Robert F. Henry, PE, PMP

PO Box ****

Surprise, AZ 85374

360-***-****

actddk@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

Fifteen years director experience in consulting engineering.

Masters of Sciences Degree in Systems Management.

Bachelors Degree and Professional Registration in Civil Engineering.

Project Management Professional, certified through the Project Management Institute.

Over fifteen years experience in engineering management, facilities management, program management, and contract management.

Profit and loss (P&L) accountability at divisional level as a vice president and corporate level as president.

Expert level contract review skills that support negotiating favorable agreements; i.e., contracts with appropriate hours to develop quality deliverables as well as conform to company policy regarding scope, risk and profit.

Well versed in supervising business development planning and execution including direct coordination with corporate marketing, company technical experts, and external strategic partners to develop proposals that win.

Effective leader committed to excellence in customer service, reliable engineering deliverables, and innovative solutions.

Expert ability to work with department managers to optimize resource utilization and assign tasking to best match technical skills of the team with project services under contract.

Committed to process controls adherence to minimize professional liability risks and ensure compliance with company policy for quality control and quality assurance.

Committed to technical and professional development of staff through mentoring, training and other strategies.

Well versed in personnel administrative processes including manpower forecasting, recruiting, hiring, on- boarding, expectations and goal setting, performance coaching, salary reviews, chargeability management, and terminations.

Systematic and disciplined executive with respect to monitoring contract performance to validate that department managers are conforming to procedures, technical standards, and advancing best practices for project management.

Expert level skill working with corporate executive team to: develop group strategy; strategically implement plant and technology investments; manage finances; and advance overall business goals.

Skilled at developing annual management plans to achieve key performance indicators.

Track record exceeding industry bench marks for customer satisfaction and project success metrics.

Excellent organizational reporting and communications skills.

Successful track record leading and managing project teams to deliver extraordinary project results.

EDUCATION, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING:

Vistage International: executive, leadership and business training totaling ~600 hours from 2008 through 2013.

Licensed professional engineer in the States of Washington & Oregon.

National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES); record filed.

Project Management Professional certified through the Project Management Institute.

Master of Science in Systems Management, Univ. of Southern California 1984 (Magna Cum Laude).

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Univ. of Washington 1981.

Solar Power Plant Design Fundamentals 2015 (~12 hours).

On-going specialized project management, technical, legal, regulatory, energy efficiency best engineering practices, sustainability, and environmental training for capital programs.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Senior engineering and executive manager/leadership skills with experience developing project strategies, managing budgets, and delivering results to achieve performance objectives.

Seasoned consultant with expert level skills in project management, leading and directing engineering operations, and delivering exceptional services and results.

Expert level negotiation skills with effective mediation and conflict resolution knowledge.

Excellent presentation and public speaking skills.

Successful track record of guiding public and private stake-holder involvement to support capital project development.

Experience and competent at engaging and briefing elected officials at local, state and federal levels.

Expert level skill developing project solution concept designs and assisting the development of strategies to obtain grants or other public funding for government and private sector projects.

Advanced skills developing and administering program budgets.

Systematic and thorough regarding risk management and mitigation.

Expert level skills in contract management, administering consultant contracts and/or construction contracts.

Keen awareness regarding public relations principles; effective at managing knowledge and executing strategies for enhancing organizational image.

Competent knowledge of accounting, budget and financial management.

Advanced skills in verbal and written communications.

Expert level skills working effectively with stakeholder teams and internal teams in multi-discipline project environments.

Advanced mentoring and coaching skills; expert at developing staff technically and professionally at all levels from administrative staff and technicians up to and including senior professionals and managers.

Expert level skills developing and executing long range and short range goals, plans and objectives to meet corporate mission, vision, and strategies.

Lead by example to advance the organization’s values and success culture.

Expert level administrative operations and engineering management skills.

EXPERIENCE:

ART ANDERSON ASSOCIATES (MAY 1990 TO OCTOBER 2015)

Various positions starting as an entry level registered professional engineer, advancing through progressive technical, managerial, and executive positions including civil engineer, project manager, program manager, division vice president, and president & chief programs manager.

VICE PRESIDENT FACILITIES GROUP (AUGUST 2013 TO OCTOBER 2015) Responsibilities: Executive program manager and senior operations manager for the facilities engineering planning, design and construction management groups. The position responsibility was divisional level engineering director, project management, business development, and P&L accountability for leading a team of project managers, engineers, designers, and administrative professionals.

Achievements:

Lead effort to draft and launch a market development plan to expand client base and mitigate client/revenue concentration risks; exceeded success metrics for majority of key indicators and achieved overall objectives.

Achieved aggressive revenue growth goals adopted by the company Board of Directors.

Developed and promulgated a sales and revenue plan model for the division that was later extended throughout the company.

Achieved key project delivery milestones as project executive for a $35M capital project under construction at the North Fork Dam hydroelectric project in northwest Oregon for Portland General Electric.

