Insurance Project Manager

DENNIS B. DEADY, CHST., FSR., ASC

**** ******* ***** **. ***** 209-355

Carrollton, Texas 75006

Cell 210-***-****, Home/Office 469-***-****, Fax 972-***-****

*********@*****.***

January, 2012

Summary of Experience

Performed evaluations of environmental and safety programs for insurance companies covering large industrial and petro-chemical clients. Supervised emergency hazardous material release clean-up operations by the client companies on and off-site. Negotiator for settlement of insurance claims for property, casualty, environmental, safety and health regulatory issues through alternative dispute resolution. Expert witness for insurance carriers in major injury and death cases. Provided inspections, sampling and mold remediation plans for USAA, Texas Farm Bureau, Church Mutual during the mold coverage era. Developed and presented an environmental law program for training environmental and safety officers for the U. S Army.

Fifteen years experience as Owner and President of an Environmental and Safety consulting firm with clients in insurance, construction, refining and manufacturing industries. Specialized in establishing comprehensive Environmental, Health and Safety Programs for client companies including Process Safety Management/Risk Management Programs, Hazard Waste Operations procedures, Hazardous Material Emergency Response plans and training, Confined Space Entry & Rescue plans and training, Industrial Firefighting training. Provided services as a

General Adjuster for the Christchurch, New Zealand central business district large loss earthquake claims. Administrative Manager supervising field adjuster for tornado, wind and hail claims in SC. TN. OH. General Adjuster for Citizens Property Insurance’s Florida wind claims. Storm boss for Hurricanes. Licensed property/casualty adjuster in seventeen states performing large loss commercial, industrial, residential catastrophe claim adjustments.

As General Adjuster for Citizens, reviewed claims to determine coverage’s and scopes of work, and approved/rejected claim estimates prepared by outside adjusters.

In the position of Administrative Manager, supervised multiple field adjuster, provided consultation to field adjusters and managed the claims production.

Certified Project Specialist, Insurance Lead, for FEMA performing analysis of State, County, City, University, school district and non-profit hospital’s insurance coverage’s to determine extent of disaster funding to be granted for damages not covered by property insurance. Supervised staff evaluating the public entities insurance coverage’s and establishing amounts of FEMA grant funds to be paid as disaster assistance. Certified in FEMA in Public Assistance Program [OPS-1] for Hurricane Ike damages in Ohio and Texas. Prepared project damage assessments [Project Worksheets] to determine the value of damages to public entity who have requested disaster assistance.

Extensive experience in the executive level management of large construction programs and projects which included managing Marriott Corp’s, hotel construction program in a eleven state region and the construction of the Dhahran, Saudi Arabia air base in the Peace Hawk program.

Recent Work History

Over the last several years, I have been in semi retirement working part time for Insurance companies investigating environmental accidents and workplace multiple injury and death cases to provide confidential cause and origin reports. The companies and persons involved are covered by confidentially agreements which can not be shared or any source divulged. The other part time work that can be reported is listed below.

NADO Insurance Services, [2011]. General Adjuster for Citizens Property Insurance: Reviewed field adjuster claims and compared policy coverage’s to the damages reported to determine applicability to contract. Reviewed field adjusters estimates and approved or rejected for revision.

GAB Robins/Cunningham Lindsey. [2011]

General Adjuster: Inspected catastrophic earthquake damages to commercial properties in the Christchurch, New Zealand central business district, preparing detailed reports for the insurance companies on the extent of the damages and setting large dollar reserves.

Pilot Catastrophe Services, [2011]

Administrative Manager: Supervised 24 adjusters working in three states to insure that procedures were followed in inspecting, preparing estimates in Xactimate, following Next Gen reporting protocols. Also responded to insured’s concerns and complaints, issued and transferred claims and supplements. Assisted experienced and new adjusters learn and use Xactimate and Xactanalysis.

Casualty Adjuster: Established validity of chemical plant’s environmental release claims for Casualty Insurance Company.

Team One Claims, [2011].

Employed as Storm Boss for claims by Western World Insurance for commercial claim management for Hurricanes Irene and Lee. Adjusted flood losses in Connecticut.

Pilot Catastrophe Services & Flour Corp. [2008, 2009]

Performed reviews and supervised insurance review staff performing evaluations of commercial insurance coverage’s that public entities carry for facility disaster damages and determine value of FEMA grants under the Public Assistance Program for State, County, Cities, Universities, School District and non-profit hospital facilities.

Provided technical expertise and consultation to FEMA staff preparing disaster assistance funding requests on insurance coverage’s for public entities.

Prepared public entity disaster assistance funding request by inspecting damages, estimating and documenting costs by preparing project worksheets to meet the requirements of the Stafford Act, current CFR regulations and FEMA requirements. .

