Civil Engineering Alumni Organization

Maureen McDonough, E’82, is both an engineer and an attorney with over 30 years of experience in the area of program management. She is currently the president of MAM Strategic Advisory Group, serving as a trusted partner and advisor providing consulting services to all members of the Construction Industry. Maureen has extensive experience as a senior leader on public and private multi-billion dollar capital improvement programs including the Boston Harbor Clean-up, the Modernization of Logan Airport and Allston Development for Harvard University. She is considered an expert in project delivery with a focus on organization design, procurement, development and negotiation of contracts, risk management and dispute resolution.

Prior to starting her own consulting firm in 2018, Maureen served in a number of leadership positions in both the public and private sectors including as chief risk officer for Suffolk Construction where she was responsible for the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management. Before joining Suffolk, Maureen was at Harvard University for 11 years where she was the senior director of administration strategies serving as an institutional resource for capital project delivery and leading the effort to create the Harvard Project Delivery Guideline, which created the Harvard way of delivering a capital project. She also authored a full suite of integrated, customized Standard Forms of Agreement for Harvard and restructured Harvard’s approach to insuring capital projects.

Prior to Harvard, Maureen spent 11 years at the Massachusetts Port Authority as an assistant director in Capital Programs, where she was responsible for the development and implementation of project management policies and contracting procedures utilized on the successful delivery of capital projects in excess of $1.5B. While at Massport, Maureen authored and secured legislative approval of a modified public procurement process for sensitive security projects and structured the accelerated procurement and implementation of the Baggage Screening Program, allowing Boston Logan Airport to be recognized by Homeland Security as the only airport to meet the federal mandate requiring baggage screening issued following the events of September 11, 2001.

Maureen also served as a member of the MA Construction Reform Task Force which led to sweeping improvements in public procurement and authorized CM at Risk Delivery to be used on public construction projects. She developed the first CM @ Risk Procedures in compliance with new reform legislation approved by the Inspector General and implemented the first ever public CM @ Risk Project demonstrating the value of private sector CM firms in the public sector. Prior to Massport, Maureen worked at CDM Smith as the claims/risk manager and also for the MWRA as the claims/risk manager for the Boston Harbor Clean-up Project.

Maureen also has a Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School and was admitted to the MA Bar in 1988. Maureen’s contributions to her community have been well recognized by a range of organizations. She received the New England Person of the Year Award from CMAA in 2017 and the Manuel Carballo Governor’s Award for Excellence in Public Service in 2003. Maureen has been a member of many boards for various organizations and institutions and continues to volunteer as a member of the Building Renovations Committee in her hometown. Maureen is a founder and advisor of WELL (Women’s Exchange for Leadership and Living). She resides in Canton, MA with her husband Louis Tarmy, and their two children, Griffin and Kierce.

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