Mr. Brien Rissman Jr. is a Forecasting Specialist with Itron’s Forecasting Solutions division, where he works mainly with the Northeast office under Eric Fox. Brien started working with Itron in June 2023, and while he is relatively new to the team, he brings a strong background in economic modeling and forecasting. Under the direction of the forecasting team at Itron, Brien has learned about forecasting long term, short term, and everything in-between. He has collaborated with other members of the forecasting team to provide long term forecasts, internal revenue plans, rate case forecasts, weather variance reports, Metrix IDR testing, and forecasting as a service monitoring and estimating. While on the job, he has excelled at using macros to automate updating data, forecasts, and reports in MetrixND and Excel. Brien earned his master’s degree in economics from Boston University and bachelor’s degree from Purdue University, where he gained experience with RStudio, Stata, MatLab, and MS Office Suite.