Nicole Brown is a senior leader specializing in the planning, design, and delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure that supports data center development and other mission-critical facilities. With nearly three decades of experience, she leads projects ranging from transmission and distribution system upgrades to pump stations, treatment facilities, and resiliency improvements. Her work helps clients address growth-driven demand, redundancy requirements, and long-term capacity planning while aligning solutions with permitting, funding, and sustainability objectives.

Her primary focus areas include water and wastewater infrastructure planning, design, and program management for large-scale, high-performance environments. Brown oversees multidisciplinary teams and emphasizes stakeholder coordination, ensuring that projects integrate public-sector infrastructure needs with private-sector development schedules. She is known for translating complex technical and regulatory constraints into clear, actionable strategies that keep projects advancing efficiently.

Brown’s industry experience includes managing complex programs across utilities, municipalities, and private-sector partners, with responsibility for scope, schedule, and budget. She specializes in aligning technical solutions with regulatory requirements and development timelines to support reliable, continuous operations.

Prior to joining GFT, she held leadership roles at national consulting firms, leading high-visibility infrastructure programs including treatment plant upgrades, transmission improvements, resiliency initiatives, water quality planning, emergency response, and large-scale, grant-funded programs.