Welcome Blake Guillory To Our Team
Blake C. Guillory, P.E., D.WRE, has joined the Applied Sciences team as Managing Principal, working directly on projects with select clients while assisting with the firm’s operations. Mr. Guillory has 33 years of civil and water resources engineering experience leading teams addressing a wide variety of public and private sector water projects throughout Florida. His business acumen and ability to deliver creative and workable strategies to manage water resources problems produce timely, innovative and successful projects. The Palm Beach Chapter of the Florida Engineering Society recognized his service with its Outstanding Service to the Profession award for 2016.
Mr. Guillory served as Executive Director of the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) from 2013-2105. Under his leadership, the District:
Completed the $3B Central Florida Water Initiative (CFWI) Water Supply Plan and Project Solutions Strategies
Gained approval of the $3B Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) Chief’s Report.
Re-established the cooperative funding program and led the creation of a $1B master list of needed public water projects in the District’s 16-county area.
Developed an updated vision of operations and maintenance for the $13B Central and Southern Flood Control Project and the ongoing life cycle analysis of its infrastructure, most of it constructed 50 years ago.
Completed the A-1 and L-8 Flow Equalization Basins and restarted the modeling and evaluation of South Dade operations to address flooding.
Additionally, Mr. Guillory served on the Congressionally authorized South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force and creatively negotiated a package deal with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete the Kissimmee River Restoration, Ten Mile Creek, and the C-111 South Dade Projects.
Before assuming the helm of SFWMD, Mr. Guillory served the previous two years as Executive Director of the Southwest Florida Water Management District in Tampa Bay, where he doubled the cooperative funding program budget and increasing funding for the “Springs Team.” He also led negotiations for the Polk County Regional Water Cooperative and the Central Florida Water Initiative (CFWI).
His recent consulting experience includes positions as President of CES Consultants, Inc. and CES Construction LLC from 2018-2021 and President of RADISE International/Smart Structures from 2016-2018, where each firm saw significant increases in business under his leadership.
Before his time at the water management districts, he was Vice President at Brown and Caldwell, leading six offices, and for PBS&J/Atkins, where his experience progressed from Program Manager to Vice President-Sr. Division Manager leading water resources teams and projects from Virginia to Florida. At CDM, he was a Practice Leader and Project Manager/Engineer services on a wide variety of water resources projects throughout Florida. His prior 3 1/2 years were spent as a project engineer on more than 50 civil site design projects where he provided a full range of planning, modeling, design, permitting, and construction services.
Mr. Guillory recently served as Vice-Chairman of the Florida Engineering Society Conservation and Environmental Quality (CEQ) Committee and has served in various leadership roles with the American Society of Civil Engineers, Florida Stormwater Association, and Florida Floodplain Managers Association.
He is a Petroleum Engineering graduate of Texas A&M University and received his Master of Civil Engineering degree and MBA from the University of South Florida.
He is an avid fly fisherman and golfer when not watching college football. He has two children, Blake Jr., an FSU graduate and physician in Naples, and Amanda, a UF graduate and Licensed Civil/Environmental Engineer working as a consultant in West Palm Beach. Gail, his wife, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor with a large practice in Jupiter and a Board Member of Operation Care for Heroes.
Blake C. Guillory, P.E., D.WRE, Managing Principal