IA Firms Work History

Cunningham & Lindsey, GAB Robins, NA. Columbia, South Carolina [2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011] Large Loss/Commercial Claims

Pilot Catastrophe Services, Mobile, Alabama [2007, 2008, 2009] FEMA, Environmental, Flood, Residential and Call Center Supplement Claims

ICA Inc. Charlotte, North Carolina [2007] Commercial Claims.

Southern Adjusters, Granbury, Texas [2007] Flood Claims

Crawford & Co., Atlanta, Georgia [2007] Casualty Claims

Pacesetter Claims, Catoosa, Oklahoma [2008], Commercial, Residential Claims

Eberl’s Temporary Services, Lakewood, Colorado [2004, 2005] Residential Claims

AIG, New York, New York [2003] Environmental Claims

Simsol Insurance Services, Niceville FL [2010] Flood Claims

Team One Claim Service, Dallas, Texas [2011] Day and Flood Claims

Nado Insurance Services, Woodstock, GA [2011]

Work Responsibilities

Interpreted policy coverage=s, inspected property damages, estimated repair cost, prepared business interruption and inventory claim losses for wind and flood claims resulting from Hurricanes Irene, Lee, Dolly, Ike, Francis, Jeanne, Katrina, Wilma, including preparation of required evaluation, reports and recommendations to insurance carriers. Claims included high rise buildings, condominiums, apartment projects, warehouses, offices, churches, hospitals, residential and retail facilities. Many claim losses exceeded $ 2 million dollars.

Processed large loss commercial and residential damage claims resulting from fire, hail and wind storms in Texas, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.

Evaluated and adjusted flood and oil damage claims to commercial and residential property resulting from oil spill caused by river flood in Coffeyville Kansas. Also supervised EPA required clean-up operations to commercial properties. Settled claims for the purchase and demolition of properties to costly to repair.

Evaluated and estimated damages caused by water, fire, mold, wind and hail to churches including interpreting coverage=s, making recommendations and submitting reports in the Dallas and San Antonio, Texas areas.

Evaluated casualty claims for food contamination and chemical release events.

Double D Safety Enterprises, Canyon Lake, Texas [1990-2005]

Established and operated a Safety and Environmental Consultative business. This company developed proactive environmental and loss control programs including training to the client’s management and personnel. Clients included government entities and private sector companies engaged in manufacturing, petro-chemicals, construction, and health care.

Provided OSHA and EPA mandated written programs that were specific to the clients operations while accommodating production goals and systems.

Performed facility inspections to insure compliance with OSHA, EPA and Department of Transportation regulations.

Trained management and personnel on-site and in class rooms in Hazardous Waste Operations, Hazardous Material Emergency Response, Confined Space Entry & Rescue, Industrial Firefighting, respirator use, forklift operations, scaffold safety, fall protection and all other safety and environmental subjects.

Lectured and instructed at seminars, colleges, universities and professional organizations on OSHA regulations.

Marriott Corporation, Washington, D.C. [1985-1990]

Regional Manager Of Projects.

Planned, implemented and managed a $340 million dollar per year development and construction program for the western U.S. attaining 100% on-time and under budget record.

Saved the company over $1 million by directly supervising the day to day operations which lead to completion of the project in two-thirds the normal time.

Successfully completed twenty-one multi-story hotel projects resulting making over 3000 rooms being available for guest occupancy. Supervised from 50 to 250 employees.

Represented the corporation in making presentations to governmental agencies for development and building code approvals and variances. Solved code interpretation problems and negotiated utility agreements.

Performed all contractor pre-qualification, bid document preparation, bid evaluation, contract negotiation and administration duties. Prepared regional budget and supervised all fiscal operations.

Northrup/Tumpane Joint Venture, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Resident Engineer / Project Manager

Planned, scheduled and supervised the efforts of a 1400 man multi-national construction work force building aircraft landing facilities, maintenance and repair buildings, schools, housing, hospitals, roads, power distribution and utilities. This also required the installation of a 2,000,000 cubic yard site filling operation and its related mining and hauling operations.

Directed all site activities for the design, construction, safety and testing of materials for a new military base equal to the size of a small city.

Instituted and managed a U.S. Corp of Engineer safety program.

Supervised an inventory control system for the all building material site operations. This included management and inventory of the contents in over 1000 containers, developing and implementing retrieval and replenishment system to insure that construction activities were not interrupted or to make site adjustments for the delivery sequence since all materials were bulked shipped from the United States or Europe.

Project consisted of building an infrastructure of roads and utilities, a 15,000 ft runway, five hangers, one school, 1000 multi-family apartments, 585 residential homes, one hospital and fourteen commercial buildings and warehouses.

