Kristopher (Kris) Johnson, CPM Project Management & Controls Manager

Skills, Knowledge, and Technical Expertise

I have extensive senior-level leadership experience in managing major government and commercial projects. With more than 30 years of senior leadership experience managing complex programs and projects with budgets up to $500M annually. I exhibit diverse leadership experience for complex and technical programs and projects. I have managed staff up to 604 not including sub-contractors. Upon request by RSI management, I filled the Program Manager position recently vacated due to his retirement, overseeing all programmatic management functions for the Department of Energy IDIQ Legacy Management Long-term Sustainment and Maintenance contract. Recent reassignment, as the Legacy Management Support Services (LMS) Project Management & Controls and Task Order 4 Manager, I manage the project controls and project services, learning and development, project development & engineering, procurement, Human Resources and finance organizations and the integration of task order (TO) estimates, schedules, and financial data to support program wide and TO planning. Recently, I completed the 6-month interim Program Manager position while maintaining my current duties and responsibilities.

Labor Category: Project Management & Controls Manager

Labor Category Requirements

Ability to Meet Relevant Labor Category Description

•Advanced degree in business management, engineering, or science; minimum of 30 years diverse leadership experience at senior program and project level

•Demonstrates overall management of major projects dealing with legacy stewardship and complex environmentally remediated sites and assets either owned or managed by the program or business

•Extensive experience with major Government, Federal and private utility, and commercial support services contracts

•Excellent communication, problem solving, analytical, team building skills

•Bachelor of Science, Finance/Accounting and Physical Geography/Geology; 34 years executive, senior-level, and manager experience

•Serves as deputy to the LMS Program Manager, providing strategic organizational planning for activities related to legacy stewardship of complex environmental remediation sites

•Manages large-scale, complex projects, responsible for strategy, scope, schedule, project budget and funding, and long-term business planning

•Resourceful problem-solver experience in developing and leading teams to successful project completion using a variety of resources and equipment following all internal project reporting processes

Relevant Work Experience

Project Management & Controls and Task Order 4 Manager, DOE Legacy Management Support Services, RSI, Westminster, CO, 03/2020 – Present.

Oversees the project controls and finance organizations to facilitate business system planning and enable visibility of cost, schedule, and technical progress to measure and manage performance, keep leadership informed, and produce tailored and accurate financial reports and invoices. Manages the integration of TO estimates, schedules, and financial data to support program-wide and TO planning, monitoring, and reporting actual vs planned cross-cutting/cross-functional program DPLH/ODCs. Supports the programmatic, site, and project-level risk process to identify, assess, and rank risks and recommend new or review existing risk mitigations. Oversees the timely development, review, and submittal of contract deliverables.

Oversees the project controls, Human Resources, major project development and engineering, and finance organizations to facilitate business system planning and enable visibility of cost, schedule, and planning for shovel ready projects and technical progress to measure and manage performance and communicate the monthly financial progress of the Program to LM Executives on a regular basis.

Interim Program Management Manager, DOE Legacy Management Support Services, RSI, Westminster, CO, 03/2022 – 10/2022

Served as deputy, to the recently retired Program Manager providing strategic and organizational planning for the LMS contract. Then assumed the role as the Interim Program Manager. Managed functional organizations that include Project Integration (TO 2), Program and Services Integration (TO3), Program and Project Support, General Management, Human Resources, Procurement, Finance, Engineering and Major Project Development (TO4). Information Management (TO5). Continuing to lead baseline planning and Basis of Estimate development for multiple Periods of Performance and contract renewal Request for Proposals. Manages LMS TOs/subtasks, including overseeing site lead, subtask managers and project analyst support. Updating, and refining the statements of work and partnering with DOE task and subtask managers to ensure alignment on expectations. Communicates current scope of work for validation of estimate and schedule progress. Continues to build relationships with DOE upper management and contracting officers.

General Manager of Civil Project Management, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Chattanooga, TN, 04/2011 – 03/2020.

Responsibilities included management for environmental remediation projects, new project development, and participated in overall company business planning. Accountable for maintaining and balancing an annual project portfolio value of $500M, or 66% of Generation Projects and Fleet Services (GP&FS) total fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget. Accountable for projected five-year business plan project portfolio value exceeding $550M/year beginning FY 2021. Projects included Coal Combustion Residual (CCR) dry conversion projects, new CCR lined landfills, wastewater treatment projects, brown-field small nuclear reactor site plans and construction estimates, and various hydro improvement, dam repair and river management projects. Also secured solar P6 schedule coordination projects.

Example CCR projects are:

Preliminary Site Plan Development – Small Nuclear Reactor Project $8M

Bull Run Fossil Plant Dry Fly Ash Expansion, approved budget $21M

Cumberland Bottom Ash Dewatering Facility, approved budget $84M

Cumberland Main Ash Pond, approved budget $75M

Kingston Bottom Ash Dewatering Facility, approved budget $58M

Shawnee New CCR Landfill, approved budget $84M

Shawnee Process Water Basin, approved budget $81M

Site development of the Google Data Center, Bridgeport AL—approved budget $20M—with movement of over 3M cubic yards of clay within 4 months

Widows Creek Main Ash Pond and Dredge Cell Closure, approved budget $94M

Owner, Aspen Gold Consulting, LLC, 10/2009 – 04/2011. Managed consulting contracts with three utilities specializing in operational efficiencies for CCR impoundments and routine operations.

President and CEO, Full Circle Solutions, Inc., 12/2003 – 10/2009. President and CEO of Full Circle Solutions, Inc., a $15M privately owned coal combustion products (CCPs) marketing and utilization company.

Chief Financial Officer, ReUse Technology, Inc., 06/1989 – 12-2003. CFO for ReUse Technology, Inc., a $13M subsidiary company of Cogentrix Energy, Inc., specializing in the management of CCPs.

Employer: RSI Entech

Education: Bachelor of Science, Finance/Accounting, Florida State University; Bachelor of Science, Geography/ Geology, Florida State University

Certifications: Certified Project

Manager (CPM)