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San Francisco Bay Area Section

Southern California Section

WESTERN WINTER

W O R K S H O PHyatt Regency, Indian Wells, CA

March 3-6, 2016

WESTERN WINTER

W O R K S H O PHyatt Regency, Indian Wells, CA

March 3-6, 2016

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MARCH 2-5, 2017

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Special Thank You to All 2017 Western Winter Workshop ParticipantsThe 2017 Western Winter Workshop Planning Committee would like to extend a special thank you to all the exhibitors, sponsors, speakers and attendees who contributed their time and resources to making this event a success. Without your support, hard work and encouragement, this workshop would not be possible. We hope you enjoy this year’s program and look forward to working with you all again next year!

Mission Statement:The mission of the Western Winter Workshop is to showcase the very latest in project controls knowledge, tools and methodologies, as well as to provide a unique opportunity to network with key decision makers for major capital project delivery organizations, owners, executives, managers, engineers and many other industry professionals.

2017 Western Winter Workshop Planning Committee

John HaynesChairman

Julie OwenProgram Chair

Mark Von LeffernExecutive Director

SPONSORS

Sheri HaynesLogistics Chair

Roger NelsonMarketing Chair

Joelle Solarzano Planning Co-Chair

The San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California Sections would like to thank our sponsors and exhibitors for their support and generous contributions to the 2017 Western Winter Workshop.

BMW CORPORATE SPONSOR

PLATINUM

DIAMOND INNOVATOR

D R McNattysoftware professional services hostingJelena Durovic

PlanningBen Solinsky

PlanningRafael Gonzalez

Planning

Phil PetersonPlanning

Ara AsatoorianPlanning

Kristen SchultzProgram Design

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AGENDA

GOLD

SMALL BUSINESS APPRECIATION

EARLY REGISTRATION GIVEAWAY

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CAPITAL MANAGEMENT DINNER AND OTHER

Friday, March 3, 2017 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Emerald Foyer

Breakfast hosted by

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Emerald Ballroom

Introduction John Haynes, Western Winter Workshop Chairman, Hill International

INNOVATION COLLABORATION FORUM

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM Emerald Ballroom

Innovation Enablers - Owners and City Agencies Moderated by Adam Cohen, Innovative Mobility Research Group

John Keisler, City of Long Beach Joshua Schank, Los Angeles Metro Erik Takayesu, SCE Grid Transformation Ben Stapleton, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Emerald Ballroom

Innovation Solution Providers Garrett Harley, Oracle Doug Eberhard, Autodesk Clay Gilge, KPMG LLP Mike Schneider, HDR P3 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Emerald Ballroom

Autodesk Exhibition Doug Eberhard, Autodesk

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Friday, March 3, 2017 (Continued)

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Emerald Foyer

Lunch - State of the Association hosted by John Livengood - President and Charity Quick - Executive Director, AACE International 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Emerald Ballroom

Contractor Best Practices Panel Moderated by Jim Eisenhart, Ventura Consulting Brian Freund, Skanska Ken McBroom, McCarthy Building Companies Kris Manning, Clark Construction Carlos Morgner, Morgner Construction

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Emerald Foyer

Coffee Break hosted by 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Capital Room

The Principal Agent Problem (and other challenges in procuring professional services) Dr. Alexia Nalewaik, QSRequin

Oracle Room

OneTouchPM Program Portal for Construction Data Management, Dan Goretskie and Dave Smith, Burns and McDonnell

Autodesk Room BIM for Owners Panel Discussion Moderated by Ty Kramer, Autodesk Ken McBroom, McCarthy Building Companies John Haynes, Hill International Vidya Dixit, Turner/PCL Joint Venture Tom Kim, Senior Vice President, HDR

DRMcNatty Room Early Completion Schedules - A Form of Contingency Bidding James G. Zack Jr., Navigant Construction Forum

Motive Power Room Implementing a Data Driven Employee Assessment Scorecard

Roderick Fernandez and Kyle Loving, Motive Power

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Capital Room Claims Avoidance by Using Lessons Learned from Construction Projects Christi Fu and Brian Coyne, Arcadis Oracle Room Advanced Work Packaging: An Introduction Olfa Hamdi and Lori Lee, Advanced Work Packaging Institute

Autodesk Room BIM for Construction & Large Projects Ivan Jaramillo, Autodesk

DRMcNatty Room LA Metro Collaborative Risk Tracking for the Measure M Transit Program Julie Owen, LA Metro Brian Criss, DRMcNatty & Associates

Motive Power Room Business Process Outsourcing Kyle Loving and Matty Moriates, Motive Power

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Emerald Foyer Exhibitor’s Reception sponsored by BMW event winners announced!

Saturday, March 4, 2017 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Emerald Foyer Breakfast hosted by 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Capital Room Port of Long Beach Diane D. Pierson, Director of Project Controls, Port of Long Beach Dina Keirouz, Managing Director, PMA Oracle Room Oracle Contract Management in the Cloud Scott Esposito, Oracle Primavera Autodesk Room Integrating Building Information Modeling and Construction Planning at the Midfield Satellite Concourse North Project. Sean Zook and Vidya Dixit, Turner/PCL Joint Venture Jon Berkoe, Synchro Software DRMcNatty Room Benefits and Issues with Drone Applications to Construction Neil Opfer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Motive Power Room Quantifying the Owners Reserve Bryan McConachy, Bramcon Project Consultants Ltd.

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Saturday, March 4, 2017 (Continued) 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Oracle Room Oracle Payment Management in the Cloud Lindsey Sherrill, Oracle Autodesk Room Tools to Help You Become an Earned Value Professional (EVP) Ray Stratton, Management Technologies DRMcNatty Room

Strategies for a High Performance PMO Troy Wyatt, Ares

Motive Power Room Keys to Communicating Conceptual Costs to Stakeholders Lisa Taylor, King County Wastewater Greg Brink, Value Management Strategies, Inc.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Emerald Foyer Lunch hosted by 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Capital Room Metro Union Station Project Tom Kim, Senior Vice President, HDR

Oracle Room Design-Build Cost Estimates in a Bid Build World. Calvin Gidlof, Parsons Autodesk Room Identifying and Predicting Labor Availability and its Impact to Your Project Nour BouHou, Spire Consulting Group DRMcNatty Room Using a Summary Master Schedule to Solve Communication Issues.

Don McNatty, DRMcNatty & Associates

Motive Power Room How to Effectively Develop and Manage a Large Scale Multi-Year Project Portfolio

Lamis El Didi and Winnie Hung, Exponent Todd Mintzer, PG&E

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Capital Room Tilikum Crossing Project

Dan Blocher, Executive Advisor, Mott MacDonald

Oracle Room Driving Culture Change: Estimating in a Large Utility

Phil Baranowski, PG&E Autodesk Room Managing Projects Using Labor Productivity KPI’s. George McLaughlin - McLaughlin and McLaughlin

Saturday, March 4, 2017 (Continued)

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Capital Room San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Alan Johanson, Bureau Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Oracle Room Oracle Task Management in the Cloud

Scott Esposito, Oracle

Autodesk Room The BIM UniModel – A Paradigm Shift in the Project Life Cycle Phil Larson, InEight, Inc. DRMcNatty Room The Chaos and Complexity of Mega Projects Michael Bensussen, University of Washington Motive Power Room Cost Reporting: Improving the Details, Improving the Project Anthony Woodrich, Administrative Controls Management

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Emerald Foyer Coffee Break hosted by

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Capital Room LA Metro Rick Clarke, Chief Program Management Officer, LA Metro

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Saturday, March 4, 2017 (Continued) 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM DRMcNatty Room Program Level Scheduling - Enterprise Alignment Among Programmatic and CPM Schedules. John Blodgett, PG&E Brian Criss, DRMcNatty & Associates

Motive Power Room From Scheduling to True Planning Dr. Dan Patterson, Basis

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM Emerald Foyer Snack Break hosted by

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Capital Room Project Risk Quantification: Methods that Work

John Hollmann, Validation Estimating LLC

Oracle Room Managing Uncertainty for Mega Energy Projects

Dr. Nick Lavingia

Autodesk Room LA Metro: Best Practices in Schedule Quality & Forensic Analysis

Mark Von Leffern, Hill International Tom Polen, Deltek

DRMcNatty Room Public Procurement: Uncovering the Hidden Costs and Capturing Missed Opportunities.

