DON M. BROWN PE

Objective

To obtain a position utilizing my experience in managing engineering firms, project management, business development, as well as my technical expertise.

Summary of Qualifications

Significant experience in designing and implementing successful programs for firms management, client management and project management including scheduling, staffing, revenue projections, backlog projections, utilizations, multipliers, project profitability and firms profitability. Developing and implementing strategies to enhance firms success and profitability.

Results-oriented, high-energy, hands-on professional, with a successful record in business development. Diverse experience includes developing new client bases in both the private and public sectors. Experience in working with DBE, MBE, and 8(A) firms.

Project management and technical expertise in the following areas: roadway design, transportation planning, erosion prevention and sediment control, NEPA compliance and environmental impact statements, environmental engineering, regional planning, landfills and solid waste management, commercial developments and residential developments.

Professional Accomplishments

Successful business development activities provided projects and workload to grow and diversify a firm from a staff of four to a staff of twenty in two years.

During an eighteen month period, developed a very significant engineering client base working for ten of the top twenty architects in Knoxville, TN.

During an eighteen month period, booked over $4,000,000 of fees on new transportation projects with the Tennessee Department of Transportation and over $2,000,000 of fees on new land development projects.

Prepared the final environmental impact statement on I-440 in Nashville, Tennessee, a complex controversial seven-mile segment of urban interstate. Served as an expert witness on behalf of the State in a federal lawsuit to stop construction of I-440.

Prepared the first groundwater corrective action plan for a municipal landfill in the State of Tennessee.

Significant successes in obtaining project approvals on complex controversial projects and coordinating the political, public relations, legal, community involvement and technical components required for approval of these projects.

Education

Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering / Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee

Professional Registrations

Professional Engineer in Tennessee and Kentucky