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Progress in Improving Project Management at the Department of Energy: 2002 Assessment (2003)

Chapter: Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members

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APPENDIX B Biographies of Committee Members Kenneth F. Reinschmidt (National Academy of Engineering) is professor of civil engineering and holds the J. L. Frank/Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC Chair in Engineering Project Management at Texas A&M University. He retired from Stone & Webster as senior vice president. He was appointed chair of this committee for his combination of expertise in the disciplines of civil engineering, project management, cost estimating, and the management of large-scale con- struction projects, including nuclear and fossil fuel power plant construction. He held various positions at Stone & Webster, including president and CEO of Stone & Webster Advanced Systems Development Services, Inc., and manager of the consulting group in the Engineering Department. In these positions he was engaged in structural engineering, operations research, cost analysis, construc- tion engineering and management, and project management. Prior to his work at Stone & Webster, Dr. Reinschmidt was a senior research associate and associate professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was engaged in interdisciplinary research on power plant engineering, design, construction, and project management. Dr. Reinschmidt served as chair of the committee that produced the recent NRC report Improving Project Management in the Department of Energy and was reviewer of the NRC report Assessing the Need for Independent Project Reviews in the Department of Energy. He is a former member of the Building Research Board of the NRC and served or chaired several other NRC committees, including the Committee on Integrated Database Development, the Panel for Building Technology, the Com- mittee on Advanced Technology for Building Design, and the Committee on Foam Plastic Structures. He has also served on several National Science Founda- 76

APPENDIX B 77 tion review panels on construction automation, computer-integrated construction, and engineering research centers. He obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Don Jeffrey (,Ieff) Bostock retired from Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc., as vice president for engineering and construction with responsibility for all engineering activities at the Oak Ridge nuclear complex. He is serving on this committee because of his experience with managing projects as a DOE contractor. He has also served as vice president of defense and manufacturing and manager of the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant, a nuclear weapons fabrication and manufacturing facility. His career at Y-12 included engineering and managerial positions in all of the various manufacturing, assembly, security, and program management organizations. He also served as manager of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which provides uranium enrichment services. He was a member of the committees that produced the NRC reports Proliferation Concerns: Assessing U.S. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials and Tech- nologies in the Former Soviet Union and Protecting Nuclear Weapons Material in Russia. Mr. Bostock also served as a panel member for the annual NRC assessment of the Measurement and Standards Laboratories of the National Insti- tuteofStandards end technology. Mr. Bostock has a B.S. inindustrialengineer- ing from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in industrial management from the University of Tennessee. He is a graduate of the Pittsburgh Management Program for Executives. Donald A. Brand (National Academy of Engineering) retired from the Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Company as senior vice president and general manager, engineering and construction business unit, and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Brand was appointed as a member of this committee because of his expertise in the management of the design, engineering, and construction of large, complex energy-related facilities. During his 33 years with PO&E, he carried out numerous managerial and engineering responsibilities related to the design, construction, and operation of fossil fuel, geothermal, nuclear, and hydroelectric generating facilities, as well as of electrical transmission, distribution, and power control facilities. Mr. Brand's industry activities have included membership on the Electric Power Research Institute's Research Advisory Committee and on the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies' Power Generation Committee. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in mechanical (nuclear) engineering from Stanford University. He also graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard University School of Business. Allan V. Burman is president of Jefferson Solutions, a division of the Jefferson Consulting Group, a firm that provides change management services and acquisi-

