Rich leads PMA’s New York and New Jersey offices with extensive experience in the construction industry. He has expertise in all aspects of construction with emphasis on estimating, scheduling, and contract administration. Rich has provided construction management advice to a variety of public and private sector clients, and he has served as the deputy director of claims and changes on what has been called the largest, most complex highway construction effort in the United States. His experience covers power plants, cogeneration plants, transportation, hazardous waste, and architectural projects. Rich has authored papers on construction management and has lectured at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
Located in the heart of Manhattan’s Herald Square, the PMA New York office is just a short walk to a few of the city’s most famous attractions. The building is located next to all major subway lines and the staff at 1350 Broadway are invited to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade each year from the office windows. In the “city that never sleeps,” PMA New York began its professional journey in 1997 with a major transportation agency and grew substantially the following year when staff began providing services to a major port authority.
The PMA New York culture values diversity, inclusion, innovation, and collaboration. Professionals in this regional office come from many backgrounds and work continuously and collaboratively to provide innovative solutions to complex client problems. For the past 21 years, PMA New York has built a reputation as trusted advisors and provides the very best in scheduling, cost, risk, and claims management services for clients in transportation, utilities, water, pharmaceutical, and various other sectors.
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Leadership
•Richard Martone
Education
MBA, University of Houston; BS, Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University.Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- CMAA, Past President
•Edward Whelan
Edward Whelan
Managing Director, New York
Ed has extensive experience providing owner’s project manager/owner’s representative services, as well as claims analysis, project review/audit and evaluation, and contract administration on public projects valued from several million to billions of dollars. His expertise includes analyzing and negotiating complex changes and claims, advising on contract management issues, and performing cost/benefit analyses for justification of project decisions and funding. In addition to his experience at PMA, he also served for five years as a lieutenant with the U.S. Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps where he administered contracts valued at more than $40 million.
Education
BS, Civil Engineering, University of MassachusettsAffiliations
- American Bar Association
- Boston Society of Civil Engineers
•Deborah Palmer
Deborah Palmer
Managing Director, New York
Deborah serves as Managing Director of the PMA New York office. She has extensive hands-on experience in the design and construction of industrial and commercial construction projects, totaling in excess of $4 Billion. She has been both a GC/CM and OPM on projects and for programs ranging in value from $1M to $1.4B. Her demonstrated capabilities include managing project design teams/phases; budgeting and financial control; construction quality assurance/quality control; administration of design, risk management, and construction along with simultaneously coordinating the work of multiple project teams / trade contractors.
She brings to PMA the lessons learned from more than 31 years’ experience managing the construction of multi-million-dollar projects ranging from heavy industrial processing facilities to cancer research facilities, oil processing facilities, semi-conductor processing facilities, water and wastewater facilities and major convention centers.
Education
BA, Industrial Sociology/Minor in Architectural + Art History, University of Pittsburgh; Graduate Courses, International and Domestic Construction Contract Law, University of California, Berkeley.Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- American Institute of Architects
- Construction Management Association of America