SYP Webinar: Water Industry Career Flows - On Demand

Chloe Selby serves on the CWEA Students and Young Professionals Committee and organized this webinar to benefit her peers by sharing opportunities for a future water career. She studies Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine and is currently interested in pursuing an ocean biogeochemistry or geoscience career. Chloe volunteers with her local community to reduce food waste through UCI's Food Recovery Network and mentors a future STEM career high school student through EmpowHER Mentoring. She presented at CWEA 2020 on the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant and at AGU 2020, 2021, and 2022 with other projects. 

Stephanie is the CWEA Students and Young Professional Chair and a CWEA Board Nominee. She started with Mott MacDonald as a Project Engineer in 2019. Stephanie earned her Master's degree at San Jose State University in Civil Engineering.

Jon Liberzon is Vice President at Tomorrow Water, a California-based subsidiary of BKT, where he spearheads a portfolio of new treatment processes including high-rate bio-filtration for wet weather flows, Proteus advanced primary treatment, AMX shortcut nitrogen removal and Draco thermal hydrolysis. Before joining Tomorrow Water, Jon consulted for a range of industrial and multinational clients including the World Bank, Technoserve and DFAT. From 2012-2017, he was director of water technologies at Algal Scientific, which developed high-rate nutrient recovery processes for food and beverage factories. Jon also helped develop algae-based photosynthetic aeration systems and worked on drinking water and agricultural development projects in several least developed countries, including Haiti and Vanuatu. Jon holds a Masters from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Mahmood joined the faculty at California State University, Sacramento, as a professor in the Civil Engineering Department in 1994.  In 1997, he became the director of the Office of Water Programs (OWP; www.owp.csus.edu). In 2003, Dr. Mahmood was elected the Department Chair for Civil Engineering.  He served three consecutive terms, finishing his last term in 2012.

Before joining the University, Dr. Mahmood worked with engineering consulting firms, specializing in soil and groundwater contamination as well as characterization and remediation of hazardous waste sites. He also worked for the State of California Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) where he oversaw the development of technology-based and health-based treatment standards for hazardous wastes.