Project Manager/Civil Engineering: Lee Dumas, P.E., MBA

SUMMARY

Mr. Dumas' key accomplishment has been his repeat assignments to provide multi-disciplinary general engineering project management services over a 25 year career to public and private clients. These clients have included major GEC and CM firms such as Carter-Burgess, the Spink Corp., PBQ&D, DMJM, Jacobs, Systra USA, PBSJ, Moffett & Nichols, and Willdan Associates. He has completed civil design assignments for state agencies, local departments of public works, and both federal (Amtrak) and local transit agencies. He has completed conceptual rail design plans for freight and passenger rail systems, schematic layout of complex multi-modal rail/highway/port development projects, including follow-on phased PS&E for such projects. He is skilled in preliminary engineering, quality control/quality assurance, scheduling, and cost estimating methodologies for conventional and high speed rail transit programs including their ancillary traction power and maintenance facilities. - major building construction programs completing plans, specifications, and estimates (PS&E) for Title 21/24 CFR facilities such as medical offices, testing labs, manufacturing facilities, rail vehicle maintenance facilities, light and heavy rail passenger stations, water/waste water treatment plants, and land development projects.

In addition, he has supervised the design of the civil and architectural works associated with multi-modal rail/highway projects, large scale medical centers, airport traffic circulation systems, and landside coastal projects. In the last ten years alone, he has completed over 15 major program management assignments (construction value over $1.5 billion) demonstrating his training and expertise in multi-disciplinary project management, contract administration, pre-revenue service testing and startup, safety reviews, including safety management utilizing methodologies mandated by the CCR, OSHPD, OSHA and the EPA. A key strength of Mr. Dumas and one relevant to any complex building project is his objectivity, his results-oriented management style, and his excellent communications skills. He works in partnership with everyone around him, and his training and vast experience in project control and estimating are uniquely suitable to this project.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Complex multi-faceted rail transit program management

Rail Design & Construction Management

Commercial and Industrial Heavy Rail: Civil/Architectural Design

Multi-Disciplinary Engineering

QA/QC Management and Operations Audit: Rail Transit Projects

Administration of Fast-Track Freight and Passenger Rail Projects

Contract Administration: Design- Build Rail Projects

Cost Estimating/Scheduling

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Multi-Faceted Program Management: Mr. Dumas has multi-disciplinary engineering skills and has completed project management assignments on complex rail projects throughout the United States. Currently the Senior Project Manager for a San Francisco Consulting Engineering firm where he develops early design phase estimates for rail transit and highway/freeway projects in Northern California. He is currently assigned to the California High Speed Rail Design/Build team as Senior Quality Control Manager for the next 22 mile line segment CP4, and will be responsible for completing the System Acceptability Plan, conducting QA/QC audits, developing bridging documents, and final design/construction closeout documentation. On a previous four (4) year assignment with the City of Modesto, prior to his work in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was the program manager for the Kaiser Modesto Medical Center Project, a complex $800 million multi-faceted program with sensitive third party impacts. His duties spanned all phases of the project from conceptual design to final construction and startup. The medical center provided a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient health care services to its members in fifteen (15) communities in Stanislaus and Southern San Joaquin Counties. The medical center consisted of a Diagnostic and Treatment Area, North and South Nursing Towers, a Hospital Support Wind (HSW), and a Central Utility Plant (CUP).

Rail Design and Construction Management Projects: Mr. Dumas has managed complex general civil/architectural engineering projects such as rail vehicle maintenance facilities, rail/highway inter-modal projects, and federal agencies construction projects such as the Amtrak Los Angeles Progressive Maintenance Facility; and the Cavallo Point Recreational Facility at Fort Baker in San Francisco. Project elements included removal and replacement of tile flooring, security system upgrade, fencing, windows, and roofing replacement.

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Commercial and Industrial Heavy Rail Civil/Architectural Design: In addition to his LRT and HRT passenger stations and line segments design/construction management assignment, such as the transit improvements in Pittsburgh, PA; the highway/rail transit projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA; and the Norfolk, VA; Atlanta, GA; and the South Corridor LRT Extension in the Sacramento - Mr. Dumas has completed and/or supervised the development of PS&E's for construction of several coastal engineering projects including the Port of Los Angeles' Union Pacific/Toyota Inter-Modal Facility; the Terminal Island Container Transfer Facility; Berth 300 Lumber Handling Facility; and the design/build Alameda Corridor Transportation Project.

Multi-Disciplinary Engineering: Mr. Dumas holds a California and Georgia PE and an EIT certification in the State of Texas, as well as a California Electrical Contractor's License (currently in-active). He has utilized these attributes in design/build projects involving site electrical and communications systems, gas pipeline relocation, medium and low voltage power distribution systems, design/construction of traffic signals, interior and exterior lighting, and MEP control systems. He has vast knowledge of the general civil, architectural, structural, and electrical design of Title 24 projects, including parking structures, hotels, hospitals, commercial and residential land development, heavy freight and passenger rail ancillary facilities, and waterworks. Mr. Dumas has experience in the construction, testing, and start-up of rail traction power systems, and train control/communication systems.

