A registered civil engineer and a certified cost engineer with over 20 years of project execution support - scheduling, cost analysis, contract manangement, and risk assessment.
Focus is to provide owners in the process industries with short-term solutions to their project control needs, be that schedule and cost analysis of contractor developed data or training/mentoring staff to be able to perform these function in-house.
This analysis may include oversite, actual development of preliminary documents, and/or risk assessment of the budgets and schedules.
Training/mentoring can include on-site instruction together with on-call support.
Current on Primavera 6.1, SureTrak 3.0c, Contractor 5.0, and Pertmaster 8.2.
Summary of qualifications
Over 25 years of engineering and construction experience of which 20 have been in project controls planning, scheduling, cost control, and contract management. As a registered civil engineer (PE) and a certified cost engineer (CCE), I know the problems, pitfalls and personalities of construction what to expect and what to do about them.
Education
Master of Business Administration Finance
1988 University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Civil Engineering
1976 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
1970 University of California Santa Barbara, Calif.
Professional experience
2007 - PresentIntercedeHouston, TX
Consultant
Schedule risk analysis for a pipeline replacement program. Multi-project effort entailed re-casting one project schedule and developing basic metrics, validating existing systems and suggesting improvements for the other projects. Software used - Pertmaster 8.2 and Primavera 6.1.
2006 - 2007General Electric - EnergyHouston, TX
Sr. Project Engineer
Primary focus was assisting in the development of a 630MW IGCC Reference Plant, together with a re-powering 4x7FAs (tolling contract), and miscellaneous PDPs. Auxiliary functions included structure, pricing, and presentation of Feasibility and pre-FEED studies. Most of this work was largely developmental with few established metrics.
1998 - 2006IntercedeHouston, TX
Consultant
Advised multi-national construction joint-venture on project controls techniques and procedures for three project sites one domestic and two foreign (Jamaica and Surinam).
Guided the development of a restoration/retirement (mothball) program plan for a lanthanum refining operation.
Commercial Manager on a 3 station natural gas compression project in Bolivia. Challenge was the integration of a Canadian engineer with a Bolivian contractor under US management and working with an uncooperative South American owner.
Assisted in the development and presentation of a $37 MM wrongful discharge claim. Areas of personal study were contaminated soils, sub-surface conditions, excessive change, delayed payment, and willful intrusion.
Provided project execution support to owners of capital chemical and petro-chemical projects. Assisted in rescuing a troubled $80 MM chemical project from misguided leadership.
Provided capital project initial planning team-based support for a multi-project capital improvement program.
Provided project controls support during conceptual design of an offshore oil field development project.
1996 - 1998CDI-Stubs OverbeckHouston, TX
Project Controls Mgr.
Directed the mixed controls team (owner and contractor) on two $30MM chemical support units for an international owner. Was an integral part of the owners management team engaged in contract negotiations, contract disputes and settlements, These two projects had the best cost/schedule performance of the $1.8 B expansion project, in spite of confused scope and tardy funding.
1993 - 1996UrbaneticsHouston, TX
Planner/Scheduler
Various contract positions, domestic and international, often involving training, establishing new systems and instituting new control mechanisms. Assignments varied from offshore platforms to commuter rail systems, together with traditional petro-chemical projects.
1990 - 1993M.W. Kellogg CompanyHouston, TX
Planner/Scheduler
Usually small petro-chemical and coal related projects. Often of a proto-typical or research and development nature, such as coal gasification, liquefaction, and flue gas scrubbing.
1971 - 1990Bechtel, M.W.Kellogg, et.al.AZ, UT, CA,
Planner/Scheduler/Estimator
Various projects including nuclear power, coal handling, high-rise development, and smaller commercial architectural projects.
Publications
A three part series on schedule simplification.
Soft Logic Overview, Cost Engineering February 1999.
Soft Logic Engineering, Cost Engineering June 1999. Both articles re-printed by ProjectPro September 1999, Soft Logic Seeing the Forest.
Soft Logic Construction, Cost Engineering December 2000.
Contingency there may be a better way, ProjectPro February 2000.
Productivity Loss - An Approach, The Project Manager Spring 2000.
Professional memberships
Member AACE International (AACEI).
President Houston-Gulf Coast Section 1997-1998.
Director AACEI CyberSection 2001 - present
Member AACEI Recommended Practices and Standards
sub-committee
Accreditations
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) Civil (Utah) by NCEE examination, reciprocity in most states.
Certified Cost Engineer (CCE) by examination, accredited by CESB (Council of Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards).