J. Michael Foley, BCE, PE, CCE
Chief Executive Officer, Executive Consultant

Mr. Foley is the founder of GATE 6 Solutions, Inc. formerly J. M. Foley and Associates, Inc. He is a Professional Engineer and Certified Cost Engineer with a degree in Civil Engineering. He has thirty years of experience dealing with management and technical challenges associated with complex project and business matters in the commercial, industrial, energy, environmental, government, utility, information technology, and insurance industries. He has served as Executive management and senior consultant for twenty (20) years with professional services consulting companies such as:

• Project Time & Cost, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) Vice-President, Assistant to the Chairman and Director of Strategic Business Development
• Project Control Services, Inc. (Augusta, GA) Vice-President, Director of Technical and Consulting Services
• Liberty Consulting Group (Atlanta, GA), Senior Consultant, Director of Southern Operations

Mr. Foley has been accountable for strategic business planning, national marketing and business development programs, as well as responsible for client/account management, project management, contract administration, resource management, operations, technical consulting, management information systems, recruiting, and training. He is a demonstrated source of expertise in cost management services including strategic business planning; economic & financial analysis; cost engineering; project management; contract management/administration, risk management, cost control; decision analysis; CPM scheduling; benchmarking; productivity improvement; performance measurement; management and operational assessments; business re-engineering and litigation management.

Mr. Foley has broad knowledge and experience includes all aspects of the lifecycle for major projects from conceptual planning through decommissioning. He has established effective methods to integrate engineering, economic, financial, and risk management principals to manage business risk on complex projects. Mr. Foley has played a leading role in management audits of electric utilities and in the assessment and mitigation of cost and schedule risks on complex projects.

Mr. Foley has served as an Expert witness and technical expert on cost and schedule delay damages in several legal disputes. Recently he was accepted in United States Federal Court and proffered testimony as a expert witness on cost engineering and its use to measure economic losses and financial damages including reduction in earnings and profits; business value diminution; and business recovery costs resulting from various contract breaches and torts. His expert technical services have also been utilized in numerous rate proceedings before public utility commissions and disputes before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to determine applicable costs to ratemaking decisions. Mr. Foley has been trained by the American Arbitration Association and served as an arbitrator on construction disputes.

Bruce P. Bowland
Director of the Government Contractor Services Division, Executive Consultant

Mr. Bowland brings to GATE 6 his 29 years of experience in financial and business operations management, business and Government job cost accounting, contract management, benefits administration, and treasury management. Mr. Bowland is a well respected principal level finance and contracts professional with a proven record of accomplishment in effectively leading companies through aggressive growth phases. He has counseled companies in their restructuring of business operations, implementing new accounting/finance systems and integrating accounting with project management systems. Mr. Bowland is viewed as an expert in:

Mr. Bowland has been accepted in United States District Court as a technical expert and proffered testimony on the propriety of audits and admissibility of claimed costs and supporting audits of Federal Government contracts and subcontracts. Mr. Bowland earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI and Master’s in Business Administration Degree from Bristol University in Knoxville, TN.

Dennis Pryor
Technical Director Estimating, Principal Consultant

Mr. Pryor began working with GATE 6 Solutions in 2005. He has a business administration degree and more than 33 years of broad based industry experience supporting private commercial and government programs and projects. This has included hands-on experience as an electrician, estimator, foreman, project manager, designer, engineer, vice president of field operations, estimating/project management consultant, and sales and administrative positions. He also was the owner of a consulting agency serving electrical contractors. He has provided support to various companies and agencies in the heavy industrial, institutional, commercial, light industrial, residential, educational, and government (U.S. Department of Energy) industries. Included are DOE assignments with engineering firms involving environmental clean-up estimating for PCBs, CERCLA, and TSCA projects; decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) estimating, and walk-downs for DOE sites at Oak Ridge, Fernald, Hanford, Savannah River, Paducah, Portsmouth, INEL, and Princeton University.

Private facilities projects have included LaSalle Nuclear Power Plant, Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS), and Maine Yankee Nuclear Plant. Recent government assignments include Chief Estimator for Duke Cogema and Stone & Webster, LLC on the Mixed Oxide Fuel Project and a position for Manufacturing Sciences Corporation (MSC, a BNFL subsidiary) to lead their estimating effort for the D & D (and metals recovery) of the K-25 facility in Oak Ridge. He also has extensive experience with hazardous waste management programs including regulatory reviews, estimating (TEC), and (TPC) inspection (walk-downs) of proposed sites, as well as previously permitted sites. He has coordinated engineering data requirements for compliance to RCRA and TSCA regulations and associated codes, i.e., OSHA National Fire Protection Association, Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc., Uniform Building Code, and DOE orders. He has performed estimating and Tiger Team reviews for proposal preparation cycles for 8A contractors in Oak Ridge.

Mr. Pryor is familiar with the effective implementation and use of a many estimating tools including Success and Timberline.