Oil / Gas / Power

M W Kellogg Planner

1990 - 1993      M.W. Kellogg Company      Houston, TX

Planner/Scheduler



Usually small petro-chemical and coal related projects. Often of a proto-typical or research and development nature, such as coal gasification, liquefaction, and flue gas scrubbing.

Urbanetics Planner

1993 - 1996      Urbanetics Houston, TX

Planner/Scheduler



Various contract positions, domestic and international, often involving training, establishing new systems and instituting new control mechanisms. Assignments varied from offshore platforms to commuter rail systems, together with traditional petro-chemical projects.

CDI Engineering Project Controls Manager

1996 - 1998     CDI-Stubs Overbeck     Houston, TX

Project Controls Mgr.



Directed the mixed controls team (owner and contractor) on two $30MM chemical support units for an international owner. Was an integral part of the owner’s management team engaged in contract negotiations, contract disputes and settlements, These two projects had the best cost/schedule performance of the $1.8 B expansion project, in spite of confused scope and tardy funding.

Sr. Project Engineer, General Electric Company (GE), 640kW Gasification - Reference Plant

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2006 - 2007     General Electric - Energy     Houston, TX

Sr. Project Engineer



Primary focus was assisting in the development of a 630MW IGCC Reference Plant, together with a re-powering 4x7FAs (tolling contract), and miscellaneous PDPs. Auxiliary functions included structure, pricing, and presentation of Feasibility and pre-FEED studies. Most of this work was largely developmental with few established metrics.