Bryan Payne, AECOM

Motive Power Room Aligning Project Activities among Estimating, Contractors, Project Controls , Contract Management and Construction

Phil Baranowski and Kristine Kent, PG&E

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Stir Event Lounge - Renaissance Indian Wells Resort and Spa Small Business Appreciation Happy Hour sponsored by:

Sunday, March 5, 2017 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Emerald Foyer Breakfast hosted by 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Oracle Room Implementing Risk Context Concept and Extension of Time (EOT) to Increase Effectiveness of Risk

Hosam Kandeel, Hill International

Autodesk Room Look-Ahead Schedules - The Building Block for Effective Schedule Control Devang Dedhia, Jacobs

DRMcNatty Room What’s in a Name? Forensic Delay Methodologies

Roger Nelson and Bernard Ong, Navigant

Motive Power Room Crew Balanced P6 for Contractors

Dylan Hirsch, Motive Power Billy Kilmer and Mike Robirds , Accu-Bore

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Oracle Room This Project is Not in Line with Organizational Strategic Plans

Essam Mohammed Lotffy Farid, Royal Advance

Autodesk Room Construction Market Trends 2017

Natalie Saylor, Saylor Associates

DRMcNatty Room Numerical Bias of Constructability /Risk Teams Vs. Actual Bid Results

David A. Hamilton, Hamilton Risk+Value Consultants

Motive Power Room Methodology Wars: The Road to Victory

Ken Sparks, McMillen Jacobs Associates

10:15 AM Emerald Foyer Sponsor Raffle

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SPEAKERSINNOVATION COLLABORATION FORUM - OWNERS AND AGENCIES

JOHN KEISLER INNOVATION TEAM LEAD, CITY OF LONG BEACHJohn Keisler is the Director of the Innovation Team and has lived in Long Beach for the past 12 years. He has a Masters in Public Administration from the USC Price School of Public Policy. Over the years, he’s led multiple change-management projects throughout the City, serving as the Animal Care Services Bureau Manager, Business Operations Manager for the Parks, Recreation & Marine Department, and CFO for the Police Department.

ADAM COHEN INNOVATIVE MOBILITY RESEARCH GROUPAdam Cohen is a transportation futurist and a shared mobility researcher at the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Since joining the group in 2004, his research has focused on shared mobility, mobile devices, smart cities and other emerging technologies. He has co-authored numerous articles and reports in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has a dual masters in city and regional planning and international affairs from Georgia Tech.

ERIK TAKAYESU DIRECTOR, GRID MODERNIZATION, PLANNING & TECHNOLOGYSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON

In this role, Erik integrates distribution system planning and engineering with the strategy for Grid Modernization to build a safe, reliable, affordable, and clean grid that will also help meet California’s clean energy goals. Erik is also responsible for Advanced Technologies, performing research, development, and pilot programs of emerging technologies that will be part of SCE’s 21st power system.

Prior to his current role, Erik has held various roles at SCE, including managing Electric System Planning and Modernization, Grid Operations, Reliability Engineering, and Asset Management.

Erik is on the Board of Directors for the Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the California State University at Long Beach, is a licensed PE, and holds his master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University.

JOSHUA SCHANK CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER, LA METROJoshua L. Schank is the first ever Chief Innovation Office at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), where he leads the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI). The role of this office is to champion new ideas to improve mobility in LA County by informing the high-level vision for LA Metro, piloting and implementing new and experimental programs and policy, and serving as the primary liaison for new ideas relevant to LA Metro coming from entrepreneurs, established private sector entities, academia, or individual residents. The office is also responsible for LA Metro’s Public Private Partnership (P3), and strategic planning functions.

Prior to joining LA Metro, Dr. Schank was President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a national non-profit think-tank with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. Before joining Eno, he directed the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, which proposed a new vision for the Federal role in surface transportation policy.

Dr. Schank was Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton during the development of the last surface transportation authorization bill (SAFETEA-LU). He has also worked as a Consultant with PB Consult and Senior Associate at ICF International in Washington, D.C., as well as serving in positions at the Office of the Inspector General’s in the U.S. Department of Transportation, and with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.

Dr. Schank’s extensive work in transportation policy and planning is well documented in his publications, including “All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding,” co-authored with Costas Panagopoulos and published by CQ Press in 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia University, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in urban studies from Columbia University.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lindsey and his sons Max and Jonah.

BEN STAPLETON VP, FACILITIES & OPERATIONS, LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATORWith a sometimes conflicting educational background of UCLA undergrad and a USC MBA, Ben is a true believer in the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit. Ben is also an LA native—often a rare thing these days—and brings a creative mind and a consultative approach to real estate advisory, with a focus on facilities operations, financial modeling, and site assessment with experience across a wide range of companies and real estate investors.

In 2008, Ben founded Jones Lang LaSalle’s global Cleantech Practice Group, which focused on representing renewable energy and clean technology companies in addressing their real estate needs. This only fueled his passion to explore the nexus of energy and real estate, coming to the belief that increasing the energy efficiency of our buildings is one of the most powerful tools to create a truly sustainable society.

He is a recipient of Jones Lang LaSalle’s distinctive Da Vinci Award for Innovation and CoStar’s Power Broker designation in the Los Angeles market, and until recently served as the Managing Director for the LA Better Buildings Challenge, helping to launch the program in 2011 and growing participation to over 55M square feet of commercial buildings.

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GARRETT HARLEY DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION STRATEGY, ORACLE Garrett Harley is a project controls addict, an addiction that began with his first job out of college at Bechtel Corporation as a controls engineer. Upon leaving Bechtel, Garrett worked as a trainer, implementation consultant, and solutions engineer for Kelar Corporation, a Primavera Authorized Reseller. His office and staff were acquired by Primavera in 1997, and Garrett joined Oracle in 2008 via acquisition. With 20+ years of project management experience supporting both owners and contractors within infrastructure, industrial, commercial, and residential markets, Garrett brings strong industry expertise to his current position at as Director of Engineering & Construction Strategy.

DOUG EBERHARD SENIOR DIRECTOR AEC BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, AUTODESKFor over 26 years, Doug Eberhard has created and implemented innovative collaboration and computer model-based solutions on over $140 Billion of Capital Planning, Design, Engineering, and Construction projects around the world. Now in his 8th year at Autodesk, Doug leads a team of industry experts focused on technology innovation, change and adoption across global Infrastructure projects and owner organizations.

As the former CTO of Parsons Brinckerhoff, Doug was responsible for creating and managing several technology start ups and services groups while driving new technologies, processes and deliverables to a host of infrastructure projects and clients.

Doug’s more notable projects include implementation of BIM for the $ 21B NYC World Trade Center Rebuilding Program and $780M NYCT Fulton Street Transit Center, both Public and Private Information Websites for the NYC Lower Manhattan rebuilding plan and Computer Modeling + Internet based Program Management Systems for General Motors, AT&T, FEMA, Network Rail, New York MTA, Caltrans and the Singapore Ministry of Environment.

Doug has been a featured speaker at numerous industry, media and academic events and is a founding member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board Geometric Visualization Committee. Doug was named to the Carnegie Mellon Presidents Advisory Board in 2007, served on Stanford University’s CIFE Technical Advisory Committee and serves as an advisor to several AEC companies, research organizations and industry consortia.

INNOVATION SOLUTION PROVIDERS

MICHAEL SCHNEIDER SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, HDR P3As Senior Vice President and Managing Director of HDR’s global infrastructure advisory practice, Mr. Schneider leads the firm’s strategic consulting practice in the transportation and infrastructure sector and serves as program manager or lead technical advisor for a variety of infrastructure engagements. Prior to joining HDR, Mr. Schneider cofounded and served as Managing Partner of InfraConsult, an international consultancy providing services to public authorities and private organizations focused on the development and financing of infrastructure projects. Earlier, Mr. Schneider was Executive Vice President and Director of Professional Practice at Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering, architectural and construction firm. He founded and directed PBConsult, the firm’s strategic consulting practice, which continues to provide project advisory services for numerous projects around the world. In addition to his work on private financing of public works, Mr. Schneider has directed urban transportation and development programs in Israel, India and Mexico. He has been involved in numerous public-private partnership programs as an owner, developer, and adviser, most recently as director of the advisory team for the $20+ billion Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) Public-Private Partnership Program. He is a member of the board of directors and chairman of the Committee on Public-Private Partnerships of the American Public Transportation Association and a frequent speaker at industry conferences and academic institutions around the world.

CLAY GILGE PRINCIPAL, KPMG LLPClay Gilge is a Principal in KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory practice. Clay has spent his entire career in the construction industry as a trade contractor, a project engineer, a contract manager and now as an advisor with KPMG. Having worked in each of these roles Clay has observed firsthand the unique challenges and opportunities that exist to improve performance of capital projects and programs. Recognizing the tremendous waste and inefficiency on projects, Clay has focused on helping clients make dramatic step-change transformations regarding their entire approach to how they manage capital projects. Clay is the chief architect behind KPMG’s global major projects methodology as well as KPMG’s industry-leading Major Projects Advisor and Capital Project Data Engine. Over the past decade, Clay has focused on helping companies transform how they approach the delivery of capital projects by developing leading tools and methodologies.

KRIS MANNING VICE PRESIDENT, CLARK CONSTRUCTIONKris graduated from the University of Delaware with a civil engineering degree and from the University of Maryland with a Masters of Business Administration. Over the past 18 years, Kris Manning has worked with Clark Construction in various roles across the country. He currently leads Clark’s Civil group in the Western Region focusing on both the acquisition and operations for mass transit and infrastructure related projects. Kris also serves as the Chair of the Lean Construction Institute’s Community of Practice for Los Angeles and Orange County.

