Melissa J. Gordon, PMP

Melissa Gordon is an Executive Vice President of Integration and Shared Services for the Mitigation, Environmental, Response, Recovery & Resiliency (MER3) business vertical, which brings together Tidal Basin Group, MLU Services and Michael Baker International’s Emergency Management and Response professionals into a single, united team focused on end-to-end contingency operations and resilience solutions. She also serves as EVP of Tidal Basin’s Tech Enabled Solutions Practice.

Ms. Gordon has more than 15 years of experience in leadership roles at large international firms, including experience in information technology and accounting. She has supported clients with some of the most critical responses in recent years, including the COVID-19 Pandemic vaccine distribution and the emergency rental assistance programs for Florida, and the immediate disaster response to the Maui Wildfires in Hawaii. While running those programs, she also served as Tidal Basin’s Chief Administrative Officer, establishing internal structures to support our strategic growth, and developing and executing the plans to expand our technology capabilities through our acquisition of Capraro Technologies, Inc. She also led the strategy and design for Tidal Basin’s proprietary software, Phoenix OneCase, and prioritized system roadmap.

Ms. Gordon joined Tidal Basin in 2019 with a wealth of experience in the construction and disaster recovery industries, having served as a Director of Project Solutions for one of the nation’s largest general contractors and an executive advisor for their software partner. Also, she was a Senior Project Manager overseeing joint venture operations for an initial $163 million federal contract with task order awards exceeding $300 million. As part of that operation, she managed a team of more than 600 staff supporting 6,000 contracted inspectors who completed more than one million disaster housing inspections in less than 100 days – including a record-breaking 24,000 inspections completed in a single day. She also led the joint venture through a successful ISO 9001:2008 recertification audit. 

She holds an MBA with a concentration in Accounting and an M.S. in Information Systems/Information Assurance. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) specializing in planning and executing strategic initiatives, resource planning and development, data analysis, business process analysis, and organizational change. She has developed business plans for enterprise technology initiatives for multinational engineering firms, provided recommendations for enterprise-level systems and integration strategies, and overseen the programming and development of IT systems and databases for multi-million-dollar contracts.