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Our Staff

Our staff of over 60 professionals have extensive U.S. and international experience on large, complex, grass roots, revamp, and reconstruction projects incorporating conventional-phased, fast-track, or EPC turnkey concepts. Long International’s consultants include chemical, mining, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers, and program, project, and construction management professionals. Our experts have earned advanced degrees, professional engineering licenses, and project management professional certifications. Our senior personnel have on average over 35 years of experience working for major oil and chemical companies, manufacturing companies, power generation companies, public owners, international engineering and construction companies, mechanical and electrical contractors, construction consulting firms, banks, insurance companies, and financial organizations. This experience encompasses hundreds of projects worldwide ranging in cost from several million to several billion U.S. dollars. We assign senior level consultants with extensive engineering and construction experience to perform the analyses and testify in mediation, arbitration, litigation, or other ADR forums if resolution through negotiation is not achieved.

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Richard J. Long, P.E., P.Eng, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Richard J. Long is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Long International, a Colorado-based construction claims and project management consulting firm that focuses its practice on owners, engineering and construction firms, and contractors performing petroleum refining, petrochemical, oil and gas, LNG, power/cogeneration, mineral processing, industrial, building, and infrastructure projects worldwide. Mr. Long has over 50 years of U.S. and international consulting experience involving construction contract disputes analysis and resolution, arbitration/litigation support and expert testimony, project management, engineering/construction management, cost and schedule control, and process engineering. As an internationally recognized expert in the analysis and resolution of complex construction disputes for over 35 years, Mr. Long has served as the lead expert on over 300 projects having claims ranging in size from US$100,000 to over US$2 billion. He has testified in mediation, deposition and court as well as U.S. and international arbitration. His expert consulting experience includes refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants, LNG projects, offshore oil & gas facilities, power plants, oil sands and oil shale facilities, metallurgical projects, and commercial and industrial buildings. He has presented and published numerous articles on the subjects of claims analysis, entitlement issues, CPM schedule and damages analyses, cumulative impact claims, and claims prevention. Before forming Long International, Mr. Long was Senior Vice President, Contract Administration for a major electrical and mechanical contractor. In this role, he had corporate-wide responsibility for technical management and oversight of the preparation and resolution of construction claims. In addition, he was responsible for the development, training, and implementation of project management policies and procedures to ensure that profit, cost, schedule, scope, quality, and safety objectives were achieved. For 13 years, Mr. Long managed the construction claims practices of two large consulting firms. Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Long gained 13 years of project management and process engineering experience on petroleum refining, oil shale, synfuels, mining, and power generation projects with Tosco, Fluor, and Conoco.

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Andrew Avalon, P.E., PSP, Chairman

Andrew Avalon is Chairman of Long International and has over 35 years of engineering, construction management, and claims consulting experience. He is an expert in the preparation and evaluation of construction claims, insurance claims, schedule delay analysis, arbitration/ litigation support, and dispute resolution. He has prepared more than thirty CPM schedule analyses, written expert witness reports, and testified in deposition, mediation, and arbitration. He has analyzed construction schedules for owners and contractors to determine the causes of construction delays and to equitably allocate responsibility for delay-related costs. He has developed “cause and effect” analyses and presentations for time extensions and delay damages. In addition, Mr. Avalon has published numerous articles on the subjects of CPM schedule delay analysis and entitlement issues affecting construction claims and is a contributor to AACE® International’s Recommended Practice No. 29R-03 for Forensic Schedule Analysis. Mr. Avalon is a registered Professional Engineer with U.S. and international experience in petrochemical, oil refining, oil sands, gas to-liquids, LNG, commercial, educational, medical, correctional facility, transportation, dam, wharf, wastewater treatment, hydroelectric, coal, and nuclear power projects. Mr. Avalon specializes in preparing detailed schedule analyses and apportioning responsibility for delays, disruption, and acceleration impacts. He is skilled at contract analysis, claims preparation, claims defense, and the negotiation of settlements. Mr. Avalon has served as a Project Manager on numerous claims ranging in size from US$100,000 to over US$1 billion. Before joining Long International, Mr. Avalon held construction management positions including Senior Scheduler, Contract Administrator, Project Manager, and Senior Consultant. In these roles, he had responsibility for preparation of project schedules, analysis of change orders, and resolution of construction claims.