JIM EISENHART PRESIDENT, VENTURA CONSULTINGMr. Eisenhart has designed and facilitated partnering processes on over 700 constructionProjects world wide since 1992. These have included the Pentagon Renovation, San Francisco Bay Bridge, and over 25 projects in excess of 1bn contract value. He is a sought after speaker at AGC National Conferences (2); the AIA National Conference (2); CMAA and ASCE. He recently authored the book “Raising the Bar on Construction Project Teamwork: From Good to World Class. He has been retained by many contractors, CM’s and the US Navy to speak on his subject.

CARLOS MORGNER CEO, MORGNER CONSTRUCTIONCarlos E. Morgner has over 30 years experience managing technical service corporations focused on transportation management, accounting, project controls, project administration, cost controls, transportation management, administration and controls, construction accounting, project management, sewer projects ,risk management and public relations.

CONTRACTOR BEST PRACTICE FORUM

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KEN MCBROOM DIRECTOR PLANNING & SCHEDULING, MCCARTHY BUILDING COMPANIESKen has over 21 years of construction experience working for general contractors, the last 13 years with McCarthy. Ken has supervised scheduling on over $10 Billion worth of construction projects; Hospitals, Airports, Schools, Hotels, Parking Structures, Heavy Civil Projects, Rail Projects and Environmental Remediation Projects and has personally scheduled and planned more than $1 Billon dollars of work over his career.

He also is leading both the Last Planner® System (Pull Planning) Initiative and the 4D Scheduling Initiative for McCarthy nationwide.

Ken holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering, from the California State University, Long Beach.

BRIAN FREUND VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS, SKANSKABrian has more than 30 years of experience managing construction projects, including $2 billion in design-build transit and transportation work. He has built parts of every active Metro alignment - Blue Line, Green Line, Red Line, Pasadena Gold Line, Eastside Gold Line, Expo 2 and he is currently working on the Westside Purpleline Phase 1project. His local light rail transit experience dates back to 1996 when he was a superintendent/senior engineer on the Metro Red Line. Brian has also served in lead roles on numerous design-build projects, including the $303 million Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Gold Line, the $360 million SR-125 and the $600 million Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension. In addition, Brian’s transportation experience includes several Caltrans roadway, highway and bridge projects. He is currently the Project Director on Westside Purple line Extension in west LA.

RICK CLARKE CHIEF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICER, LA METRORichard Clarke is the Chief Program Management Officer for Los Angeles Metro’s $12 billion capital program. He leads Metro’s program of projects for transit, highway and regional rail. This includes the Crenshaw/LAX light rail project, the Regional Connector downtown LRT subway and the Westside subway extension of the Purple Line. Prior to joining Metro, Mr. Clarke was Assistant General Manager, Capital Programs for Denver RTD, leading the implementation of the $5.6 billion FasTracks program. He also served as RTD’s Project Manager on the multi-modal (highway and LRT) T-REX project. He has prior transit experience in Dallas, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland and Boston. Mr. Clarke has graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

CAPITAL SPEAKERS, CONT.

DIANE PIERSON DIRECTOR OF PROJECT CONTROLS, PORT OF LONG BEACHDiane Pierson joined the Port of Long Beach (POLB) in 2015 as the Director of Project Controls.Pierson has 28 years of experience in project controls and project management in: energy, oil, pharmaceuticals and infrastructure. Prior to joining the POLB, Pierson spent 11 years with the Army Corp of Engineers LA District as the Chief of Project Controls, 12 years with Ebasco as the Project Controls Manager and four years with the City of Hope as the Manager of Project Controls.

ALAN JOHANSON BUREAU MANAGER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSIONAlan Johanson is the Bureau Manager for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) Construction Management Bureau. The SFPUC is responsible for providing water to the San Francisco Bay Area and power supply and wastewater services for San Francisco. On the Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP), the SFPUC’s $6.9 billion 20 year wastewater capital improvement program. Alan’s role is the Deputy Director – Construction. SSIP address the critical issues of aging infrastructure, seismic vulnerability, maintaining the water quality of San Francisco Bay, addressing localize flooding and upgrading facilities to deal with the effects of climate change. He also serves as the Deputy Director - Construction for the Water System Improvement Program (WSIP), the $4.8 billion program to rebuild the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System, which serves 2.6 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over 90% of the WSIP work has been completed.

Mr. Johanson is a graduate of the University of Chicago and San Jose State University where he received his M.S. in Civil Engineering. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and General Contractor in California.

DINA KEIROUZ MANAGING DIRECTOR, PMA CONSULTANTSDina is a Managing Director in PMA’s Western Region. She is a results-oriented individual with 23 years of hands-on experience in profit and loss operations, strategic planning and leadership, program management, and project and construction management. Dina has an extensive working knowledge of implementing program wide controls, project management systems, and dashboards for public and private clients. She has also proven successful in managing profit and loss divisions and providing leadership, vision, and teamwork to staff. Her project experience includes water and wastewater, transportation, and airport projects.

CONTRACTOR BEST PRACTICE FORUM, CONT.

TOM KIM SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HDRTom Kim is a Senior Vice President and Southern California Transportation Business Group Director for HDR with over 27 years of experience. He has extensive technical and management experience in delivering major transportation infrastructure projects including the recently completed and award-winning Colton Crossing Rail to Rail Grade Separation Project. Currently, Tom’s passion and focus has been about the planning and programming of the $2.7B Link Union Station. His strategic approach to this project includes industry’s leading innovation in design as well as generating sustainable solutions.

Tom is also the past president of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) LA Chapter and received the Outstanding Civil Engineer of The Year Awards from both American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) OC Chapter and LA Chapter.

CAPITAL SPEAKERS

DAN BLOCHER EXECUTIVE ADVISOR, MOTT MACDONALDDaniel Blocher, PE has over 35 years of experience in the transportation and rail sectors. He is nationally recognized as an expert in innovative construction risk management, Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC), design-build project delivery. Mr. Blocher has a strong understanding from an owner’s perspective given his 20 years of experience with TriMet, the transit operator for the Portland Oregon region, including 6 years as their Executive Director of Capital Projects. He also possesses a diverse background in working with Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funded light rail projects, alternative contracting methods, risk mitigation, and dispute avoidance. Additionally, Mr. Blocher has a solid background in staff development, organizational building, and Disadvantage Business Enterprise (DBE) participation.

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TECHNICAL SPEAKERS

JULIE OWEN DEPUTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER PROJECT CONTROL, LA METROJulie Owen, PSP, CCP has over twenty five years of experience in project management, project control, cost engineering, scheduling, contract administration and schedule delay claim analysis. She works as Deputy Executive Officer in Program Control for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency managing the $160 billion capital program to improve Los Angeles County transportation infrastructure. Julie has worked on all sides of the table including owner, contractor, and construction manager and across multiple firms and industries.

Julie currently serves as Past-President AACE International. She holds AACE International certifications for Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) and Certified Cost Professional (CCP). Julie was also past president of the Southern California section of AACE International. She has master’s degree in Business Administration from University of Redlands and her bachelor’s degree in Construction Science from Texas A&M University.

DONALD MCNATTY PRESIDENT/CEO DRMCNATTY & ASSOCIATESDonald McNatty is an AACE Certified Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) with over 40 years of construction and project management experience in cost engineering, scheduling, project management and control, and technology integration. For over 30 years, he has been designing and implementing automated project controls systems in a wide variety of environments. He is a Primavera Certified Trainer. In 1989 he co-founded D. R. McNatty & Associates, Inc. to focus on implementation of Primavera based project control systems on large capital programs. He is presently the majority owner, President and CEO of DRMcNatty which is a CA, NY and VA Certified Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business that has grown to over 35 people supporting clients and projects globally.

STATE OF THE ASSOCIATION

JOHN LIVENGOOD AACE INTL PRESIDENT, MANAGING DIRECTOR, NAVIGANTJohn Livengood is a Managing Director with more than 40 years of experience in construction, design, delay analysis and litigation support. He is President-Elect of AACE International, Inc. and will serve as its President in 2015-16. He is a registered architect and attorney, with proficiency in architectural design, construction, project management, government contracts, litigation support, mediation, arbitration, and construction litigation. His services have included providing construction cost audits, cost estimation, analysis of change orders, delay and disruption claims, acceleration claims, loss of productivity claims, construction method analysis, and defective design claims. As an expert witness, John has testified in court and arbitration proceedings throughout the world on delay and productivity issues as well as damages and causation issues.

CHARITY QUICK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AACE INTERNATIONALCharity Quick is the Executive Director of AACE International. She assumed the position in June 2014. As the Chief Staff Officer Charity is responsible for the operation of the headquarters as well as providing leadership and mentoring to AACE’s staff. As a member of the Board of Directors Charity participates in setting AACE’s strategic direction and leads the implementation of plans and initiatives. She has over 18 years’ executive experience working in a series of key leadership roles at The Institute of Internal Auditors and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Her husband, Michael, is a barber and martial arts instructor and her daughter, Rebecca, is a senior at the University of Central Florida.

