Organization/Watermaster Staff

Ken Manning, Chief Executive Officer
kmanning@cbwm.org

Kenneth R. "Ken" Manning joined the Chino Basin Watermaster as CEO on September 1 2004. From December 1992 through March 2005, Mr. Manning served as a Board Member of the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and appointed as its representative to the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority (WQA) board. Mr. Manning has served five one-year terms as President of the board for the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and three one-year terms as Chairman of the WQA.

Mr. Manning holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Architectural Design from California State Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo) and a Masters of Public Administration from Cal State Northridge. Prior to his selection as CEO of the Chino Basin Watermaster Mr. Manning served as Deputy Superintendent with the East San Gabriel Valley Regional Occupational Program, where he oversaw all administrative services. Mr. Manning spent almost twenty years as the CEO and Chief Designer for an Engineering and Architectural Design firm doing residential and commercial development throughout southern California.

Mr. Manning is a former member of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education where he served twenty years. He is a past District Chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, past President of the Hacienda Heights Kiwanis, past Board Member of the La Puente Valley Chamber of Commerce, as well as various service organizations and numerous youth sports leagues.

Sheri Rojo, CPA, Chief Financial Officer / Assistant General Manager
srojo@cbwm.org

Sheri Rojo has been working for Chino Basin Watermaster since December, 2001. She holds the position of CFO/Assistant GM. As the CFO/Assistant GM, she is responsible for creating and monitoring the annual budget, billing assessments, maintaining compliance with federal and state financial guidelines for grants and contracts, preparing financial statements, managing accounts payable and receivable, payroll, insurance, procurement, personnel and computer management.

Before coming to Watermaster, she worked approximately five years at a public accounting firm working with profit and non-profit clients, including several different water agencies. She graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business/Accounting. She also teaches part time at Chaffey Community College.

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Danielle Maurizio, PE, Senior Engineer
dmaurizio@cbwm.org

Danni joined the Chino Basin Watermaster in August 2003. As a Senior Engineer for Watermaster, she works on tasks such as groundwater level and quality monitoring, land conversion/well destruction, water transactions, well production monitoring, hydraulic control, and subsidence issues within Management Zone 1.

Danni received a BS in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona in 1997 and a MS from UCLA in Environmental Engineering in 1998. Before joining Watermaster, she worked in both the Planning and Environmental Compliance Departments at Inland Empire Utilities Agency and in the Process Development Section at Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Jim Theirl, Water Resource Engineer
jtheirl@cbwm.org

Jim joined Watermaster in 1992 and was the first full time employee. He is responsible for all Watermaster field work. This includes data acquisition such as aquifer water level, ground and surface water quality sampling, and special sampling projects. His other duties consist of inspecting and documenting well status, such as new, inactive, or destroyed wells; quarterly meter readings of 350 agricultural wells; GPS well location data;GIS map preparation and responses to request for technical information.

Jim is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, BSEE retired from General Electric after 35 years of service with various technical and sales positions.

Sherri Lynne Molino has worked for Watermaster since December 2003. She holds the position of Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer. She also holds the position of Recording Secretary at all Committee and Board meetings. She is responsible for maintaining calendars for the Chief Executive Officer, the public as well as the internal calendars. She prepares minutes and maintains permanent records as well as organizes meetings internally as well as externally.

Janine Wilson has worked for Watermaster since June 2000. She graduated from Chaffey Community College in May 2000 with an Associates Degree in Computer Information Systems and Basic Education. She is responsible for maintaining the records contained within Watermaster's document management system, as well as the day-to-day operations of the office. Additionally, she assists the accounting department of the organization by processing accounts payable.

Frank joined Watermaster in February 2005 as the Geographic Information Systems Specialist. He graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geographic Information Systems. Some of his responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the handling and processing of water production data, confirming the validity of land use conversion requests, producing, managing, and analyzing geographic data, and collecting raw data from various locations within the Chino Basin.

Justin graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 2003, with a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Analysis and Design and a Minor in Japanese Language and Literature.

As an Environmental Specialist, Justin's duties include the gathering and processing of transducer data, monitoring and maintenance of recharge basins, field inspection of wells, water level updates to the production database and performance of ground and surface water sampling.