About Nigel Blampied, P.E.
Director, Caltrans Quarter Century Club, District 4
Registered Civil Engineer, California, No. 36160
Professional Engineer, South Africa, No. 780133
Caltrans (Retired)
1982-2011
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While in District 7, Nigel, perpetual student that he was, and still is, took courses in Cross-Cultural Studies at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, earning an MA in 1985.
In February, 1992, Nigel transferred to Caltrans District 3, taking a position as Project Manager and Design Branch Chief for several State Highway projects in northern Sacramento County and Placer County, a position he held until February, 1993, when he was promoted to Chief, Office of Workload and Data Management in Caltrans Headquarters, where, for the next 5 years, until 1998, he directed and defended the documentation of the annual $1 Billion capital outlay support budget and multi-year workload projections. |
In February, 1998, Nigel was promoted to Chief, Office of Statewide Project Management Process Improvement, where, over the next 10 years, he led the 100-member Statewide Project Management Improvement Team, which was divided into several sub-teams that re-engineered the processes that Caltrans uses to manage State Highway projects. He also led the early stages of the development of a comprehensive training program for the more than 10,000 Caltrans employees who worked on State Highway projects. This training program received funding from the California Legislature in 2000, with a commitment of $12,000,000 per year for 3 years to provide specific training in each of the 491 work breakdown structure elements performed by state employees to deliver highway projects. This funding provided for 47 full-time state employee instructors and 9 state employees as support staff, together with $6,700,000 for operating expenses (outside instructors, facilities, materials, travel, and equipment). The training covered all aspects of state employee work on highway projects and was not limited to project management. |
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From 1999 to 2001 he was also a core editorial team member for the Project Management Institute's Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures (PMI 2001) and, from 2002 to 2004, for the PMBOK® Guide - Third Edition (PMI 2004). |
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Also, from 1999 to 2002, he led a 26-person volunteer team that wrote the Government Extension to a Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI 2002). This team came from 8 countries and represented 17 government departments and 7 consulting firms. |
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