Sonia Brubaker- Program Manager, US Environmental Protection Agency
Ms. Brubaker is the program Manager at the Water Infrastructure
and Resiliency Finance Center at USEPA. Prior, she was an
Environmental Protection Specialist with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.
Ms. Brubaker is involved with activities that aim to build and
maintain the technical, managerial, and financial capacity of water
systems to ensure their long-term sustainability. Ms. Brubaker is
the National Coordinator for the Check Up Program for Small
Systems (CUPSS) asset management software. CUPSS helps
smaller water and wastewater systems Implement asset
management practices and develop customized asset management plans. Her experience with
asset management principles and site visits at smaller water systems has helped to frame these
efforts. Ms. Brubaker earned a B.S. in Environmental Policy and Planning from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Michael Burkhard- President of Reline America, Inc.
Michael Burkhard, is President of Reline America, Inc.,
manufacturers of trenchless technology including ultra violet cured
liners and equipment. He was a research and development ‘partner’
with England’s Water Research Council and the U.S.E.P.A., a cofounder of the Pipe Rehabilitation Council, and a former Director
of the National Association of Sewer Service Companies
(NASSCO) where he oversaw the development of a Pipeline
Assessment and Certification Program. Michael is currently active
in the development of testing procedures in Europe and North
America for both laboratory benchmarking and field installations.
Henry R. (Kelly) Derr, P.E. – Senior Associate at Brown and Caldwell
Mr. Derr has over 40 years of experience in the planning, design
and construction of water and wastewater facilities, including over
sixteen years overseas, chiefly in the Middle East and Northern
Africa. Since 1990, he has increasingly focused on trenchless
technologies, beginning with the rehabilitation and expansion of
the entire sewerage system for the Municipality of Dubai in the
United Arab Emirates. For the last 6 years he has focused on the
inspection and condition assessment of water and wastewater
pressure mains. He has written over 60 technical papers and is on
the Board of Directors for the Southeast Society for Trenchless
Technologies. He is currently a Senior Associate with Brown and Caldwell, based in Raleigh,
North Carolina, is the firm’s technical leader for trenchless technologies in the Mid-Atlantic
Region and co-leader of the Condition Assessment and Rehabilitation Community of Practice.
Peter Kraft - Asset Management Coordinator at Denver Water
Peter Kraft has spent the past (10) years working on developing
Denver Water’s enterprise asset management strategy and
program. He currently holds the position of Asset Management
Coordinator with the responsibility of aligning AM strategies,
processes, and technology across all infrastructure programs. Peter
plays an integral role in developing and supporting data driven
decision making for capital and operational planning. He holds a
Master’s degree in Urban Planning and GIS from the University of
Colorado with an emphasis in urban water systems and spatial
analysis.
Anas Malkawi, PMP, GISP - Chief of Asset Management at Hampton Roads
Sanitation District (HRSD)
Anas Malkawi is the Chief of Asset Management at the Hampton
Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) overseeing an engineering
division responsible for providing systematic and risk-based
analysis to manage the sustainable lifecycle of capital assets and
the optimization of maintenance programs. In his role, he is
responsible for developing and implementing programs to assess
the renewal or replacement of assets and maximizing the value of
capital as well as operations and maintenance expenditures of
HRSD’s wastewater infrastructure systems comprising of thirteen
treatment plants with a combined capacity of approximately 250
million gallons per day, over one hundred pump stations, and more than 500 miles of primarily
pressurized pipelines. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Geography with
an Emphasis in Geospatial Technologies from Old Dominion University and a Master of Science
degree in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University.
John Marciszewski - Director Business Development at Echologics
John Marciszewski is Director of Business Development for
Echologics. He is focused on innovative practices for buried
infrastructure, with emphasis on capital efficiency, system
resiliency, and water loss management. John has 25 years of
commercialization experience in high-tech, focusing on the waterenergy nexus since 2005. He is also a founding Industrial Advisory
Board member for the Sustainable Water Infrastructure
Management Center. John has a Master of Engineering from the
University of California Berkeley and Bachelors in Mechanical
Engineering from Kettering University.
Richard E. Nelson, P.E. - Director Conveyance Technology at CH2M
Mr. Nelson specializes in projects related to buried infrastructure
systems for municipalities, utilities, and industry. He currently
serves as the Conveyance Infrastructure Technology Practice
Director for CH2M Hill with regional and global infrastructure
technology and business development responsibilities. Mr. Nelson
has completed and presented many technical papers and
participated in significant research projects and professional
publications. Mr. Nelson has been design engineer, project
engineer, project manager, and director on many pipeline
infrastructure projects. His project experience includes combined
and separate sewer system evaluations, maintenance management
plans, collector and interceptor sewer analysis and design, condition assessments, distribution
system hydraulic and water quality analyses, system rehabilitation, and master planning. His
industrial experience includes industrial wastewater site surveys, wastewater treatability studies,
and treatment process evaluation. He has also served as a resident project representative.
Fred Pfeifer - Asset Strategy Manager at Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission (WSSC)
Fred is currently is the Water Network Asset Strategy Manager at
WSSC responsible for asset management activities at the network
level for WSSC’s water vertical and buried asset assets and
developing the annual Water Network Asset Management Plan and
contributing to the annual Enterprise Asset Management Plan. He
has been in the water and wastewater treatment industry since 1980
working for several major systems manufacturers as well cofounding a filtration company. His current role at WSSC involves
implementation of asset management systems, developing methods
to prioritize investments, establish linear to vertical asset
interactions, monetize risk, facilitating asset based financial analysis and establishing
performance standards to aid in forecasting and prioritizing renewals and operational initiatives.
Mr. Fred has an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry & Math from the University Maryland
and Master’s degree in business from Central Michigan University.
Shaoqing Ge, Ph.D - Infrastructure Engineer at American Water
Shaoqing Ge is an Infrastructure Engineer at American Water and Ph.D.
candidate from Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of
Virginia Tech. His work at American Water focuses on the numerical
simulation of water infrastructure, buried infrastructure asset
management, forensic study of pipeline failures, and wastewater project
prioritization model. His Ph.D. research is to develop a numerical
model to analyze the condition of Prestressed Concrete Cylinder
Pipe (PCCP).