Areas of Expertise:

Background:

As Chief Executive Officer and a Principal of The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc., Dr. Patricia Galloway oversees all aspects of the firm’s Risk Management, Management Consulting and Dispute Resolution services. Dr. Galloway’s Risk Management experience includes project planning and ongoing project execution, risk assessment and analysis, trend evaluations and risk reduction plans for public and private projects in the transportation, infrastructure, power, process, oil and gas and building sectors. Dr. Galloway has written and lectured extensively on the subject of risk management and has served as an in-house instructor on risk management for both Owners and Contractors. She has served as an advisor to multiple Owner and Contractor clients and served as a member of various Risk Management assessment and review panels. In addition, Dr. Galloway has assisted and been actively involved in developing and setting up Risk Management corporate-wide programs for multinational companies around the world. Representative Project Specific Risk Management engagements include multibillion dollar Rail Projects, the Kuala Lumpur Airport, a pharmaceutical plant in Singapore and the Melbourne City Link Project in Australia. Engagements have included risk assessments and ongoing risk monitoring for EPC Contractors and Owners. She has also served as Project Manager and Scheduling Engineer for major projects (design, construction and fast track) using computer automated systems.

In Nielsen-Wurster’s Management Consulting Division, Dr. Galloway’s engagement experience includes analyses of Board of Directors roles and responsibilities, management structures and performance, evaluation of operations, management processes, contract development and form, project controls, contract administration, claims avoidance, schedule delay, value engineering and others. She has performed Management Consulting services for major US and non-US companies and public agencies including Japan and Australia throughout the construction, process, power and transportation sectors. She also lectures and presents seminars on project controls, management, Board of Director roles and responsibility and leadership to private firms, corporations and professional society organizations.

Mega projects, by industry definition, are very large investment projects that attract a high level of public attention or political interest because of substantial direct and indirect impacts on the community, environment, and budgets. They are generally defined as major infrastructure projects that cost more than $1 billion.

Dr. Galloway has significant global experience with mega projects costing several times this minimum definition. She has lead teams on engagements like Crossrail Project, London, United Kingdom at £10 billion; Consortium Contractor, Marine Facility, Europe at $6 billion; Rockport Works Steel Mill Facility, Rockport, Indiana, United States at $1.1 billion; Refinery Upgrade and Pipeline Project, North America at over $1 billion; and International LNG Terminal, North America at $1 billion.

Her Dispute Resolution engagement experience includes projects throughout the world: refineries, offshore platforms, oil depots, LNG facilities, petrochemical plants, gas pipelines and compression modules, power plants (nuclear, fossil fuel, gas-fired, combined-cycle, hydroelectric, waste-to-energy), hotels, casinos, stadiums, commercial offices, hospitals, universities, civic and convention centers, parking garages, process plants, wastewater treatment plants, landfills, airports, highways, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, railroads, port facilities, dams, bulk pharmaceutical plants, manufacturing and other projects.

Dr. Galloway has served as both a consulting and testifying expert. She has presented expert witness testimony in numerous formal court proceedings, domestic (AAA) and International arbitration forums (International) Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitrations, UNCITRAL, SAIC, London), and public utility rate hearings. Dr. Galloway also serves as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association on both commercial and construction litigation cases and is a member of its Construction Arbitrators Master Panel.

In the past Dr. Galloway has been an Arbitrator on numerous construction cases, Member of Dispute Review Boards, Expert Witness in arbitrations and court presentations, Facilitator for partnering workshops, Instructor in several forums such as seminars, course instructor for private and public entities, a past guest Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Bologna, Italy, and is currently a visiting Professor at Kochi University of Technology in Kochi, Japan and Harbin University of Technology in Harbin, China.

Dr. Galloway is an internationally recognized leader in civil engineering and construction arena. In November of 2003, Dr. Galloway was inducted as the first woman President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and recently was appointed by President Bush to the National Science Board. She also serves as a Director for another Nielsen-Wurster subsidiary, Pegasus Global Holdings.

Dr. Galloway has extensive international experience having traveled to more than 90 countries and having worked on numerous domestic and international engagements.

Before joining Nielsen Wurster, Dr. Galloway was employed by CH2M Hill. Her responsibilities at CH2M Hill included preparation of project management training course, project controls including estimating and critical path scheduling and tunnel inspection, being the first woman tunnel inspector in Wisconsin. 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 manager's training series.