LAMIS EL DIDI SENIOR ASSOCIATE, EXPONENTMs. Lamis El Didi is a Senior Associate in Exponent’s Construction Consulting practice. Ms. El Didi’s MSc in Engineering and Project Management at UC Berkeley has provided her with a strong background in construction project management and contracting, in addition to her research focused on project controls, project scheduling, and risk analysis. As an Exponent consultant, she has provided project controls support and portfolio management support for a large utility client. Her tasks involved developing and updating complex resource-loaded schedules for major (over $20 million) transmission and substation projects, performing analyses on schedule progress, evaluating and tracking monthly cash flow, and reporting on the project overall health to support successful execution. She has devised an Earned Value Management approach tailored to the client’s needs and supported its implementation. Ms. El Didi has also supported the client in developing major projects’ business cases by building different resource-loaded schedule scenarios, analyzing the schedule impact on the project cost, identifying risks, and exploring opportunities for schedule and cost savings. On a portfolio level, Ms. El Didi has developed transmission and substation portfolio level schedules, analyzed schedule data, prepared presentations and dashboards for senior leadership, reviewed resource utilization regularly and proposed recommendations, and assisted with setting the annual budget and forecast balancing.

MARK VON LEFFERN PROJECT CONTROLS DIRECTOR, HILL INTERNATIONALMark has over 15 years of experience in project management, planning and scheduling, resource optimization, cost analysis, risk management and proposal development for a multitude of projects in the public and private sector. Specifically, these projects include refineries, rail and infrastructure, buildings, major transmission and distribution lines, substations, systems engineering & integration, software development, aircraft modernization and technology advancement projects. Mark is a Project Controls Director at Hill International supporting urban tunneling and facility projects for LA Metro. He is a Past President of the Southern CA Chapter of AACE International, was involved with the Southern CA Fall Symposium for several years and is the Executive Director of the 2016 Western Winter Workshop, a joint event put on by the Southern CA and Bay Area sections of AACE International.

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BILLY KILMER, JR. CO-OWNER, ACCU-BORE DIRECTIONAL DRILLING Billy entered the directional drilling industry in 1996 as a field laborer and moved up to equipment operator and ultimately a directional drilling operator providing drilling services throughout the state of California. In 2006 he had a vision of creating a full service horizontal directional drilling company and opened Accu-Bore Directional Drilling (ABDD). From its inception Billy grew ABDD from a company with 3 personnel and 1 drilling rig, to a thriving company with 200+ personnel. Due to his diligence, customer focus, and keen understanding of the utility construction field, he has performed work throughout the United States on complex directional drilling operations including work for federal, municipal, utility providers, and commercial/private clients. With over 20 years of experience, Billy brings the technical expertise to solve any underground utility issue.

MICHAEL ROBIRDS CO-OWNER, ACCU-BORE DIRECTIONAL DRILLING Michael graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering in 1999. Upon graduation, he entered the United States Air Force as a commissioned officer stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base working in the Civil Engineering Squadron. While stationed at Davis-Monthan, he completed his master degree studies at the University of Arizona in the field of Civil Engineering and graduated with a Master of Science degree in 2002. After 5 years of military service, Michael decided to pursue a career in the civilian sector. In 2004, he accepted a position as a project engineer and later was promoted to project manager in charge of large federal construction projects for an international company. The scope of the projects included large vertical and horizontal design-build construction, such as facility renovations, natural gas distribution piping, perimeter electrical and security upgrades, and facility demolition, totaling nearly $50M over a 5 year period. In 2009, he joined forces with Billy Kilmer, Jr. at Accu-Bore Directional Drilling where he carries forward his commitment to safety, quality, and client focus.

BERNARD ONG MANAGING CONSULTANT, NAVIGANT Bernard Ong is a Managing Consultant in the Navigant’s Global Construction Practice based in San Francisco. Bernard is experienced in the renewable energy, electrical transmission, and transportation infrastructure construction industries in North America, and in sand mining and rock quarry operations in South East Asia. His project management and project controls experience has ranged from subcontract development, procurement, scheduling, quality & safety, permitting, submittal & RFI processing, logistics management, equipment management and change order development/negotiation, to project closeout. He has extensive experience in civil, commercial, and industrial construction disputes involving forensic schedule analysis, exposure investigation, entitlement evaluation, and contract analysis.

DYLAN HIRSCH MANAGER, MOTIVE POWERDylan Hirsch, Manager, Motive Power - During his tenure with Motive Power, he has been engaged on a wide variety of contracts and roles. Two notable examples are serving as the scheduling manager for PG&E’s Electric Substation Projects and the Governance & Reporting Lead for the Mobile Home Park Pilot Program. With the Substation Scheduling program his team was instrumental in the adoption of scheduling tools & practices in support of a $5B capital portfolio while supporting all of the P6 scheduling needs of 50 Project Managers. The Governance & Reporting Lead developed and implemented a wide range of project controls in a newly formed PMO for the Mobile Home Park Pilot Program that provides smart meters and infrastructure upgrades for under served Mobile Home Parks in Northern California. Prior to his work with Motive Power, he held roles a general contractor, a developer, a design firm, and a construction software company and this diverse professional background allows for systematic problem solving from multiple perspectives. Dylan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering Design from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and in the 15 years of his professional career working in government, consulting, utilities, development, and construction industries he has obtained a PMP and a Six Sigma Green Belt certified.

BRIAN COYNE SENIOR SCHEDULER/CLAIMS ANALYST, ARCADISMr. Coyne is a Senior Scheduler/Claims Analyst for ARCADIS, currently working out of their Roseville, California office. He is a Planning & Scheduling Professional and Certified Cost Professional with 39 years of experience in project controls, with an emphasis on CPM scheduling. His work experience includes transportation, civil, commercial, educational, healthcare, and detention projects. He has performed numerous schedule reviews, primarily of contractor-produced baseline schedules, schedule revisions, and schedule updates. He has created customized checklists for performing these reviews. He has analyzed numerous potential project delay issues, evaluating these issues for merit, and quantifying the impacts to the schedule. He has performed/reviewed numerous Time Impact Analyses used in the resolution of schedule delay issues. He has prepared delay claims for mediation and arbitration. He has experience with a variety of delay analysis techniques, including time impact analysis, windows analysis, as-planned vs. as-built and collapsed as-built. Mr. Coyne also has expertise with a variety of scheduling software tools, including Primavera P6 and P3, SureTrak, Claim Digger, and Schedule Analyzer. Mr. Coyne has also taught classes on the subject of scheduling, most of which included hands-on software applications. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design and a Master’s degree in Construction Management, both from Texas A&M University.

NATALIE SAYLOR SAYLOR ASSOCIATESMs. Saylor is the founder and principal of Saylor Consulting Group, a full service construction consulting firm specializing in public construction. Founded in 1992, the firm has grown from its primary focus of providing cost estimating services to offering a wide variety of construction management services, including project controls, construction inspection, SWPPP inspection, and special testing and inspection. The firm is currently providing project controls services on some of the largest projects in San Francisco, including San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco ESER Bond Program, San Francisco USD Bond Program, and SFO Terminal 3.

In addition to running the construction management side of the practice, Ms. Saylor heads the construction economic research division of Saylor Consulting, which analyzes and compiles data on construction spending, employment, bidding trends, and other economic indicators that impact construction cost. This focus on the economics side of the practice complements Saylor Consulting’s cost control practice, giving the firm greater accuracy in predicting and controlling construction costs.

Ms. Saylor regularly presents Saylor’s economic data to the American Association of Cost Engineering (AACE), Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), and Coalition of Adequate School Housing (CASH). She is a board member of CMAA, and is an active member in AACE, Women in Transportation (WTS), and American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).

TOM POLEN DIRECTOR, SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, DELTEKFor 18 years, Tom Polen has scoped, designed, developed, and implemented scheduling and earned value management systems in the telecommunications, transportation, insurance, and defense industries. Tom believes in configuration of software tools to match specific organizational processes and needs. Tom’s overall vision is to help the field of project management to focus on tangible, constructive analysis, rather than the development of data and information used to support analysis.

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BRIAN CRISS PRINCIPAL VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS, DRMCNATTY & ASSOCIATESBrian Criss has over 18 years of field experience in construction management and project controls. He also has earned a PSP certification from AACE and is a Certified Primavera Trainer and P6 Implementation Specialist. As DRMcNatty’s Principal Vice President of Operations, Brian oversees the execution of software implementation projects and the firm’s professional services group along with DRMcNatty’s highly-skilled technical and integration development teams. He is responsible for the firm’s day-to-day operations and delivery of implementation and professional services, as well as the development and training of resources. He confirms and validates that our client’s goals and objectives are achieved on time and on budget.

Brian has primary account responsibility for DRM’s major clients including LA Metro, PG&E, MnDOT, Burns & McDonnell and other consultant firms. In addition to developing several unique cloud solutions for clients, Brian also supervises DRMcNatty’s staffing teams on various projects nationwide.

BRYAN MCCONACHY PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, BRAMCON PROJECT CONSULTANTS LTD.Bryan McConachy is a professional engineer / project management professional with more than 30 years’ experience in the management of a diverse range of projects and consulting in such areas as project oversight / owner’s representative, project delivery analysis and risk management. He has been the principal consultant with Bramcon Project Consultants Ltd. since 1981.

