Founder and President Tim Parker provides strategic planning, policy consulting and groundwater technical expertise to public and private sector clients to develop effective solutions to complex problems in the water and evolving environmental and energy industries. Mr. Parker’s groundwater experience spans more than 25 years and includes water policy analysis, groundwater resources development, groundwater management, groundwater monitoring, and contaminant hydrogeology in public and private sectors. He was previously with Schlumberger Water and Carbon Services, and prior to that with the California Department of Water Resources. He is a California Professional Geologist, Certified Engineering Geologist, and Certified Hydrogeologist, and co-author of the book California Groundwater Management, 2nd edition 2005. Mr. Parker serves the Groundwater Resources Association of California as a Director and Legislative Committee Chair, the California Groundwater Coalition as Director, and American Ground Water Trust as Chair. Mr. Parker is co-chair of the Implementation Work Group for development of the Nationwide Ground Water Monitoring Network, under the Subcommittee on Ground Water, Advisory Committee on Water Information, U.S. Department of the Interior. Mr. Parker also serves as a Director on the National Ground Water Association-Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, as a member of the NGWA Government Affairs Committee, Chair of the Groundwater Protection and Management Subcommittee, and Chair of the Regional Groundwater Resources Management Task Force.  Mr. Parker is actively engaged in the Association of California Water Agencies Groundwater Committee current efforts to develop a strategic framework for sustainable groundwater management in California