Teresa Pohlman

Dr. Teresa R. Pohlman has over 25 years of extensive
leadership experience managing all aspects of public and private sector
environmental and infrastructure program and product development. Her
background includes management positions with responsibility for $300
million to over $1 billion annual budgets for environmental,
infrastructure, and facility maintenance programs.

At
Headquarters Air Force, she was the Environmental Division Chief, and
managed the Air Force's $1 Billion environmental program, including
cleanup, compliance, conservation, and pollution prevention, for all
bases in the United States and overseas, including international
bilateral agreements with Russia , Norway , Argentina , and Italy . She
also served as an Air Force Regional Program Manager with the Air Force
Base Conversion Agency, for a $300 million program concerned with base
closure and disposal issues, closing five Air Force bases. While
working for the Navy, she served at the Naval Facilities Engineering
Command Headquarters as the Navy single point of contact for
environmental base closure issues, She also worked at the Naval Coastal
Systems Center in Panama City , Florida as the Project Manager for the
Chemical Warfare Protective Dive Suit.

As
the Tenant Activities Group Leader at the Pentagon Renovation Office
(PRO), she was responsible for the strategic master planning for the
entire Pentagon Renovation, other facilities on the Pentagon
Reservation, and other geographically dispersed sites for alternate
operations. She ensured that the strategic design and requirements for
these projects were consistent across the Department of Defense, among
the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and the other Defense
agencies. These requirements integrated operations and maintenance
considerations during construction, via the Design Process, where
multiple stakeholders participated to ensure renovation and
construction are accomplished without sacrificing mission continuity. In
addition, she managed the safety and occupational health program for
all projects in the Pentagon Renovation Office's $3 billion program,
including both renovation and new construction. She was also
responsible for coordinating the overall implementation strategy to
incorporate appropriate force protection projects, added to the
Pentagon Renovation Program as a result of the September attacks, into
the $1billion Pentagon renovation efforts. For their outstanding
efforts in sustainable construction, her Team won the Presidential
Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management, one of five awarded
in the federal government. In addition, she spearheaded the efforts for
LEED certification of three Pentagon Renovation projects, the Metro
Entrance Facility, the Pentagon Athletic Center , and the Remote
Delivery Facility.

Prior to the Department
of Defense, she worked for several defense contractors, and wrote
Program Management Plans, Operational Specifications, and Quality
Assurance Plans for research and development projects. She also
performed and directed power spectral density, moment of inertia, and
stress analysis of a large Navy ship cargo transfer crane, and analyzed
an inertial navigation system for shock and vibration effects. While
working at Rockwell International and NASA, she managed and executed
the installation and test of Orbiter Experiments on the Space Shuttle,
for the first three flights of the Columbia.