Xochitl Montaño-Soriano has 15 years of experience in geological engineering in the hydrogeology area and 12 years as an entrepreneur in engineering consulting. As the cofounder and owner of her engineering firm, IGC S.A. de C.V. (from 1992-2004), she administered, led, and participated in projects that included groundwater supply studies; geological and geophysical, hydrogeological, and geotechnical studies; hydrochemical studies; and water well design and installation. Montaño-Soriano’s consulting firm also managed projects that included the design and development of GIS applications for water resources management in cities as complex as Mexico City.
Her consulting firm served customers such as government water agencies of small and big cities as well as national water agencies; the private sector; and private industry where projects were led in the areas of groundwater supply studies, groundwater pollution and remediation studies, and geotechnical and environmental projects in the United States, Spain, and Mexico. For the water agencies, the consulting firm managed projects that went from groundwater supply studies to design and optimization of the monitoring wells network, also establishing the aquifer management program for them.
Montaño-Soriano was in charge of the Waterloo Hydrogeologic Inc. exclusive distribution of software in Mexico and was the manager of their groundwater modeling courses in Mexico. She was translating from English into Spanish for WHI Inc. and Schlumberger Water Services Inc. specialized technical material (about their groundwater modeling software and user guides) from 2004 to 2008. In addition, she took postgraduate courses in SUNY ESF in water resources management and environmental science from 2005-2007.