78 APPENDIX B tion reform training to many federal departments and agencies. He serves as a member of this committee because of his expertise in federal acquisition, pro- curement, and budget reform. Dr. Burman provides strategic consulting services to private sector firms doing business with the federal government as well as to federal agencies and other government entities. He also has advised firms, con- gressional committees, and federal and state agencies on a variety of manage- ment and acquisition reform matters. Prior to joining the Jefferson Consulting Group, Dr. Burman had a long career in the federal government, including serving as administrator for federal procurement policy in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where he testified before Congress over 40 times on manage- ment, acquisition, and budget matters. Dr. Burman also authored the 1991 policy letter that established performance-based contracting and greater reliance, where appropriate, on fixed-price contracting, as the favored approach for contract reform. As a member of the Senior Executive Service, Dr. Burman served as chief of the Air Force Branch in OMB's National Security Division and was the first OMB branch chief to receive a Presidential Rank Award. Dr. Burman is a fellow and member of the board of advisors of the National Contract Manage- ment Association, a principal of the Council for Excellence in Government, a director of the Procurement Round Table, and an honorary member of the National Defense Industrial Association. He is also a contributing editor and writer for Government Executive magazine. Dr. Burman obtained a B.A. from Wesleyan University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Bordeaux, France, has a graduate degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the George Washington University. Lloyd A. Duscha (National Academy of Engineering) retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1990 as the highest-ranking civilian after serving as deputy director, Engineering and Construction Directorate, at headquarters. He serves as a member of this committee because of his expertise in engineering and construction management and his roles as principal investigator for the NRC report Assessing the Need for Independent Project Reviews in the Department of Energy and member of the committee that produced the NRC report Improving Project Management in the Department of Energy. He served in numerous pro- gressive Army Corps of Engineer positions in various locations over four decades. Mr. Duscha is currently an engineering consultant to various national and foreign government agencies, the World Bank, and private sector clients. He has served on numerous NRC committees and recently served on the Committee on the Outsourcing of the Management of Planning, Design, and Construction Related Services as well as the Committee on Shore Installation Readiness and Manage- ment. He now chairs the NRC Committee on Research Needs for Transuranic and Mixed Waste at Department of Energy Sites. He has also served on the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment and was vice chairman for the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology. Other positions held

APPENDIX B 79 were president, U.S. Committee on Large Dams; chair, Committee on Dam Safety, International Commission on Large Dams; executive committee, Con- struction Industry Institute; and the board of directors, Research and Management Foundation of the American Consulting Engineers Council. He has numerous professional affiliations, including fellowships in the American Society of Civil Engineers and in the Society of American Military Engineers. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota, which awarded him the Board of Regents Outstanding Achievement Award. G. Brian Estes is the former director of construction projects at Westinghouse Hanford Company, where he directed project management functions supporting operations and environmental cleanup of the Department of Energy Hanford nuclear complex. He was appointed as a member of this committee because of his experience with DOE, as well as other large-scale government construction and environmental restoration projects. He served on the committee that pro- duced the recent NRC report Improving Project Management in the Department of Energy and has served on a number of other NRC committees. Prior to joining Westinghouse, he completed 30 years in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps, achiev- ing the rank of rear admiral. Admiral Estes served as commander of the Pacific Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and as commander of the Third Naval Construction Brigade at Pearl Harbor. He supervised over 700 engineers, 8,000 Seabees, and 4,000 other employees in providing public works management, environmental support, family housing support, and facility plan- ning, design and construction services. As vice commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Admiral Estes led the total quality management transfor- mation at headquarters and two updates of the corporate strategic plan. He directed execution of the $2 billion military construction program and the $3 billion facilities management program while serving as deputy commander for facilities acquisition and deputy commander for public works, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Maine, an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois, and is a registered professional engineer in Illinois and Virginia. David N. Ford is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Texas A&M University. He serves as a member of this committee because of his expertise in evaluating project management with analytical methods and simulations. He researches the dynamics of project management and the strategy of construction organizations, as well as teaching project management and computer simulation courses. Current research projects include an investigation into the causes of failures to implement fast-track processes and the value of contingent decisions in project strategies. Prior to his appointment at Texas A&M, Dr. Ford was an associate professor in the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Bergen in Norway. He was one of two professors to develop and lead the

