Cost Control Capital Projects

PROJECT, COST CONTROL AND SCHEDULING EXPERIENCE:

KAP Project Services, Trainer, PA June-2022 to March-2024

Project Cost Lead, seconded to Monroe Energy Large Capital Projects Group. Controlling Cost and Forecast for a portfolio of Large Capital Projects with TIC of $200MM.

Cost Coordinator supporting Indorama Venture Limited STO.

Consulting: August-2020 to May-2022 (see OTHER below)

Mid-America Pipeline Construction Inc., Cushing, Oklahoma: January-2020 to July-2020

$20MM PLAINS All American Pipeline Midstream Project, developed and maintained resource loaded schedules for multiple Pipeline Facilities Sites, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical/Instrumentation construction, and long run rack pipe. Prepared and maintained Earned Value physical progress rules of credit reporting. Manpower planning and tracking. Also supported cost control, forecasting and scope change estimating and processing.

Consulting: November-2017 to December-2019 (see OTHER below)

Integrated Consulting, LLC, Houston, TX: May-2017 to October-2017

$600MM Midstream Project in Ohio, Seconded to Kinder Morgan to develop and maintain the Project Master CPM Schedule for an ethane and ethane-propane mixtures gas pipeline and multiple stations project venture. This includes coordinating and corroborating with all contractors and vendors. Tracking productivity and progress with an Earned Value system. Also, contributing to cost control forecasting, and EVM reporting.

Consulting: January-2016 to April-2017 (see OTHER below)

Mid-America Pipeline Construction Inc., Brazoria, Texas: January-2015 to December-2015

$45MM Phillips 66 Midstream Project, developed and maintained resource loaded schedules for multiple Pipeline Facilities Sites, Civil and Mechanical construction, and long run rack pipe. Prepared and maintained Earned Value physical progress rules of credit reporting. Manpower planning and tracking. Also supported cost control, forecasting and scope change estimating and processing.

KAP Project Services, LA Porte, Texas: June-2014 to October-2014

INVISTA Orange, TX plant $75MM Multi-unit Turnaround, Developed and implemented procedures for cost and progress and earned value tracking and forecasting.

Foster Wheeler USA, Houston, Texas: May-2012 to April-2014

Cost Lead EPCM for Dow Chemical Plant expansion and upgrade $300MM TIC (July-2013 to April-2014)

Project Cost Control on construction self-perform work at the BP Whiting, IN Refinery, Coker Project

$60MM Pipe Test and miscellaneous mechanical packages (May-2012 to June-2013)

Consulting Assignments

October-2011 to February-2012

Project Control Adviser, Project control management for upstream facilities engineering projects, seconded to Chevron. These projects range from $20MM to $100MM and were in pre-FEED and FEED phases. Activities included budgeting and cost reporting. Estimate reviews. Risk assessments and contract planning.

March-2010 to August-2010

Cost Consultant Provided cost engineering services for the INVISTA Victoria Plant, during their 2010 ADN Unit outage. The work included $20MM worth of turnaround work items, maintenance work and small capital projects. Collected estimate data, schedule and progress information and actual man hours and cost information to combine and analyze in a performance-based cost forecasting effort. Also, other specialty subcontracts, equipment and material cost analysis and forecasting were performed. Similar duties were performed at the INVISTA Orange Plant, estimated value $40MM.

ONPOINT, Port Arthur, Houston, Texas City, Texas: April-2000 to September-2011

Project Control Lead, client representative on a $450MM Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Unit capital expansion and associated unit upgrades at the Valero Refinery in Houston, and $2,000MM plant Expansion in Port Arthur, and $335MM Delayed Coker Unit capital expansion at the Valero Refinery in Texas City, Provide leadership to the team for the proper execution of the following items:

Develop Valero’s Project Controls Management Sections of Strategic Project Execution Plan

Analyze and make recommendations to improve on the Project’s Controls Plan; including Engineering, Procurement and Construction components

Develop cost forecasting system for tracking all project costs

Audit EPC contractor’s project controls and data collection systems; validate the information being reported

Coordinate and prepare schedules and progress measurement for project activities not being managed and/or executed by EPCs

Coordinate and prepare monthly management reports for all projects and subprojects

Issue reports of project cost including budget, actual and forecast comparison

Account for and report all Change Orders by project segment (by WBS)

Work with the Engineering/Construction Contractors to establish their cost reporting requirements

Audit Engineering/Construction Contractors’ cost tracking systems to insure accuracy

Develop and maintain Owner’s Cost account for all projects including staffing

Previous client assignments with TTMC include Phillips-Sweeney, TX $35MM; ExxonMobil-Beaumont, TX 40$MM, KOCH-Corpus Christi, TX $2MM and BP Amoco-Yorktown, VA-$10MM.

Estimating direct and indirect hours and dollars for turnaround and capital projects

Estimating, monitoring commitments, and detail level hour and dollar forecasting for turnaround projects

Responsible for implementing the TTMC Cost Management Process and site utilization of TTMC's cost management software application.

Orientation of contractors to provide live, ongoing cost data, interfacing with client systems for needed data exchange

Managing site Cost Management team and forecasting cost at completion.

Development and testing of the Project Control Management System cost reporting application and its interface with computerized detail project schedules and produced management level schedules

URS-Washington Division, Houston, Texas. Project Control. April-2007 to August 2008

Project Control Management, Cost Engineering and Proposals, worked in an EPC company capacity on various FEED Projects, EPC Projects and Proposals for various clients, including Imperial Oil-Canada, ADNOC, FUTUREGEN, Conoco Phillips, E-85, Williams, ExxonMobil, Calais and ALICO. Participated in the implementation of the newly acquired PRISM cost software system.

CDI Group, Inc., Houston, Texas. Chief Cost/Scheduling/Estimating. February-1993 to March-2000:

Projects ranged from small maintenance jobs to larger revamp and capital projects up to $500MM

Capital Project Cost Estimating and Cost Forecasting of various in-plant work at Rohm & Haas Texas, Inc. (Deer Park Facility, Bayport Facility, Lone Star Facility and various overseas studies)

Assisted in developing a computerized budget tracking and forecasting system, and its correlation to the construction contractor’s cost coding and billing system, and was assigned as Site System Administrator of this Cost and Commitment system

Produced overall project level computerized schedules for Project Engineers and served as the site representative for the scheduling software

Performed Site Administration for computerized estimating tools

Earlier experience available on request

OTHER

2016-2017, 2017-2019, 2021-Present:

Self Employed – consulting and home remodeling contract work

Braes Interfaith Ministries volunteer - food pantry, resale shop

Willow Meadows Baptist Church volunteer – general maintenance, housekeeping and repairs

Education:

University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Masters of Business Administration, Dec 1986.

Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. Bachelor of Science, Construction Science, Aug 1981.

Professional:

Member of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI)

Certified Cost Professional (CCP)

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