We provide legal and business consulting
services, particularly relating to contracts,
construction management, and small business
development.
Representative clients have included:

  • Washington Department of Transportation – I served on the Expert Review Board for the $3.6 billion SR 520 Bridge
    Project, studying innovative contracting and procurement strategies as well as helped evaluate a strategy for
    implementing, the alliance method of contracting.

  • Hatch, Mott, MacDonald - I am a member of the Strategic Technical Analysis Team hired by this company as
    consultants to the Washington Department of Transportation for the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Project.

  • Contractor’s Development & Competitiveness Center – I am helping create a progressive training program that will
    empower small business owners to create and implement aggressive growth strategies.

  • New Life LLC – We have a close relationship with this non-profit organization and provide legal services and small
    business development counselling when requested and available.

  • Triton Marine Construction – I assist with analyzing and presenting construction claims relating to Triton’s
    government projects.

  • Seattle School District – I helped develop and implement a public involvement process for the District’s construction
    program.

Examples of experience with issues related to construction law and public works contracting:

  • Whatcom Transit Authority - I have conducted numerous project partnering sessions for this agency.

  • Seattle Monorail Project, Seattle Washington - I assisted with contract risk assessment and mitigation, third party
    utility agreement negotiations, Project Labor Agreement negotiations as well as developed and a program designed
    to increase the participation of small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses in the project.

  • Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington - I developed the first design-build procurements used at Sound Transit as well
    as negotiated third party utility agreements, facilitated Sound Transit’s first partnering sessions and participated in
    the consensus-based bargaining used to develop the agency’s Project Labor Agreement.  I also helped Sound
    Transit implement an owner controlled insurance program for a design-build tunnel project.

  • City of Sedro-Woolley, Washington - I served as contract City Engineer reviewing plans for private development as
    well as managing City projects.

  • METRO Technical Services Division, Seattle, WA - I served as construction counsel for the $578 million West Point
    Treatment Plant Project as well as advised the agency's MWBE program office and initiated Project Partnering

  • Academic teaching experience - I have taught graduate level programs in the following topics:
      
  • construction management
  • alternative project delivery.
  • organizational development
  • managerial communications.

  • Continuing Education Programs - I have conducted professional development programs or presentations relating to
    the following topics:

  • construction law,
  • public works contracting
  • project partnering
  • organizational development
  • small business development
       
       
Examples of experience working with public owners

  • City of Homer, Alaska

    I created and implemented standards and comprehensive plans for the City's facilities, including water, sewer,
    roads, and harbors; reviewed plans for, and inspected the construction of, private developments; and managed
    the City's capital improvement program, including contract development and claims resolution;

  • City of Valdez, Alaska                                                                        

    I managed the design and construction of "small projects", costing less than $10 million, including contract
    development and claims resolution; initiated the first design/build project in the City, including a public
    involvement process that encouraged the users to participate in the planning and design process; regularly
    reported to the City Council, Planning and Zoning Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission and
    Museum Board.
       
  • U.S. Public Health Service, Anchorage, Alaska                                        

    I assisted the USPHS with the design and construction of  water/sewer facilities in the villages of Alaska,
    performing design and constructability reviews; working with USPHS Superintendents and local labor forces to
    build the facilities;  and managing significant cross-cultural, logistical and language issues in the villages.