re-engineering and training to support the implementation of an Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS). 

United States Air Force
Pacific Air Force Headquarters
Hickam AFB, Honolulu, Hawaii

Provide task management and senior technical oversight in the development and deployment of a web- based general plan. Working in collaboration with the base planners, a traditional paper- based general plan was transformed into a ‘living web document’. This approach allows for greater accessibility and ease of update in comparison to a traditional paper binder approach. General plan narratives were complemented with Geobase Integration Office ArcIMS Common Installation Picture maps including all relevant ‘tabs’ to ensure an accurate representation of existing and proposed installation development activities. Development and deployment included installation of a custom content management system (DoItLive), ESRI integration, and InDesign portable document format development as well as custom one-on-one training at all 10 Pacific Air Force bases.

United States Air Force Europe
Geobase Integration Office
Ramstein, Germany

This two-year assignment required 70% international travel as primary client liaison to the United States Air Force Europe (USAFE) headquarters (HQ) Geobase Integration Office (GIO) though CH2MHILL’s Kaiserslautern Germany office. These multi-million-dollar task orders, contracted through the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, required professional services and custom software delivery to all main operating bases and geographically separated units of USAFE. Through collaboration with USAFE HQ GIO software design, quality control, and delivery processes were established to ensure compliance with: Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure and Environment, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Department of Defense web site administration policies and procedures, Certificates to Operate, as well as the Pentagon issued Conditions of Operation (ConOps). Other responsibilities included management and mentoring of a distributed development team located in: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Colorado Springs, Denver, Washington DC, Milan, Krakow, Madrid and Kaiserslautern. Technical deliverables required knowledge of ESRI as well as Oracle products in order produce design documents which included; user requirements, project work plans, budget estimates, project schedules, system architecture, software storyboards, entity relationship diagrams, functional specifications, installations guides and end user documentation for custom applications.

Infrastructure Financing Authority
San Juan, Puerto Rico

This two-year on-site assignment required the oversight and coordination on all information systems requirements for an island-wide water and wastewater infrastructure rehabilitation program. Responsible for the management of group of five Information Technology staff providing end user support, LAN/WAN, email systems, internet, intranet, systems integration, design and creation of custom web- deployed databases, and other information solutions for an organization of 300 engineers in a highly dynamic work environment. 

AT&T Broadband
Martinez, California

This two-year on-site assignment required close collaboration with AT&T’s Planning and Architecture Group Project Management team to upgrade and integrate existing project tracking systems and procedures. Software was developed based on web browser ‘thin client’ paradigm providing real time database information over the local intranet via a point and click interface built on a Microsoft platform.

United States Air Force
Air Mobility Command
St Louis, Missouri

Collaborated in the: scoping, business process definition and workplan for a $6M 12-base utility mapping process. Provided design task management and senior technical oversight for the implementation of a geospatial asset management system supporting long-term mission requirements. System integration tasks include: Trimble GeoXT rugged GPS units, custom PocketPC data collection application software, enterprise geodatabase synchronization via ArcSDE, and .NET based ArcIMS reporting.

Santa Clara Valley
Water District
San Jose, California

Designed, managed construction, integration, training and deployment of Asset Management Program web-based reporting system. The system, composed of CH2MHILL built applications such as; Condition Assessment Risk Assessment application (CARA), Infrastructure, Capital, Asset Management (ICAM), integrated with Maximo computer maintenance management (CMMS) system. Rugged mobile hand-held devices expedite data capture. Together these elements are integrated into a user-friendly web portal to form the basis for Capital Improvement Planning and regulatory reporting requirements. 

United States Air Force
Academy of Civil Engineering
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Provided an information technology master plan in conjunction with a computerized maintenance management system selection and deployment. Identified key technology elements and presented alternatives to support a most efficient organization (MEO) planning process. Alternatives were generated based on a series of workshops and interviews to establish limitations of existing business processes and information flow. A five-year technology investment master plan was created from the workshop results. 

