Kim S. Allen has over 30 years of experience in process control, project management, and business management with Monsanto, Fisher Controls, Fisher-Rosemount Systems, and now Emerson Process Management. He is currently a manager in the Americas Project Management Office (PMO), responsible for project execution standards and best practice development, implementation, and adoption across all of Emerson’s Industry and Engineering Centers in the Americas.

Kim is the current Implementation Champion at Emerson Process Management and is in his third year as a member of the CII Implementation Strategy Committee. Kim works out of the Process Systems & Solutions division headquarters in Austin, Texas.

Kim holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri–Rolla and an MBA from Southern Illinois University.

Stu Anderson is a Professor of Civil Engineering in the Construction Engineering and Management area at Texas A&M University. His research interests include process modeling of innovative project management practices including contracting, accelerated project delivery, and owner/contractor work structures. Stu teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in project management, early project development, estimating and planning, and the capstone Civil Engineering course that integrates design and construction processes.

Stu was the Principal Investigator on CII Research Project 220, Leading Indicators of Project Outcomes. He has over 12 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry, most of which was with Fluor Corporation. Stu received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas.

Paul Chinowsky is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado–Boulder. He is currently conducting research in leadership and management of architect-engineer-construct organizations and the role of technology in engineering collaboration. His book, Strategic Corporate Management in Engineering, introduces civil engineering organizations to the concepts of strategic management. Paul also is working with an international team to develop benchmarks for computer-based collaboration environments.

Paul, also a consultant to industry, holds bachelor and master’s degrees in architecture from Cal Poly–San Luis Obispo and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Stanford University.

Jiwon Choi is a project controls engineer at CDI Engineering Solutions, responsible for cost engineering and resource planning. He has over 10 years of design and construction experience on commercial building projects. He has been a member of CII Research Team 220, Leading Indicators to Project Outcome, and is the architect of the Project Health Indicator (PHI) Tool.

Jiwon holds a B.S. in Architecture from Han-Yang University, Seoul Korea, an M.S. in Construction Management, and an M.S. in Civil Engineering both from Texas A&M University.

Shari Davis is Manager of Project Systems Management at Mustang Engineering in Houston, Texas. She has worked on onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities, pipelines, distributed control systems, refinery, and petrochemical projects. She has gained international experience working on projects in Iraq, Korea, and Russia.

Shari serves on the Construction Industry Institute Benchmarking & Metrics Committee and is a member of the Houston chapter of Project Management Institute and the Society for the Advancement of Value Engineering. She received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. She is a registered professional engineer and a project management professional.

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Rusty Fannin, the Global Construction Safety Supervisor for Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., is responsible for all aspects of safety for Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.’s capitol construction activities. This includes locations in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He has 20 years of experience in managing heavy industrial construction projects and is currently active in CURT, CII, FIATECH, and LCI.

Rusty is a member of CII Research Team 215, Work Force View of Construction Productivity.
 

Tad Fry is a Manager of Engineering in the Brewing Operations and Technology, Engineering Group at Anheuser-Busch. His responsibilities include engineering management for capital projects, management of external engineering supplier alliances, and development of engineering and construction automation technologies.

Tad’s career spans 30 years in EPC industrial work, with 24 years at Anheuser-Busch. In 2006, Tad received the Spar Point Research Distinguished Achievement Award for his involvement in advancing engineering and construction technologies and work processes. He is a charter member of ASTM International E57 Standards committee for 3D Imaging Systems and serves on the terminology and best practices subcommittees.

Tad is actively involved with CII, serving as an implementation champion for best practices within the A-B organization and the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers.

Manuel A. Garcia, P.E., is Associate Director for Education, Knowledge Management, and Implementation Strategy at the Construction Industry Institute (CII) where he leads teams of industry professionals and academics in the development of traditional and web-based educational programs, workshops, and seminars. His professional efforts are focused on improving the life cycle performance of capital projects by achieving outstanding results in the areas of safety, quality, schedule, cost and operability.

