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Bruce Muller Selected as Reclamation's Assistant Director for Information Resources

Media Contact: Peter Soeth, 303-445-3615, psoeth@usbr.gov

For Release: July 20, 2011

Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor has announced that Bruce Muller has been selected as Reclamation's Assistant Director for Information Resources. Muller will be responsible for providing information management resources to Reclamation and will serve as a liaison to the Department of the Interior as it progresses through its Information Technology Transformation.

"Bruce brings a knowledge and background to the information technology community as a customer, developer, service provider, business owner and executive owner of information technology systems at Reclamation," said Connor. "I look forward to working with him as the Department of the Interior's IT Transformation Strategic Plan is implemented."

Muller joined Reclamation in 1979 as a civil engineer where he was a design engineer and project manager. He developed methodologies and guidelines for risk management and implemented new technologies for dam analysis and design.

For the past twelve years he participated in program management for dam safety, emergency management, site security and occupational health and safety, serving as the Chief of the Dam Safety Office and then Deputy Director of Security, Safety and Law Enforcement.

He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 1978 and in 2003 he earned a Master's of Science in Civil Engineering/Water Resources Management from Colorado State University. He also is a graduate of the Department of the Interior's Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program.

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