Jay Yazzie
Jay Yazzie is the founder and principal of Yazhi Engineering, LLC. His professional engineering experience is centered on water and wastewater infrastructure for tribal governments, utilities, and municipalities across the western United States.
His project experience includes water master planning, hydraulic modeling, and the design of pump stations, pipelines, and storage facilities for tribal utility authorities and water districts. He has authored preliminary engineering reports that secured federal USDA grant funding for tribal water system improvements, and has served as lead modeler on water master planning studies evaluating system capacity, water age, and long-term demand with development of capital improvement plans.
Alongside his civil engineering practice, Mr. Yazzie applies industrial engineering and data analysis methods — including optimization modeling and GIS-based asset management — to the same water systems he designs, an approach that led him to found Yazhi Engineering around the combination of all three disciplines.
Mr. Yazzie is also drawn to logistics and supply chain management, operations research, discrete-event and agent-based simulation, and statistics-driven data and business analytics, and welcomes the opportunity to support clients with needs in these areas.
He is a member of the American Water Works Association and is fluent in Navajo.