David
Fortune
Director of Product Management, Wallingford Software, HR Wallingford
Group
David has nearly thirty years’ experience of producing IT systems for
use in the Water, Environment and Defence sectors, including
infrastructure asset management, mathematical modelling and operational
forecasting and control. He is responsible for Wallingford Software’s
products.
He was an industrial advisor to the China-UK Water and Wastewater
Working Group and has enjoyed time spent in China, promoting the use of
information technology solutions for the water industry.
David led the development of InfoWorks, the model management system that
has become a global water industry standard for supporting planning and
operations in water distribution, sewerage and river management. He has
also directed the development of InfoNet, the information and data
management system for water and wastewater infrastructure, and of
FloodWorks, the operational system for real-time forecasting.
He has been an IT consultant for a number of environmental projects,
including the provision of a real-time cyclone hazard warning system and
the development of the OpenMI data-exchange standard for integrated
environmental modelling.
David has a degree in mathematics, is a member of CIWEM (Chartered
Institute of Water and Environmental Managers) and was a Chartered
Software Engineer (CEng).