District Leadership

William Walker

Interim Executive Director

William Walker has had a long career in public service, beginning as a policy and budget analyst with the Wisconsin Department of Administration, where he focused on state-level issues in water, utility regulation and agriculture. He has worked as a budget director for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and later for the Wisconsin Director of State Courts Office. In between, he worked as a regulatory economist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Bill has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in environmental economics from Michigan State University. 

As the deputy director and the Interim Executive Director, his responsibilities include strategic planning and execution, capital planning, capital finance and the annual budget. he also oversees the Communications and Public Affairs, Enterprise Services, Human Resources departments.

Bill joined the District in 2016. 

Eric Dundee

Principal Engineer

Eric Dundee oversees all wastewater treatment, Engineering, Ecosystem Services, Metrogro operations and staff who are charged with the Operations and Maintenance of the treatment plant, 66 pumping stations and approximately 145 miles of interceptor sewers and force main pipes.  Previously, he worked as a principal engineer with the City of Madison Public Works Department – Engineering Division.  His other past experience is in municipal engineering as a consultant engineer providing planning, design, and construction services.  

Eric graduated with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He holds a professional engineering license along with his Envision Sustainability Professional designation.  He is active in the American Public Works Association as a Wisconsin chapter executive committee member and serves on multiple state and national committees.

Eric joined the District in 2017.

Lisa Coleman

Director of Engineering

Lisa Coleman is the Director of Engineering for the District.  Her responsibilities include leading the engineering department, including capital project management, as well as design and construction activities for the District’s infrastructure.

Lisa began her career as a consulting engineer, and then worked for many years for the City of Madison, where she designed transportation projects, sanitary sewer projects, and stormwater projects.  She also served as the Director of Public Works/City Engineer for the City of Fitchburg.  

She received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and an M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in Civil Engineering.

Lisa joined the District in 2019.

MartIN Griffin

Director of Ecosystem Services

Martye Griffin has always been about the ‘WE’ in ‘WATER’ and how human decisions impact water quality.

Martye received his bachelor’s degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. He then received a graduate degree in biology from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, examining the impacts of excess nutrients on coastal ecosystems. He has over 20 years of experience working in the public and private sectors looking holistically at the interaction between human land use and water quality. With increasing societal and regulatory pressure to produce cleaner water than ever, it costs more to clean water after it is polluted than preventing the pollution in the first place.

In his role, Martye focuses on solving problems adaptively to move at the speed of trust. Working in communities focusing on pollution prevention is just the way we must do business.

Martye joined the District in 2017.

MiKE Lipski

Human Resources Director

Mike Lipski brings over 20 years of experience in human resources to the District. Prior to working for the District, Mike worked for 13 years in the City of Madison HR Department, both as compensation and benefits manager and as HR services manager. In these roles, Mike oversaw the City’s compensation and classification plan, civil service system, hiring and recruitment, benefits, leave administration and strategic delivery of HR services to 26 different city agencies. Mike has also worked as an institution HR director for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and as a field examiner with the National Labor Relations Board.

Mike has a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in HR management from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and a master’s in human resources and labor relations from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Mike joined the District in 2021.

Dana Reed

Director of Enterprise Services

Dana Reed is the budget manager for the District. Her responsibilities include annual budgeting, accounting, payroll, risk management, procurement and oversight of the information and technology group.

Dana previously worked for 20 years in state government in the areas of budget, strategic planning, policy development and project management.

She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from Waukesha County Technical College. 

Dana joined the District in 2019.

Amanda Wegner

Communications & Public Affairs Director

Amanda Wegner brings nearly 25 years of experience in marketing and communications to the District. From her start in her hometown newsroom in high school, she has held a number of roles across the private, nonprofit and public sectors and ran a communications consulting business.

She spent seven years leading communications at Clean Wisconsin, an environmental nonprofit dedicated to clean water, clean energy and climate change advocacy. Prior to the District, she led digital marketing efforts at Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.

Amanda has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed her MBA at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Amanda joined the District in 2019.