Mr. McConachy is active in such organizations as the Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering and the Project Management Institute (PMI). He has obtained the Project Management Professional (P.M.P.) certification from PMI and in 1996, he was awarded the Honour of PMI Fellow.

He has been presenting papers at AACE and PMI conferences since 1994.

BRYAN PAYNE ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, AECOMBryan Payne brings nearly 25 years of construction and project management experience in the Education, Healthcare, Rail, and Transportation sectors. At AECOM, Bryan leads the contracts team for the Los Angeles Community College District’s $6 billion BuildLACCD capital improvement program. Bryan is responsible for procurement of all bond-funded construction, professional services, specialty services, and FF&E contracts. Bryan ensures that all procurements are conducted in a manner that is fair, ethical, and complies with industry standards, statutory, regulatory, bond eligibility and audit requirements, and the District’s policies.

Bryan is a registered civil engineer and a licensed attorney in California. Bryan served as mediator for over 50 litigated cases for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Bryan is a past president of AACE International’s Southern California Section and a past member of AACE’s Education Board. Bryan is also active in the Construction Management Association of America’s (CMAA) Southern California chapter and is currently chair of its Legislative Committee. Bryan has been registered with CalEMA as a volunteer emergency building official for over 15 years.

LISA TAYLOR PROJECT CONTROL UNIT MANAGER, KING COUNTY’S WASTEWATER TREATMENT DIVISIONLisa Taylor is the Project Control Unit Manager for the Project Planning and Delivery Section of King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) in Seattle, Washington. Lisa manages a group of 30 project control professionals for WTD’s $200 million/year capital improvement program. She leads other executive initiatives for King County, including the current effort to improve long-term system planning and cost estimating processes. Previous positions in her 25 years with WTD include lead estimator and contract management group supervisor. Lisa is a certified Project Management Professional. Her experience also includes estimating and project management for private-sector construction contractors.

CALVIN GIDLOF CHIEF ESTIMATOR, PARSONSCalvin Gidlof is a Chief Estimator with more than 25 years of project controls, cost estimating and scheduling experience for road & highway, bridge, tunnel, rail , airport, dams, wharves, mining, vertical, water treatment, and utility projects. His projects experience is in Canada, United States and Mexico. He is licensed as a Professional Mechanical Engineer in the province of Alberta Canada.

Calvin has also worked as a reservoir engineer for Shell, Texaco and Esso Canada both on and offshore.

CHRISTY FU DEPUTY OPERATIONS MANAGER, ARCADISMs. Fu is the Deputy Operations Manager of ARCADIS Contract Solutions Practice in Western US with diverse experience in the construction and project management field as a contractor, as an owner’s representative, and as a consultant. Her contract solutions experience includes analyses of claims on numerous project types including: roadways and highways, bridges, light rails, wastewater treatment facilities, airports, ports, and buildings. She has participated in Dispute Review Boards and arbitration and has testified as an expert. For the past ten years she has volunteered as a mentor and team leader for high school students with the Architecture, Construction and Engineering Mentor Program (ACE). She earned B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2015, Ms. Fu was recognized by Civil + Structural Engineer magazine as one of 20 Rising Stars, 40 years old or younger, who have shown exceptional technical capability , leadership ability, or public service benefiting the civil engineering profession, their employers, project owners, and society.

WINNIE HUNG PRINCIPAL, EXPONENTMs. Hung has experience in all phases of construction projects, and has advised clients on a range of construction topics ranging from project portfolio management, project controls, project scheduling, change management, risk management, and construction dispute resolution.

Ms. Hung has consulted in the electric power industry for several years, providing guidance on developing and managing electric transmission project portfolios. She has assisted clients with establishing a repeatable process that produces and manages an executable, integrated multi-year project portfolio. She has provided support to enhance existing management systems, as well as implement new process and tools including resource-loaded schedules, to manage an electric transmission project portfolio. She has also developed varying levels of project- and portfolio-level project controls and reporting to facilitate the evaluation of work progress, balancing of resources, identification of execution risks, and development of mitigation strategies.

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DAVID HAMILTON PRINCIPAL, HAMILTON RISK+VALUE CONSULTANTS, LLC David is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer, Certified Value Specialist (CVS-Life), Certified Cost Professional (CCP), LEED® Accredited Professional and Envision Sustainability Professional (EN-SP) with more than 40 years of experience in project management, design, construction, risk analysis and value engineering (VE) of large complex civil and architectural engineering projects. Mr. Hamilton has conducted more than 700 constructability, risk and VE activities on projects ranging from $2 million to $5 billion in 47 States, most of the provinces in Canada and numerous locations overseas. He has structured multidisciplinary teams to study a variety of projects such as wastewater and water treatment, transit systems, tunnels, buildings, military facilities, airports, bridges, locks/dams and highways. Dave has his own consulting practice, Hamilton Risk+Value Consultants, LLC and is located in the greater Seattle area. His primary focus is conducting quantitative risk analysis, mitigation and project value optimization services to design teams and clients in the public sector.

DEVANG DEDHIA PROJECT PLANNING & CONTROLS, JACOBSDevang has extensive experience in performing planning, project controls, construction scheduling and tracking cost, schedule, budget, funds for various organizations in healthcare, transportation, port, airport, water, wastewater, buildings, communications and emergency response sectors. He engages with the various stake holders to understand the various project requirements to develop the planning basis for schedule and cost objectives, which is used to develop the Work Breakdown Structure and the project controls structure. He can develop and maintain cost-loaded and resource-loaded master schedules, program schedules and project schedules using Oracle’s Primavera P6 software and Netpoint. He can easily apply complex schedule and cost concepts to analyze and report on the project progress. He can review the construction baseline schedule and updates to analyze the progress, critical path, impacts and how it’s effect to program objectives. This enables him to provide recommendations to mitigate possible project issues. He utilizes readily-available software to develop customized tracking tools to meet the program objectives. He develops program-level schedules to track inter-project relationships and lead discussion to enhance strategic planning, coordination, conflict, sequencing and risk management of operations issues. He utilizes readily-available software to develop customized tracking tools to meet the program objectives. He develops program-level schedules to track inter-project relationships and lead discussion to enhance strategic planning, coordination, conflict, sequencing and risk management of operations.

DR. DAN PATTERSON FOUNDER, BASISGlobally recognized project analytics thought leader and software entrepreneur. With 20+ years of experience & several highly successful Project Management software companies under his belt, Dan has a unique combination of solution innovation combined with extensive project management experience including advanced scheduling, risk management, project analytics & artificial intelligence. The culmination of this experience has lead Dan to create a new company, BASIS, focused on taking an evolutionary step forward in planning. Dan drives a reputation for making complex business challenges simple and this is reflected in his passion for software usability and innovation. Dan was recently awarded Project Management Innovation of the Year. Prior to BASIS, Dan founded Acumen which was acquired by Deltek in 2013. Acumen achieved a high ranking on the Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies list as well as being recognized as one of Austin, TX’s fastest growing companies

ESSAM MOHAMED LOTFFY CONSTRUCTION MANAGER, TROJAN GENERAL CONTRACTINGEssam Lotfi is a Project Manager-MEP at Trojan general contracting in Abu Dhabi, UAE.He has his BSc. in Electrical Engineering, Power Distribution through Zagazig University, Egypt. Essam pursued and achieved his certificates in Project Management (PMP®) from PMI-USA in 2013, and certificate in Cost Management (CCP®) from AACE International in June-2014.

He has 14 years extensive hands-on experience in various aspects of projects and project management within maintenance, power distribution networks monitoring and supervision and construction projects as well. In addition, he has authored, Co-Authored at PMWorld Library, PWLJ.

Essam volunteered at PMI-Global Congress EMEA in Dubai in 2014. He is also an independent Project Management and cost engineering/Control Instructor.

GEORGE MCLAUGHLIN PRINCIPAL, MCLAUGHLIN AND MCLAUGHLINMr. McLaughlin is a principal in McLaughlin and McLaughlin, an international project planning and management consulting firm. He provides Program / Project Development / Planning, Program / Project Management, Construction Claim Preparation, Claim Defense and Counterclaim, Litigation Support / Testimony and other similar services. He provides domestic and international clients with project planning and management services and advice. He provides training and workshops on a worldwide basis on topics that include planning and management of large and complex projects.Over the last ten years, Mr. McLaughlin has been Program or Project Manager on Hydrogen Plant, Sulphur Recovery Plant, Data Center Program, Refinery Retrofit and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. During this same period, he has project managed and technical managed six disputes with total value exceeding $500 million. In addition, he has provided services in the following project types: Refinery (grass roots), Hot-Briquetted Iron, Oil Sands Downstream/Upgrading, Carbon Monoxide Plant, Melamine Production, Ethanol Production, LNG Terminal, LNG Production, Desulphurization Facilities, Power Generation (gas fired, diesel, geothermal), Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, and others.Mr. McLaughlin is an instructor in Austin PMI’s PMP exam preparation course. Further, he has spoken before the Austin PMI, Houston PMI, AACE, EVM World and other international organizations.He is certified PMP and a licensed General Contractor in California. He is a member of College of Performance Management. He is a member of PMI including COS Community of Practice (and six other COP’s). Further, he is a member of CMAA, Society of Construction Law, American Bar Association and The State Bar of Texas (Construction Law Section). Mr. McLaughlin holds a BS (US Naval Academy), MS (Catholic University of America) and MBA (The Wharton School). His profile is on LinkedIn.