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Rod C. Carter, CCP, PSP, President

Rod C. Carter is President of Long International and has over 20 years of experience in construction project controls, contract disputes and resolution, negotiations, mediation/arbitration support, and expert testimony on scheduling, loss of productivity, and quantum issues. He has experience in entitlement, schedule, and damages analyses on over 30 construction disputes ranging in value from US$100,000 to US$7 billion, related to oil and gas, oil refinery, LNG, heavy civil, nuclear, environmental, chemical, power, industrial, commercial, and residential construction projects. Mr. Carter is proficient in the use of Primavera P6 and P3 software, and he has extensive experience in assessing the impact to engineering and construction works of RFIs, change orders, and other events. Mr. Carter specializes in loss of productivity, cumulative impact, and quantum calculations, and has had a lead role in assessing damages on more than a dozen major disputes. In addition, Mr. Carter has developed cost and schedule risk analysis models using Monte Carlo simulations to address the uncertainty of estimates and claims. He has testified in two arbitrations as an expert in construction scheduling and damages, and he has presented expert findings to an international arbitral tribunal. He is an AACE International Certified Cost Professional and Planning & Scheduling Professional.

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Steven J. Bieniewicz, Senior Principal

Steven J. Bieniewicz, a Senior Principal with Long International, has over 40 years of experience in engineering, project management, project planning and scheduling, cost engineering, construction claims/dispute resolution, project performance audits, and corporate management. He has over 25 years of construction claims and contract dispute resolution experience including issue entitlement evaluation, schedule delay analysis, damages analysis, attorney support, and expert witness testimony on a large number of complex construction projects. Mr. Bieniewicz is recognized as an expert in the development of schedule delay and cost overrun analyses for construction projects, including power plants, offshore oil & gas facilities, LNG facilities, refineries, highways, buildings, rail facilities, hospitals, heavy civil projects, airports, and wastewater facilities. He has worked on over 100 claims ranging in size from US$50,000 to over US$2.5 billion. Before joining Long International, Mr. Bieniewicz had been a Principal in four consulting companies that focused on construction claims and project management. Prior to entering the consulting field, Mr. Bieniewicz had direct experience on a number of construction projects including nuclear and fossil power plants, wastewater treatment plants, hospitals, and commercial buildings. As a Senior Project Manager for a contractor, he had complete management responsibility for several projects including hospitals and commercial buildings. As a Planning and Scheduling Engineer, he developed and maintained project schedules on a wide variety of projects.

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Harold (Hal) E. Buddemeyer, Jr., Senior Principal

Mr. Buddemeyer is a Senior Principal, and has over 48 years of experience in all aspects of program and construction project management and construction disputes. His experience includes construction and property damage/business interruption claims analysis, preparation, defense, and negotiation of settlements on projects including refineries, offshore oil & gas, petrochemical plants, heavy civil and mining projects, oil sands facilities, nuclear, coal and gas-fired power plants, and other heavy industrial and commercial projects. Mr. Buddemeyer’s project experience includes project cost/schedule control, systems and procedures development and implementation, program planning, as well as capital and operating cost estimating and economic analysis during the design, construction, and start up phases of a diverse cross section of projects. Mr. Buddemeyer has over 36 years of construction contract disputes consulting experience. In this regard, he has been responsible for entitlement and issue analysis; change order analysis; labor productivity analysis; cost and damages analysis; schedule delay and impact analysis; claim report preparation and rebuttal; negotiation and mediation assistance; the organization, development and maintenance of document databases; assistance to counsel during discovery; and depositions and interrogatory preparation. Mr. Buddemeyer has testified in U.S. and international arbitration, on projects involving claimed damages as high as US$7 billion.

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Curtis W. Foster, Senior Principal

Mr. Foster, a Senior Principal with Long International, has a background that spans over 40 years of involvement in design, construction project management and construction disputes. This experience includes oil and gas collection, mining, refining, processing and storage facilities in addition to process/industrial, power, environmental, HV transmission, commercial, and transportation projects. He is skilled in the areas of contract management, cost management, estimating, scheduling, earned value performance measurement, and field engineering. He has had a significant role in the development of integrated project management procedures for various firms involved in the design and construction of facilities. His claim-related efforts include analyses of cost (estimated, bid, and actual), schedule (delay and acceleration), and disruption (labor inefficiency and productivity) for a wide range of projects internationally. Mr. Foster has significant experience in management, design, and field engineering on marine petroleum and power projects, including offshore platforms (for oil collection, separation, storage, and pumping), pipelines, and receiving/export facilities. His experience with power projects includes coal fired power generation, gas-fired combined-cycle cogeneration facilities, waste-burning facilities, and other facilities burning various fuels. Mr. Foster also has hands-on project management experience on commercial projects, including hospitals and mid-rise condominiums. His duties on these projects included contract administration (including change order management, schedule review, and estimating), and field inspection to ensure conformance with design documents. Mr. Foster has broad experience in project management, project control (estimating, scheduling, and cost engineering), and engineering (field and project) in various industries. This extensive experience is utilized to the benefit of his clients on both dispute-related assignments and on project management consulting engagements.

