Staff

Jeff Ottesen, P.E., PSP, CFCC is President and founder of Alta Cascade, Inc. Prior to founding Alta Cascade, Mr. Ottesen served as a Senior Associate and Northwest Regional Manager at an internationally renowned claims firm in Seattle, Washington where he managed multiple claims and schedule delay assignments and a staff of eleven people. Mr. Ottesen has more than 19 years combined professional experience in dispute resolution services, construction management, transportation planning and highway geometric design. He has been involved extensively in EPC contractor management process improvements and training engagements in the Power, Transportation and Heavy Civil sectors. He is skilled in modeling complex analytical, organizational and cognitive processes, and then simplifying them into concise, understandable elements. Mr. Ottesen has also worked with city, county and state authorities. He is a registered professional Civil Engineer in Washington, Utah and Wyoming. Mr. Ottesen has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Scott Palmer, P.E. has more than 12 years professional experience. In addition to highway design, his experience includes serving as the UDOT Section Design Coordinator (July 1998 to March 2001) on the I-15 Reconstruction Project where responsibilities included representing UDOT in a construction oversight role, reviewing plans for contract compliance, evaluating field design changes, evaluating schedule and design progress payments on monthly invoices averaging $7 million and performing final acceptance construction inspections. Mr. Palmer understands the interactions and potential pitfalls between design drawings and actual field construction methodology. Mr. Palmer is an expert in P3, P5 and P6 CPM scheduling with experience in construction claims preparation and rebuttal, and in preparing expert reports. He is a registered professional Civil Engineer in Washington, Utah and Wyoming. Mr. Palmer received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University.

Greta Martin, P.E., is a registered professional Civil Engineer in the state of Washington and brings 11  years of industry experience including six years in solely providing claims analyses and/or expert witness testimony. She is skilled in P3 scheduling software, schedule delay, disruption acceleration, early completion, change orders, causation and responsibility and damages for large construction projects. Retained by the owner, Ms. Martin was listed as the testifying expert on a power plant construction project in Alaska. Her presenting of the delay analysis findings helped facilitate settlement with the contractor in mediation. Recent assignments include detailed CPM schedule analyses for large rail, water treatment and high rise building projects. She has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington.

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Jason Krum is a registered Engineer-in-Training with the State of Washington. He performs stormwater and sanitary sewer design, traffic studies and assists senior engineers on project controls related assignments.  Mr. Krum also has 10 years of experience working in logistics for Boeing and Nintendo of America. He has a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington.

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Celeste Nash works as an Analyst and is responsible for document control and research tasks. She has diverse work experience that includes financial planning, management and technical support. She has a B.A. in Humanities from Brigham Young University and a M.A. in Russian from the University of Arizona.