KEN SPARKS LEAD ASSOCIATE, MCMILLEN JACOBS ASSOCIATESMr. Sparks has over 20 years of experience in project controls and project management, including schedule development, maintenance, and management. Areas of expertise include claims, delay and time impact analysis and documentation, cost estimating, and field inspection. He has worked as both owner representative and contractor on major infrastructure projects and coordinated with subconsultants for project/program master schedules. His project experience includes work on heavy construction projects, including light rail, heavy rail, tunneling, roadway programs, bridges (conventional and segmental), wastewater treatment, process piping, and commercial developments at various phases of project development, from planning to design, construction, and start-up/commissioning. He is a highly experienced user of Primavera P6/P5/P3ec/P3, Suretrak, Risk Manager, and Microsoft Project to develop, manage and analyze project schedules.

KRISTINE KENT SUPERVISOR OF ESTIMATING AND DESIGN, PG&EKristine Kent is the Supervisor of Estimating & Design within Gas Transmission at Pacific Gas and Electric Co. She joined PG&E after attending UCSB. Kristine started supporting environmental remediation projects doing invoice verification and moved on to a program administrator role setting up a Program Management Office for two chromium remediation projects. Kristine attended University of San Francisco’s School of Management and completed a Master’s program in Project Management. Kristine has held positions as a Business Planner and Project Management Analyst for the Environmental and Land teams supporting Gas Operations. For the past three years, Kristine has been leading the Estimating & Design team leading projects to develop a new training plan, implement estimating software, refine estimating processes including implementing Basis of Estimate and Estimate Validation requirements. Kristine was also a key player in establishing a common WBS structure for project controls and cost management within Gas Transmission.

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TODD MINTZER SENIOR MANAGER OF ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION WORK & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, PG&EMr. Todd Mintzer is the Senior Manager of Electric Transmission Work & Resource Management for Pacific Gas & Electric Company. Todd joined PG&E in 2008, and holds both an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan. As a proven results-driven leader with a passion for long term improvement, technology, and successful team building, Todd’s role is to ensure efficient execution of PG&E’s $1.5B portfolio of Electric Transmission work - encompassing the operation, maintenance, and expansion of PG&E’s transmission system. Todd’s team oversees the multi-year Capital Investment to Execution Planning process, through the implementation of portfolio-level work and resource planning, reporting, systems, governance, and long term improvement functions.

ANTHONY WOODRICH VICE PRESIDENT, ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS MANAGEMENTMr. Woodrich is Vice President of Administrative Controls Management where his duties include project management implementation for clients. Prior to joining ACM, Mr. Woodrich served his country as Captain in the United State Air Force, buying, building and maintaining various defense R&D projects, systems, and facilities. Mr. Woodrich is a CCP (Certified Cost Professional), has a MBA from Bentley University in Massachusetts, and a Civil Engineering Degree from the United States Air Force Academy. Mr. Woodrich’s experience includes cost and schedule controls, pharmaceutical plant shutdown and plant capex programs, PMO implementation in product development projects and maintenance operations. Utility and Bio-Tech business transitions and start-ups, cost and schedule controls for T&D operations, project management for major enterprise energy projects, best practice project audits, and training. Tony volunteers with the Utility and Energy Special Interest Group, has been on the board as President and Secretary of the Camp Newton Club (an Upper Peninsula of Michigan outdoors club and conservancy) and has volunteered on the board as President and Treasurer of a Hillsboro Beach Florida Co-op.

GREGORY W. BRINK VICE PRESIDENT / DIRECTOR – RISK MANAGEMENT & DECISION ECONOMICS, VALUE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, INC. Gregory Brink is Vice President and the Director of Risk Management and Decision Economics for Value Management Strategies, Inc., a management consulting firm based in Escondido, CA. He is a Certified Value Specialist, Risk Management Professional, Project Management Professional, Professional in Business Analysis, Certified Cost Estimator/Analyst, and an Envision Sustainability Professional. Mr. Brink has 15 years of experience in management consulting, leading Value studies, facilitating Risk and Decision analyses, managing projects and programs, project controls, and performing economic and financial analyses. Mr. Brink continually uses his expertise to help various private sector and government clients improve performance, reduce costs, control schedules, and manage the risk of their business processes, infrastructure development, and vertical construction projects and programs around the globe. Mr. Brink is adept at collaboratively working with clients to effectively manage and deliver projects and programs ranging from under one million dollars to multi-billion dollar projects and programs.

HOSSAM A. EID MOHAMMED (KANDEEL) PROJECT CONTROLS MANAGER - HILL INTERNATIONAL - EGYPTDuring fifteen (15) Years of Experience,Hossam A. Mohammed (Kandeel) was assigned to major Projects and Programs with total value(26 Billion US Dollars) in six (6) countries, as project management and Project Controls specialist.

As a Professional Project Management Consultant, Hossam has delivered over 300 training sessions, workshops and implementation Projects for building Project control teams and PMO establishment for many Employers. The total professionals trained in the activities led by Hossam exceeded 3500 trainees.Hossam was invited as technical presenter to the PMI International Scheduling Conference- Orlando, Florida 2013, AACEI’s Western Winter Workshop, 53rd, 54th and 55th on 2014, 2015 and 2016 - USA, PMI Global congress 2014 in Dubai UAE, PMI Global Congress 2016 in Barcelona,the 3rd international Engineering conference – Riyadh – Saudi Arabia – 2013 and Big 5 (Five) International Construction Organizations show – Dubai November 2015 and 2016.

JAMES G. ZACK, JR. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NAVIGANT CONSTRUCTION FORUM™ Jim is the Executive Director of the Navigant Construction Forum™. The Forum strives to be the construction industry’s resource for thought leadership and best practices on avoidance and resolution of construction project disputes globally. Formerly he was the Executive Director, Corporate Claims Management Group, Fluor Corporation, one of the world’s largest EPCM contractors. Mr. Zack was previously Vice President of PinnacleOne and the Executive Director of the PinnacleOne Institute and a Senior Construction Claims Consultant for CH2M HILL, Inc. Mr. Zack has, for more than 40 years, worked on both private and public projects throughout the U.S. and in 28 countries abroad. Mr. Zack is a Fellow of AACE, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow for Forensic Analysis with the International Guild of Project Controls. In the construction claims field, he is a recognized and published expert in mitigation, analysis and resolution or defense of construction claims and disputes. Mr. Zack is a Certified Construction Manager (CCM), a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC) and a Project Management Professional (PMP).

JOHN BLODGETT MANAGER, PROJECT & CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT NORTH, PG&EJohn Blodgett is the Manager, Project & Construction Management North, covering project management and contracting on electric distribution projects in Northern California and the Bay Area for Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E).

John has over 20 years’ experience in construction management, project controls, and project management, including 11 years at PG&E serving in various leadership roles in environmental remediation, gas operations, and project governance. Prior to joining PG&E, John held project controls roles including Cost Estimator, Project Manager, Cost Engineer, and Scheduler on environmental remediation sites, demolition projects, and cellular telecommunication facilities. He is has several publications and is an active leader in AACEi. John holds a B.A. in Political Science and Environmental Studies from the University of Southern California.

KYLE LOVING MANAGER, MOTIVE POWERKyle Loving is a Manager at Motive Power with a foundation in mechanical and systems engineering. He is a dynamic leader who brings his extensive project leadership skills to every engagement.

Kyle currently leads a team of Project Managers and Project ControlsAnalysts directly responsible for a $250M electric capital construction portfolio spanning the northern California territory for a leading US utility. In this role, he managesinternal resources, develops program level roadmaps, manages risks, and regularly meets with the client lead to ensure all objectives are being met.

With Motive Power, Kyle also leads a number of portfolio planning and management projects for a large utility company in Northern California. On a current engagement, he is the project lead on a four-phased initiative to develop and refine a detailed five-year capital utility project $5B portfolio, which has required risk analysis, detailed bottoms-up portfolio development, multi- dimensional communication, and frequent progress updates.

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JON BERKHOE GLOBAL DIRECTOR OF PROJECT DELIVERY SERVICES, SYNCHROJon works for Synchro Software as Global Director of Project Delivery Services. Synchro’s mission is to fundamentally change the way construction projects are delivered. Jon and his team strive to achieve this goal by helping clients realize excellence in project planning and execution through strategic and innovative use of Synchro’s 4D technology.

Previous to joining Synchro, Jon worked for many years at Bechtel, most recently as a Director for the Corporate BIM organization, where he helped direct strategic planning and deployment of Virtual Design and Construction tools and practices across the company.

Jon received his Masters and Bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California.

