Environmental Tech Labs · Oct 2026 · ✅ Verified by Extern
Environmental Tech Lab Startup Sourcing for NYC's Water Utility
Partnerships StrategyStrategyEntrepreneurship
JWEngineer Intern
JW
I'm John Wagner, building practical experience
I turn early-career experience into clear, demonstrable projects while I explore where I want to take my career next.
Work samples
A selection of project work and hands-on tasks that reflect skills I'm developing and problems I've worked on during my early career.
Environmental Tech Lab Startup Sourcing for NYC's Water Utility
About me
I turn early-career experience into clear, demonstrable projects while I explore where I want to take my career next.
I'm John Wagner. I have some work experience and I'm exploring the next steps in my career, building practical skills and collecting projects that show what I can do.
Externships
Environmental Tech Lab Startup Sourcing for NYC's Water Utility
Completed · Oct 2026
Experience
Engineer Intern
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company · May 2026 – August 2026
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) · May 2025 – August 2025
Education
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering · Class of 2028
Skills
Early-career project workLearning through hands-on experienceTranslating tasks into outcomes
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Environmental Tech Lab Startup Sourcing for NYC's Water Utility
Partnerships StrategyStrategyEntrepreneurship
Overview
The project surveyed startup sourcing practices and built a sourcing funnel tailored to environmental-technology solutions for an urban water utility. Work mapped sourcing stages, defined key glossary terms used throughout the program, and produced an initial intake framework for evaluating startups.
Google Slides
AccessWhat I've accomplished
I selected an operational challenge (asset failure prevention) and produced an initial intake artifact: an opening slide that defined the problem and scoped a lane around low-cost water-level sensors and co-located rain gauges.