A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world AGL 486: Richard Moore
About Richard
Mr. Moore, P.E. is the President and Founder of Moore Engineering. He is a Vietnam veteran where he was a Lieutenant with the Corps of Engineers assigned to the 102 Construction Engineering Company building roads in the Central Highlands. He also taught water supply and wastewater treatment at the Army Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, VA.
Mr. Moore is an internationally recognized expert in water quality protection and wastewater and stormwater management, has published widely in the field and is an Adjunct Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. His 40 years of engineering and project management experience includes successful oversight of infrastructure projects. Mr. Moore has a proven track record of completing large-scale and complex infrastructure projects in the US and abroad.
Mr. Moore holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Early in his career he worked for Metcalf and Eddy on wastewater and stormwater projects nation-wide.
More recently, Mr. Moore served as President of Tetra Tech Rizzo from 2000 to 2007, where he managed the firm’s domestic and international engineering operations with a diverse portfolio of assignments for both public and private clients. He was responsible for growing the company’s annual revenue from $20M to $40M. In his last two years as President, Tetra Tech Rizzo won the ROI (Return on Investment) award, Tetra Tech’s highest award among approximately 30 operating units. Subsequently, Mr. Moore led Tetra Tech India Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tetra Tech with a staff of approximately 200, through 2012.
Mr. Moore is a life member of ASCE, served on the Board of ACEC Massachusetts and was Chair of several national committees for the Water Environment Federation (WEF).
Today We Talked About
- Officer Life
- Getting out of comfort zone
- Vietnam
- India
- Don’t hide your mistakes
- Working with Teams
- Building Trust
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Emotional Intellegence
- Trust
- Don’t peak too early
- Trust your neighbors
- Plant seeds…