Manuel has over 34 years of experience in the execution of worldwide projects on behalf of Fortune 500 owners and ENR 400 contractors. He has held key executive and senior management positions with constructor and owner organizations in engineering, construction, metal fabrication, and project management.

He is a Civil Engineering graduate from North Carolina State University, a registered professional engineer in Texas and Florida, and holds certified General and Mechanical Contracting Licenses in Florida. He is a member of the Project Management Institute.

Jim Gibson has over 30 years of experience in Engineering, Project Management, and business management with TVA and now ALSTOM Power, Inc. He is currently V.P. of Projects (Project Management, Planning, and Field Operation), responsible for execution of Environmental Controls System (ECS) North American projects, and is Global Projects Director for all ECS projects. His global role includes collection and standardization of best practices and pushing ECS toward execution excellence.

Jim has been a member of the Benchmarking & Metrics Committee since 2001 and currently serves as the Contractor Co-Chairman. Jim holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee.

Paul Goodrum, an associate professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky, has conducted research on workforce, productivity, and technology in the construction industry. His research on the construction workforce has focused on workforce demographics, wage differentials, and factors affecting craft productivity. Paul has 25 refereed journal articles and conference papers that have been published or are pending publication in the area of workforce and productivity since 2000.

Paul is a member of CII Research Team 215, Work Force View of Construction Productivity.

Steve Hutsell is the BIM Implementation Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineeers, Fort Worth District. He has nearly 20 years of experience with AEC and Geospatial technology implementation and support to include CAD, GIS, BIM, and Engineering Document Management Systems at the Fort Worth and Europe districts and supported regional military installations.

As a member of the Corps’ BIM Community of Practice, Steve is the lead on a Contract Language development team for civil and military projects with the contract language also being contributed toward the National BIM Standard initiative. He is also participates in the Corps’ Southwestern Division Geospatial Data and Systems group providing guidance on BIM, CAD, and interoperability issues for enterprise and regional programs. He earned his degree in Architectural Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1985.

Faith Junghans is Technology Communications Director for the EPC Automation Group at CH2M HILL, where she has worked for over 20 years. Although she has a background in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia, for most of her career Faith has worked as an Information & Control Systems engineer, with assignments on numerous federal, municipal, and industrial projects. She is currently focusing on advancing project life cycle opportunities.

Faith’s industry activities include FIATECH, where she co-leads the Technology and Knowledge-enabled Workforce; Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), where she serves on the Emerging Technologies Committee; and National BIM Standards (NBIMS), where she is member of the Communication and Development committees.

Tom Koulopoulos is Managing Director of The Perot Systems Innovation Lab. Named one of the industry’s most influential information management consultants by InformationWeek, he is recognized as an authority on the implications of information technology on global organizations. The author of six highly popular books, his works have introduced core industry concepts, frameworks, and vernacular such as single point of access, touch points, digital control rooms, business operating systems, and corporate IQ.

Koulopoulos has been an adjunct professor at the Boston College Wallace E. Carroll Graduate School of Management and a guest lecturer at Boston University and at Harvard.

Greg Kanteres, a chemical engineer with a Masters in Business Administration, is an Engineering Fellow II with Solutia. He is a major project manager with over 27 years of experience in this line of work. Greg is currently managing a $40M grassroots chemical construction project in Suzhou, China – overseeing the building design and construction, hiring and training of employees, finances, and the fabrication, checkout, and commissioning of the processing equipment.

Greg resides in the St. Louis area with his wife and two sons. He has been a CII Implementation Champion for Solutia since 2000, and also is on the Implementation Strategy Committee.

John Lee has more than 30 years of experience working for Washington Group International in Project and Plant Management assignments. Much of this experience was at Department of Energy facilities involved in nuclear fuel storage, fuel processing, waste processing, environmental cleanup, and restoration. He served as President and General Manager of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, opening and operating the facility for final disposal of Defense Plutonium waste.

