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PROFILE
* Professional Engineer with broad functional and leadership experience in infrastructure, manufacturing facilities, and industrial plants with expertise in project management.
* Outstanding knowledge of FAR, Design-Build, FIDIC, CM, and EPC contract documents. Analyzed, negotiated, and closed challenging change orders, time extensions, and claims cases.
* Assessment, implementation, and using project control systems including Expedition, Prolog, and Primavera to fit unique project requirements.
* Developed and monitored cost control solutions and produced firm fixed-price estimates for architectural, civil, mechanical, and electrical disciplines.
* Team leader implementing quality control and safety programs to exceed contract requirements.
* Stewarded the design development and engineering interface with construction programs.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sr. Project Manager (Preconstruction) / Design-Build Contractor
DynCorp International, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2008 - present
* Prepared firm-fixed price estimates for RFPs in range of $20 to $75MM for 5,000-man military bases including facilities, utilities, and transportation networks.
* Executed, and negotiated scopes of work for award to design and building subcontractors. Monitor and control design engineering subcontractor deliverables for quality and timeliness.
* Developed work flow processes for the estimating and design management functions.
* Completed one project (9/08) with six in-process.
Chief Resident Engineer / Municipal Consulting Engineer
Parsons International, UAE and Saudi Arabia, 2004 – '07
* Client contact and coordination responsibility to over 40 contracts for wastewater/water plant upgrades, odor control stations, pumping stations, irrigation systems, storm water drainage and flood control projects in the Abu Dhabi Emirate.
* Supervised department of 120 staff total and ten direct reports in project controls, safety, quality, and engineering. Produced project management plan, safety and environmental plans, and project reporting procedures to client organization and corporate stakeholders.
* Maintained and increased monthly billing from $500k to $560k over one year period by increasing accounts for Operation and Maintenance work.
* Completed projects in Saudi Arabia include EPC 100 MW power plant expansion, new 24-bed hemodialysis addition to main hospital, and a new EPC 2400 l/s desalination (R/O) plant.
* Effectively defended a $1.5 million soil improvement claim by application of contract principles and engineering analysis applicable to deep foundations for a power plant generator foundation.
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Resident Engineer Contracting Officer Representative / Federal Government
USACE, S. Korea, Egypt, Afghanistan, Kuwait, 2000 – '04
* Completed 30 Army Job Order Contracts in Kuwait for construction of operations buildings, housing, and utilities (R/O plant, storage, distribution, treatment).
* Supervised building a $14 million design-build 9,000-man military base in Kabul including barracks, operations buildings, and utilities.
* Lead quality assurance program for $120 million (operations buildings, runways, roads, single standing and apartment housing) Air Force base upgrade program in Fayid, Egypt.
* Successfully negotiated and closed millions of dollars of contract modifications and change orders with contractors under base 9,000-man upgrade program at Camp Casey, South Korea.
Senior Cost Engineer / Automobile Manufacturing
Daimler Chrysler, Auburn Hills, MI, 1997 – '00
* Estimated Design-Build purchase orders (arch., civil, mech., elec.), negotiated change orders, and developed value engineering proposals for fast-track construction program. Major assignments encompassed new $950 million Mack Engine Plant I, new $750 million Mack Engine Plant II, and $35 million St. Louis Minivan Plant assembly line changes.
* Created value engineering proposal for site clearing and earthworks that led to a cost savings of approximately $0.75 million.
Project Director / Power Plant Developer
Environmental Recovery Technologies, Troy, MI, 1996 – '97
* Prepared estimates, budgets and cash flow analysis for a 100MW fluidized-bed technology process power plant in Acapulco, Mexico.
* Selected and negotiated vendor contracts for construction/maintenance programs, managed consultant in performance of environmental impact statements/permits, and served as a liaison with local government officials in the engineering and construction departments.
* Sourced alternative funding groups and submitted portfolio for approval. Achieved one commitment to fund the pre-construction phase.
Resident Engineer / Municipal Consulting Engineer
Camp Dresser & McKee Inc., Cairo and Detroit, 1989 – '96
* Site management of 63 wastewater design-build contracts for services to one million residents.
* Managed staff of 12 for cost, quality, safety, and field engineering functions.
* Developed material cost indexes for equitable resolution of price increase claims resulting from Egyptian government price controls that impacted Portland cement, reinforcing steel, and timber.
* Obtained all EPA, FAA, state, and local government building/regulatory permits for 9 General Motors industrial wastewater pre-treatment plants nationwide on fast-track design-build program.
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ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
* Registered Professional Engineer – State of Oregon
* MBA, University of Chicago, Barcelona, Spain, 1996
* MSE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1985
* BSCE (Hons), Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, 1980
* Design Project Management PDH – July 2008
* Construction Delay Claims PDH – August 2008
* Member, American Society of Civil Engineers and Florida Engineering Society
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