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Robert J. Lane, Senior Principal

Mr. Lane, a Senior Principal for Long International, has over 40 years of experience working in or consulting for the engineering and construction industry. More than half of this time has been involved in the resolution of construction-related claims and disputes. He has expertise in project-related estimating, cost control and scheduling, retrospective schedule analysis, productivity analyses, and quantum/damages analyses. Mr. Lane has also worked in the areas of contract administration, claims management, and overall project and construction management. He has utilized his expertise on major construction projects in the U.S. (Lower 48 and Alaska) as well as in international locations such as Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Trinidad, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Algeria, and Nigeria. Mr. Lane’s construction claims and property damage and business interruption experience includes refineries, gas plants, pipelines, storage facilities, petrochemical plants, offshore platforms, other offshore oil & gas facilities, power plants, transportation projects, and commercial and industrial buildings.

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S. Andrew McIntosh, Senior Principal

Mr. McIntosh is a Senior Principal with Long International and has 49 years of engineering, construction, energy and management consulting experience. He has extensive international greenfield and brownfield project development and project management experience in diverse areas such as oil & gas, including refinery, pipelines and offshore projects, LNG, petrochemical and ferrous metallics projects ranging in value from US$20 million to US$1.8 billion. He has provided expert analysis of technical issues and their causes and effects related to project management performance on multi-billion-dollar EPCA projects. Mr. McIntosh also has extensive experience in the development of project management and project execution plans and procedures, stage-gate processes for project development, and the analysis and resolution of engineering and construction claims involving disputed change orders, schedule delay, and loss of productivity claims. More recently, he completed expert analysis of technical issues and the causes and effects of an EPC contractor’s project management performance on a major LNG project. Mr. McIntosh has also provided expert advice to foreign governments on major LNG project development and natural gas monetizing strategies from natural gas offshore fields as well as from associated gas from offshore oil producing fields. He has prepared and submitted various independent expert reports including an expert report involving a US$2.7 billion refinery upgrade project in South America and a US$270 million claim arising out of EPC works on the project. His report was presented to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), resulting in a favorable outcome for the client. Before joining Long International, Mr. McIntosh served as President of The Natural Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago. He also was a Senior Operations Advisor, Vice President – Operations, and Vice President – Technical Services for several international energy companies.

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Ronald J. Rider, MBA, Senior Principal

Mr. Rider, is a Senior Principal with Long International and has over 25 years of comprehensive construction experience and expertise from over 90 projects in the areas of project management and dispute resolution services. He excels in providing clients with quality service in project estimating, developing and monitoring critical path method (CPM) schedules, project cost control, project billings and payments, change order pricing and resolution, contract administration, CPM schedule recovery, project close-out, and dispute resolution of project problems. Mr. Rider is highly skilled in cost and labor hour variance modeling, impact identification and analysis, retrospective CPM schedule delay preparation and evaluation, concurrent delay assessments, project acceleration analysis, and damages verification and quantification. He is proficient in the use of Primavera Project Planner (P3 v.3.1 and P6 v.7.0), Safran Project, Microsoft Project, Claim Digger, and Summation iBlaze software products. Mr. Rider specializes in his ability to combine his project management capabilities along with problem solving competencies resulting in effective dispute resolution services. Mr. Rider’s experience includes petrochemical plants, oil refineries, offshore oil & gas facilities, LNG facilities, power plants, commercial buildings, highway and transit projects, hospitals, and airport projects ranging in size from US$50,000 to US$2 billion.

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Michael J. Vallez, P.E., MBA, Lean Six Sigma, Senior Principal

Mr. Vallez is a Senior Principal with Long International. He has over 40 years of hands-on and leadership experience in project management, engineering/construction management, cost and schedule control, change management, claims, and dispute resolution. He has served in executive management roles for both the owner and contractor working on world-class oil and gas, power, and international mining projects. Mr. Vallez has a proven ability to organize, integrate and manage the work of multi-disciplined technical specialists and project construction teams to achieve corporate financial goals and objectives of return on investment, safety, operational performance, cost, and time. He was involved in leading top teams toward achieving compliance with project requirements as defined in project documents. For the third largest contractor in the U.S., Mr. Vallez developed a zero defect program (“BEST” Program) to improve project quality and completion. In all, he has provided leadership on several billion dollars’ worth of projects in the chemical, heavy civil, mining, power, oil and gas, industrial, and commercial sectors. Mr. Vallez has written several books on the subjects of construction management, safety, and effective project leadership.