80 APPENDIX B graduate program in the system dynamics methodology for 4 years. Dr. Ford' s research during this time focused on the dynamics of product development pro- cesses and included work with Ericsson Microwave to improve that company's product development processes. Dr. Ford designed and managed the develop- ment and construction of facilities during 14 years in professional practice for owners, design professionals, and builders. The projects varied in size and facility type, including commercial buildings, residential development, industrial, com- mercial, and defense facilities. He serves as a reviewer for the journals Manage- ment Science, Journal of Operational Research Society, Technology Studies, and System Dynamics Review. Dr. Ford received his B.C.E. and M.E. degrees from Tulane University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in dynamic engineering systems. G. Edward Gibson is an associate professor of civil engineering, associate chair- man for architectural engineering, and the Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellow in the Construction Engineering and Project Management program at the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as a member of this committee because of his expertise and research in preproject planning, organizational change, and the development of continuing education training programs for project managers. His research interests include organizational change, preproject planning, con- struction productivity, electronic data management, and automation and robotics. Dr. Gibson heads up the owner/contractor work structure thrust area of the Center for Construction Industry Studies funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He received the Outstanding Researcher Award of the Construction Industry Insti- tute (CII) for his pioneering work in preproject planning and is an author or coauthor of numerous articles and reports on this subject, including the CII Pre- Project Planning Handbook and the CII Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI). He also developed several CII education modules for continuing education and has taught over 125 short courses to industry in such areas as objective setting, team alignment, continuous improvement, preproject planning, and materials management. He received an M.B.A. from the University of Dallas and a B.C.E. and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Auburn University. Theodore C. Kennedy (National Academy of Engineering) is chairman and cofounder of BE&K, a privately held international design-build firm that pro- vides engineering, construction, and maintenance for process-oriented industries and commercial real estate projects. Mr. Kennedy serves as a member of the committee because of his experience and expertise with the design, construction, and cost estimation of complex construction and engineering projects. BE&K companies design and build for a variety of industries, including pulp and paper, chemical, oil and gas, steel, power, pharmaceutical, and food processing. BE&K is consistently listed as one of Fortune magazine's Top 100 Companies to Work For, and BE&K and its subsidiaries have won numerous awards for excellence,

APPENDIX B 81 innovation, and programs that support its workers and communities. Mr. Kennedy is the chairman of the national board of directors of INROADS, Inc., and is a member of numerous other boards, including the A+ Education Foundation and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. He is also a member of the Duke University School of Engineering Dean's Council and the former chairman of the Board of Visitors for the Duke University School of Engineering. He is the former president of Associated Builders & Contractors and the former chairman of the Construction Industry Institute. He has received numerous awards, includ- ing the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Duke University, the Walter A. Nashert Constructor Award, the President's Award from the National Associa- tion of Women in Construction, and the Contractor of the Year award from Associated Builders and Contractors. Mr. Kennedy has a B.S. in civil engineer- ing from Duke University. Michael A. Price is manager of education programs for the Project Management Institute (PMI), an international association of project management professionals that provides accreditation and training. He was appointed to this committee because of his experience and expertise in developing and evaluating project management training programs. Dr. Price is responsible for the development and implementation of operational plans for all PMI educational programs and initia- tives, including accreditation of degrees in project management, selection and coordination of 150 public seminars annually, management of continuing educa- tion requirements and record keeping for 22,000 project management profession- als, and identification of new educational products and programs to meet the learning needs of the global project management community. Previous to his present position, Dr. Price was director of professional practice for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and director of programs for architecture and engi- neering with the Research Center for Continuing Professional and Higher Educa- tion at the University of Oklahoma. He is an active member of the AIA and has been a member of the Education System Audit Review Task Group and the site visitation team for the National Architectural Accreditation Board. Dr. Price has a B.S. in environmental design, a B. Arch., an M.Ed., and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.

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In 1997, Congress, in the conference report, H.R. 105-271, to the FY1998 Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, directed the NRC to carry out a series of assessments of project management at the Department of Energy (DOE). This report, the 2002 Assessment, is the second in that series. It presents an examination of DOE's progress in improving program management over the past two years and offers recommendations regarding project management methodology and project oversight.

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