Shannon Newbold joined RMA in 1997 and has participated in and been responsible for a variety of projects related to HEC software, including the Java-based application framework now used in a number of USACE, US Bureau of Reclamation, and RMA applications. Shannon is the primary developer for HEC’s Flood Impact Analysis (HEC-FIA), Flood Damage Reduction Analysis (HEC-FDA v2.0), Ecosystem Functions Model (HEC-EFM Sim), and Regime Prescription Tool (HEC-RPT) programs, which he brought from discussions through current releases and continues to support. Shannon earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of California, Davis.