Employee Spotlight

My name is Gabriel Gomez and I have been with CVWD since October 2024. In my role as System Operations and Telemetry Manager I lead a team of talented operators. Since October my focus has been to become more efficient in our daily operations, improve our pumping and purchase ratio, revise the sampling plan, streamline state reporting and develop the operations team for continued success.

I have been in the water industry for over 25 years, starting off as a water maintenance worker installing valves, hydrants, services and mainlines. Being promoted to lead worker, supervisor and Operation Manager  in utilities with up to 250,000 service connections. My specialty is managing day to day operations, water treatment, overall distribution and production activities. I currently possess a California State Water Resources Control Board Distribution 5 and Treatment 2 along with CA/NV AWWA Cross Connection Specialist licenses.

I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 30 years and have 4 children and 3 beautiful grand daughters. In my free time I go to Dodgers games regularly and during football season I enjoy going to Las Vegas for Raiders home games. My hobbies include going to the gym, watching my youngest daughter play college softball and playing some golf.