The Floodplain Management Team
Engineering, Project Management, and National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Coordination
Jamie Reinke, PE, CFM — Division Leader, Mapping Project Manager, Engineer
Jamie serves as the CTP project manager with FEMA and helps develop guidelines and procedures for mapping work. She completes project task reviews and conducts detailed and approximate hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, oversees engineering and mapping staff, prepares flood insurance studies, and reviews engineering and mapping submittals. Jamie also coordinates with consulting firms to complete Floodplain Management Division’s contracted CTP projects and performs Technical Reviews submitted by local jurisdictions.
Contact Jamie at (402) 471-3957 or Jamie.Reinke@nebraska.gov
Outreach
Elijah Kaufman, CFM — State NFIP Coordinator, Outreach & CRS Coordinator
Elijah serves as the NFIP Coordinator for the State of Nebraska. Elijah also serves as a point of contact for floodplain management questions. He assists with floodplain ordinance review and adoption, outreach events to help communities communicate flood risk, as well as outreach events related to mapping projects. Elijah provides floodplain management assistance through Community Assistance Visits (CAVs), Community Assistance Contacts (CACs), training sessions, and technical assistance phone calls and correspondence. Elijah assists communities with joining, maintaining and advancing that status in the Community Rating System (CRS).
Contact Elijah at (402) 471-0640 or Elijah.Kaufman@nebraska.gov
Anna Crist — Outreach & NFIP Specialist
Anna serves as a point of contact for floodplain management questions. She assists with floodplain ordinance review and adoption, outreach events to help communities communicate flood risk, as well as outreach events related to mapping projects. Anna provides floodplain management assistance through Community Assistance Visits (CAVs), Community Assistance Contacts (CACs), training sessions, and technical assistance phone calls and correspondence.
Contact Anna at (531) 510-2320 or Anna.Crist@nebraska.gov
Erin Wendt — Outreach & NFIP Specialist
Erin serves as a point of contact for floodplain management questions. She assists with floodplain ordinance review and adoption, outreach events to help communities communicate flood risk, as well as outreach events related to mapping projects. Erin provides floodplain management assistance through Community Assistance Visits (CAVs), Community Assistance Contacts (CACs), training sessions, and technical assistance phone calls and correspondence.
Contact Erin at (402) 471-0572 or Erin.Wendt@nebraska.gov
Mercy Kipenda — NFIP Specialist
Mercy serves as a point of contact for floodplain management questions. She assists with floodplain ordinance review and adoption, outreach events to help communities communicate flood risk, as well as outreach events related to mapping projects. Mercy provides floodplain management assistance through Community Assistance Visits (CAVs), Community Assistance Contacts (CACs), training sessions, and technical assistance phone calls and correspondence.
Contact Mercy at (402) 471-3947 or Mercy.Kipenda@nebraska.gov
Isabella Bialas — NFIP Specialist
Isabella serves as a point of contact for floodplain management questions. She assists with floodplain ordinance review and adoption, outreach events to help communities communicate flood risk, as well as outreach events related to mapping projects. Isabella provides floodplain management assistance through Community Assistance Visits (CAVs), Community Assistance Contacts (CACs), training sessions, and technical assistance phone calls and correspondence.
Contact Isabella at (531) 893-1065 or Isabella.Bialas@nebraska.gov
Engineering
Jared Ashton, PE, CFM — Engineer
Jared serves as a project manager and helps develop guidelines and procedures for mapping work. He conducts approximate and detailed hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for mapping, reviews and approves BFE determinations, prepares floodplain reports, and delineates floodplains. Jared also reviews engineering work developed during FEMA mapping projects and performs Technical Reviews submitted by local jurisdictions, to verify accuracy and that they follow FEMA guidelines.
Contact Jared at (402) 471-0500 or Jared.Ashton@nebraska.gov
Stefan Schaepe, PE, CFM — Engineer
Stefan serves as a project manager and helps develop guidelines and procedures for mapping work. He conducts approximate and detailed hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for mapping, reviews and approves BFE determinations, prepares floodplain reports, and delineates floodplains. Stefan also reviews engineering work developed during FEMA mapping projects and performs Technical Reviews submitted by local jurisdictions, to verify accuracy and that they follow FEMA guidelines.
Contact Stefan at (402) 471-0644 or Stefan.Schaepe@nebraska.gov
Deanna Ringenberg, PE, CFM — Engineer
Deanna serves as a project manager and helps develop guidelines and procedures for mapping work. He conducts approximate and detailed hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for mapping, reviews and approves BFE determinations, prepares floodplain reports, and delineates floodplains. Deanna also reviews engineering work developed during FEMA mapping projects and performs Technical Reviews submitted by local jurisdictions, to verify accuracy and that they follow FEMA guidelines.
Contact Deanna at (402) 471-1221 or Deanna.Ringenberg@nebraska.gov
Rebecca Podariu, PE, — Engineer
Rebecca conducts approximate and detailed hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for mapping and BFE requests, prepares floodplain reports, and delineates floodplains. She creates Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), Draft FIRM databases, metadata and FEMA submissions based on FEMA’s guidelines.
Contact Rebecca at (402) 471-0307 or Rebecca.Podariu@nebraska.gov
Mapping and Technical Assistance
Jeehoon Kim, CFM — GIS and Floodplain Mapping Specialist
Jeehoon delineates floodplains and produces flood risk products. He creates Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), Draft FIRM databases, metadata, Flood Risk Products, and FEMA submissions based on FEMA’s guidelines.
Contact Jeehoon at (402) 471-1223 or Jeehoon.Kim@nebraska.gov
Ryan Stastny, CFM — GIS and Floodplain Mapping Specialist
Ryan delineates floodplains and produces flood risk products. He creates Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), Draft FIRM databases, metadata, Flood Risk Products, and FEMA submissions based on FEMA’s guidelines.
Contact Ryan at (402) 471-2243 or Ryan.Stastny@nebraska.gov
Karl Merchant — GIS and Floodplain Mapping Specialist
Karl delineates floodplains, and he creates Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), Draft FIRM databases, metadata, Flood Risk Products, and FEMA submissions based on FEMA’s guidelines.
Contact Karl at (402) 471-2240 or Karl.Merchant@nebraska.gov
Harrison Jones — GIS and Floodplain Mapping Specialist
Harrison delineates floodplains, and he creates Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), Draft FIRM databases, metadata, Flood Risk Products, and FEMA submissions based on FEMA’s guidelines.
Contact Harrison at (402) 471-2242 or Harrison.Jones@nebraska.gov
Adele Phillips, CFM — GIS and Floodplain Mapping Specialist, Flood Mitigation Planner
Adele delineates floodplains, and she creates Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), Draft FIRM databases, metadata, Flood Risk Products, and FEMA submissions based on FEMA’s guidelines.
Contact Adele at (402) 471-9252 or Adele.Phillips@nebraska.gov
Administrative Services
Michele York — Administrative Programs Officer
Michele assists with outreach event preparation and scheduling, verifies contact information for communities, reviews documents for accuracy prior to distribution, assists with preparing FEMA reporting documents, and various other tasks related to the Floodplain Management Division’s responsibilities.
Contact Michele at (402) 471-1214 or Michele.York@nebraska.gov
