Candidate for
Recall of Gray Davis; State of California

Cheryl Bly-Chester

I am a small business owner, an engineer and professional problem solver. I have a career, credentials and/or experience in areas of California's most challenging issues including business ownership and management, energy and the environment, homeland security and emergency response, infrastructure design and construction, education, and earthquake studies.

I was born in San Francisco, California in 1957, the second of five children, to a father whose great-grandparents were all California pioneers (including one who was a forty-niner goldminer) and a mother who immigrated to this country in 1953. I couldn't tell you which one taught me to love California more. I have traveled in more than 80 countries gaining an appreciation of diverse cultures and religions. Whatever intolerance I may have had did not survive the journey.

EDUCATION

University of California, Davis: B.Sc. Civil Engineering, 1979.

American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird Campus, Glendale, Arizona: MBA/MIM, With Distinction, 1984.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Postgraduate Certificate in Nuclear Power Reactor Safety Systems, 1986.

STATE REGISTRATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS

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 Hazwhopper Training: 29CFR 1910.120 (1988).

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1997 - Present, Rosewood Environmental Engineering, Principal Engineer, Roseville, California.

1997 - 1999 Tetra Tech, Inc, Program Manager/Associate Engineer for the Center for Federal Operation and Maintenance Services, Roseville, California.

1991 - 1997, Levine -Fricke -Recon, Inc., Manager of Government Marketing, Senior Engineer, Roseville, California.

1989 - 1991, Kleinfelder, Inc., Manager of Environmental Assessment Group, Senior Engineer, Walnut Creek, California.

1988 - 1989, Dames & Moore, Subgroup Leader within the Geosciences Group, Senior Project Engineer, San Francisco, California.

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).

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.

1978 - 1979, Dr. Farhat Siddiqui - Consultant, Soils Laboratory Assistant, Davis, California.

1976 - 1979, California Department of Water Resources, Earthquake Engineering Section, Engineering, Assistant for Seismic Section and Survey Section, Sacramento, California.

ASSOCIATIONS ACTIVE:

• Director and Past President of the Sacramento Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (during Y2K readiness ramp up).

• Vice President of the Bay Area Ready Room of the Tailhook Association.

• Past President of the Sacramento Chapter of the Professional Environmental Marketers Association.

FORMER OR LESS ACTIVE ASSOCIAITONS:

• American Society of Civil Engineers.

• Rotary (Dublin, California).

• Building Industry Association (Placer County Environmental Committee).

• American Society of Testing and Materials, (E-50 Committee).

• American Bar Association (Sacramento County Environmental Section Associate Member).

• National Ski Industry Association (Environmental Committee).

• California Ski Areas Association.

• American Nuclear Society.

• American Whitewater Association.

• Friends of the River.

• California Scholastic Federation.

• Who's Who of California