Scott Parker

Scott has over 20 years of experience in local government, utility management, and private consulting. Immediately before joining Raftelis, he served as the asset manager for KC Water (KCW), the drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utility in Kansas City, Missouri. Beyond his work at KCW, he has designed, developed, and implemented asset management programs in three (3) local governments and utilities, based on capital optimization strategies and asset management best practices as defined in ISO 55000, 55001, and 55002, as well as ISO 31000 and 31010 standards and other relevant industry criteria. His particular area of expertise is designing programs that retain the best theoretical concepts of asset management while accounting for the operational and cultural circumstances unique to the organizations he serves. Scott has demonstrable experience evaluating and implementing multiple data technology systems in the asset management and utility space. His expertise includes ESRI Geospatial products; Innovyze InfoAsset Planner and hydraulic modeling software; multiple Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) platforms (including Infor IPS – Hansen, Lucity, Cityworks, and Cartegraph); Autodesk GeoBIM; and various Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) technologies used for sanitary and stormwater assessments following NASSCO Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP) standards. In Kansas City, Scott developed the organization’s first data management strategic plan and its Business Case Evaluation (BCE) framework for information system purchases. He has designed and managed capital programs for organizations throughout the U.S., including KC Water (KCW); the Unified Government of Wyandotte County (Kansas City, Kansas); Fort Smith, AR; Jackson, MS; Lenexa, KS; and Olathe, KS. All but the last two were under consent orders with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), resulting in programs worth billions of dollars. Scott has been a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences on topics including general asset management, data management, and the application of asset management principles in specific operational and administrative environments. He has written or been featured in several articles focused on business process modeling, asset management, and water management, and he serves as a co-lead on the Water Environment Federation’s Water Intrapreneurship for Strategic Enterprises (WISE) Data, Technology, and Innovation team. He also co-authored the WISE white paper on the criteria and approach to Business Case Evaluations in capital planning.