Commercial Contracting Company of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Manager of Estimating and Civil Construction

Managed corporate contract administration, estimating/bidding operations for civil construction, industrial painting, prefabricated building and millwork divisions.

Increased companies bid volume over $200M per year and increased construction contracts over 19%.

Supervised the construction planning and operational activities on water, waste water, electric generating, industrial plant, mining and commercial projects.

Designed and supervised construction of special concrete forming systems and unique mine tunnel excavation operation.

Notable Additional Experience: Acted as construction project manager or superintendent on the construction of various projects throughout the United States including Louisiana National Bank, 22 Story structure, General Cable Plant 1,500,000 square foot extrusion plant. Indiana National Bank, 37 story structure, St Luke’s/Texas Children’s Hospital, 27 story structure and 500,000 square foot joint facility. University of Houston College of Education Building & General Services Building, St Joseph=s Hospital, Bryan TX., Texas A & M University’s Zachary Engineering Building, and the renovation of the Galves Hotel, Galveston.

Credentials

Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration. Majored in Management with minors in Criminal Justice, and Human Resource Management.

Licensed by the Texas Department of Insurance as Property/Casualty Adjustor. [License No. 1290757].

Licensed by the State of Florida Department of Financial Services as a Non-Resident Property Casualty Adjustor [License No. E142821]

Licensed by the State of South Carolina Department of Insurance as Non-Resident Property, Casualty, Personal Lines, Workers Compensation and Commercial Lines Adjuster [License No 468776]

Licensed by the State of North Carolina Department of Insurance as Non-Resident Insurance Adjuster [License No 45754887]

Licensed by the State of Georgia Insurance Department as Non-Resident Property, Casualty, Hail & Crop Adjuster [License No 795902]

Licensed by the State of Alabama Department of Insurance as Adjuster [License No A283073].

Licensed by the State of Mississippi Insurance Department as Non-Resident Independent Adjuster [License No 10077349]

Licensed by Louisiana Department of Insurance as Independent Commercial Property Adjuster, [ License No 426417].

Licensed by Oklahoma Insurance Department as Non-Resident, Casualty, Crop/Hail, Property and Workers Compensation Adjuster. [License No. 40033202]

Licensed by Arkansas Insurance Department Property/Casualty Resident Adjuster [License No 329013]

Licensed by State of Washington Office of Insurance Commissioner as Independent Adjuster [License No. 772248]

Licensed by Commonwealth of Kentucky as an Independent Adjuster [License No. 739858]

Licensed by Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services as a General Lines Adjuster [License No. 222620]

Licensed by State of Delaware as an Adjuster [License No. 1126326]

Licensed by West Virginia Insurance Commissioner as Non-Resident Company Adjuster [License No. 534341]

Certified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the National Flood Insurance Program. Certificate No. 12040006 with RCBAP designation for ALL Types of Losses.

Licensed by the State of Texas, Board of Insurance as a Field Safety Representative. [License No. 02138]

Certified by Federal Emergency Management Agency in Public Assistance Program [OPS 1]

Certified by Federal Emergency Management Agency as Project Specialist, [Insurance Lead]

Certificate of Completion from Crawford University for Catastrophe Commercial Property Adjusting of Large Losses, Business Income Losses, and Inventory Losses.

Completed Kaplan Financial=s Commercial Property Policy Coverage’s, Business Income Losses, Claim Investigation, Negotiating Skills courses.

Certified to adjust claims for All State Insurance, Nationwide Insurance [Commercial], USAA, State Farm Insurance, California Earthquake Authority, Texas Wind Insurance Association, Citizens Property Insurance and all commercial lines.

IDL Certified by State Farm Insurance as property casualty adjustor. Certified to adjust commercial and residential wind, hail, hurricane and flood losses.

Certified by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and the Board of Safety Professionals as a Certified Health and Safety Technician. [Certification C-67]

Certified by the U. S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration as an Instructor in General Industry and Construction Safety.

Certified by OSHA=s Occupational Safety and Health Institute in Industrial Hygiene.

Certified by OSHA=s Occupational Safety and Health Institute in Chemical Safety [Process Safety Management] .

Advanced Safety Certified by the National Safety Council.

Certified by Texas A & M as an Emergency Response Technician and Supervisor for Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Operations.

Certified by Texas A & M as an Instructor in Industrial Fire Fighting.

Certified by Texas A & M in Hazardous Waste Operations Management.

Prepared and presented Environmental Law Curriculum for U.S. Army=s Base Operations officers and enlisted personnel.

Instructor for environmental and safety classes at Texas A & M Engineering Extension Service, Austin Community College, Central Texas College, Temple Junior College, Brookhaven College.

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