Valerie Zimmer
Senior Water Resources Control Engineer (Hearings And Special Projects)
West Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolValerie Zimmer is a senior water resources control engineer with nine years of experience blending hydrogeology, geophysics, and policy to design resilient water management and habitat-recovery strategies across California. At the State Water Resources Control Board she leads multidisciplinary efforts from stream gaging and drought forecasting to instream flow standards, managing USGS modeling contracts and coordinating a 50-member hydrology modeling and data workgroup. Her background includes PhD-level research in rock mechanics and seismology, field-forward geotechnical work for industry and academia, and a habit of translating complex science into actionable policy and stakeholder-ready solutions. She pairs technical depth in groundwater modeling and acoustic/seismic monitoring with practical experience in contracting, field gaging, and public outreach. Uncommonly, she has moved between defense contracting, oil and gas, and academic research into public environmental policy, giving her a rare perspective on engineering, data, and regulatory processes.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD and Masters, Civil Engineering (Geotechnical and Geophysics), PhD and Masters, Civil Engineering (Geotechnical and Geophysics) at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, Sports, mostly, High School, Sports, mostly at Otter Valley Union High SchoolHBx Core: Credential of Readiness, Business Administration and Management, General, HBx Core: Credential of Readiness, Business Administration and Management, General at HBX | Harvard Business SchoolBSE, Civil Engineering & Geoscience, BSE, Civil Engineering & Geoscience at Princeton University
FrenchProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CAWaterBoardDataCenter/eWRIMS_functions_R
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
CAWaterBoardDataCenter/StreamGage-Manual
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.