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PANEL FACILITATORS
 Scott Haskins, Sr VP and Director of Strategic Consulting, Jacobs
Scott Haskins is Senior Vice President and Global Director of Strategic Consulting for CH2M. Scott provides consulting services in the areas of asset management and reliability, management consulting, financial services, operations and maintenance, P3 and technology and innovation. In addition to his management role with the company, Scott has served as a senior consultant and subject matter expert for domestic and international strategic clients, and is an industry leader in utility management, asset and risk management, project development, operations and maintenance, strategic planning, leadership development, performance management and benchmarking, sustainability and organizational development.
Scott has more than 40 years of utility management experience. Prior to joining CH2M HILL, he served as deputy director for Seattle Water Department and Seattle Public Utilities where he directed IT, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, SCADA system upgrade and management, emergency management, project development, alternative contracting, finance, human resources planning, asset management. He had executive leadership responsibilities over the full range of wastewater, drinking water, surface water, and solid waste functions for the City of Seattle.
Scott actively participates in the water and wastewater utility industry, serving in many leadership roles and committees for Water Environment Federation (WEF), American Water Works Association (AWWA), International Water Association (IWA), Water Research Foundation (WaterRF), Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WE&RF), AWWA’s Utility Benchmarking Committee, and Design Build Institute of America (DBIA). He has given scores of presentations, authored many articles, and is co-author of several books, including AWWA/IWA’s ‘Benchmarking Water Services- Guiding Water Utilities to Excellence’, ‘The Changing Water Utility: Creative Approaches to Effectiveness and Efficiency’, and ‘The Evolving Water Utility: Pathways to High Performance’.
Scott holds a Master of Public Administration degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Washington.
 John Fortin, Vice President, Director, Asset Management and Reliability, Jacobs
John Fortin is an asset management and reliability practitioner with over 30 years of facilities ‘lifecycle’ experience including design, construction and O&M. He has developed and implemented effective organizational change management programs required to implement a sustainable asset management culture. John provides a practitioner’s view to clients and through industry association events sharing his successes at designing and implementing the Facilities Asset Management Program for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority at the 1,000 million-gallon-per-day Deer Island Treatment Plant in Boston, MA. The award winning project resulted in reduced costs, increased reliability and availability, and a shift from reactive to proactive work practices.
John is internationally recognized for his leadership in strategy development, implementation and change management approaches. He has led and today coaches and mentors cross-industry clients in the development and implementation of Asset Management and Reliability best practices, some of whom have won international awards. He utilizes the DELTA FORCE model of innovative techniques to provide sustainable change to clients’ strategic programs and initiatives which are now published in his book ‘Why Execution Fails And What to Do About It’.
As Vice President, and Global Director for Asset Management and Reliability at CH2M, John enjoys leading an internal Global Asset Management Community of Practice as well as supporting execution of a diverse portfolio of CH2M and client strategic initiatives leveraging the principles from the DELTA FORCE model.
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