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Dennis Read Hanks, PE, CCE
Summary of Over 25 years of engineering and construction
qualifications experience of which 20 have been in project
controls - planning, scheduling, cost control, and
schedule risk assessment. As a registered civil
engineer (PE) and a certified cost engineer (CCE),
I know the problems, pitfalls and personalities of
construction - what to expect and what to do about
them.
Current on Primavera 6.7 and Pertmaster 8.5
Education Master of Business Administration - Finance
1988 University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah
Bachelor of Science in Engineering - Civil
Engineering
1976 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
1970 University of California Santa Barbara,
Calif.
Professional 2007 - Present Intercede Houston, TX
experience Consultant
Schedule risk assessment of a critical pipeline
replacement effort. Required simultaneous real-time
re-working of existing schedule and development of
risk profiles.
Two phase effort regarding an LNG gasifier and
pipeline. Primarily schedule risk assessment
utilizing data from un-sophisticated
sub-contractors. Software used - Pertmaster 8.53
and Primavera 6.2.
Schedule risk analysis for a pipeline replacement
program. Multi-project effort entailed re-casting
one project schedule and developing basic metrics,
validating existing systems and suggesting
improvements for the other projects.
2006 - 2007 General Electric - Energy Houston, TX
Sr. Project Engineer
Primary focus was assisting in the development of a
630MW IGCC Reference Plant, together with a
re-powering 4x7FAs (tolling contract), and
miscellaneous PDPs. Auxiliary functions included
structure, pricing, and presentation of Feasibility
and pre-FEED studies. Most of this work was
largely developmental with few established metrics.
1998 - 2006 Intercede Houston, TX
Consultant
Advised multi-national construction joint-venture
on project controls techniques and procedures for
three project sites - one domestic and two foreign
(Jamaica and Surinam).
Guided the development of a restoration/retirement
(mothball) program plan for a lanthanum refining
operation.
Commercial Manager on a 3 station natural gas
compression project in Bolivia. Challenge was the
integration of a Canadian engineer with a Bolivian
contractor under US management and working with an
uncooperative South American owner.
Assisted in the development and presentation of a
$37 MM wrongful discharge claim. Areas of personal
study were contaminated soils, sub-surface
conditions, excessive change, delayed payment, and
willful intrusion.
Provided project execution support to owners of
capital chemical and petro-chemical projects.
Assisted in rescuing a troubled $80 MM chemical
project from misguided leadership.
Provided capital project initial planning
team-based support for a multi-project capital
improvement program.
Provided project controls support during conceptual
design of an offshore oil field development
project.
1996 - 1998 CDI-Stubs Overbeck Houston, TX
Project Controls Mgr.
Directed the mixed controls team (owner and
contractor) on two $30MM chemical support units for
an international owner. Was an integral part of
the owner's management team engaged in contract
negotiations, contract disputes and settlements.
These two projects had the best cost/schedule
performance of the $1.8 B expansion project, in
spite of confused scope and tardy funding.
Note: pre-1996 assignments omitted for space and
pertinence. Employers included M.W. Kellogg, Brown
& Root, Bechtel, Pullman Kellogg, Hercules
Aerospace.
Publications
A three part series on schedule simplification.
"Soft Logic - Overview", Cost Engineering February
1999.
"Soft Logic - Engineering", Cost Engineering June
1999. Both articles re-printed by ProjectPro
September 1999, "Soft Logic - Seeing the Forest".
"Soft Logic - Construction", Cost Engineering
December 2000.
"Contingency - there may be a better way",
ProjectPro February 2000.
"Productivity Loss - An Approach," The Project
Manager Spring 2000.
Professional
memberships Member AACE International (AACEI).
President Houston-Gulf Coast Section 1997-1998.
Director AACEI CyberSection 2001 - present
Member American MENSA
Accreditations Registered Professional Engineer (PE) - Civil
(Utah) by NCEE examination, reciprocity in most
states.
Certified Cost Engineer (CCE) by examination,
accredited by CESB (Council of Engineering and
Scientific Specialty Boards).
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