Union Sanitary District
Union City, California

Conducted needs assessment interviews with all district divisions to create a 5-year Information Technology Master Plan. Integration of key software applications and web-based deployment of custom applications featured prominently, strategically geared towards supporting capital improvement planning. Systems considered included: maintenance management system, supervisory control and data acquisition, laboratory information systems, geographic information systems, financial information systems, health and safety, and human resources. Justified a 2.6-million-dollar IT budget increase during a presentation to the District’s Board of Directors.

Vallejo Flood and
Wastewater District
Vallejo, California

Designed and managed the construction of a decision support system to facilitate the district’s capital improvement planning (CIP) process. This intranet system integrates: Oracle based Hansen computerized maintenance management system data, MS Access based sanitary sewer overflow data, and AutoCAD map-based GIS data. Web browser deployed data visualization was achieved with MapGuide, HTML, and ASP (Active Server Pages). 

City of Houston
Public Works, Wastewater Division
Houston, Texas

Designed and built a prototype mobile application for use by field workers to collect daily flow rate data and synchronize results to an Access database. The mobile interface was created using Satellite Forms. Synchronization with MS Access was achieved using the Satellite Forms ActiveX control and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). 

City of Houston
Public Works, Wastewater Division
Houston, Texas

Designed and managed the construction of the City’s wastewater operations intranet which includes laboratory reports, financial reports, and an operations and maintenance manual. This intranet site was built to be portable to either a PC based Internet Information Server or a Unix based Netscape’s Fast Track server. Responsibility for updating reports was shared by a group of content providers. The providers had little technical knowledge; therefore, text files were copied on a weekly basis to secure file folders. Files were formatted on-the-fly using Perl CGIs to convert them to HTML. 

City of Houston
Public Works, Wastewater Division
Houston, Texas

Designed and built an interface to facilitate paperless use of a Hansen computerized maintenance management system for the City’s highly mobile maintenance staff. Technologies leveraged included HTML, SQL/PL, and Perl CGIs to push and pull work orders from an Oracle database hosted on SCO Unix deployed to Windows based laptops.

United Nations University
International Institute for
Software Technology
Macao, China

Invited to present the results of a forest ecosystem network modeling project by the International Research and Development Center of Canada. Demonstrated a value- based system for the creation and evaluation of forest ecosystem networks during a two-week Expert Group Workshop on Decision Support Software for Sustainable Development. 

Land Resource Management Plan
Fort Nelson, British Columbia

Collaborated with the Eh-Cho Dene First Nation to provide a computer inventory of traditional land use areas and natural resources. Represented Eh-Cho Dene concerns during development of the plan. Directed a 3-day interactive workshop at Geomatics Canada on the Eh-Cho Dene model. This model, composed of digital maps, satellite imagery, traditional, and cultural data, was provided as a stakeholder model and multiple accounts evaluation for the Fort Nelson Land Resource Management Plan. 

Land Resource Management Plan
Burns Lake, British Columbia

Conducted meetings with stakeholders to represent their objectives and preferences in a value-driven land and resource management plan model. Integrated previously constructed forestry (Geospatial Information Systems) applications for use during the public planning sessions to create resource management scenarios, which were then evaluated using additive utility theory to assess the degree of satisfaction of each scenario for each stakeholder. 

Pacific Biological Station
Union Bay, British Columbia

Assisted in the creation and deployment of a stakeholder model and multiple accounts evaluation for a three- day community-planning workshop in Union Bay, British Columbia. Collaborated with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to ensure protection of salmon and oyster habitat in Vancouver Island’s Courtney/Comox region. 

Pacific Biological Station
Nanaimo, British Columbia

Collaborated in the creation of a Fraser River sockeye salmon migration model for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The model provides a modular analytical tool that can be modified easily as current salmon migration algorithms evolve. 

Southern California Edison
Santa Ana, California

Cooperated with Southern California Edison in the design and creation of a stakeholder and multiple-impact assessment model for the Victor Phelan transmission line location project in Rosemead, California.

CH2MHILL
Water Business Group
Sacramento, California

Cooperated with CH2M HILL to create a graphical user interface for a legacy Fortran model. The PROSIM hydrological interface allows managers to perform queries and create dynamic graphical summaries of weekly model results. The PROSIM model was integrated with a river temperature model and a Salmon mortality model to create a system used for the development of water allocation scenarios within the Sacramento Valley, California watershed.