Digital and Information Solutions
Combining tech savvy, science and policy sophistication, and design execution, ERG’s Digital and Information Solutions Group develops solutions that address some of the most pressing environmental, public health, and worker safety issues facing our society. Our specialists are passionately committed to designing, building, and deploying strategic data-driven applications and digital products that achieve our clients’ goals. We help government agencies, commercial enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and universities access information faster than ever before, unleash the power of data, improve decision-making and knowledge transfer, and educate through web-based training and e-learning. At the organization level, we apply our process analysis, systems thinking, digital-first approach to design scalable, interoperable enterprise systems that support business processes, information flows, reporting, and data analytics.
Application Development
- Agile development techniques that promote customer engagement and quickly deliver tangible results
- Interfaces that deliver immediacy, responsiveness, and accessibility
- Use of open standard/open source programming for adaptability
- Cross-device fluidity and compatibility
- Efficient navigation mechanisms and pathways
- Balanced use of graphical control elements, text, visuals, and multimedia
- Adept API implementation for accessing web services and leveraging shareable functionalities
- Content management system (CMS) implementations and migrations
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
- Development, training, and deployment of AI/ML to create more intelligent and efficient products and services
- Application of AI/ML, including generative AI, to solve data challenges and unleash the power of data to enable smarter decision-making, and enhanced business outcomes
Cloud Solutions
- Flexible client-tailored solutions to harness the power of scalable and secure cloud infrastructure, including cloud.gov, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
- Cloud-native approaches that ensure seamless integration, rapid deployment, and efficient resource utilization, leading to increased productivity and reduced operational costs
Data Collection and Management
- Design and administration of comprehensive surveys to support data-driven decision-making
- Reliable, secure, user-aware applications for online data submission
- Intuitive mobile-friendly data collection forms and workflow processing
- Robust visualization-based tool arrays for tracking, processing, and verifying collected data
- Integration of collected data into analytics dashboards and field-support applications
Data Analytics and Visualization
- Creation of visually compelling reports and interactive dashboards to attract and engage users and enhance their understanding of key findings
- Use of advanced statistical techniques for high-value insights of complex datasets
- Data roll-ups and granular outputs to support informed decision-making
- Dynamic data graphing with drill-downs, layers, and export capabilities
- Snapshot visualizations for monitoring and assessing data quality
Design and Information Architecture
- Use of human-centered design methods
- Rapid conceptualization and prototyping
- Intelligent integration of technologies, platforms, schemas, and DevSecOps
- Systems architected for performance, security, and interoperability
- Cross-system interactions programmed to ensure data integrity
- Database structures designed for high-capacity data integration
Enterprise Research and Strategy
- Use of Business Process Analysis to create efficiencies and advantages
- Development of digital transformation strategies and evaluations
- Development of interactive digital customer engagement solutions
- Use of equity-centered data standards and infrastructure
Geospatial
- GIS data conversion, cartographic design, and spatial analysis
- GIS-based web applications and online maps
- GIS storymaps and dashboards
- Metadata management
- ArcGIS Online configuration and management
- ArcGIS Server management and service publishing
Online Learning/Training
- In-house instructional designers, subject experts, narrators, videographers, and illustrators
- Use of proven instructional design methodologies
- Audience-centric content creation driven by measurable learning objectives
- Integration of text, interactions, graphics, and video
- Sophisticated balance of course length, onscreen information, and instructional strategies to meet learner needs
- Use of interactive approaches and technologies (e.g., 360 photography, virtual reality, simulations, video facilitators, conversational versus presentational development)
- Integration of sequenced knowledge checks to reinforce and assess learner understanding
- Integration with LMS platform for user tracking and test score capture
Projects
Health Equity Data Standards Training Series
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Green Electronics Benefits Calculator
Global Electronics Council
Targeting Grant Efforts to Communities with Environmental Justice Concerns
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Recycle Smart MA
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Shower and Household Water-Use Exposure (SHOWER) Model
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Creating EPA's Green Infrastructure Wizard (GIWiz)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Offshore Wind Emission Estimation Tool
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Development of e-Learning Course for EPA Permit Writers and Reviewers
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Health Equity Training
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Development of EPA’s “How’s My Waterway?” Application
