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Broad based experience in construction management (site, project & senior), metal/fabrication manufacturing, and sales/marketing. Responsibilities included performing construction & project management, from conception through operation. Duties included estimating, producing scopes of work and specifications, negotiating proposals with sub-contractors/vendors, negotiating labor contracts, budgeting and scheduling, awarding construction contracts, monitoring budgets, controlling costs, QC/QA, and implementing policies and procedures, on-site inspections, developing and maintaining schedules, interpreting plans and specifications. Technologies included gas and steam turbines, coal-fired, oil-fired, and gas-fired steam generators; nuclear power, chemical and cement plants, refineries, pulp & paper, steel mills, and industrial manufacturing plants.
2002-2003. ARB, Inc. Lake Forest, California. Project Manager: worked with the Industrial Division Manager, and Sales Marketing Manager to develop markets with new industrial clients within California and targeted clients/projects outside California with the companies core industries. Developed estimates, wrote proposals, negotiated contracts and monitored the projects while in progress.
1999-2001. U. W. Department of Energy. Consultant: Manager of Construction, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine. Responsibilities included the technical liaison and coordination for design, procurement, construction, and assembly of 290MW (3) hot water and (3) steam boilers replacement heat plant; 12,000 square meter/3 story administration building; mazute fuel system including a 400 meter rail spur; water treatment/discharge systems; 600 meter service bridge interconnecting the system to the existing facility including a trestle; 18 km natural gas pipeline; 100 meter chimney; and security/fire protection system. Evaluated the proposals from the general contractors submitting tenders and subsequent proposals from other subcontractor/vendors. Assisted with the development of the master schedule and milestone payment schedule. Verified the progress and approved request for milestone payments. Provided construction oversight by making technical, commercial and safety suggestions to the owner, A&E firm, general contractor and his sub-contractors. Worked with various Ukrainian government entities toward solving a matrix of problems insuring the projects compliance and meeting the schedule.
1997-1999. UNC Industrial Power. Odessa, TX. Manager of International Construction for Gas Turbine Projects; Coordinated in-country the estimating, engineering and construction efforts to develop a 50 MW FT-4 Twin Pak, cogeneration project at the Petrobrazi Refinery in Polesti Romania, and 150 MW of projects over twelve sites within the Amazon River Basin, Brazil. Selected, placed and was responsible for the overseeing the site project management on three simple cycle projects in Venezuela and the disassembly of units in Kingston, Jamaica. Provided consultation to the shipyard contractor for placing 125 MW of gas turbine equipment on a barge built in Pascagoula, Mississippi, that was water freighted to Manus, Brazil. Once there, supervised direct hire labor and subcontractors while placing the power plant into operation.
1996-1997. Penpower, Brandon, FL. Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Responsibilities included developing and executing marketing plans and strategies for acquiring new business to provide personnel for power plant startup, operations, and support. Clients targeted were OEM and EPC firms, developers and owners, nationally and internationally. Attended national and international conferences, identifying and then meeting with individuals responsible for decision making. Acquired new national and international clients in the power generation industry and opened markets in the chemical, petro-chemical, and petroleum industries nationally and internationally.
1992-1996. Chattenooga Boiler and Tank Company. Chattanooga, TN. Director of Marketing, Sales and Estimating. Clients included utility, pulp and paper, chemical, petro-chemical and EPC firms. Responsibilities included managing the estimating department and training personnel for estimating duties, coordinating estimates with project management and the construction division; interpreting bid drawing, bid documents, and industry trends; editing and approving estimates prior to submittal. Established sales representation office in and for the Eastern United States.
1977-1992. 4-E Corporation (Energy and Environmental, Erecting and Engineering Services Corporation). Wetumpka, AL. Founder/Owner. The company provided construction, maintenance, repair, and erecting services on energy and environmental equipment and supporting systems for the pulp and paper, petro-chemical, petroleum, and electric utility industries; developed program and acquired A.S.M.E. code certificates U, A, PP, and R from the National Board of Boiler Inspectors, designed the companies fabrication shop to fabricate structural and miscellaneous steel including the manufacturing of steel beam girders per A.I.S.C. Category III; fabricated steel plate work and piping; designed and fabricated A.S.M.E. code vessels and tubular heaters. Field Construction Projects included boilers, electro-static precipitators, scrubbers, silos, hoppers/bunkers, bottom ash projects, boiler conversions, chemical facilities, process systems, conveying systems and kiln work. Maintenance and Repair Projects included re-internalization of ESP units, replacement of fans, duct work, breaching, boiler casings, boiler bottoms, super heaters, economizers, reheat, supply, riser, and water wall tubes, coal and ash handling systems, soot blower systems and rebuilding of air heaters, air pre-heaters, heaters and condensers; and installing, removing and/or replacing process systems including equipment, piping, pumps, rotating equipment, and instrumentation. On the majority of these projects we acted as the prime/general contractor and included in our scope of work was the selection and field management of sub-contractors, procuring equipment and component materials.
1975-1977. Blount Brothers Corporation. Montgomery, AL. Senior/Lead Mechanical Estimator. Responsibilities included providing estimates for equipment erection man hours and associated costs, evaluated quotations, negotiated with sub-contractors and vendors for waste water/water treatment, chemical, petroleum, petro-chemical, cement, aluminum, ad electrical power generation plants; pulp and paper and steel mill projects; both domestically and internationally.
1971-1975. Joy Manufacturing. Precipitation Division, Los Angeles, CA. Construction Superintendent/Project Manager. Responsibilities included the overall site responsibility for field erecting of the company's equipment; (electro-static precipitators/bag houses) on self-performing, direct hire, projects.
Classes:
Pepperdine School of Law
1. Practical Construction Law
2. Construction Delay and Disruption Claims Mediation
3. Concentrated Course Construction Contracts, United States and International
4. Proving Construction Contract Damages
5. Construction, Litigation, Arbitration and Construction Contracts
Associations:
Nightingale-Conant Corporation
The Art of Negotiating
American Welding Society (AWS Level III Welding Inspector)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Water Works Association AWWAD 101
American Petroleum Institute API STD 620, 650
Traveled in Asia, Africa, Eastern and Western Euorpe, South America, Canada and Mexico on business. Lived and worked in Eastern Europe and South America.
Developed and wrote welding procedures per A.S.M.E. and/or A.I.S.C. codes.
Developed jointly with Aetna Insurance Co., the Safety Program for the 4-E Corporation, which was later used as a guide by Aetna for other high-risk construction companies safety programs.
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