Bill Hoppes
Board Member at Tri-Valley Conservancy
Livermore, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Hoppes is an experienced environmental and biological scientist with nearly three decades of leadership in biothreat response, environmental remediation, and program operations, including senior roles at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He combines technical depth—sampling plan design, consequence management, and water quality compliance—with strong project management and people leadership, evidenced by deputy-division and training responsibilities. Bill has also applied his expertise to community conservation and governance as a founding board member and chairman of Tri-Valley Conservancy and as an active board member for Alameda County agricultural and conservation organizations. A certified PhD biologist with additional national security studies training, he bridges scientific rigor with practical planning for complex, multidisciplinary problems. Outside professional roles he remains deeply engaged in conservation and outdoor stewardship, spending his time birdwatching, volunteering, and leading local Audubon efforts—an unusual blend of high-stakes bioresponse experience and grassroots conservation leadership.
28 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, National Security Studies, Certificate, National Security Studies at Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (15)
fusion10
simulation10
fluid-simulation10
chemical-engineering9
fluid9
computational-physics8
hydrodynamics8
computational-fluid-dynamics8
data-processing8
data-management8
physics8
data-visualization7
python2
plasma-physics1
fluid-dynamics1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
llnl-fesp/PyTangtv
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
llnl-fesp/flora
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 release, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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