Since 2003, John has focused on improving project management, project control, and procurement programs for Defense projects including chemical weapons and nuclear missile destruction. His current assignment is the Senior Director responsible for the Washington Group Corporate Project Review Board. In this capacity he leads comprehensive project reviews of the 20 to 30 most challenging projects for Washington Group.

John earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University in 1976 and a Master of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Idaho State University in 1981. He also completed an Executive Development course at Duke University in 1993.

Kirk Morrow recently joined S&B Engineers and Constructors in Houston as manager of the Technical Services Department. He previously served as a Research Engineer for CII’s Benchmarking & Metrics program, working with the Productivity Metrics and Downstream Oil and Gas Teams. He has 14 years of construction industry experience in engineering and construction management with power, pulp & paper, refining, and infrastructure projects.

Kirk earned his doctoral degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998, specializing in Construction Engineering and Project Management. His involvement with CII over the last 10 years includes the Benchmarking and Metrics Committee, the PPMOF Education Team, and the Construction Technology Needs Assessment Update Research Team.

Julia Nicolae is a Project Management Specialist in the Office of Property Development and U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). At GSA, she has experience in portfolio management, planning asset business strategies for several states on short- and long-term bases. In her current role at GSA, she is responsible for the project management and delivery of federally approved and funded capital construction projects within the Midwest region. In sync with the congressional appropriations cycle, Julia manages project procurement and budget, contract negotiations, scheduling, partnering, coordination of multi-disciplinary teams, as well as acts as the communication liaison for various invested partners including tenants, local community, and agency directors.

Julia has led the implementation of CII’s PDRI tool regionally and has begun a training series for other GSA offices nationally. She serves as the CII National Systems Administrator for GSA. Prior to joining the agency, Nicolae previously worked in Rome, Italy, at Loyola University, a study-abroad program focusing on architecture and art history. Julia holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business, Human Resources Management, and Marketing from Loyola University Chicago.

Dr. William O’Brien specializes lifecycle cost and information modeling to support construction industry efforts in supply chain management, design effectiveness, and information management. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Construction Engineering and Project Management Program in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. From 1999–2004, he taught in both the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering and the M. E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction at the University of Florida. Prior to returning to academia, Bill led product development and planning efforts at Collaborative Structures, a Boston-based Internet start-up focused on serving the construction industry.

Bill holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and a M.S. degree in Engineering–Economic Systems from Stanford University. He also holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University.

Stephen is a professional engineer working in the project management group at Fluor. He has spent much of the last 10 years in cost, estimating, and scheduling roles on various heavy industrial refinery and petrochemical projects across Canada. Project assignments have included shutdown planner and cost lead, as well as business development and project engineer.

Stephen has coordinated and participated in various site productivity studies and forums, including performance sampling, manpower activity analysis, and CII’s Worker’s View of Construction Productivity and the Voice of the Worker Tool.

Danny Scott is responsible for the engineering cost and scheduling, document control, and project support at BE&K. He has over 18 years of engineering and construction experience on heavy industrial and process-intensive projects, both domestically and internationally. His roles at BE&K have included project engineer, subcontract coordinator, expeditor, project scheduler, and project cost analyst. At CII, he has served as a member of the Benchmarking Committee for the past three years. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Montevallo and an MBA from Samford University.

Dan Slade is currently part of Fluor’s Construction Technology group as Construction Systems Manager for all Fluor Construction organizations on a global basis. With over 25 years of experience in construction of capital projects industry, Dan has served in many key project roles in the refining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, power, and manufacturing industries. Project and corporate assignments have included construction field engineering, constructability, construction planning, project turnover systems, construction automation tool development, and management of design models with construction data.

In the last 10 years, Dan has played a major role in working with projects developing automated links from construction progress, procurement, and system turnover data programs to 3D design models displaying real time construction data. He has organized Fluor’s use of a 3D crane animation program on projects and is also the Champion for the Fiatech Capital Project Road Map – Intelligent and Automated Construction Job Site element.

