James Nadeau

Background

About James Nadeau

Jim Nadeau, a Veteran of the U.S. Air Force, lives in Portland with his wife Karen, and has two adult sons, Benjamin and Cooper. In 1993, he became a State of Maine Professional Land Surveyor and co-founded Nadeau & Lodge. Jim became sole owner of the Portland office in 2005, renamed the company to Nadeau Land Surveys, and purchased Maine Coast Surveying in 2016 to better service Mid-Coast and Central Maine. Jim holds the three National Flood Insurance Program designations: Certified Floodplain Manager, Certified Floodplain Surveyor, and Associate in National Flood Insurance. Jim serves as Chair of the State of Maine Board of Licensure for Professional Land Surveyors and is a delegate on the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. Jim served as the Land Surveyor Member on the Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC), a federal advisory committee that makes recommendations to FEMA, and in 2018, received the Francis Crowe Society Distinguished Engineer Award from the University of Maine, in recognition of outstanding professional service to the Field of Engineering. Jim has been a Realtor since 2004, and is a Designated Broker and owner of Jim Nadeau Realty. Most recently, he has become a member of the Greater Portland Board of Realtors' Sustainability Advisory Group and the Maine Climate Council Community Resilience Working Group. As an instructor with The Real Estate Learning Group and Beyond the Boundary, Jim conveys the importance of land surveying and floodplain management to Realtors, lenders, appraisers, municipal officials, and other professional consultants to improve client representation and public safety. He successfully completed Kirkpatrick Bronze Level certification in training evaluation, is an internationally Certified Distance Education Instructor, and received a Basic Instructor Certificate from FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute. His formal education has passed through the doors of the University of Southern Maine, New England College of Business and Finance, and Colorado State University for Real Estate, Business Administration, and Organizational Leadership, respectively.