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Supporting EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Improving EJSCREEN: A Tool for Advancing Environmental Justice
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Support to EPA’s Clean School Bus Program
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Development of a Roadmap for Equity-Centered Data Strategic Planning
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Development of EPA’s AVoided Emissions and geneRation Tool (AVERT)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Full-Spectrum Grant Administration Support for the MassCleanDiesel Program
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission Management Database
Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
Development of EPA Construction Inspection Training Course
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
NEWR Calculator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Helping Green Freight Programs Succeed at Home and Abroad
International Council on Clean Transportation, Natural Resources Canada, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Caribbean Regional Coastal Integrated Information Management System
Pilot Program for Climate Resilience at the University of West Indies, Mona
EPA's Report on the Environment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FDA Data Analysis and Search Host (DASH)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Saving Water Through WaterSense
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Climate Indicators Report
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
NOAA FishWatch Website Redesign
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Digital Transformation of EPA's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ocean Planning in the Northeast
Northeast Regional Ocean Council
Creating EPA’s DMR Pollutant Loading Tool
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Development of OSHA's Severe Injury Report Capture Tool
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Service Area Leads
As an instructional design expert, I create trainings that help learners problem-solve, plan, and most importantly, get things done. A well-conceived and well-constructed training provides a foundation for individual growth and serves as a key contributor to organizational change.
Throughout my career, I have enjoyed integrating my engineering background and environmental program expertise to design data systems and tools that effectively convey complex environmental information in a way that provides context and meaning to the public.
After 30 years of consulting to federal agencies and departments I care passionately about, I have come to appreciate how important new data and application-sharing tools are to achieving environmental and energy goals. I am grateful that, as this stage of my career, I can bring a highly diverse combination of insights, perspectives, and skill sets to help my clients achieve their goals.
As a dedicated software engineer, I thrive on the myriad of challenges in the IT field, including keeping pace with quickly evolving technologies and processes, assembling the right IT and subject experts for each project, and creating cost-effective solutions that excel in helping clients fulfill their mission.
My greatest professional satisfaction has been working with tremendously dedicated colleagues and clients to design, develop, and implement technology solutions for some of our most pressing environmental, health, and safety challenges.
Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to work with people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences and to travel widely in the United States and internationally. These experiences have enhanced all aspects of my work, enabling me to readily consider and integrate diverse perspectives and effectively convey important information to audiences with widely varying backgrounds and expertise levels.
I find it energizing to develop tools that help users improve their knowledge of environmental data and perform novel analyses, and I am always inspired when I see how these tools help our clients become even more effective at performing their work and solving environmental problems.
I’m passionate about helping people build and use software solutions to collect, manage, and visualize data about public health and the environment.
We learn near our highest potential when we immerse ourselves outside our comfort zone, get lost, fall down, and persevere until our experience outweighs self-doubt.
In today’s world, pioneering innovative solutions requires collaboration between all of us: the people, interested parties, subject experts, information technologists, communicators, and others. I’m proud to be part of an organization that is built around an inclusive approach to progress. ERG empowers us to conceive forward-looking ideas and develop new solutions to meet our present and future needs.
You can build software and tools anywhere and for any reason. I’m proud to lead efforts to build software and tools that enable data-driven analyses and decisions to protect human health and the environment.
I love figuring how to take what is often a firehose flow of complex environmental data and make it simpler and easy to understand. And that’s a pretty good metaphor for our team: we are technologically sophisticated, creative, and easy to work with.
I love the creative process and am passionate about new frontiers in information technology. Working alongside the talented and dedicated professionals at ERG is truly inspiring. What brings me the most satisfaction is delivering innovative solutions to our clients under challenging circumstances.