Project Manager

James W. Wheeler, P.E.

*** **** ***** ****** ***.

Phoenix Arizona 85022-3020

602-***-****, Cell 602-***-****,

E-Mail abhb3t@r.postjobfree.com

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Construction Project Manager

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Professional Profile Summary

Results driven professional with over 30-year record of experience

mastering and successfully resolving difficult projects. Investing the

level of effort required to meet project milestones, maintain facility

processes/functions, and meeting quality and revenue goals.

Expertise

. Over 30-years of professional experience with Multi-discipline

industrial constructions

. Resolving project issues and maintaining project milestones, schedule,

budgets, and quality

. Discerning project constraints and risk with developing work or task

sequences

. Prioritizing and managing procurements to minimize or avoid potential

delaying issues

. Lead by example

Objective

Manage Projects through integrating skills of project team members to meet

or improve on project schedules, budgets, and quality in the capacity as an

employee or through contract services.

Key Skills & Knowledge Areas

. Procurements

. Contract Administration

. Materials QA/QC

. Claims

. Cost/Budget Controls

. QA/QC Field Engineering

. Multi-discipline management

. CPM Scheduling

. Change Estimating

. Sub-contractor/Vendor Supervision

. Change Management

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Work History

Clients - 2002 to Present, K&F Electric, Inc., American Water Service Inc.

Electrical/Controls Subcontractor & Leading National Private Water Services

Company

Self Employed Consultant hired to manage and closeout construction

projects, provide senior construction engineer expertise, evaluate purchase

of water facilities and develop bid for privatizing utilities for an Air

Force base. Project amounts ranged from $3 to 330M.

Key Results:

. Managed resources and adjusted task sequences to resolve procurement

delays and maintain project milestones.

. Composed claims for $350K and resolved claim for $130K.

. Management of changes resulted in 2% increase in planned project

revenues.

. Extinguished $500K claim and self-performed work saving $70K.

. Developed QC monitoring that surfaced design deficiencies resulting

with improved final construction quality.

. Positioned client through focused and timely execution of contract

obligations to the position of the preferred Electrical/Controls

Subcontractor with an onerous customer.

Employers - 1985 to 2001 DSWA Inc., Black & Veatch Construction/ B&V, Inc.,

CH2M Hill, Inc.

Local Design Consultant, Industry leading design and construction engineers

and contractors

Employed and successfully performed as a Resident Engineer and Construction

Manager of water facilities, multistory process facility, International

Airport, and beach erosion projects across the US. Project amounts ranged

from $2 to 150M.

Key Results:

. Avoid delays and impact costs due to design omissions through design

evaluations during construction.

. Resolved $2M bid disparity by attending to buyout and procurement

efforts, and claims development.

. Reduced composite impact claims by 70% of initial value through

records evaluations.

. Managed design team in resolving over 2500 information requests and

shop drawing reviews on multi-prime project resulting in a 2 day and

10 day average document turn-a-round and remained within budget.

. Managed design omissions on concurrent Water Plant Expansions

minimizing delay and impact claims.

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Education / Training

B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Oklahoma 1979

M.S. Civil Engineering, Oklahoma State University 1996 - Emphasis

Construction Engineering and Management

OSHA 10-hour Training Course 2006

OSHA 30-hour Training Course 2007 & 2011

MS Access Data Base Training 2011

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Professional Registrations / Certifications

Professional Engineer in Oklahoma (#13828), Arizona (#34740)

Certified Construction Manager (CCM) by the Construction Manager

Certification Institute (CMCI), 950051 (Inactive status)

Project Management Institute Credential Application 2011

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Awards

Received the Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) award in support

of project partnering on the phased multi-prime North City Water

Reclamation project for City of San Diego.

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Languages

English and minimal Spanish

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