Independent Consultant Services -- management, leadership, engineering, education, and marketing for the private, government, academic, and volunteer sectors.

Professional Society and Education Institution Clients | Business Clients | Government Clients

The relevance and effectiveness of my services, as summarized below, builds on earlier work as an employed PE in the private, government, and academic sectors. During those portions of my career, I functioned as a project manager, department head, discipline manager, litigation consultant, marketer, instructor, professor, and dean of an engineering college. Two decades of practice as a Consultant-Teacher-Author followed.

Parallel work as a volunteer in professional and community organizations enabled me to add value while learning from some very capable and committed individuals. The preceding varied and rich work and volunteer experience enables me to understand client and stakeholder wants and needs and apply best practices to address them.

Listed here are my over 30 clients—many of which I served multiple times—and the services provided. If you want to contact any of my clients to learn more about the listed projects or for a personal reference, please let me know via email at: stu-walesh@comcast.net.

Name	Headquarters/ Main Office	Examples of Services Provided
American Council of Engineering Companies	Washington, DC	Presented the webinar Developing an Innovative Culture in Your Firm: Benefits and How To
American Society of Civil Engineers	Reston, VA	Presented, beginning in 2002, over 340 managing and leading webinars organized in five categories. 1) Communication: listening, writing, speaking, and meeting planning; 2) Personal development: goal setting, ten tips for success and significance, time management, delegation, leadership, effective conference attendance, mentoring creativity/innovation, and dealing with difficult behavior; 3) Professional practice: team essentials, liability, marketing, and flying solo; and 4) Project management: transitioning to project management, project planning, project communication, scope creep, Earned Value Method (EVM), quality, and the Critical Path Method (CPM); and 5) Other: ethics, strategic planning, and working smarter. Helped to plan and lead a Mentoring Workshop as part of a pilot program in partnership with the San Diego Section of ASCE. Recorded, for sale on cassettes, the program On Your Own which describes how, as an entrepreneur, to start an independent consultant business. Created and recorded the audio-visual program Management and Leadership Skills for the New Engineer
Boston Society of Civil Engineers	Boston, MA	Led the seminar From Project Engineer to Project Manager: Look Before You Leap
California Polytechnic State University; American Society of Civil Engineers Geo-Institute and Japanese Geotechnical Society	San Luis Obispo, CA	Retained to provide the keynote Innovation presentation at August 2016 Geoenvironmental Workshop.
Castilla La Mancha, University of	Ciudad Real, Spain	Taught the one week Project Management – Communication portion of the post-graduate Leadership in Civil Engineering Course (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011). The class consisted of the two top students from each of the ten Spanish universities having civil engineering programs.
New Haven, University of	West Haven, CT	Developed Thinking Creatively to Drive Innovation an asynchronous online module used by universities in the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) Prepared the module Resolving Ethical Issues for use by KEEN engineering colleges.
Wisconsin, University of, Department of Engineering Professional Development	Madison, WI	Presented webinars on project planning, scope creep, and managing and leading lessons. Conducted the two-day workshop Innovation for Civil and Environmental Professionals: A Whole-Brain Approach.

