Senior Vice President, National Director, Stormwater & Watershed Management Arcadis Fernando is a Water Resources Manager with 35 years of experience developing and implementing resilience, stormwater and green infrastructure programs. He has assisted several municipalities with implementation of stormwater utilities and alternative funding mechanisms, compliance with MS4 permits and TMDL requirements, and development of program effectiveness indicators. Fernando has coauthored green infrastructure/BMP manuals in several states and has conducted training workshops covering all aspects of funding, planning, designing, and maintaining urban stormwater controls. He was also a contributing author for two Water Environment Federation (WEF) publications: User-Fee Funded Stormwater Programs (2013) and Green Infrastructure Implementation (2014), Financing Strategies Chapter. He also led the Task Force and contributed to several chapters of the recently published WEF/ASCE Manual of Practice titled Urban Stormwater Controls Operations & Maintenance. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Resilience Subcommittee of WEF’s Stormwater Committee and was an invited consultant to EPA’s Stormwater Infrastructure Finance Task Force (2019 – 2020). Fernando received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech.