Kerri M. Howell, P.E., is a renowned expert in the field of corrosion engineering, and has nearly 25 years of civil experience including research, product development, planning, design and construction inspection in the transportation and corrosion control industries. She has extensive experience in corrosion evaluation and cathodic protection of atmospherically exposed reinforced concrete and steel structures/foundations, corrosion investigation of water and wastewater piping (both for internal and external corrosion), steam, gas and fuel piping, design and evaluation of corrosion control systems for water and wastewater plants and pipelines, material selection, coatings and linings, failure analysis, training and litigation/expert witness.

Since 2003, Kerri has served as president of Conceco/Matcor Engineering, Inc., and is responsible for operations and technical oversight for offices located in Simi Valley and Concord, California. Prior to Conceco/Matcor, Kerri was president of Atlantic Consultants, and Vice President of V & A Consulting Engineers. She started her career with the California Department of Transportation, and has also worked for Harco Corporation (Special Project Coordinator) and Ebonex Technologies (Corrosion Project Manager), where she was responsible for all aspects of the cathodic protection business including establishment of laboratory testing programs, field trial installations, market development and financial analysis for new anode materials for use in cathodic protection applications.

Kerri was awarded a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1980, and holds professional registrations as a Registered Corrosion Engineer in California, and a Registered Civil Engineer in the States of Alaska, California, Nevada, Washington and Pennsylvania. Professional affiliations include the American Water Works Association, Federal Highway Administration Expert Review Panel, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Pipeline Safety (Technical Advisory Committee for Standards for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines), National Association of Corrosion Engineers and the Steel Structures Painting Council. She has published and or presented over 35 papers since 1981 at numerous national, regional and local industry conferences, seminars and workshops.



Dan Rhoades, 68, has been active in soil mechanics and foundation engineering since 1959. Commencing as a principal and founder of an engineering practice, his experience has included studies throughout the western states on over 2,500 major projects, including deep and shallow foundations, waterfront construction, dike and levee design, oil, water and sewer pipelines, sub drainage, slide stabilization, hillside mass earth grading, land reclamation, construction methods, oil stabilization, erosion control, pavement engineering, waterproofing membranes and linings.

In addition, field and laboratory research studies have been conducted in the fields of anchors, concrete slabon-grade in expansive bay mud soil, heavy earth embankments, instrumentation, and associated soil mechanics phenomena. Dan has qualified as an expert witness on various material sciences and geotechnical matter in jurisdictions in California, Nevada, and Texas.

Dan was awarded a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1956 and 1957 respectively, as well as an M.B.A. and Professional Engineer status from Stanford in 1961. He is a State of California Registered Civil Engineer, Registered Geotechnical Engineer, Licensed Engineering Contractor, and Licensed Environmental Assessor.

Dan is a Past President of the Alameda County Chapter for the California Society of Professional Engineers, Past President of Northern California Construction Institute, and State Director of the California Society of Professional Engineers.



Gene St.Onge, 58, has over 30 years experience as a civil engineer in the private, public, domestic and international arenas. Currently, he serves as a principal at St. Onge and Associates, an Oakland, California-based firm specializing in civil and structural design. Gene has particular expertise in new buildings, unreinforced masonry construction, and retrofit and enhancement projects. His firm is noted for it's work in innovative, state of the art design (St. Onge and Associates designed the first residence in the world to employ a damper system for seismic resistance).

Beginning in 1974 at the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), Gene has held a variety of positions where he was responsible for the engineering and project management functions for a variety of commercial and industrial projects. He has prepared structural design contract documents for major building projects, acted as a principal designer, and headed up design teams. In addition, Gene developed and managed a VE program for both the Electrical Generating Authority and the Metropolitan Electricity Authority of Thailand, where he trained and managed 46 engineers and planners.

St. Onge was awarded a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tufts University, in 1968, and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University California at Berkeley, in 1974. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of California and Washington, and is a member the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Structural Engineers Society of Northern California (SEAONC), and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI).
Dan is a Past President of the Alameda County Chapter for the California Society of Professional Engineers, Past President of Northern California Construction Institute, and State Director of the California Society of Professional Engineers.



Clyde Trego has a lifetime of experience in the construction industry, including more than 20 years in the key areas of design, estimating, and project management.

Clyde received a Bachelors of Science in Construction Management from Colorado State University, and has performed follow-on work at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, as well as the University of California at Davis and the Solar Living Institute, where he received, respectively, certificates in Green Building/Sustainable Design and Photovoltaic's.

For over 20 years, Clyde worked for Actus Lend Lease, a subsidiary of the Lend Lease global family which includes Bovis Lend Lease, a fully integrated real estate services company offering development, asset/property management, design and construction services. Working exclusively through the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI), a program that provides for the transfer of military housing assets to private-sector companies, Actus has created fully master planned, mixed-use communities throughout the United States, delivering in excess of $6 billion in military housing with nearly 40,000 residential units in its portfolio.

Most recently, Clyde was Senior Vice President of Design & Construction for Actus, and managed the company's business design and construction opportunities throughout the South Pacific and Asia. He managed design and pre-construction efforts with the upcoming $15 billion relocation of Marine units from Okinawa to Guam, and the $1.3 billion military housing project at Camp Humphreys in South Korea, where he developed a team that, along with Hyundai Development Group, bid the project. In addition to this work, he has been involved in over 50, large-scale residential military housing projects valued at over $4.25 billion, delivering thousands of units in New York, California, South Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Virginia, New Mexico, Illinois, and Hawaii.

Other positions at Actus have included Vice President Design/Pre Construction & Project Controls, Chief Estimator/Director of Design, and Estimator/Project Administrator. He began his career in 1988 as a Project Superintendent.



Eric T. "Rick" Olson began his distinguished military career after graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1972, and achieved the rank of Major General before retiring from the United States Army in 2006. His first duty position was as platoon leader in the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Carson, Colorado, and in a military career spanning 33 years, has commanded at every level from platoon to division, spending his last three years of service as the Commanding General of the 25th Infantry Division (Light) based at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He also served as the Commander of Combined, Joint Task Force-76, responsible for all security and reconstruction operations in Afghanistan.

Rick has held several staff positions in joint, combined, and the Department of the Army staffs, including service in the U.S. Embassy, Baghdad, as Deputy Director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office and Director of the National Coordination Team. He also served as the Chief of Staff and Special Advisor to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction in Washington, DC.

Rick received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy, and a Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, he has attended the United States Command and General Staff College, the Defense Language Institute, and completed a Senior Service College Fellowship at Georgetown University. He was the 68th Commandant of Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 2000 to 2002.

Rick Olson currently works as an independent consultant, on contract with Northrop-Grumman Company performing duties as a senior mentor to Army units and interagency Provincial Reconstruction Teams deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior to heading up the National Coordination Team, he served as the Vice President of MPEG LA (China). As a senior executive for this patent license firm, the leader in the field, he was responsible for the initiation of the first-ever effort to promote intellectual property rights and a patent license model in China.