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Letter from the CEO

Happy Spring! I’m excited to announce the formal launch of our Environmental and Construction Division.

As you can imagine, determining whether to launch a new division is tough – it requires reviewing the marketing, financial, technological and managerial requirements for business growth. After working through these questions, we decided to expand our offerings to pursue more technical opportunities, especially in the environmental space. Although we have offered Construction Management Services for several years, we’re excited to expand the scope of this Division to now include Environmental services. We wanted to create the Environmental and Construction Division so that we could 1) provide additional capabilities to our current customers, but also 2) to pursue additional opportunities in the growing environmental sector.

Consistent with our history, we built our new environmental service offerings by partnering with our clients to provide solutions for previously unmet needs. When Management Solutions first started, we were a niche firm specializing in engineering-based project management and project controls services. Over the years, we have partnered with large government clients to expand our offerings. Early on, Oak Ridge National Laboratory was a key partner who enabled us to expand into Process Improvement and Preventive Maintenance activities. Later, the US Army Corps of Engineers partnered with us to expand our offerings into construction management services. Our partnership with the US Army Corps has continued to evolve, as they’ve supported our growth in environmental cleanup.

We’ve seen remarkable demand for our unique, project management driven approach to environmental services. Recently, we won two large contracts providing support to the FUDS program as well as a large groundwater cleanup effort. Management Solutions is uniquely positioned to take on this work because of our background and expertise in project management. We not only efficiently execute the required cleanup of these sites, but we do so while being sensitive to how our environmental activities impact a project’s overall budget, schedule, and scope. We look forward to bringing our expertise and experience to public and commercial clients.

I hope you will take the time to click on the articles below to learn more about our Construction and Environmental service offerings and how we potentially can help your organization. I’m looking forward to sharing more about our differentiated environmental service offerings and capabilities soon.

- Misty Mayes

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Introducing the Environmental and Construction Services Division

Building on our 20-year history of successfully providing value beyond expectations to our clients, MSLLC is now expanding our services into the Environmental Consulting Market. We continue to carry out our mission to bridge the gap between strategy and execution as trusted advisors to our clients.

A Labor of Love: Working with KCDC on the Love Tower Renovation

While there's no fixed formula for quality of life, a comfortable home is a key component of the equation. Thanks in part to MSLLC's owner's representative services on behalf of the Knox County Development Corporation (KCDC), the elderly and disabled residents of the Guy B.

Leading from the Side by Paul Darling, PMP

Ever since Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War 2500 years ago, managers have sought lessons in strategy from military experience and metaphors inspired by battle. As a project controller with decades of military experience as both a commander and staff officer, I have observed parallels between communication challenges that can arise between leadership and support staff in both the army and the professional sphere.

20 Year Anniversary Recognition

As you hopefully know by now, each month of this year, we are recognizing the individual(s) that have had a significant, positive impact on Management Solutions thriving for the last 20 years.

This month, we want to thank Shawn Carson. Shawn was one of the key personnel with Tech 2020 in Oak Ridge, TN. Tech 2020 was formed as an entrepreneurial support organization, focused on start-up through growth stage strategy. In his role, Shawn also oversaw all the office space associated with the Tech 2020 site in Commerce Park.

Shawn was kind enough to offer Management Solutions our first office space. It consisted of a 4-cubicle bay area and one executive office suite. You have to understand, prior to this space, Management Solutions had been founded in the back room of my personal residence with meetings and employee interviews occurring at the local Panera or the picnic table in our backyard. To go from these ad-hoc settings to a formal office was a huge step for us. In fact, it was the first time we had seen a Management Solutions sign on an office door, the first time we were able to add some administrative support, the first time we added a collaborative computer network and the first time we could meet in a professional office environment.

I know in those days, Shawn had pressure from many companies, several with way more advanced business models than we had, but he was gracious enough to take a chance on us and enable us to truly formalize Management Solutions as a viable corporate entity. For this, I will always be grateful.

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