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Stephen P. Warhoe, Ph.D., P.E., CCP, CFCC, Senior Principal

Dr. Warhoe is a Senior Principal with Long International and has a proven background in the planning, control, and management of multiple major design and construction projects. With over 34 years of experience in the project controls and project management fields, he is a recognized expert in the area of schedule delay analysis, productivity loss, project controls and construction dispute avoidance and resolution. Dr. Warhoe is an expert in retrospective CPM schedule delay analysis and also specializes in system dynamics, and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the subject: “Applying Earned Value Management to Design-Bid-Build Projects to Assess Productivity Disruption – A System Dynamics Approach.” The recognition for his expertise and respect in the project controls field culminated with his election as the president of AACE International during 2008–2009 and becoming an Honorary Life member in 2019. Additionally, with his extensive experience in schedule and cost control, he continually demonstrates his value to clients having planned and controlled multibillion-dollar budgets and schedules. He is also skilled in the negotiation, audit, evaluation, and administration of contractor, consultant, vendor, and service contracts.

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Natalia Amosova, DIPL.-ING, LEAN SIX SIGMA, Principal

Ms. Amosova is a Principal Consultant affiliated with Long International. She has more than ten years of experience in the nuclear supply chain working with highly engineered safety-related structures, systems, and components for nuclear power plants around the world to clients including Westinghouse, Siemens, KEPCO, Framatome, Gidropress and GE. As an Engineer and Project Manager for safety related valve manufacturers, Ms. Amosova has proven competencies in the areas of technical design, environmental and seismic qualification, inspection and testing plans, and non-conformance management. She also has experience in leadership positions overseeing engineering and project management functions and with high level project dialog directly with nuclear power plant outage, maintenance, and engineering managers. Ms. Amosova serves as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency providing advice with regards to nuclear supply chain management, quality assurance, and quality control.

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Douglas A. Bassett, P.ENG., PMP, FCIP, Principal

Mr. Bassett is a Principal with Long International and has over 40 years of Canadian and international consulting experience involving construction project management, project leadership and project governance/review. He is a seasoned project leader. During his career, Mr. Bassett has been involved in all types of oil and gas energy projects with a primary focus on oil sands and refinery facilities, offshore fixed and floating drilling and production facilities, and conventional on shore production facilities. Mr. Bassett’s accomplishments include serving as a project leader on Canada’s first offshore development production platform, project leader in a successful alliance to develop a major oil sands mine, and governance leader of project approval reviews for oil sands and offshore mega projects. Mr. Bassett’s experience includes construction and property damage claims analysis, preparation, and defense, on projects including refineries, offshore oil & gas, petrochemical plants, oil sands facilities, pipeline, hydroelectric, and building projects. His practice has included analysis of direct damage as well as consequential damages arising from delay and disruption. Mr. Bassett has testified as an expert witness in Canadian arbitration and as a fact witness in court. During his time as a loss adjuster serving international energy underwriters, he supported counsel on numerous litigations. Prior to joining Long International, Mr. Bassett served a major Canadian oil and gas firm in a project management role. As a leader, he was accountable for overseeing governance reviews of projects as they developed and prior to significant investment decisions. Two mega projects, in excess of $10 billion, are included among the numerous projects he was responsible to review.

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John R. Brells, Bsc, ARI, MACES, MAACEI, Principal – Australia and Southeast Asia

Mr. Brells is a Principal with Long International and has over 34 years of experience in the heavy industrial sectors including mining and metals, oil and gas, LNG, power, and petrochemical. Additionally, his experience spans various infrastructure and commercial development projects. Mr. Brells has been employed by engineering and construction practices and construction claim consultancies and has represented government agencies, private sector employers, contractors, subcontractors, and manufacturers. He is an internationally recognised expert on matters of time and associated costs and has been appointed as an expert witness in legal proceedings. Mr. Brells frequently provides consultancy advice to project owners, contractors and legal counsel on matters of planning, risk, delay and disruption on major complex projects. He is experienced in the use of Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel and Access, Acumen Fuse and Nuix, an eDiscovery software. He employs his knowledge of software systems to analyse large volumes of data in a time and cost efficient manner. In addition to his technical skills, Mr. Brells has been responsible for commencing, driving development and managing construction claims groups for and within large consultancy practices. He initially commenced employment with Hill International (now HKA) and grew its Middle East/North Africa (MENA) practice from a single client and single project operation in Abu Dhabi, UAE to a multi client, multi project 58 professional staff offering services throughout the MENA region generating revenues of USD $28 million annually. During his employment with Turner & Townsend, Mr. Brells initiated and developed its Contract Services offering for its Australian business unit and, within three years, grew the practice to 13 Contract Services staff offering expert witness services in all sectors of infrastructure, natural resources and property generating revenues up to AUD $6 million annually.

