Owner Cheryl Bly-Chester, P.E., has locations in Roseville, California in the Sacramento Area and in Truckee, California in the Tahoe Area. She is licensed as a Professional Civil Engineer in California and is also a California Registered Environmental Assessor (REA) as well as a Nevada State Certified Environmental Manager (CEM).

Since entering the hazardous materials environmental field in 1987, Ms. Bly-Chester has performed or directed over 500 environmental projects involving site assessment, investigation, and remediation at a variety of commercial and industrial facilities located primarily in California and Nevada, but also in 22 States and 13 countries. Ms. Bly-Chester's environmental project experience includes hydrogeologic surveys, hazardous waste investigations and remediation, underground storage tank investigations, asbestos remediation, litigation support, and operations and maintenance (O&M) of Soil Vapor Extraction systems and Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plants. She served as the Program Manager for a $150 million O&M contract at McClellan Air Force Base. She has consulted on sites including electronics facilities, plastics facilities, food production plants, recycling facilities, electrical generation facilities (e.g.: cogeneration plants, biomass, geothermal, industrial heat exchange, nuclear, solar and wind energy), automobile manufacturing sites, highways and highway structures, railroad corridors and facilities, airports, landfills, mines and quarries, natural gas well sites, bioresearch facilities, medical/hospital facilities, military bases, service stations, dry cleaners, telecommunications centers, agricultural sites, forest lands, nurseries, wineries, golf and ski resorts, warehouses, and commercial, retail, and office buildings.

Cheryl Bly-Chester Background

EDUCATION

University of California, Davis: B.Sc. Civil Engineering, 1979 
American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird Campus, Arizona: MBA/MIM, With Distinction, 1984.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Postgraduate Certificate in Nuclear Power Reactor Safety Systems, 1986.
University of Phoenix, Current Doctoral Candidate, Management and Organizational Leadership.

STATE REGISTRATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS

California Safety Assessor, Governor's Office of Emergency Services (SAPV60476)\
California Basic Educational Skills Test (2002).
Professional Civil Engineer: California, No. 34358 (1982).
Professional Civil Engineer: Virginia, No. 18375 (1988).
Certified Environmental Manager: Nevada, No. EM-1355 (1993).
Registered Environmental Assessor-: California, No. 1002 (1989).
OSHA 8 Hour Refresher and Supervisor Training (1988).
OSHA 40-Hour HazWHopER Training: 29CFR 1910.120 (current update) (1988).

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2006-Present, Member of the California Mining and Geology Board (Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointment.)
1997 - Present, Rosewood Environmental Engineering, Owner and Principal Engineer, Roseville, California.
2005 - 2006 , Vice President of the California Board of Reclamation (Governor Schwarzenegger Appointment).
1997 - 1999, Tetra Tech, Inc, Program Manager/Associate Engineer for the Center for Federal Operation and Maintenance Services, Roseville, California ($150 million contract limits in military base clean-up).
1991 - 1997, Levine -Fricke -Recon, Inc., Manager of Government Marketing, Senior Engineer, Roseville, California. Environmental Consultant.
1989 - 1991, Kleinfelder, Inc., Manager of Environmental Assessment Group, Senior Engineer, Walnut Creek, California. Environmental Consultant.
1988 - 1989, Dames & Moore, Subgroup Leader within the Geosciences Group, Senior Project Engineer, San Francisco, California. Environmental Consultant.
1985 - 1988, ERC International, Energy and Environment Group, Senior Consultant, Fairfax, Virginia (formerly IEAL of Washington D.C. and subsequently Ogden Energy and Environment Group.) Nuclear and Alternative Energy Consultant.
1983 - 1984, Nurse Aide and Amanuensis to a fellow grad-student and quadriplegic.
1979 - 1983, CALTRANS, Structures Design and Structures Construction Section, Transportation Engineer, Sacramento, California.
1979 - 1984, Whitewater kayak instructor and river guide, Primarily in Northern California and Oregon, but also across the USA and internationally.
1978 - 1979, Dr. Farhat Siddiqui - Consultant, Soils Laboratory Assistant, Davis, California.
1976 - 1979, California Department of Water Resources, DWR, Earthquake Engineering Section; Engineering Assistant for Seismic Section and Survey Section, Sacramento, California. 

Cheryl Bly-Chester’s great-great grandmother was born in Colusa County California before the Gold Rush and all of her great grandparents on her father’s side were in California before 1860; whereas her mother is a German immigrant. Ms. Bly-Chester enjoys skiing, whitewater sports and travel. She has traveled up and down California, to all 50 states and more than 65 countries visiting family and friends, as well as for business and adventure. She lives with her three children in Roseville, Placer County and owns vacation property in South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County.

Rosewood Environmental Engineering
1000 Sunrise Blvd. Suite 9B-122
Roseville, CA 95661
(916) 721-8557
(916) 721-8339 (fax)
cherylblychester@aol.com

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