Registrations:

• Professional Engineer in the following US locations:
  • Arizona #16978
  • Colorado #28566
  • Florida #44498
  • Georgia #031939
  • Kansas #19495
  • Kentucky #17690
  • New Hampshire #12184
  • New Jersey #GE-29321
  • New York #060684-1
  • Pennsylvania #PE-046146-R
  • Washington #28262
  • Wisconsin #21786-006
  • Wyoming #PE-4974
• Professional Engineer in the following Global locations:
  • Australia, FIEAust CPEng #1194740
  • Canada, Province of Manitoba #15061
• Certified Examiner, National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) #12046
• Certified Project Management Professional #0012-84
• Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC)
• Member of the ICDR Panel of Arbitrators
• Member of the AAA Panel of Arbitrators
• Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Faculties of Project Management and Risk Management (MRICS)
• Registered in the International Registry of Professional Engineers in the discipline of Civil Engineering, Construction Management by the United States Council for International Engineering Practice (USCIEP) #131
• Private Pilot

Board of Director Memberships:

• The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc., 1984 - Present
• Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc., 2000 - Present
• Unionville Vineyards (Partner), 1986 - Present
• Nielsen-Wurster Asia-Pacific Pty. Ltd., 2001 - 2008

Non-Profit Board of Director Memberships:

• National Science Board, 2006 - Present
• Construction Industry Institute, 2006 - Present
• Order of the Engineer, National Board of Governors, 2004 - Present
• Purdue University Dean’s Advisory Board, Engineering Visiting Committee, 2004 - Present
• Engineers for a Sustainable World, Member of Advisory Board, 2003 - Present
• Project Management Institute, College of Scheduling, 2003 - Present
• National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee, 2004 - 2006
• National Science Foundation International Directorate Advisory Committee, 2006
• Pan American Academy of Engineering, 2006
• American Society of Civil Engineers, 1992 - 1995, 2002 - 2005
• Construction Institute, 2004 - 2005
• Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF), Member of Corporate Advisory Board, 2001 - 2005
• Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF), 2002 - 2004
• Purdue University Engineering Alumni Board, 1992 - 2001
• Hoover Medal Award Board, 1996 - 1999
• Project Management Institute, Publications Advisory Board, 1991 - 1993

Awards:

• Engineering Excellence and Leadership Award, George Mason University, 2007
• CSI Michelangelo Award Panel of Judges, 2006 - 2007
• Pan American Academy of Engineering, 2006
• Sigma Kappa Colby Award, 2006
• “Who’s Who in America,” Edition 59, 2005
• Key Women in Energy-Global Awards, Energy Leaders Council, 2005
• National Academy of Construction, 2005
• “Who’s Who of American Women,” Edition 24, 2004 - 2005 (listed since 1983)
• “Who’s Who in the World,” Edition 22, 2004
• “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering,” Edition 8, 2004
• YWCA Tribute to Women Honoree, 2004
• Society of Women Engineers’ Upward Mobility Award, 2003
• Kentucky Governor Award-Kentucky Colonel, 2002
• “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering,” 2002
• Lafayette High School Hall of Fame, Inducted 2001
• National Academy of Engineering: Celebration of Women, 2000
• White House Commission: 2000 Design Award, 1999
• 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
• “Distinguished New Engineer,” Society of Women Engineers, 1980

Education and Courses:

• Ph.D., Infrastructure Systems (Civil) Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan
• M.B.A., New York Institute of Technology, New York, Magna cum Laude
• B.S., Civil Engineering (double major in Structures and Construction Management), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
• Chairing a Panel, American Arbitration Association
• Award Writing, American Arbitration Association, Atlanta, Georgia
• International Training for Dispute Resolution, International Symposium in Advanced Case Management Issues, American Arbitration Association, New York, New York
• Arbitrator II Training (Advanced Case Management Techniques), American Arbitration Association, Washington, D.C.
• Construction Industry Arbitrator Workshop, American Arbitration Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Dispute Review Board Administration and Practice Workshop, The Dispute Review Board Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts
• Sustainability & the Built Environment, The Practicing Institute of Engineering, Inc., 2005, presented by The Institution of Civil Engineers and The American Society of Civil Engineers, The Harvard Club, New York