Richard Nugent
Supervisory Economist at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Nugent is a supervisory economist leading the Hydrologic Engineering Center division responsible for HEC-ResSim, HEC-FDA, HEC-WAT, NSI, cloud compute, and the HEC-EFM Suite. With nine years of professional experience and a PhD in Economics from CUNY Graduate Center, he combines rigorous economic analysis with operational leadership in federal water resources modeling and cloud infrastructure. He progressed from economist roles in the USACE New York District and the US International Trade Commission to senior economist and now division lead, reflecting strong project and stakeholder management across technical teams. He has taught graduate and undergraduate econometrics, microeconomics, and statistics, demonstrating a talent for translating complex quantitative methods for diverse audiences. Based in Davis, California, he brings a rare blend of academic depth and practical experience in large-scale hydrologic software suites and compute environments. Colleagues rely on him for turning sophisticated modeling requirements into reliable, production-ready tools that inform critical infrastructure decisions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at University of Illinois at Chicago
Github Skills (10)
dotnet8
ord7
dotnet-core7
statistics7
water7
hydrology6
go3
monte-carlo2
plugin1
mvvm1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HydrologicEngineeringCenter/fda-model
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
A simple computational library to support water resources.
Contributions:98 reviews, 114 PRs, 344 pushes in 1 year
hydrologywater-resourcesordwatercomputational
rnugent3/OccupancyTypeDataWriter
Jan 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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