Dewberry has announced that Siavash Hoomehr, Ph.D, PE, CFM, has been hired as a project manager in the firm’s New York City office.
With more than 12 years of experience, Hoomehr specializes in water resources engineering, including design and modeling of flood control projects; stormwater management and drainage design; advanced hydrologic and hydraulic modeling in support of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) flood control projects and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood studies; dam break analysis, inundation mapping, and emergency action plans; levee superiority and interior drainage analyses; bridge scour analysis; and sediment transport modeling.
Prior to joining Dewberry, Hoomehr worked for a consulting firm in upstate New York where he managed and performed various riverine and flood control studies for USACE and FEMA by conducting advanced hydrologic and hydraulic analyses. Currently, he is serving as project manager for the New York State Thruway Authority’s bridge scour evaluation and geomorphologic assessment project, and working as a senior engineer on coastal and stormwater resilience projects, including a green infrastructure contract for a local watershed in New York City.
Hoomehr earned a doctorate in civil engineering (2012) and a master’s in statistics (2012) from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, a master’s in civil engineering from the University of Tehran (2007), and a bachelor’s in civil engineering from Shiraz University (2003). He is a professional engineer in California, Virginia, and Maryland, and a certified floodplain manager. Two of Hoomehr’s recently published articles include “Potential Changes in Rainfall Erosivity Under CGM Climate Change Scenarios for the Southern Appalachian Region,” published in CATENA, and “Erodibility of Low-Compaction Steep-Sloped Reclaimed Surface Mine Lands in the Southern Appalachian Region,” published in the ASCE Journal of Hydrological Processes.