J. D. Slaughter is the EPC Automation Team Leader for S&B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. in Houston, TX, with responsibilities overseeing the implementation of internal engineering, procurement and construction automation initiatives. He has over 11 years of experience in the refining and petrochemical industry, having served as process engineer, project engineer, and construction engineer prior to his current position.

J. D. is a member of the Breakthrough Strategy Committee. He has also served on multiple committees with FIATECH. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Richard has 26 years of federal government experience. The past 16 years have been with the General Services Administration, while the 10 years previous were with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. He possesses extensive experience and demonstrated success in a variety of project management and leadership positions. He currently serves as the Acting Deputy Assistant Regional Administrator, Public Buildings Service, on matters relating to the management, design, construction, leasing, acquisition, development, and related contract requirements of PBS within the region.

Richard fosters respect and appreciation for valuing differences in people and looks for opportunities for learning about and approaching issues differently. His leadership abilities create working atmospheres that provide direction, foster teamwork, and motivate and influence others. His organizational strategy demonstrates a commitment to quality and focus on customer service by meeting and exceeding customer needs and expectations.

Richard has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree from The University of Texas at Arlington. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer and a Certified Construction Manager.

Dr. John Taylor researches change processes in global project networks. His recent research has focused on innovations in computer-aided design, supply chain integration, pre-fabricated wall systems and elevator systems. Taylor has identified critical issues relating to project network structure that must be addressed to enable implementation and widespread use of technological, organizational and work process innovations. Taylor uses both in-depth field research and computational simulation modeling to extend innovation theories. His findings are used by industry to develop strategies for improving innovation and organizational change outcomes.

Dr. Taylor earned his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University in 2006. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in that same year. In 1996, he won a Fulbright Scholarship to Switzerland where he worked at the United Nations in Geneva and studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Speedy Warner is the recipient of CII’s 2006 Outstanding Implementer award. He has been with Anheuser-Busch since 1996 in the engineering project management group of Brewing, Operation and Technology. During that period he has worked with various business units within Anheuser-Busch (Packaging, Brewing, Entertainment, and Agriculture), focusing his attention on planning, scheduling, and cost control of capital projects. Speedy’s previous experience includes 25 years of engineering, procurement, and construction in the gas processing industry and the commercial building business.

Speedy has been involved in CII as an Implementation Champion for the past four years and is a member of the Implementation Strategy Committee. He is actively involved in the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers (SLCCC), where he serves as Chairman of the Training and Education Committee. He also serves the SLCCC as a member of the Strategy Committee and the Best Practices & Awards Committee. Speedy has a degree in business administration from Southwest University.

A senior staff engineer with Chevron’s Energy Technology Company, Paul has worked in the engineering and construction industry since 1970, working both domestic and international projects. He is currently a Chevron consultant specializing in cost engineering and project management.

Paul has worked with CII Project Teams and the Benchmarking & Metrics Committee to develop engineering productivity metrics for the last five years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University.

Nuria Ayala provides administrative support for Education, Knowledge Management, and Product Implementation Workshops at the Construction Industry Institute (CII). Her responsibilities include committee meeting support, CII Online Education, and assisting in coordinating Product Implementation Workshops.

Prior to joining CII, Nuria worked for Gateway Computers as a computer service technician. Nuria holds a bachelor’s degree in American Literature and culture with a minor in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999 and a master’s degree in Education with a concentration in Instructional Technologies from San Francisco State University in 2002.

As CII’s webmaster, Michael Burns supports most areas of CII to some degree. Michael has worked at CII since 1990. In his time at CII, he has laid out most CII books and supported speaker presentations at each Annual Conference.

Michael holds a bachelor’s degree from Rice University and a master’s from Columbia University.
 

Donna Rinehart supports the Implementation area, which includes the Implementation Strategy Committee (ISC) and Product Implementation Workshops. Additional responsibilities include the Strategic Planning Committee and the CII Executive Leadership Program. She previously worked at The University of Texas at Austin, College of Engineering (Bureau of Engineering Research).