EDUCATION:
B.S., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (Majors in structures and construction management), 1978
M.B.A., magna cum laude, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, 1984

Dispute Resolution Accreditation:
American Arbitration Association, Arbitrator II Training (Advanced Case Management Techniques), Washington, DC, January 18-19, 2001

American Arbitration Association, Neutrals' Retreat 1998, Orlando, FL, October 8-11, 1998

American Arbitration Association, Construction Industry Arbitration Training Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1997

The Dispute Review Board Foundation, The Dispute Review Board Administration and Practice Workshop, Boston, MA, February 2, 1998

REGISTRATIONS:
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
NCEES Certified

Professional Engineer in the following States and Countries:
• Pennsylvania • Arizona
• Washington • Wyoming
• Florida • Colorado
• Wisconsin • Kentucky
• New Jersey • Province of Manitoba, Canada
• New York • Australia (CPEng, FIEAust)

MEMBERSHIPS:
American Academy of Certified Experts and Consultants
American Arbitration Association, Panel of Arbitrators (Philadelphia, New York and International)
American Association of Engineering Societies
American Nuclear Society
American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow
Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering
British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre, Panel of Arbitrators
Chi Epsilon (National Civil Engineering Honor Society)
Dispute Review Board Foundation
Inter-Pacific Bar Association
National Association for Female Executives
National Society of Professional Engineers
President's Club
Project Management Institute
Professional Women in Construction
Republican Senatorial Inner Circle
Society of Women Engineers
The Academy of Experts, United Kingdom
The Construction Specifications Institute
The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Fellow
The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
Toastmasters International

AWARDS:
Lafayette High School Hall of Fame
Strathmore's Who's Who, 2001-2002
National Academy of Engineering: Celebration of Women, 2000
White House Commission: 2000 Design Award, 1999
Presidential Roundtable, New Jersey Representative, 2000
Professional Leadership Award, National Professional Women in Construction, 1995
Purdue University Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, 1991
Mercer County Engineer of the Year Award, 1990
White House Fellowship Regional Finalist, 1990
Glamour Magazine's Ten Outstanding Young Working Women for 1988
Somerset County's Outstanding Women in Business and Industry, October 1987
"Who's Who in America's Emerging Leaders," 1987-present
Engineering News Record, "Top Women in Construction," October 1986
"Who's Who of American Women," 1983 present
"Distinguished New Engineer," National Society of Women Engineers, 1980

BACKGROUND:
As Chief Executive Officer, President, and a Principal Owner of The , EW #374 has been extensively involved in Management Consulting, Risk Management and Dispute Resolution Services for over 20 years both in the United States and internationally. Her  career has included the corporate position of Chief Financial Officer, arbitrator on numerous construction cases, member of dispute review boards, expert witness in both arbitrations, ICC arbitrations and court presentations, facilitator for partnering workshops, and instructor in several forums such as seminars, course instructor for private and public entities, and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Relative to Dispute Resolution services, she has had extensive experience in numerous cases including schedule delay analyses (delay, disruption, acceleration, early completion and productivity inefficiency), document search and review, preparation of questions for interrogatories and depositions, cost analyses and damage calculations, structural drawing and shop drawing review, antitrust analyses and advising legal counsel. She is recognized internationally as providing expert testimony in court, arbitration (both ICC and domestic) and public utility rate hearings on her analyses. Dispute analyses have included projects such as hotels, casinos, stadiums, process plants, gas pipelines and compression modules, landfills, airports, highways, bridges, infrastructure projects, oil depots, office buildings, renovations, waste water treatment plants, hospitals, colleges, fossil fuel plants, nuclear power plants, civic centers, parking garages, mass transit, demolition, dams, bulk pharmaceutical plants, refineries, petrochemical plants and manufacturing projects.

With respect to Management Consulting, she analyzes corporate, public and project management structures and performance in private companies, regulated industries and government agencies. Engagements have included major U.S. and non-U.S. companies in construction, process, power and transportation fields. Additionally, she lectures and presents seminars on the subject of project controls, contract administration, claims avoidance and schedule delay analysis. She lectures in the annual seminar given by Nielsen Wurster for attorneys and presents seminars on scheduling to outside firms, corporations and professional society organizations such as The American Society of Civil Engineers. She has also served as an arbitrator regarding construction litigation cases for the American Arbitration Association. She is further involved in management consulting assignments evaluating operations, management process, project controls, value engineering, and risk analyses.

In the Risk Management area, she has provided extensive project planning and ongoing project execution, risk assessments, trend evaluations, and risk reduction plans for a wide variety of domestic and international projects. Specific engagements have covered transportation, infrastructure, power, process industry and commercial buildings.

Additionally, she has served as Project Manager and Scheduling Engineer for major projects (design, construction and fast track) using computer automated systems including Artemis, Primavera and Timeline.

EW #374 has traveled to nearly 80 countries and has been involved with major international projects including:
Demineralization Plant - Mexico
Major Hotels/Resorts - United States, Indonesia
Tsing Ma Bridge - Hong Kong
Multi-purpose Irrigation/Power Project - Northern Luzon, Philippines
Kuala Lumpur International Airport - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Panama Canal - Panama
City Link Project - Melbourne, Australia
Oil Depot - Kuwait
Petrochemical Plants - Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, United States and Singapore
Olefin Plant - Thailand
Refinery Project - Venezuela
Bulk Pharmaceutical Plant - Singapore
Dam Project - China
Primary Chemical Plant Project - South America
Toronto Subway Lines - Ontario, Canada
Altona Refinery - Australia
Multiple Nuclear Hydro and Fossil Plant - United States
Gas Recompression Plant - Venezuela
Steel Mills - South Africa, United States
Major Highway/Bridge Projects - United States
Prior to joining Nielsen Wurster, she was assigned as the Master Program Scheduler for the $1.6 billion Milwaukee Water Pollution Abatement Program (MWPAP). Her responsibilities included coordination of all project schedules, involvement with cost engineering functions, preparation of all schedule progress reports for public and client presentations and monitoring compliance with court orders imposed on the Program. Other activities at the MWPAP included authoring a scheduling manual, preparation of bid documents, on site tunnel inspection, and coordination of a project managers' training series.