_Profile Highlights
• Project Management: personnel, planning, preconstruction, procurement, construction supervision, quality control, fiscal management
• Open channel and pipeline waterway systems design and construction including waterway structure design
• Experienced in land operations, rights-of-way, easements, land descriptions
• Computer; Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, AutoCAD
• Communications and writing skills; interacted with farmers, boards, public agencies, contractors, legislators
• Physically capable of hard work and very work-oriented
• Agricultural farm background, North Dakota
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Accomplishments:
• Wrote policies and established water accountability that assured equitable distribution of water to farms within two large irrigation districts in Montana.
• Physically rehabilitated and improved public irrigation water systems to drastically reduce water rationing for the two irrigation districts.
• Worked long hours my entire career to provide engineering services and fiscal management in addition to administrative management for the irrigation districts
• Drastically reduced wastewater on the two districts and initiated streambank preservation projects
• Re-established the pumping power wheeling cost as part of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation's Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program saving millions of dollars for P-S irrigation districts in the Missouri River System.
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Experience
Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project Manager – Sidney, MT – (406)-488-1306
January 1995 to March 2012
Managed an irrigation waterway system including diversion, distribution, and drainage of water on 56,000 irrigated acres (500 farms) in the lower Yellowstone River valley in Montana. Hired and directed personnel (22), maintain financial responsibility including grant writing and budgets, established advanced work schedules, provided engineering services, all for the operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of 400+ miles of waterways on the L Y Irrigation Districts. Provided consulting service for farmers on water conservation measures.
REASON FOR LEAVING: To be closer to family
Greenfields Irrigation District Manager – Fairfield, MT – (406)-467-2533
May 1983 to January 1995
Managed storage reservoirs, diversions and distribution and drainage works to provide irrigation water to farms within the 83,000-acre Sun River Project in Montana. Hired and directed personnel (20), maintain financial responsibility including budgeting and grant writing , established advanced work schedules, provided engineering services, all for the operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of the Greenfield...
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