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George E. (Ted) Brown, Principal

Mr. Brown is a Principal with Long International and has over 50 years of U.S. and international experience working with multiple owner companies, contractors, and major tier-one engineering, procurement and construction firms. He has managed projects valued at more than US$5 billion and has provided expertise regarding project and risk management when developing worldwide multi billion dollar projects. More recently, Mr. Brown spent 11 years as a Senior Consultant and Advisor to two major oil companies. As a Senior Consultant and Advisor, Mr. Brown provided broad, in-depth insight for major, mega, and giga project development and execution. Mr. Brown began his career as a Field Engineer and advanced to executive management overseeing complete fiscal and operational responsibility after he gained experience building and managing international capital-intensive projects. His experience spans oil sands mining, synthetic crude oil processing facilities, gas plants, pipelines, LNG terminal development, and on-shore and off-shore platforms. Mr. Brown has also directed and provided expertise for greenfield and brownfield projects. At times, these projects occurred in remote, challenging environments. In these environments, Mr. Brown was tasked with project site selection, establishment of local infrastructure, including module installation, and labor development. His project experience spans master maintenance, turnarounds, engineering studies, pre-front end execution design (Pre FEED), front end execution design (FEED), engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), engineering, procurement, construction and construction management (EPCM). In addition, he is experienced with pre-commissioning, commissioning, testing, and project acceptance. He has overseen project turnover/acceptance from basic development of a punch list tracking system to assisting process licensors in process verification for warranty/reliability and liability assurance. Mr. Brown has also managed construction of manufacturing facilities including a liner board pulp mill, a vitamin manufacturing plant, and clean room facilities.

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Larry R. Dysert, CCP, CEP, DRMP, Principal

Mr. Dysert is a Principal with Long International and has over 40 years of experience working in or consulting for the engineering and construction industry. Mr. Dysert is a recognized expert in project estimating from conceptual through detailed execution, cost engineering, project cost/schedule control, risk analysis, and project benchmarking. He has developed and implemented cost estimating, project controls, and risk analysis applications for a variety of companies in addition to developing and implementing both conceptual and detailed cost estimating databases. He has supported organizational development in estimating, projects controls, and risk management through the development and implementation of procedures and the provision of training. In addition, Mr. Dysert has worked in the areas of contract management and dispute resolution. His industry experience includes refining, chemicals, petrochemicals, oils sands, synfuels, gas plants, pipelines, power, mining, manufacturing, photochemical, film sensitizing, semiconductor, and similar industrial facilities. Mr. Dysert has utilized his experience on major construction projects in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Indonesia. Mr. Dysert has been an active member of AACE International for 30 years. He is a past Chair and currently serves as Vice-President of the Technical Board for AACE International. Mr. Dysert is the primary author of two AACE International Recommended Practices, and a contributor to over 20 other recommended practices. He is also the author of chapters in the AACE Total Cost Management Framework and the Skills and Knowledge of Cost Engineering.

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Scott M. Francis, P.E., PSP, Principal

Mr. Francis is a Principal with Long International and has over 15 years experience in various areas of project management, CPM schedule development and execution, contract administration, design engineering, construction management, and government contracting. He is proficient in the use of Primavera Project Planner (P3), as well as Primavera Project Management (P5 and P6). Mr. Francis provides schedule development and assurance services, cost estimating, and claims analysis services on projects for both owners and contractors. Specific responsibilities include CPM development and reviews, CPM schedule delay and acceleration analyses, document database development, change order impact analysis, issue identification, correlation of impacts to schedule activities, productivity evaluations, claims preparation, damages quantification, and arbitration/litigation support.

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Michael T. Gunter, P.E., EVP, Principal

Mr. Gunter is a Principal with Long International and has more than 33 years of experience in the petroleum refining, liquefied natural gas (LNG), midstream, and power industries. Mr. Gunter has held positions in executive leadership, project management, engineering and maintenance management, mechanical engineering and consulting. His capital project management experience includes major projects in petroleum refineries, midstream facilities, pipelines, and small projects in power generation facilities. Through his professional experiences, Mr. Gunter has developed a broad and in-depth knowledge and expertise of all stages of project development and execution including the management of engineering, procurement, contracting, construction, project controls, and turnover for commissioning. As part of Long International’s Project Management, Engineering, and Construction Project Management and Issues Analysis Team, he evaluated and opined on a preservation and maintenance program for a major petroleum refinery project in South America. He also performed an analysis of change order, delay, and disruption issues on LNG projects in Australia and the United States. Before joining Long International, Mr. Gunter was a Vice President, Project Director, Engineering Director, Maintenance Director, Turnaround Director, Senior Project Manager, and Mechanical Engineer for two large U.S. domestic owner/operators in the petroleum refining and midstream business sectors. Early in his career, he was a Mechanical Engineer for a power generation operator and employed in a large coal-fired facility. Mr. Gunter relies on his experience in the management of engineering, procurement, and construction projects and engineering and maintenance of major industrial facilities to perform financial analysis, delay analysis, causation and damages analysis, evaluate project management standard of care, and prepare expert reports.