MATTHEW MORIATES MANAGER, MOTIVE POWERMatthew Moriates is a manager with Motive Power who combines his background in business administration and industrial engineering to successfully implement projects to improve processes and program management for our clients. Matthew also supports internal projects with his vigorous work ethic and proven leadership skills.

Currently, Matthew manages a scheduling team with a leading North American utilities company responsible for developing and maintaining integrated P6 schedules for a wide range of projects with a portfolio value of $1B per year. He also works with multiple project groups and uses industry standard tools to continuously improve data and schedule quality. Matthew develops cross-functional relationships and facilitates discussions between stakeholders and project management to resolve issues and mitigate risks within his projects. Matthew is also leading a training and schedule quality improvement program for a team of project controls analysts.

SEAN ZOOK CONSTRUCTION VDC/BIM MANAGER, TURNER-PCL A JOINT VENTURESean Zook joined PCL Construction Services, Inc. in 2007 and has over 16 years of industry experience. Having worked professionally on both the design and construction sides of the building industry, Sean has cultivated a balanced depth of experience. From Casinos to Airports to Theme Parks and back to Airports, Sean has worked on number of different building types, but secretly loves renovating his own house best.Sean Zook is a licensed architect in the State of California, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from The Ohio State University.

PHIL BARANOWSKI WORKSTREAM PROGRAM SPECIALIST, PG&EPhil Baranowski is currently managing Governance, Estimating, and Technology for PG&E’s Electric Transmission Project Development Group (TPD). This group is responsible for competitively bidding and executing over 300 miles of new green field high voltage transmission lines. He previously served as the Project Controls Supervisor for PG&E’s Hydro Power Generation division. Phil has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Trine University. Prior to working at PG&E he worked for both Parsons and Granite Construction as a Project Controls Professional. He was responsible for bringing in HCSS’ HeavyBid and HeavyJob into PG&E, and has currently implemented the software within PG&E’s Power Generation, Gas Transmission and Electric Transmission departments. He also is a member of HCSS’ Advisory Board.

MIKE BENSUSSEN PROJECT CONTROLS ENGINEER, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONMike Bensussen is a highly motivated and driven, young professional residing in the great Pacific Northwest region of the United States. With 10 years combined experience in construction, project management and project control practices, Mike draws on a diversified base of knowledge when it comes to decision-making time on the project. His expertise is derived from time spent on Nuclear, North Slope - Oil & Gas, Commercial, Industrial and Higher Education projects. In his current role as Project Controls Engineer at the University of Washington, Mike is able to harness his passion for education and utilize creative thinking to promulgate the project controls discipline. This working experience contributes directly to his involvement on the Associate Board of Education for AACEi. As chair of the University Relations sub-committee, Mike leverages networks, resources, tools and relationships to bring project controls best-practice to the forefront of both education and industry. When Mike is not championing project deliverables, he prefers to spend his time with family and friends, in the downhill park on his mountain bike, or on a fresh sheet of ice at the hockey rink.

LORI LEE PROJECT MANAGER, ADVANCED WORK PACKAGING INSTITUTEMs. Lee has over 30 years of experience as a Project Manager and Contract Manager in the construction and engineering fields. Her experience includes owner representation, construction management, contract management, project controls, and schedule preparation. Fifteen of these years, Lori spent her time in the field managing quality control, safety, and changes. She develops project specific procedures for subcontracting execution plans. The procedures strategize the proper commercial terms, cost structure, to incorporate technical requirements for each scope of work. She has performed these services as both the owner representative and EPC contractor.

VIDYA DIXIT SCHEDULING MANAGER, TURNER-PCL A JOINT VENTUREVidya Dixit has over 29 years of experience in project management and controls working on behalf of owners, contractors and schedule consultants. His extensive experience involves planning/scheduling, cost management, estimating, project claims, document control and developing project control system. Mr. Dixit’s area of project experience includes airports, electrical Transmission/Distribution/substation, capital programs, hospitals, general construction, rail road construction, schools, hi-tech facilities, call centers, etc. Mr. Dixit has also done extensive work in the areas of Building Information System and 4-D modeling along with developing specialized software.

NEIL OPFER PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADANeil has extensive experience in the construction industry in various construction positions and as a construction faculty member and construction consultant. He has been employed in the construction divisions of such firms as Inland Steel (Arcelor-Mittal), Morrison-Knudsen, CE Lummus, and Standard Oil of California (Chevron). He has been on the faculty of the Construction Management Program – College of Engineering at UNLV since 1989. He has been a licensed general contractor in the State of Nevada since 1999. He has had extensive experience in construction consulting for a number of ENR Top 400 Contractors and Fortune Top 500 Firms. He has made over 100 construction-industry presentations to associations on a local, regional, or national basis. He has published over 80 papers and book chapters on a variety of construction topics. He received a P.D. Engineering from University of Wisconsin - Madison, an M.S. Management (MBA) from Purdue University along with a B.S. Building Theory, B.A. Economics, and B.A. Business, all from Washington State University. He has been a member of AACE since 1979.

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PHIL LARSON SENIOR INDUSTRY PRINCIPAL, INEIGHT, INC.Philip D. Larson, CCP CEP PMP PSP FAACE, joins InEight, Inc. as a Sr. Industry Principal with over 35 years of experience in the AEC and the estimating software industry. After graduating Washington State University with a B.S. in Architectural Studies, Phil worked for an engineering firm as the lead architectural designer, and then with Snelson-Anvil to a sister company as a structural material coordinator, constructing oil modules to be fabricated and then barged to the north slope of Alaska. It was during this time in the early 1980’s with the emergence of the PC (Personal Computer) hardware and Autodesk’s AutoCAD software, that a vision for BIM as we know it today, became an epiphany for Phil. He then continued his career as an estimator and eventually joined NBBJ architects where he honed his conceptual estimating skills, before moving on to a project management consulting company to work as a scheduler with P3 (Primavera Project Planner) and Microsoft Project, and eventually as the lead scheduler for the William Gates III Residence in Medina, Washington.

With his diverse background, he joined WinEstimator, Inc. in the mid 1990’s and eventually became Sr. Vice President. Most recently, he was a capital projects estimator working for the Port of Seattle at Sea-Tac airport working on over $1.0B worth of projects including both the NorthSTAR and IAF (International Arrivals Facility) programs.

Phil is Past President and a Fellow of AACE International, a non-profit professional educational association founded in 1956, and the largest organization globally serving the entire spectrum of the cost and scheduling management profession. He is currently serving as co-chair of AACE’s BIM Committee, where Phil’s specific expertise has been to translate a BIM model into a detailed cost estimate, and then into a resource loaded construction schedule, facilitating the ability to build projects on time and on budget.

ROGER NELSON ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, NAVIGANTRoger Nelson is an Associate Director within Navigant’s Global Construction practice and former AACE San Francisco section president. Roger has over 10 years of experience in the construction industry in commercial building, heavy civil, and gas & electrical transmission. His project management and project controls experience has ranged from subcontract development, procurement, scheduling, quality & safety, permitting, submittal & RFI processing, and change order development/negotiation, to project closeout. He has extensive experience in civil, commercial, and industrial construction disputes involving forensic schedule analysis, exposure investigation, entitlement evaluation, and contract analysis.

RAY STRATTON FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIESMr. Stratton, PMP®, EVP®, is founder and president of Management Technologies, an earned value management training and consulting firm. He provides his clients EVM training, ANSI 748 process engineering, third party EVM assessments, and application of EVM to their projects and programs. He has a track record of making EIA 748 EVM work on “wicked” projects.

He was a beta tester for the EVP exam in 2005 and one of two who passed the beta exam out of a cohort of fifteen. He holds EVP Certification #45.

Ray is the author of The Earned Value Management Maturity Model®, published by Management Concepts, Ray Stratton’s Earned Value Professional (EVP) Exam Study Guide, and the EVPrep™ webinar series. Mr. Stratton is also the editor of the bi-monthly “The EVM Newsletter™”

Ray W. Stratton has over twenty five years’ experience as a program manager with a major aerospace defense firm where he managed the development of radar, communication, and command and control systems. Mr. Stratton retired from the Naval Air Reserve at the rank of Captain.

RODERICK FERNANDEZ PROGRAM MANAGER, MOTIVE POWERRoderick is a highly motivated and analytical program manager and consultant with over 10 years of industry experience. With a proven capability in Program Management Office (PMO) support and financial planning and analysis, Roderick has held various financial and management based roles.

With Motive Power, Roderick is currently working as a consultant supporting several projects within a $5B portfolio for a leading North American utility. His responsibilities include analyzing and managing project financials including forecasts, budgets, actuals, and exception reporting while supporting project managers daily from project initiation to closeout. Roderick recently designed, and implemented multiple comprehensive scorecard management tools to quantitatively gather data to objectively provide feedback on employee performance. In addition to developing an integrated measurement mechanism, he provides trainings and workshops to further educate project management organizations.

