Brian Abbott
Project Manager
Introduction
I live in Savannah, and work for a small water and wastewater utility. I'm also enrolled at Georgia Southern University's Armstrong Campus, finishing a Computer Science degree.
Biography
I was born in Savannah, GA in 1987. I studied classical and jazz guitar at The University of Alabama before leaving to learn how to program. I'm finishing my Computer Science degree now, partly for the degree itself and partly to fill in the gaps I know I have.
Work
Lately a lot of my time has gone to the EPA's Service Line Inventory, which requires utilities to classify the materials their service lines are made of. It's tedious work, but it pushed us to integrate our billing software and AMR data into the database, which has been worth it.
I prototyped the first iteration of Aqua Certify to streamline safe water drinking act regulatory reporting requirements. Currently, our database allows us to send emails and text messages to customers at a lower cost and with more granularity than our billing provider, among other tasks. There is a lot of work that has been backlogged, and I am starting to work as a project manager. We plan to add SMS bill pay notifications and other features to our customers that our billing provider does not provide.
Miscellaneous
I have a Golden Retriever named Lee who is old. He joins me on runs when it's cool outside. I used to train pretty hard, but I overdid it and am taking it easier these days.
