Tara Gudgeon

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ABOUT TARA GUDGEON

Ms. Gudgeon is a municipal professional with over 15 years of in-depth knowledge and first-hand experience in municipal operations including municipal water, wastewater, and stormwater engineering, infrastructure operation and maintenance, performance and capacity monitoring, condition assessment, capital replacement identification, programming, and budgeting asset management, infrastructure operation and maintenance, performance and capacity monitoring, condition assessments, capital replacement identification, programming. As a leader in the industry Ms. Gudgeon has a proven track record of building and leading effective cross-functional teams, driving change initiatives and implementing optimization strategies and broad-reaching corporate initiatives. • Successfully lead the first combined Water, Wastewater, Stormwater and Transportation Master Plan in the Province of Ontario that resulted in a fully synchronized and sequenced Capital Plan for 4 infrastructure portfolios. • Responsible for the development of the City of Brantford\'s 10 Year Capital Budget Forecast and financial reserve-fund management. Average annual budget of $72.3M • Results oriented professional with mature management and supervisory skills managing a group of 10 staff with 100%employee retention over a 5-year period. • In depth knowledge of Corridor Management techniques for the development of fully sequenced, synchronized and prioritized capital plans. • History of leading successful infrastructure planning and servicing studies designed to support growth while aligning with state of good repair planning. • Strong background in Development Charge and Rate Studies and program implementation from both strategic and tactical and tactical perspectives. Creating plans that result in actionable outcomes. • Created financial monitoring tools allowing department leads to track capital work in progress or spend rate and committed budget. Tracking budgets monthly minimized effort to reconcile accounts and communicate variances quarterly • Lead 300+ staff in the documentation of over 500 maintenance-activity business process maps and the development of comprehensive functional services requirements for a SaaS based, GIS-centric, simple to use, municipal maintenance software.