OLFA HAMDI FOUNDER, ADVANCED WORK PACKAGING INSTITUTEOlfa Hamdi is an international researcher in the field of project management, independent consultant, founder of the Advanced Work Packaging Institute and co-founder of The Institute of Management. Olfa Hamdi was a member of the research joint venture RT272 on Advanced Work Packaging between the Construction Industry Institute (CII) and the Construction Owners Association of Alberta (COAA). She is a co-author of the 3-volume Industry Research Implementation on Advanced Work Packaging IR272-2. Her Research Master Thesis, published by The Univeristy of Texas at Austin in 2013, is the first academic publication to document research on AWP benefits, implementation challenges and maturity. Olfa Hamdi holds a Master of Science in Capital Projects’ Management from The University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Science in Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lille (France), and a graduate degree in Alternative Dispute Resolution for construction disputes from Texas School of Law. She is a fellow of the State Bar of Texas Construction Law section. Olfa has numerous publications in prestigious academic and professional journals as well as media outlets. Olfa speaks four languages and is a firm believer in the role of interdisciplinary research in driving capital projects effectiveness and project management knowledge sphere expansion. Olfa Hamdi founded the AWP Institute with a clear objective in mind: trigger and build the global momentum around Advanced Work Packaging and advance the AWP system by closing its gaps through research and innovation for it to become a recognized comprehensive global industry practice. Today, the AWP Institute has an outreach to more than 40 countries.

NOUR BOUHOU ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, SPIRE CONSULTING GROUPMs. Nour Bouhou, Associate Consultant, assists owners, contractors, and subcontractors across numerous sectors within the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry on both proactive and forensic consulting projects. She specializes in quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures and management, schedule oversight, and document and cost management. In addition, she has planned and coordinated work performed by multiple trades involving safety, quality, and schedule. Ms. Bouhou also analyzes, develops, and prepares claim evaluations; and prepares for clients’ positions in mediation, arbitration, and litigation. She evaluates project planning, costs, schedules, construction-related claims, and quantification of damages involving standard of care, schedule delay and acceleration, productivity loss, late and/or excessive changes, deficient drawings and specifications, and due diligence. Ms. Bouhou is fluent in French and Arabic. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in the Construction Engineering and Project Management Program with the Dissertation Topic: Assessing the Performance of Demand-Side Strategies and Rewables; Cost and Energy Implications for the Residential Sector. She also earned a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science (with Highest Honors) in Civil Engineering, Audit, Consulting, and Management from Ecole Centrale de Lille in France. Ms. Bouhou was awarded a Merit Scholarship from the Minister of Education (Morocco) (2009–2012). Ms. Bouhou has given several presentations at various seminars and conferences. She is also a Member of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC); and a Member, Past Vice President and Treasurer of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI).

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DR. NICK LAVINGIA PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTNick has over 40 years of Global Project Engineering, Management, Consulting and Training experience in the Energy industry. As a Project Manager and Project Management Consultant/Advisor at Chevron until 2013, he supported projects worth well over $ 100 billion. Since retiring from Chevron, he continues to provide Consultation and Training to Project Professionals worldwide. His experience includes projects in Oil & Gas Development, Oil Sands, Liquefied Natural Gas, Refining, Chemicals and Mining.

Nick has a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical & Petroleum-Refining Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a registered Professional Chemical Engineer in the State of California. Nick has published and presented many papers at technical organizations. He is a recipient of industry award from Pathfinder for outstanding contribution to the advancement of Project Management Technology and Chevron Chairman’s award for implementing Value Engineering throughout the corporation.

DAN GORETSKIE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SECTION MANAGER, BURNS AND MCDONNELLDan Goretskie, brings more than 14 years of hands-on experience with designing and developing custom and out-of-the-box Program and Document Management solutions, System Integration and Technology Consulting. As Program Management Section Manager, of the Business and Technology Consulting division in Brea, California, Mr. Goretskie, oversees the architecture and implementation of all client developed systems and applications. His industry knowledge of engineering, construction, project controls and capital planning set him aside from other technologist in the industry. Mr. Goretskie, has a wide range of responsibilities including systems, process, and product development of Document and Program Management Portals on and off premise.

DAVE SMITH GEOSPATIAL MANAGER, BURNS AND MCDONNELLMr. Smith serves as the Geospatial Manager in Burns & McDonnell’s Southern California Region. Mr. Smith has 20 years of experience in geographic information systems and databases, and has pursued continuing education in computer networks, programming and system administration. He has deployed information management solutions including mobile data collectors, web applications, and Burns & McDonnell’s OneTouchPM Program Portal in support of several large capital programs in Southern California.

TY KRAMER MARKET DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE, AUTODESKTy Kramer, Autodesk Market Development Executive, has a passion for simplifying the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) work processes for project owners.Ty began working with Autodesk more than 15 years ago, after helping to launch the AEC industry’s first successful Software as a Service (SAAS), Buzzsaw.com. Before that, he worked on Engineering News Record and Architectural Record Magazines, managing west coast sales operations for a decade, before diving in to the software industry. He graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in Journalism.

SCOTT ESPOSITO MASTER PRINCIPAL SALES CONSULTANT, ORACLEFor 10+ years, Scott has been an Oracle Sales Consultant, providing technical, product, and functional support to build customer relationships and help close sales opportunities. He works closely with Oracle professional services and sales teams throughout the pre-sales process, assisting with business requirements analysis, providing executive overviews and detailed product demonstrations. His industry and product expertise enables him to address technical questions regarding installation and system requirements, as well as develop and present services offerings to accompany software proposals. He builds ROI models, performs on-site proof-of-concept configuration and support for customers, and provides post-sales consulting.

LINDSEY SHERRILL CLIENT SERVICES, ORACLELindsey has been working with cloud technology for 7+ years, providing process consulting, sales support, and change management expertise to contractors and developers. Lindsey’s industry and product knowledge enables her to address technical questions about Oracle’s cloud software, as well as discuss best business practices used throughout the industry.

TROY WYATT VICE PRESIDENT OF NORTH AMERICA, ARESTroy Wyatt is the Vice President of North America at ARES Project Management LLC and has over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology Industry. His expertise includes project management, process design, systems implementation, best practices methodologies, network infrastructure, business management, and business analytics. Troy has extensive experience in project management software and services implementation and has provided project management systems implementations to many “Fortune 1000” companies.

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IVAN JARAMILLO SALES DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE, AUTODESKIvan Jaramillo is a Sales Developer Executive working at Autodesk, he has an extensive background with more than 13 years of experience in the design and construction industries. Ivan worked on more than 30 projects ranging from $11 million to $172 million. As a Virtual Design Construction Senior Manager, Ivan delivered customized solutions involving the development of PxP plans, program validation , Design Validation, Sustainability and Engineering, Prefabrication and Constructability, Design Coordination, Quantity Takeoff and Estimation, 4D Scheduling and Sequencing, Micro coordination, Digital Documents, laser scanning, model based layout, and virtual mockups. He established a divisional Building information Department and developed internal standard operation procedures for the embedment of BIM workflows across units. At Autodesk he is currently supporting developers and clients with the implementation of COBie and Industry Foundation Class standards.

DR. ALEXIA NALEWAIK PROJECT CONTROLS DIRECTOR, QS REQUIN Alexia is a Fellow of AACE, and holds a PhD in project & program management. She is a project controls director with more years of experience than she wants to admit, with specialist skills in risk management, cost management, and audit. She recently published her first book.

JOHN HOLLMANN OWNER, VALIDATION ESTIMATING LLC John Hollmann, author of “Project Risk Quantification”, owns Validation Estimating, LLC (VE). He works with capital program managers and project leaders to improve cost estimating, project control and cost/schedule risk quantification practices. John regularly reviews major international estimates and conducts risk analyses in support of investment decision making. Mr. Hollmann is a frequent speaker at international conferences, has written many papers and was lead author of the AACE® International text; the Total Cost Management Framework. John is an Honorary Life Member of AACE® and recipient of their Award of Merit. He also led development of the AACE® Decision and Risk Management Professional certification. Prior to founding VE, Mr. Hollmann led the Cost Engineering Committee metrics and research efforts at Independent Project Analysis, Inc. John is a registered Professional Engineer, a Certified Cost Professional, a Cost Estimating Professional and Decision and Risk Management Professional.

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NOTES

We have lost a dear friend and valued colleague. Doug Eberhard was a tremendous unwavering supporter of the Western Winter Workshop and he will be missed. He was an exceptional leader, visionary, and business colleague that leaves behind a legacy of excellence. He is survived by his

wife Cathy and son Eric.

For over 25 years, Doug Eberhard has created and implemented innovative computer model-based solutions on over $120 Billion of Capital Planning, Design, Engineering, and Construction projects around the world. As the former CTO of Parsons Brinckerhoff, Doug helped pioneer unique and award-winning solutions to visually and virtually manage and communicate proposed projects

using Building Information Modeling, GIS, Real-time Visualization, Web Collaboration and Project Information Management Systems.

Doug has been a featured speaker at numerous industry, media and academic events and is a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board - Geometric

Visualization Committee. Doug was named to the Carnegie Mellon Presidents Advisory Board in 2007, served on Stanford University’s CIFE Technical Advisory Committee and has been an advisor

to several AEC companies and industry consortia.

IN MEMORIAM

DOUG EBERHARD1962 – 2017

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