QA/QC Management and Operations Audit: Mr. Dumas served as Chief Scheduling Manager and Project Control Engineer for Parsons/Brinckerhoff on the Los Angeles Blue and Green Lines LRT programs. As scheduling control manager he provided engineering support and in-progress design cost estimating and scheduling services for both projects. He completed engineering review of right-of-way acquisitions, replacement and installation of new Los Angeles River Basin pumping plants, Caltrans deep excavation support systems, sheet-pile installation, and dewatering systems. He completed design verification and validation of design interface issues related to the rail system design on the Century Freeway, performed oversight of the Caltrans/MTA design/construction process, monitored project schedules and budgets for both the freeway and rail programs, evaluated cost estimate variances, and completed risk analysis of potential claims and changes.

Administration of Fast-Track Freight and Passenger Rail Projects: Mr. Dumas started his engineering career as a junior civil engineer with the State of California, Department of Water Resources, and later with the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), working and learning his way up the ladder in 10 years to eventual senior project manager in Caltrans District 07 in Los Angeles. He shortly thereafter started his private consultant experience with PBQ&D as a senior field engineer/office engineer in Atlanta on the MARTA project and subsequently completed various assignments over a 15 year career with PB as project manager/deputy construction manager on numerous fast track projects throughout the United States, where multi-disciplinary contract administration skills were required, including such attributes as inter-personal communications skills, design management, cost control, audits, records management, safety and QA/QC management.

Contract Administration: His areas of expertise include pre-construction services including Engineer's Estimates, program funding, CPM scheduling, and value engineering. He has completed over 2,400 conceptual, hard dollar, and contract claim and changes cost estimates, developed comparative estimates for equipment procurement, and during his extensive career has served as lead negotiator for end-of-job construction claim settlements totaling over $65 million. He has formal training in cost engineering, cost estimating, and construction finance, and has completed preliminary and final bid estimates for numerous transportation projects, parks and recreation facilities, office buildings, hospitals, museums, shopping centers, civic centers, convention centers, and other civic facilities. Mr. Dumas has served as a key team member leading the cost control and estimating effort for major water/waste water projects, where he focused on over 61 technical processes concerned with pretreatment, desalination, commercial processes, post-treatment, miscellaneous processes, and disposal/ZLD processes.

Cost Estimating: Mr. Dumas served as Project Manager/Senior Estimator for the renovation of 16 high schools in the south Los Angeles and San Pedro areas of the Los Angeles Unified School District as part of the District's $250 million rebuilding program under a CM-At Risk Program Management.

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CAREER SUMMARY

Executive Vice-President: AMC/Segma Engineering Group, LLC, Houston, Texas - June 2010–Present. Segma Engineering Group (SEG) is a civil/MEP design/construction firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. Mr. Dumas is co-founder and vice-president of SEG and provides professional services for the firm as a California licensed electrical contractor and civil engineer. He provides a broad range of general civil and MEP engineering services for projects in conventional LRT and high-speed rail transportation, infrastructure design, streetscape, parks, utilities, water/wastewater treatment plants, and other technical related industries.

Project Manager: Amtrak Progressive Maintenance Facility, Los Angeles, CA - May 2009–June 2010. Mr. Dumas served as Project Manager and Onsite Construction Engineer for the ARRA Amtrak Los Angeles Progressive Maintenance Facility in Los Angeles, CA - a $32 million one-year fast-track project to construct a new 58,000 sq ft rail car maintenance facility located in Amtrak’s Los Angeles Train Yard.

Project Manager: Hampton Roads Light Rail Transit Project, Norfolk, VA - May 2008–May 2009. Mr. Dumas served as Construction Engineer on the Hampton Roads Light Rail Project, Norfolk, VA. He provided oversight of two HRT construction contract segments, an 8 mile dual track project from Norfolk State University to New Town Road at the Virginia Beach city limits and the LRT Vehicle Storage and Maintenance Facility, between Brambleton Avenue and Ballentine Blvd., in Norfolk.

Construction Engineer: Cavallo Point Restoration - March 2007–May 2008. Mr. Dumas served as Field Engineer for the National Park Service - Fort Baker Golden Gate National Recreation Project that constructed the Cavallo Point Recreation facilities. He completed constructability reviews of utility relocation and protection plans, including gas, electrical power, water, and sewer systems.

Program Manager: Kaiser Medical Center Project, City of Modesto - February 2004–March 2007. Mr. Dumas was Program Manager for the Kaiser Modesto Medical Center Project in the City of Modesto: He was head of the City’s Administrative Unit for the four year project, an $800 million Medical Center construction program on a 38.7 acre parcel on Dale Road. He was responsible for review and approval of the general civil design of the hospital facility, including the architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC subsystems. He enforced the September 7, 2004 Kaiser/City Development Agreement and Kaiser’s Conditions of Approval, assisted in public outreach programs and conducted weekly stakeholder meetings.

