Project Engineer

John B Snodgrass

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I have over 25 years experience in program controls; planning, scheduling,

earned value management, and project engineering on major aerospace, rail,

water, structure, and heavy civil projects ranging from oversight and hands-

on preparation and maintenance of Critical Path Method (CPM) baseline

schedules and Earned Value Management Systems to complex management and

consulting assignments.

Supervised and mentored engineers in performing constructability reviews,

capital cost estimates, earned value analysis, and CPM scheduling (planning

and tracking) for project Owners and Contractors. Maintained full

responsibility for cost and schedule delay analyses, quantified

delay/disruption durations and identified liabilities, calculated damages.

Conducted economic feasibility studies for commercial and industrial

projects. Coordinated and supervised intrusive investigations of

construction deficiencies, calculated damages. Provided expert witness

testimony.

Education

M.S., 1982, Mineral Economics, Colorado School of Mines

B.S., 1969, Biology, Westmar College

Project Experience

May 2005 to May 2009, Comforce Technical Services assigned to Boeing

Commercial Airplanes, Project Management Specialist. Project planning, cost

and schedule control, and earned value analysis for Airplane 747 passenger-

to-freighter conversion project. Developed and maintained cost/schedule

baselines, and estimates at completion. Prepared cost/schedule variances

analyses, analyzed program performance. Provided mentoring and training of

personnel.

September 1991 to May 2005, Parsons Corp, Principal Member of Technical

Staff. Various assignments including:

Parsons, Charlotte Light Rail, Project Controls Manager. Developed Work

Breakdown Structure and time-phased budgets and schedules utilizing

resource-loaded CPM schedules for the Engineering, Procurement, and

Construction of the South Corridor rail project. Analyzed project

performance and prepared cost proposals.

Parsons, Inland Feeder Project, Metropolitan Water District of Southern

California, Chief Project Controls Engineer. Responsible for planning and

schedule control of a 43 mile long, 23 foot diameter, combination water

tunnel and buried pipeline. Recommended modifications to the Project

Management Information System to be implemented by the District.

Parsons, Design-Build, AT&T Internet Data Centers, Project Controls

Engineer. Prepared master program schedules for Atlanta and Austin Data

Centers, reviewed contractors resource-loaded schedules, incorporated

approved contractors schedules into master schedule. Provided weekly

schedule maintenance reports and physical percent complete curves. Assisted

in coordinating contractor's work. Atlanta Data Center received the Design-

Build Institutes' project of the year award for 2001.

Parsons, Design-Build, Dept. of Motor Vehicles of New Jersey, Project

Control Engineer. Provided schedules for construction of new stations and

additions, upgrades, and remodel to existing 35 Centralized Motor Vehicle

Inspection Stations. Developed an integrated project schedule, scheduled

subcontractor reviews, updated and published current schedule, developed

contingency schedules for management, reported schedule position data in

meetings.

Parsons, Design-Build, Orleans Parish School Board, Cost and Schedule

Control Specialist. Responsible for developing, maintaining, and updating

the cost-loaded master program schedule for design, renovation, and

construction of 60 school facilities in the Capital Improvement Program.

Parsons, Disney "Magic" Cruise Ship, Venice, Italy, Scheduling Consultant.

Responsible for preparing weekly construction completion schedules and

issuing reports to ensure the ship meets its planned maiden voyage.

Parsons, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho,

Primavera Expert. Responsible for leading a project controls team to

develop and implement project schedules for the operation of the 900 sq.

mile nuclear facility.

Parsons, Design-Build, EcoCentrum, Manila, Philippines, Scheduling

Consultant. Responsible for establishing project controls systems and

procedures for the design and construction of a 25 hectare theme park

containing three office towers, two hotels, a Cathedral complex, retail

town center, and four thematic villages. Duties included defining the Work

Breakdown Structure (WBS), writing schedule and cost engineering

procedures, and developing resource-loaded CPM schedules.

Parsons, Design-Build, US Virgin Islands Hurricane Recovery Project,

Project Controls Manager.

Established project controls systems and procedures for the repair of

public buildings and

Infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Marilyn. Duties included defining the

WBS, developing the program master schedule and project budgets, developing

a funds tracking program, and document control. Participated in the

selection of Architects, Engineers, and Contractors.

Parsons, Los Angeles MetroRail - Special Assistant to Project Controls

Manager. Revised and established policies and procedures for effective

project controls. Provided training to project controls engineering staff.

As Chief Planner/Scheduler, authored and implemented specifications

requiring contractors to generate monthly requests for payment from an

approved cost and materials resource loaded schedule. Oversaw development

and maintenance of master project schedules, creation of workaround plans

for schedule delays or advancement, and review of contractor prepared plans

and schedules. Provided cross training for cost engineers and schedule

engineers.

September 1988 to September 1991, Hill International, Inc., Los Angeles

Metro Rail, Escondido and Los Angeles, Project Director. Analyzed

contractor and owner prepared schedules, reported findings and made

recommendations to owner, construction manager and the Federal Government,

as well as authored sections of Hill's monthly report. Schedule analyses

included: evaluation of multiple contract schedule integration (including

design and real estate acquisition activities); analysis of monthly

schedule updates; determination of impacts to Revenue Operations resulting

from prioritizing track alignment; review and identification of project

contingency and float; analysis of delay impacts to Revenue Operations;

comparison of Level-4 Schedule information to Level-3 Schedules; and review

monthly Owner report format.

December 1984 to September 1988, Snodgrass Associates, Inc., Project

Management Consultant. Developed and maintained cost and resource-loaded

CPM schedules for building Contractors and Owners. Negotiated cost changes

and time extensions, prepared economic analyses (DCFROR and NPV) and

performed claims evaluation. Authored computer program for performing

economic feasibility studies for proposed commercial development projects.

September 1980 to December 1984, Atlantic-Richfield Company, Senior

Planning and Evaluation Engineer. Supervised the design, construction, and

start-up of an experimental chemical reactor. Responsible for planning, CPM

scheduling, and economic evaluation of all chemical process development

projects at the Tucson Development Laboratory.

November 1978 to September 1980, UOP, Inc Mineral Sciences Division,

Tucson, Arizona, Process Design Engineer.

May 1977 to November 1978, NL Industries, Magnesium Division, Salt Lake

City, Utah, Process Economics Engineer.

October 1973 - March 1977, National-Southwire Aluminum Company, Golden,

Colorado, Process Development Engineer.

Patents

US Patent No. 4,444,740. April 24, 1984. Method for the Recovery of

Fluorides from Spent Aluminum Potlining and the Production of an

Environmentally Safe Residue. Assigned to the Atlantic-Richfield Company,

Los Angeles, California

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