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Michael Harris, Principal

Mr. Harris is a Principal with Long International and has over 30 years of construction project and claims management experience. His comprehensive consulting and management background includes risk evaluation and managing and resolving complex claims and contract disputes on major construction projects throughout the U.S. and globally for a wide range of industries, including the power, water, petrochemical, industrial, commercial, healthcare, and general building sectors. Mr. Harris has extensive expertise in key construction disciplines including project design, project management, construction management, contract management, risk and claims analysis, on-site risk management, claims resolution, claims avoidance management, cost management, and expert witness report preparation and testimony. As well as his extensive project execution background, he also has considerable experience in various types of dispute resolution forums such as arbitration, litigation, and mediation proceedings in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. Mr. Harris has also been appointed as a mediator and arbitrator on various international projects. He has been responsible for the management of numerous major projects, both from a construction and dispute perspective, ranging in size from US$100,000 to over US$500 million. A strong and rounded project execution background in many countries, together with expansive experience in dispute resolution processes, has allowed Mr. Harris to be thoroughly versed in the management of construction risks and claims for any type of project or problem in any location/country. He is skilled at contract analysis, claims strategy and preparation, claims defense, and the negotiation of settlements. Before joining Long International in 2009, and during the last 10 years, Mr. Harris has held positions as Executive Vice President and Corporate Director of Claims with two Fortune 500 construction companies. In these roles, he has had responsibility for the management, strategizing, implementation, and resolution of numerous construction disputes and contract claims for major projects on four continents.

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Douglas A. Kage, P.E., Principal

Mr. Kage, a Principal with Long International, is a Professional Engineer with over 30 years of experience in the areas of construction claims, project control, project management, construction management, and engineering design services. He has experience in schedule delay analysis, cost evaluation, entitlement analysis, calculation of damages, and brings extensive industry experience to the topics of industry practice and standard of care. Mr. Kage has served as project manager for design projects and studies in the power generation and telecommunications industries. In addition, while serving in various senior project management capacities, Mr. Kage has had experience on several billion dollars of EPC project work, both domestic and international. During more than 14 years as a project control professional, Mr. Kage has managed the project control departments for two different businesses, supervising 40 project control professionals. He also developed an estimating department. He has managed the purchasing, warehousing, and distribution of millions of dollars of materials for construction projects and has managed a construction management field office. He has also had pivotal involvement in process improvement initiatives, re-engineering efforts, and quality improvement programs.

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Dr. John Kickhofel, Principal

Dr. Kickhofel is a Principal Consultant affiliated with Long International. He is a nuclear industry specialist with working experience in academia and industry on subjects ranging from nuclear thermal hydraulics to safety culture in embarking nuclear nations. Dr. Kickhofel is adept at establishing integrated management systems, according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safety Standards Series No. GSR Part 2, nuclear quality procedures and processes, and quality plans for original equipment suppliers and nuclear power plants. More recently, he supported the IAEA with the establishment of a Pilot Training Course on Nuclear Supply Chain Management and Procurement, which educates nuclear power plant personnel on subjects ranging from the management of counterfeit and fraudulent items to the oversight of quality during the manufacturing of items important to nuclear safety.

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Steven W. Laskey, P.E., Principal

Mr. Laskey is a Principal with Long International and has more than 40 years of project experience in the U.S. and Australia. Mr. Laskey has served as the lead technical expert on more than 10 arbitration/litigation matters related to the duty of the engineer and design professional, construction contractor standard of care, construction claims, and equipment failures in oil & gas. His project experience includes refineries, oil & gas facilities, natural gas processing and conditioning plants, chemical plants, coal seam gas gathering and facilities, and commercial and residential buildings. He has testified in federal and state district courts. Before joining Long International, Mr. Laskey was a Process Engineer, Field Construction Engineer, Project Engineer, and Project Manager for both a large domestic architectural and engineering firm and a major international engineering and construction company. As a Project Manager, he was responsible for all aspects of facility estimating, budget and schedule preparation and control, engineering, design, procurement, and construction. Early in his career, he was an Operations Engineer and Measurement Engineer for the upstream subsidiary of a major U.S. oil company. Mr. Laskey relies on his experience in operations and the management of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects to perform financial analysis, delay analysis, causation and damages analysis, prepare expert reports, and testify for parties in litigation.