Construction Manager: Sacramento RTD - September 2000–Feb 2004. South Corridor Light Rail Extension Project: Construction Manager for the South Corridor Project as well as Resident Engineer for the Florin Road Railroad Bridge and Grade Separation Project. Provided design plan check of bridge structural drawings and MSE walls, Completed construction oversight of new relocated high pressure PG&E gas pipeline, modification of gas line connections to private residences and businesses. Supervised the construction of new high tension power lines, traction power substations, bridge falsework design, and excavation and disposal of over 180,000 cu yds of Union Pacific Rail Road contaminated subballast.

April 1998 – September 2000 Spink Corporation: Senior Associate Project Manager for the bridge and highway design team for Douglas Blvd./Interstate 80 Interchange reconstruction project in the City of Roseville. Developed the design concept and 65% final design for the 3,000 ln ft cut-and-cover tunnel connection from Southbound Sunrise Avenue to Eastbound I-80 on ramp, which eliminated three aerial overcrossings and greatly reduced the complexity of the construction staging under the original interchange design.

June 1995 – April 1998 DMJM/Seville Group: Deputy Construction Manager and Chief Rail and Trackwork Inspector for the Terminal Island Container Transfer Facility, the New Dock Street Realignment and Rail Extension for the Port of Los Angeles. The facility was constructed under existing yard operations and with no interference with on-going train operations.

October 1991 – June 1995 Moffatt & Nichol, Engineers: Chief Civil Engineer for rail and highway construction projects. Served as Project Manager in the Rail Transportation Division for the Alameda Corridor Project. Provided direct supervision of the preliminary design and construction planning for the Alameda Corridor as well as the final PS&E’s for two design segments of the corridor. Supervised design of bridge and roadway elements of multi-modal port facilities for the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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June 1989 – October 1991 Willdan Associates: Supervising Engineer Rail Transit Division, managed preliminary studies of high-speed rail feasibility in the Las Vegas to Anaheim Corridor, provided design-build construction support services for the eastern terminus of the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor project. Completed design of 5 miles of the I-5 freeway widening including reconstruction of 6 Caltrans bridges; and supervised one of three project teams in the areas of design-build transportation projects, highway toll facilities development, and other heavy civil construction projects including bridge structures, water/wastewater facilities design, and municipal support services.

March 1989 to June 1989, Reggie Short & Associates: Vice President Scheduling and Construction Management Services: Responsible for business development and preparation of construction management proposals in rail and bus maintenance facilities: successfully prepared, presented, and negotiated major architectural building program management proposal between CRSS Engineers and Reggie Short & Associates for the City of Los Angeles Fire and Police Facilities Design and Construction Program.

March 1975 to March 1989. Parsons, Brinckerhoff – New York: (1) Los Angeles Assignment: Deputy Construction Manager/Senior Resident Engineer on the Long Beach to Los Angeles and Norwalk to El Segundo Rail Construction Projects. Had a major role in the development and supervision of the design and construction program plan and schedule for both projects. Coordinated the systemwide trackwork, traction power, communication and structural design, including environmental clearance, architectural and utility design interface of the Los Angeles River Bridge Construction, the Mid-Corridor Aerial Structures, Compton Creek Bridge, and over $2.0 Billion in dual highway/transit construction work with Caltrans, the Office of the State Architect, the State Fire Marshall, the County of Los Angeles, and the various corridor cities involved in the LRT program, including the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach. (2) Pittsburgh Assignment: Area Resident Engineer on the Port Authority of Allegheny County Light Rail Construction Project. Was in charge of all construction in the Pittsburgh central business district. Supervised the construction of over $130 million in on-going construction work in the city including construction of four major multi-level transit stations and a mid-rise office building (The Azen Building at Wood Street and Sixth Avenue). Had operational control of the architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing segments of the work in a highly sensitive business area. Was in charge of three construction project teams consisting of twenty six (26) professional engineers, construction inspectors, and technical support personnel working under the State of Pennsylvania’s Multiple Prime Contract System. Responsibilities included the selection and training of construction inspection staff, capital budgeting, administrative and financial control of fourteen (14) assigned construction contracts, maintenance of auditable financial records, claims and changes management and the maintenance of a project cost and scheduling control system. Completed the projects in record time and was the subject of an article in the New York Times and ENR. (3) Atlanta Assignment: Resident Engineer/Area Office Engineer on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Heavy Rail Construction Project. Was in charge of West Line construction projects which included several post-tensioned rail and highway bridges: multi-level transit stations; and hard and soft ground tunneling construction. I supervised the construction of over $200 million in construction work and served for two years as the principle area office engineer with responsibilities for auditing of claims and changes, training of construction administrative staff, project budgeting, administrative and management coordination of the North and West Line construction, and maintenance of project cost records.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering, Lamar State University, Beaumont, TX

Master of Science Business Administration, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Amtrak Track Safety Workshop

Risk Management, University of Rochester

Cost Estimating, SMU

Value Engineering, ASCE/Univ. of Pittsburgh

Construction Changes/Claims, AGC-California

Certification, Transportation Planning, USC

Subdivision Map Act, ASCE California

OSHA 30 Hour Safety Course

Civil Engineer, California, No. C22077

Civil Engineer, Georgia, No. C11981

Contractor's License C10 - 799733

AutoCAD, 2000-2007

Autodesk Land Desktop, 2000-2007

Autodesk Civil 3D, 2006-2007

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