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Alicia Ralston
At KeySource, Alicia focuses on leveraging her technical and relationship skills to deliver executive candidates to our clients. Prior to joining KeySource Alicia spent 14 years in the engineering and construction industry, as a strategic planner and business development consultant, helping to position various companies in the Energy and Defense sectors.
Alicia has managed projects and programs with life-cycle costs in excess of $1 Billion at sites including Weldon Spring, Fernald, and Mound. She enjoyed long relationships with Fluor and Washington Group (formerly MK, now URS). Some of Alicia’s career highlights are included below.
Alicia was instrumental in planning and executing a winning capture strategy for a +$500M turnkey DOE environmental cleanup and conversion of government facilities for commercial re-use. Alicia was selected for this assignment specifically to leverage existing relationships with local DOE and OEPA officials, and to grow new relationships with local stakeholders. As a Business Project Manager, Alicia was also responsible and accountable for developing U.S. business with the Defense sector east of the Mississippi.
Alicia developed and led a streamlined natural resource damage assessment negotiation between multiple state and federal government agencies and public interest groups avoiding extensive litigation and resulting in a $206 Million settlement by mitigating agreed-upon existing impacts to natural resources and avoiding and/or minimizing any future impact. Estimated mitigation costs and incurred negotiation costs totaled less than 10% of original damage claim. Alicia was enlisted to help other sites through the damage assessment process and co-authored The Role of Natural Resource Trustees in Implementing a Protective, Cost-Effective Remedy at the FEMP. Alicia facilitated and accelerated the siting/permitting/construction process for a large energy project repository over a high-yield, sole-source aquifer by creating trust-based relationships and building consensus among government agencies, the community, and special interest groups including the Sierra Club in a politically complex and time-challenged environment. Alicia helped developed a site strategy/approach for management of soil and debris. She co-authored Integrating Removal Actions and Remedial Actions – Soil and Debris Management at the Fernald Environmental Management Project for ‘95 Waste Management conference.
In addition to Alicia’s Federal experience, she has managed teams of environmental resource experts that provided oversight and review of energy siting and permitting projects in the private energy sector, including projects for Nevada Power Company. Projects required EA/EIS-level documents and required extensive public involvement and agency scoping and consultation. Alicia managed client expectations, facilitated consensus, and helped build and maintain relationships between the client and multiple agencies and stakeholders. Alicia began her career as a public relations officer at the Weldon Spring Site. Alicia was educated in Marketing/Communications from the University of Missouri, is trained facilitator, and holds a certification as a contract negotiation expert.