Assisted HDR Engineering, serving as the consultant team’s overall technical leader, for engineering design studies to implement a $200M capital infrastructure project at the Detroit Dam and hydroelectric project in western Oregon for the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Served as the Design Quality Manager for design and construction of a $7M sewer force main replacement project as part of a design/build delivery contract at Joint Base Pearl Harbor and Hickam in Hawaii.

COMPANY PRESIDENT (DECEMBER 2007 TO JULY 2013)

Responsibilities: All aspects of a well established and the closely held C-Corporation that sells professional engineering services, product development services, and project delivery services to commercial and government clients. Overall corporate leadership and financial stewardship, reported directly to the majority shareholder/Chairman of the Board, and the Board of Directors. Directly lead the executive and program management teams operating with an internal staff of 55 project and administrative professionals, working directly with internal team and numerous external partners to capture targeted business opportunities, and help clients get projects planned, designed, permitted and constructed. Duties included creating a culture for projects success and business operation success, setting and executing strategy, operations and administration, quality, schedule, budget and risk management for the firm’s role in performing and delivering professional engineering and project management services. Success culture and relationship management extended to external strategic partners. Collaborated and lead executive team and senior program managers to establish overarching goals, objectives and performance metrics for adoption by the Board of Directors. Developed standards and initiatives to execute strategies, meet contractual commitments and deliver extraordinary project outcomes. Managed financial performance including the monitoring of weekly cash flows, work-in-progress, earned value, and forecasted project billings. Managed banking relationship and credit facility access. Directed, influenced and monitored project processes and project managers to produce a project delivery track record of on-time, high quality projects that were consistently completed within budget.

Achievements:

Worked with the program management team to develop internal process protocols for program resourcing to optimize staff utilization and inter-program resourcing needs.

Delivered design documentation and construction implementation for $65M capital project at Swift Dam and hydro-electric project in southwest Washington for PacifiCorp.

Change manager focusing on a developing and establishing an organization culture of success.

Lead executive team to maintain profitable operations and program success through the period of severe market contraction of the Great Recession.

Launched a quality of service and deliverables strategic initiative that netted capture or recapture of several multi-million dollar accounts.

Engineering News Record, Best of the Best Award, with Triton Marine Construction for the design/build Brightwater Sewage Treatment Marine Outfall project.

Published and presented technical papers at various national and international industry conferences.

Executed senior executive leadership succession plan.

VICE PRESIDENT FACILITIES ENGINEERING AND DESIGN GROUP (APRIL 2001 TO DECEMBER 2007)

Responsibilities: Helped develop and then filled position as the first VP to head the group with the combined responsibilities as chief engineer, sales and marketing executive, and P&L manager. Developed and drafted the first sales and marketing plan for the division. Responsible for all aspects of the division strategy, personnel, operations, client relationships development and maintenance, quality assurance and quality control programs, internal and external team building, and achieving performance metrics. Achievements:

Consistently exceeded corporate goals for financial and growth metrics.

Major roles in development of two master planned programs, including a public private partnership lead by a local municipality; and multi-project capital program lead by a port district. These two geographically related master programs resulted in a series capital projects ranging from $10M to $55M and a total investment of over $350M.

Lead the advanced composites prototype development and demonstration effort as the Technical Director for the R&D phase of the Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS), a $500M recapitalization acquisition program.

ASCE Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement for the research & development, design and construction of a harbor boundary wave attenuator at the Port of Bremerton, one of the projects of the Bremerton Harbor Expansion master plan noted above.

PROGRESSIVE RESPONSIBILITIES FROM STAFF ENGINEER, LEAD DESIGNER, PROJECT ENGINEER, PROJECT MANAGER TO PROGRAM MANAGER (MAY 1990 TO MARCH 2001)

Achievements:

Worked directly with external partners and clients to develop numerous strategic business relationships.

Developed strategic alliances with select general contractors to leverage design/build delivery system opening the door for lead roles with capital projects values ranging from $1M to $150M.

Project Manager for architectural and engineering design for the Passenger Ferry Terminal phase of the $50M showcase Bremerton Transportation Center intermodal transit terminal project; delivered unprecedented financial performance along with achieving all project success metrics.

PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD (JANUARY 1982 TOMAY 1990)

Nuclear engineer qualified at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard engaged in the Naval Nuclear Power Program; duties included engineering planning and support for maintenance, overhaul and re-certification of naval nuclear reactor power systems. Responsibilities were progressive up-to and including shift engineering lead and supervisor in the reactor technology branch. Final two years were spent as an engineering radiological compliance auditor.

COMMUNITY & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Member, Project Management Institute.

Board of Directors and former president of Bremerton Historic Ship Association, a non-profit corporation for public display and operation of the museum ship USS Turner Joy; resigned fall 2015.

Engineering Advisory Committee for the Olympic College Engineering Program; resigned fall 2015.

Engineering Advisory Committee for the Washington State University Off-campus Mechanical Engineering Program located at Olympic College, Bremerton; resigned fall 2015.

Former president of the Kitsap Branch of American Society of Civil Engineers.

Former Board of Directors and Chief Judge for the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair.

Former Board of Directors of the Kitsap Peninsula Visitors and Convention Bureau, received award for Outstanding Tourism Promoter of the Year.

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