Mr. Nichols, as our Federal Program Manager, Western Region, has over thirty-one years of professional engineering experience; 21 years as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and 10 years in private practice.  As an officer in the USACE, he served in varied assignments such as a pipeline engineer and Assistant Chief, Maintenance and Engineering for the U.S. Army Petroleum Distribution System, Korea and as a Director of Public Works for the Bamberg Military Community, in Bamberg, Germany.  In the private sector, Mr. Nichols’s experience includes project and program management for multiple A-E and environmental design contracts for the federal government.  These contracts included projects for: the Jacksonville, Mobile, Savannah and Seattle Districts, USACE; the Eglin and Moody AFBs, Naval Air Station, Key West and Navy Public Works Center, Jacksonville; the USCG Civil Engineering Unit, Miami and the USCG Facilities Design and Construction Center, Pacific; the Florida Air National Guard and the Air National Guard nationwide; and the U.S. Park Service.  Mr. Nichols is ISO 9000 Auditor certified, implemented a company wide Quality Management System and has served as Corporate Quality Manager.

• Quality Assurance Reviewer. Performed thorough QA Review of April 2005 - External Partner Review Draft of the 2nd 5-year Review for the Bunker Hill Superfund Site, EPA Region 10, Kellogg, Idaho.  Reviewed the 2nd 5-years of this $170 million environmental cleanup of a 21-square-mile mining and smelting site; insuring that the review complied with all EPA contractual and regulatory guidance, and CH2M Hill’s Quality Management System (QMS) standards. Provided feedback and recommended changes to Program Manager responsible for project planning, staffing and coordination of multi-discipline design teams, budget and schedule control, and evaluation of remedial and contracting approaches for mining and ore processing-related contamination.

• Program/Project Manager. Responsible for providing assistance to the Seattle District, USACE, in timely scope development, preparation of fee proposals and negotiations, and execution of twenty-seven separate HTRW delivery orders with a value of approximately $2.4 Mil. Projects included a full scope of services pertaining to Ft. Lewis/Yakima Training Center Agreed Order/IRP projects, Bunker Hill Superfund Clean-Up, Hazardous Material Surveys and abatement designs in support of USAF MILCON, (Fairchild, Malmstrom and Mountain Home AFBs), and Reserve Component Support (i.e., Fort Lawton and Vancouver Barracks, Hazardous Material Surveys and abatement designs, and sediment and groundwater sampling at Pier 23, Port of Tacoma, Preliminary and Remedial Assessments, Remedial and Site Investigations, Feasibility Studies, Remedial Design of FUDS sites (i.e., NAAS Quillayute and the former Del Bonita AFS), geomorphology support of Skagit River Mitigation, Centralia Flood Damage Reduction, and the Skookumchuck River, Char Tagging and Distribution in the Snohomish River, and preparation of an Environmental Assessment for Malmstrom AFB.

• Program/Project Manager. Responsible for providing assistance to the Seattle District, USACE, in timely scope development, preparation of fee proposals and negotiations, and execution of fourteen separate HTRW delivery orders with a value of approximately $1.3 Mil and oversight for timely execution of an additional twenty-three separate HTRW delivery orders having a value totaling $1.7 Mil. Projects included a full scope of services pertaining to Manchester Fuel Depot Superfund Site, Ft. Lewis/Yakima Training Center Agreed Order/IRP projects, Bunker Hill Superfund Clean-Up, Hazardous Material Surveys and abatement designs in support of USAF MILCON, (Fairchild AFB, and Mountain Home AFB), and Reserve Component Support (i.e., Fort Lawton Hazardous Material Surveys and abatement designs, Preliminary and Remedial Assessments, Remedial and Site Investigations, Feasibility Studies, Remedial Design of FUDS sites (i.e., Kingsley Field, OR, former USAF missile sites at Sprague, Batum, Reardan, Egypt, WA and former NAAS Quillayute).

• Project QA Officer.  Developed Quality Assurance Plans for the Navy Technical Representative and their QA support staff for Operation and Maintenance of Sites A and F, Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, WA, and Area 6, Operable Unit 5, Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, WA.  The plans targeted needs during the oversight of operation and maintenance performed by an independent Navy Environmental Contractor. The plans included Quality Assurance Report formats with instructions and checklists to streamline usage during site visits and efficiently capture observations from groundwater remediation systems, on-site activities, preventative maintenance, and independent inspections.

• Program/Project Manager.  Responsible for two year, ID/IQ multi-discipline, A/E services contract with Jacksonville District, USACE.  The contract provided full scope design (i.e., all disciplines – architectural, mechanical, electrical, structural, geotechnical, environmental, civil, etc...) for support of Jacksonville District’s civil and limited military missions.  There were seven separate delivery orders including evaluation and close-out of EPA’s 40 CFR grant to Puerto Rico for a wastewater treatment plant upgrade that included only primary and secondary treatment.  This plant had been operational for the past four years however the construction contract was never closed out.  Assembled a five person, multi-disciplined team, conducted site visit consisting of comparing design to actual on-site conditions, authored a 70 page report documenting existing conditions compared to design, and cost-to-complete estimates and recommendations for closing out the EPA grant,  within 35 days of receiving the delivery order.  Another delivery order included the complete full-service designs for replacement of the Roosevelt Avenue Bridge spanning the Rio Puerto Nuevo River (i.e., Civil Works Project) in Puerto Rico.  This design included both the feature design memorandum and final design for a six lane bridge on a major thoroughfare, with alternate by-pass while under-construction and all coordination, permitting and progress reviews with Puerto Rican agencies.