Pride And Joy: Water Leadership Defined
Joy Eldredge, Chair of CA-NV AWWA
Despite overseeing our most precious resource, water professionals often go unnoticed, and hence unappreciated. To that end, it’s my pleasure to highlight the efforts, accomplishments, and insights of industry leaders such as Joy Eldredge, chair of the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association.
CA-NV AWWA represents an area and utility presence larger than most countries. The spate of issues is large as well, both in number and scope and that was before the pandemic hit. The repercussions of COVID have forced difficult operational decisions, and sometimes concessions, yet the goal of sustainably achieving the highest level of water quality and customer service remains the same. Joy Eldredge embodies this goal, and her service to others is evident even beyond her professional duties. Read on to learn about, and from, her experience.
Paul Brassil of
Medfield has joined the company as senior vice president/chief information officer and will oversee PCU’s information technology and digital innovation efforts.
Brassil has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology leadership field with entities such as Commonwealth Medicine (a division of UMass Medical School), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, EMC Corp. and Siemens IT Solutions and Services Inc.
He holds an MS in computer information systems from Bentley University in
Waltham and a BA in Business Administration from Bridgewater State University.
Brassil s community involvement spans initiatives focused on workforce development and industry leadership serving as a member of the Tech Hire Advisory Group of Boston’s Private Industry Council (comprised of Boston CIOs developing summer intern programs for low/moderate income students in the Boston Public Schools); an adviser for Fintech Women (helping women in banking/finance/fintech a
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