Nick Millward is an IA Certified Irrigation Contractor and Auditor currently living in Seattle, WA. His career in irrigation began installing sprinkler systems in the Sun Valley, Idaho area after graduating high school in 1989. He moved to Boise in 1992 and worked on much bigger projects for the next seven years in the landscape construction of schools, state parks, golf courses, shopping malls, hospitals, and highway projects.

Seeking a change in scenery, he moved to Seattle in 2000. With one cold call to Craig Penner, owner of City Rain Inc., he landed a job where he works to this day. The last decade’s experience has been focused on the urban residential application of smart irrigation technology and further education in conservation.

Nick started writing the Crusty Blog in January of 2012 as a way to relate the sprinkler guy’s point of view to the public in an entertaining, educational way.