Benn Burke

About Benn Burke

Experienced business group manager/program manager/project manager providing environmental sciences, planning, and environmental compliance expertise for a wide range of projects and clients throughout the Pacific Northwest. My portfolio as technical lead and project manager includes providing environmental documentation and permitting support services for transit, roadway, fish passage, and water and wastewater infrastructure, including regional transportation and wastewater megaprojects. I have experience working on large project teams throughout the entire process of project identification, planning, design, implementation, and post implementation compliance monitoring. My specific area of focus is leading environmental documentation and permitting for large multi-phase civil projects often complex and interrelated federal, state, and local permitting. My background is in natural science, but I have both planning and policy experience, including development code and regulation writing. I have over 30 years of overall industry experience, which has included managing operational units of 5 to 50+ scientists, planners, engineers, and cultural resources professionals. I have demonstrated success and expertise in operational leadership, business planning, revenue generation, staff development and mentoring, and fiscal management. I have a proven track record of business development, marketing, and contract acquisition. I have experience with a variety of business development approaches. Skills - Organizational- Management of Technical Programs- Management of Regional Operations including marketing and administrative Staff- Staff development and Mentoring- Strategic Planning and Business DevelopmentSkills - Professional and Technical- Permit strategy and risk management- Environmental planning and policy development- Environmental restoration planning, implementation and monitoring- Preparation of PS & E for wetland, floodplain, stream restoration, and fish passage projects- Environmental documentation, including NEPA, SEPA, Section 7 ESA consultations- Aquatic science and biology.

Experience

1. Senior Principal

   Confluence Environmental Company

   Apr 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• University of Vermont

  BS, Fish and Wildlife Biology

  1987 — 1991

Skills

• Marketing
• Wildlife
• Staff Management
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Water
• Fish
• Soil
• Wetlands
• Watershed Management
• Nepa
• Staff Development
• Natural Resources
• Environmental Compliance
• Cwa
• Restoration
• Proposal Writing
• Land Use
• Mitigation
• Environmental Permitting
• Water Resources
• Business Development
• Water Quality
• Fisheries
• Environmental Policy
• Environmental
• Wildlife Biology
• Coastal
• Permit Applications
• Environmental Awareness
• Environmental Planning
• Endangered Species
• Permitting
• Stream Restoration
• Ecological Restoration
• Environmental Science
• Environmental Education
• Environmental Consulting
• Ecology
• Stormwater Management
• Compliance