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48 The Authority | February 2025 working with all of HRG’s services and markets, but my core area of expertise is in the planning, design, and management of infrastructure for both municipal and private utilities. Can you describe a particularly challenging problem you solved and how you approached it? I think a challenge that is consistent for most of my clients is finding “right size” solutions that achieve regulatory compliance and/or address maintenance needs while maintaining sustainable user rates. Achieving this balance involves forward thinking long-term planning and alternatives analysis, as well as cooperation with funding agencies and financial experts. It’s very rewarding when you can deliver a project while achieving both of these goals! What career milestones have you achieved that you’re most proud of? I don’t know that it’s a career milestone per-se, but the thing that I’m most proud of in my career is mentorship and development of less experienced staff. I recently took on a new role at HRG, and I felt confident doing so because I know that I’ll be able to successfully transition most of my project work to the engineers I’ve been preparing. What inspired you to become a water/wastewater engineer? Honestly, it wasn’t a profession that I initially intended to pursue. I started college as an undeclared engineering major, and I was fortunate enough to find professors along the way who were passionate about teaching environmental engineering. Those professors provided guidance and mentorship. One of them introduced me to some folks at HRG and then things just fell into place from there. What’s the most rewarding aspect of your job in terms of community impact? The most rewarding part of this career is helping to solve problems for our clients and, through that work, improving the communities they serve. S Engineers article continued from page 30.