Experience

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  Boeing

  Oct 1984 - Aug 1990

  Payloads systems engineer

  - Assumed all engineering responsibilities for the 747/767 gaseous oxygen system after only 14 months of service. Supervised design and engineering for 747/767 oxygen system to support manufacturing of new customer interior configurations.- Negotiated new galley designs for international customers. Prepared galley specifications for construction and installation of galleys. Duties included overseas travel and coordination with international customers.

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  Brown & berardini, p.c. (now brown, berardini & dunning, p.c.)

  Oct 1990 - Sept 1995

  Associate attorney

  - Responsible for extensive caseload in areas of real estate, contracts, commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and corporate matters.- Conducted negotiations and prepared documents for several complex real estate and commercial transactions.- Argued successfully in numerous civil bankruptcy trial and hearings.

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  Colorado attorney general's office

  Nov 1995 - Jun 2000

  Assistant attorney general

  - Successfully represented Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDOT") in numerous eminent domain hearings and valuation trials wherein highway right of way was acquired.- Negotiated favorable settlements for CDOT in numerous eminent domain actions wherein right of way was acquired.- Co-counsel for successful defense of CDOT in NEPA action in U.S. District Court and 10th Circuit where citizen group sought to enjoin I-225/Parker Road interchange construction project based on allegations that CDOT’s environmental impact statement was inadequate.- Co-counsel for defense of CDOT in a similar NEPA lawsuit where citizens group sought to enjoin issuance of the Record of Decision for the Entrance to Aspen EIS on SH 82 based on allegations that CDOT’s environmental impact statement was inadequate. - Advised and assisted CDOT during all phases of rulemaking for modified Colorado State Highway Access Code.- Effectively defended CDOT in administrative appeals of Department’s determination of relocation benefits and appeals of CDOT’s denial of access permits.- Advised CDOT personnel on numerous issues concerning real property, eminent domain, constitutional law, environmental and transportation law. Prepared informal legal opinions. Show less

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  Colorado department of transportation

  Jun 2000 - Dec 2014

  Responsible for a complex multi-million dollar Region Right of Way Acquisition Program critical to success of CDOT’s mission. Manage a staff of 37 positions responsible for defining, valuing, acquiring, and managing right of way in compliance with state and federal requirements for Region transportation projects. Unit staff includes professionals in five specialty areas: Surveying, Preparation of Right of Way Plans, Appraisal, Acquisition Negotiation/Relocation, and Property Management. - Led effort to obtain emergency right of entries on an expedited basis for project that reconstructed SH 72 in Coal Creek Canyon following the devastating 2013 floods. Managed process to immediately define, value, and negotiate the acquisition of all required parcels shortly after obtaining such right of entries to ensure proper protection of all landowner’s property rights.- Devised functional replacement to provide property and funding to construct a replacement parking lot to mitigate critical impacts to school district property resulting from a partial acquisition. Timely completed this complex functional replacement to meet crucial design-build construction milestone.- Always innovatively increasing project efficiency. For example, FHWA’s recent Every Day Counts initiative changed a prior philosophy of discouraging the use of conditional right of way clearances to encouraging use of these clearances. Our Right of Way Unit quickly adapted to this change and now commonly uses conditional right of way clearances to creatively compress preconstruction time frames. Show less Responsible for a complex multi-million dollar Region Right of Way Acquisition Program critical to success of CDOT’s mission. Managed a staff of 25 positions responsible for defining, valuing, acquiring, and managing right of way in compliance with state and federal requirements for Region transportation projects. Unit staff includes professionals in five specialty areas: Surveying, Preparation of Right of Way Plans, Appraisal, Acquisition Negotiation/Relocation, and Property Management. - Provided leadership to successfully deliver right of way to support significant innovative project delivery methods, including the US 36 Managed Lanes Design-Build Project, the US 6 Bridges Design-Build Project, the 120th Avenue Connection Design-Build Project, and the Peoria over I-70 Construction Manager–General Contractor Project. Significantly contributed to ROW acquisition effort for $1.7B T-REX project.- Developed “Team Right of Way” project management method, whereby a representative from the Right of Way Unit’s Survey/ROW Plans, Appraisal, and Acquisition/Relocation specialties is assigned to every project requiring right of way acquisition. Team members are required to attend all project meetings from scoping to Field Office Review and are encouraged to interact effectively with each other, the design/construction team and other specialties to ensure project milestones are met. Concept developed after observing that inefficiencies occur in handoffs between internal Right of Way specialties and other project team members. Show less

  • Region 1 Right of Way Manager

    Jul 2013 - Dec 2014

  • Region 6 Right of Way Manager

    Jun 2000 - Jun 2013
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  Hdr

  Jan 2015 - now

  Senior right of way manager

  Enhancing HDR’s Real Estate Services practice by continuing to grow the Colorado Real Estate Services/Right of Way presence. Increasing HDR's Right of Way capacity and expertise, in addition it to growth in other specialties, uniquely positions HDR to more effectively meet is clients project delivery needs.