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Lawrence W. Louie, P.E., Principal

Mr. Louie is a Principal with Long International and has over 35 years of engineering, construction, and project management consulting experience. He has extensive knowledge of major LNG, offshore oil & gas development, pipeline, infrastructure, and oil sands projects valued up to US$54 billion. Mr. Louie has employed his expertise on major capital projects in the U.S. as well as international locations such as Angola, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Congo, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Korea, U.K. and Venezuela. He has had broad involvement with projects that were executed by multi-national joint ventures on the owner’s side. Mr. Louie has been the team leader for cost and schedule risk assessments for mega and giga-projects totaling over US$200 billion. Before joining Long International, Mr. Louie served as a Senior Cost Engineering Consultant for Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Through his proven work experience, Mr. Louie provides clients with superior analytical and problem solving skills that are effective in mitigating or resolving performance and contract related issues.

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Pete D. Luan, PMP, Principal

Mr. Luan is a Principal with Long International and a Capital Project Advisor with over 40 years of experience. During his career, he has served as an Engineer, Project Manager, Construction and Development Manager and a Project Execution Consultant in the upstream and downstream energy industry. Mr. Luan has expertise in major offshore and onshore oil and gas developments including natural gas processing, LNG, refining, petrochemical, and chemical projects. In addition, he has held key roles in a significant number of major/mega projects, and has an excellent understanding of major/mega and LNG project challenges in foreign locations based on his involvement with assignments and projects in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Cameroon, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Korea, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and Vietnam. Mr. Luan has also worked with C-level management to completely revamp project delivery systems for energy firms that resulted in project cost and schedule improvements. Moreover, he served as an advisor to C level management for major oil and gas, petrochemical and refining projects in most of the countries listed above. Mr. Luan has conducted execution assessments on numerous megaprojects. He has participated in numerous cost and schedule risk analysis assessments of international major projects and facilitated mitigation of these risks.

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Sean P. Pellegrino, P.E., Principal

Mr. Pellegrino is a Principal with Long International He has more than 39 years of experience in all aspects of engineering, project planning and execution, and project management consulting for onshore and offshore oil and gas projects. His extensive and varied professional project experience in the oil and gas industry includes responsibilities for the full project life cycle. Mr. Pellegrino has supported, managed, consulted and acted as an expert witness on some of the oil and gas industry’s largest, most complex projects. His responsibilities and experiences include conceptual business case assessment, planning, contract development and award, execution, administration, commissioning and startup and close out of projects. His oil, gas, LPG and LNG project experiences include onshore/offshore, upstream/downstream, and domestic/international projects with increasing size and complexity. Project scopes ranged from multi million-dollar domestic projects to multi-billion-dollar international projects. Mr. Pellegrino has worked extensively on international joint venture major capital projects from the owner’s side. Mr. Pellegrino has extensive shipyard, fabrication yard, and construction site project experience. His work experience includes both international onshore and offshore locations. His offshore responsibilities include various field development projects with owner management project teams and the engineering and construction contractors’ project teams for a Floating Producing Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facilities, various platforms (drilling, processing, compression, water injection, living quarters and Mobile Offshore Producing Units) and pipelines. Mr. Pellegrino consulted extensively on two Western Australian LNG mega projects, providing project management expertise, drove the establishment of labor productivity programs, and participated as a Subject Matter Expert in the various project execution assurance processes.

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William L. Reeves, P.E., Principal

Mr. Reeves is a Principal with Long International and has over 45 years of U.S. and international consulting and project execution experience involving the design, engineering, procurement, project management, construction, construction management, start-up, and commissioning of industrial and utility steam and power cogeneration systems. Mr. Reeves has experience with construction contract and change order dispute analysis and resolution, cost and schedule control, and arbitration/litigation support and expert witness report and testimony. His project experience includes steam and power generation projects firing conventional fossil fuels, biomass, and waste fuels utilizing conventional and emerging technologies including Low NOx and Ultra Low NOx burners, pulverized coal systems, stokers, bubbling fluidized beds, circulating fluidized beds, and several first-of-a-kind new technologies. Mr. Reeves also has experience with fired and waste heat recovery steam generators operating from low pressure to supercritical and steam temperatures up to 1000 °F, combustion turbine generators, steam turbine generators, natural gas and oil fired engine generators, material handling systems, water treatment systems and instrumentation and controls. Mr. Reeves has provided expert testimony in court and has presented and published numerous articles on the subjects of the design, engineering, procurement, construction, and operation of steam and power systems.

