Kalli Egan is serving as the Interim Director of the Regional Business Directorate for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Southwestern Division. In this role, she serves as a senior executive who is relied upon to lead, drive, and manage the strategic direction, technical engineering support, and financial operations of the Regional Business Center. She serves as the Division Commander’s principal advisor on all matters pertaining to the Regional Business Center. Prior to this assignment, Egan served as the Southwestern Division Engineering and Construction Division Chief providing technical engineering, construction, and infrastructure safety leadership to the division and its six districts, including Fort Worth and Galveston Districts in Texas, Little Rock District in Arkansas, Tulsa District in Oklahoma, the Middle East District in Winchester, Va., and the Expeditionary District in Kuwait.
She began her career with USACE in 2001 with the Tulsa District where she held various technical and leadership roles. Prior to leaving USACE in 2015, she served as the Deputy Chief and Acting Chief of the Engineering & Construction Division responsible for providing engineering and construction management for the district’s military and civil works programs.
When Egan and her family moved back to her home state of Texas in 2015, she joined a private engineering firm supporting local, state, and federal programs until she came back to USACE in early 2018. For most of 2021, she was detailed to the Galveston District serving as the Mega Projects Division Chief standing up their Program Management Office in support of a $4 billion-dollar civil works program along the Texas Gulf Coast. From May 2022 through July 2024, she was temporarily assigned to the Fort Worth District to manage a large civil works flood risk management project with a total project cost of over $1 billion.
Egan obtained her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 2002. In 2008, she returned to obtain a Master of Science in Engineering and Technology Management. She holds a Professional Engineer license in Texas.
Her honors include the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, the Superior Civilian Service Medal (2 Awards), and the Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal.