{"id":28676,"date":"2016-08-14T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/?p=28676"},"modified":"2016-09-13T22:41:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T05:41:51","slug":"ventura-county-public-works-agency-announces-chris-cooper-as-new-director-of-engineering-services-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/ventura-county-public-works-agency-announces-chris-cooper-as-new-director-of-engineering-services-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura County Public Works Agency announces Chris Cooper as new Director of Engineering Services Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VENTURA COUNTY<\/strong> \u2014 The Ventura County Public Works Agency (VCPWA) has named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ventura.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28677\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/vcpwa.jpg\" alt=\"vcpwa\" width=\"157\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/vcpwa.jpg 157w, https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/vcpwa-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a> as the Director of the Agency\u2019s Engineering Services Department (ESD). Cooper succeeds Herbert Schwind who served VCPWA for over 4 years and retired earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper is excited for the opportunity to take the helm of ESD for the Agency at which he launched his engineering career almost 30 years ago. For the past 7 years, Cooper served as the Deputy Director of Project Services Division of VCPWA; during this time, the Division\u2019s workload progressively increased from $24 million annual to nearly $111 million today. Under Cooper\u2019s direction, the team has undertaken and delivered numerous noteworthy and award-winning projects for the Health Care Agency, Fire Protection District and the General Services Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Previous to serving as ESD\u2019s Deputy Director, Cooper began his career with VCPWA as an Engineer, and subsequently served in senior project management positions with the United Water Conservation District and Hawks &amp; Associates before returning to VCPWA as Engineering Manager II, where he worked directly on the VCMC Replacement Clinic, Saticoy Operations Yard, and several water tanks and pipelines for County Waterworks Districts.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and a M.S. in Public Administration from California State University, Northridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris brings a wealth of public and private experience to VCPWA,\u201d said Jeff Pratt, Director of VCPWA. \u201cI am confident that he is a positive addition to our team and will lead our Engineering Services Department through his superior work ethic and dedication to outstanding customer service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENTURA COUNTY \u2014 The Ventura County Public Works Agency (VCPWA) has named as the Director of the Agency\u2019s Engineering Services Department (ESD). Cooper succeeds Herbert Schwind who served VCPWA for over 4 years and retired earlier this year. Cooper is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/ventura-county-public-works-agency-announces-chris-cooper-as-new-director-of-engineering-services-department\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1711,5],"tags":[2941,405,2942,74,524],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28679,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions\/28679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}