Betty has more than 40 years of experience conducting environmental studies for regulatory compliance and impact assessments throughout the United States as well as international projects. She specializes in managing complex, controversial projects, while maintaining sensitivity to the potential for litigation, and approaches each project with an eye to preventing a viable challenge under the environmental process. Navigating Federal, State and international regulatory processes require a strategy that meets all legal requirements, even those that include contradictory requirements. While focusing on infrastructure, she has delivered roads, rail, ports, airports, dams, reservoirs, flooding, energy, mining, solid waste and military. She has taught environmental courses at the University of California-San Diego Extended Studies, University of San Diego, National Assoc. of Environmental Professionals and California Assoc. of Environmental Professionals. 
 
Based upon those experiences, Betty’ s approach to project management is a very applied approach, not focusing on theory. This course will focus on how to avoid surprises and right-size your management tools. In my experience, when dealing with scope, cost and schedule, surprises are never good news. In the class we will be looking at different tools to reduce surprises in scope, cost and schedule and how to adapt those tools to meet the needs of each project- one size does not fit all projects.
 
Betty earned her MS in Biology from Northern Arizona University and bachelor’s in biology from Franklin College. 
 
NAEP- Past President, President, Vice President, Board of Directors, Publication’s Committee Chair 
ABCEP -Board of Trustees, Certification Review Board
AEP- Legislative Review Committee Co-Chair