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Name	Headquarters/ Main Office	Examples of Services Provided
Blue Sky Financial Partners	Valparaiso, IN	Presented and discussed You, Your Brain, and the Rest of Your Life.
Bonar Group	Fort Wayne, IN	Guided creation of a multi-year mentoring program. Facilitated preparation of a project management handbook. Helped plan and conduct a stormwater management workshop for elected and appointed officials. Tutored an engineer, while doing a project with him, on computer modeling, development and evaluation of alternatives, client and public meetings/presentations, and report preparation.
BSA Life Structures	Indianapolis, IN	Facilitated lessons learned sessions for project managers.
CDM	Cambridge, MA	Co-authored the Ethics in the Consulting Business course. Helped author the Surface Water and Storm Water Rules Guidance Manual for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Served as an outside consultant in the creation of CDM University, the company’s comprehensive education and training program. Spoke about The Thrive Five at the annual corporate awards dinner.
Christopher B. Burke	Indianapolis, IN	Edited Indiana Fluvial Erosion Hazard (FEH) Mitigation Manual
Clark Dietz, Inc.	Chicago, IL	Assisted with preparation of corporate project management philosophy and policies and a project management guide. Presented webinars on asking and listening, writing, speaking, time management, marketing and scope creep. Helped create a construction engineering webinar and coached the presenter. Assisted with the planning and presentation of project management workshops. Presented or co-presented these topics: communication, collaboration, marketing, client service, project planning, minimizing liability, quality assurance, and quality control. Facilitated three client round tables that addressed long-term wants and needs.
DLZ	Columbus, OH	Participated in the company's seminars by presenting sessions about ethics in the consulting business, project communication, and scope creep.
Donohue and Associates, Inc.	Sheboygan, WI	Assisted with QA/QC on an innovative solution to an urban flooding problem. Facilitated client-consultant meetings leading to the design of a combination pumping station - community recreation/education building in a city’s riverfront park. Prepared a white paper about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics).
Earth Tech/Rust Environment & Infrastructure	Long Beach, CA	Led development of the company-wide Technical Practice Network. Presented seminars on the role and selection of consultants, writing, delegation, scope creep, liability, and ethics. Presented the topic Change: What Does and What Doesn’t at a retreat of water resources specialists. Coached a newly-appointed department head on managing and leading best practices. Assisted with varied water resources engineering marketing efforts.
Engineering Management Institute	Basking Ridge, NJ	Presented the webinar How to Innovate More by Avoiding the Design Fixation Trap
Hinshaw and Culbertson	Milwaukee, WI	Provided expert analysis and opinion for two contentious situations that developed between an engineering firm and its clients.
JFNew	Walkerton, IN	Presented a management seminar which included: leading vs. managing, goal setting, time management, delegation, motivating personnel, and team essentials.
Leggett, Brashears & Graham	Shelton, CT	Led the workshop The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Marketers at the annual meeting of Principals and Associates. Spoke at the Annual Senior Manager's Meeting about: The Leader Within: The Seven Qualities of Leaders, Strategic Planning: The Good and Bad (Look Before You Leap), and 12 Marketing Tips: Is Marketing Everyone's Business?
Midwest GeoSciences Group	Carmel, IN	Presented webinars about marketing, project planning, project communication, scope creep, time management, and writing. Partnered in offering webinars that advocate reducing the adverse effects of engineering licensure-exemption laws.
MSA Professional Services	Baraboo, WI	Assisted with the preparation of the company’s Project Management Manual.
National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA)	Carmel, IN	Co-presented the webinar Innovation: It’s in the Brain. Authored Design Fixation: How to Avoid It and Innovate More published in Precast Inc. Magazine.
PBS&J	Miami, FL	Provided advice on creation of a corporate university which was subsequently established as PBS&J University. Presented an ethics seminar for the future leaders group. Suggested strategies and tactics for recruiting personnel. Spoke at the first annual meeting of the Environmental Services Practice on the Topic Marketing – What Clients Are Looking For. Conducted seminars on time management, delegation, effective conference attendance, meeting planning, and preparing and presenting/publishing a professional paper.
Pennoni Associates, Inc.	Philadelphia, PA	Assisted with planning and presentation of management workshops. Presented these topics: transition from project engineer to project manager, quality, errors and omissions, project communications, scope creep, Earned Value Method, lessons learned, and benchmarking. Helped with the design of Pennoni Associates Institute, the company’s comprehensive education and training program.
Wright Water Engineers	Denver, CO	Prepared a white paper titled The Engineer’s Competency Responsibility which discussed errors and omissions. Provided research results describing a PE’s duty.

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Name	Headquarters/ Main Office	Examples of Services Provided
City of Evansville Water and Wastewater Board	Evansville, IN	Advised the utility and city on how to proceed, in terms of organization and process, with implementation of a consent decree that requires mitigation of combined sewer overflows over the next 20-plus years.
Indiana Department of Natural Resources	Indianapolis, IN	Facilitated the work of government personnel and private sector volunteers leading to the publication of General Guidelines for the Hydrologic-Hydraulic Assessment of Floodplains in Indiana.
Transportation Learning Network	Fargo, ND	Presented the webinars Quality: What Is It and How Do We Achieve It?; Innovation in Engineering: How to Do It; Improving Project Communication: Within and Outside of the Project Team; and From Project Engineer to Project Manager: Look Before You Leap.
Indiana Department of Transportation and Purdue University	West Lafayette, IN and Indianapolis, IN	Led an ad hoc team of Department of Transportation and university professionals in the development of comprehensive project planning and project management materials subsequently used in an intensive workshop series titled Formalizing the INDOT Project Management Process.
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency	Washington, DC	Researched and wrote Street Storage System for Control of Combined Sewer Surcharge.
City of Valparaiso	Valparaiso, IN	Studied the economic and technical feasibility of creating a stormwater management utility. Assisted with reengineering of the water department. Facilitated the work of an advisory panel charged with exploring the “pros” and “cons” of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe versus ductile iron (DI) pipe. Assisted with the creation of a strategic plan for the city utilities. Coached a department head to enable him to create a team culture within a historically divisive group and to lead his group in contributing to the utility strategic plan. Facilitated the work of the Fluoride Commission charged with making recommendations concerning whether or not the Valparaiso City Utilities should continue adding fluoride to the city's water supply. Led the half-day workshop Working Smarter: More Effective, Efficient, and Innovative that concluded with four teams starting to resolve high priority challenges.