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Jamal F. AlBahar, Ph.D., PMP, VMA, MCIArb, Managing Director, Middle East – United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia

Dr. AlBahar is the Managing Director of Long International's Dubai Operations in the United Arab Emirates, with services to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar. He provides construction claims, project and construction management, and cost and schedule control services on projects in the Middle East. Dr. AlBahar is a registered arbitrator in the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the State of Kuwait. He was a full-time professor at Kuwait University, where he taught project management, contracts and specifications, construction management, construction methods, surveying, legal, and social and ethical aspects of engineering. Dr. AlBahar has taught seminars and presented papers on construction claims, project management, cost estimating and cost control, project planning, scheduling and control, contract administration, risk management, and value engineering.

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David T. Hulett, Ph.D., FAACE, Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis Partner

Dr. Hulett is a Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis Partner affiliated with Long International. He has conducted many risk analyses, focusing on quantifying the risks and their implications for project cost and schedule, and many schedule assessments. Dr. Hulett is a Principal with Hulett & Associates, LLC (H&A), and has focused for the last 25 years on quantitative schedule risk analysis, integrated cost-schedule risk analysis and project scheduling best practices. H&A clients are in oil and gas, aerospace, construction, pharmaceuticals, and transportation. They are located in the US, Canada, South America, South-East Asia, Europe and the Middle East. H&A has pioneered the Risk Drivers approach to schedule risk and integrated cost and schedule risk analysis and he has recommended adopting this method for new and emerging Monte Carlo software to serve the needs of his high-end risk analysis customers. Dr. Hulett has experience in applying Risk Drivers to large multi-year projects leading to proactive risk mitigation planning for better project results. From these analyses, the client learns: the probability of achieving the cost and schedule with the existing project plan, the amount of time and cost contingency required to achieve a desired level of certainty, which priority risks drove the analysis results, and which risk mitigation actions address the risks. Dr. Hulett has held strategic planning positions at TOSCO, an oil company, and at TRW in aerospace and defense. In the Federal government, Dr. Hulett managed offices in the Federal Energy Agency (FEA), the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He was an economist with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Dr. Hulett was also an Instructor in the Economics Department at Harvard University.

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Waylon T. Whitehead, Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis Partner

Mr. Whitehead is a Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis Partner affiliated with Long International. He has conducted numerous schedule assessments and risk analyses, focusing on quantifying the risks and their implications for project cost and schedule. Mr. Whitehead has focused for more than 20 years on project execution, quantitative schedule risk analysis, integrated cost-schedule risk analysis, and project scheduling best practices. He also co-pioneered the Risk Driver Method for driving simulations and the iterative simulation approach to prioritize projects for risk mitigation using Monte Carlo simulation of project cost and schedule. He has participated firsthand as a project team member and performed quantitative risk analysis on the Brass LNG, Darwin LNG, QatarGas LNG, Australia Pacific LNG, and Mozambique LNG projects. Additionally, Mr. Whitehead has performed risk analysis for the potential Australian Browse and Sunrise LNG developments. He has pioneered the extension of quantitative modelling techniques into legal, arbitration, and mediation processes where he uses the techniques to provide clients with probabilistic distributions for claim outcomes and an understanding of the factors that influence results.

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Thomas W. Britven, CPA /ABV, CVA, CFE, CGMA, CLP, Long International Partner

Mr. Britven is a Forensic CPA Consultant affiliated with Long International. His experience has involved the direction and performance of a wide variety of consulting, audit, and special assignment engagements. Mr. Britven’s experience includes working with counsel and corporate clients on matters including lost profits, construction, patent infringement and commercial litigation matters, as well as related accounting issues. His construction experience includes the development of claims, and analysis of claims developed by others. He has experience in surety construction completion, delay and disruption, change order pricing, efficiency analysis and remedial construction overruns. He also has performed estimates to complete, percent complete, front end loading and other intermediate analyses. Specific project experience includes road construction, bridge construction, pipelines, refineries, electric utilities, high rise condominiums, office towers, hospitals, apartment buildings and manufacturing facilities. His damages and schedule analysis has encompassed disputes regarding delays, site conditions, concrete work, stucco systems, metal fabrication, water and moisture protection, interior finishes, elevators, HVAC, conveying systems, mechanical and electrical claims, and associated back charges, among others. Mr. Britven’s project controls and financial assessment and claim skills have been utilized on many projects including the Boston Harbor Clean Up, the Boston Central Artery Tunnel and the Southeast Supply Header Project.

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Roger D. Asper, FICCP, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Asper is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 35 years of experience in engineering, construction management, and claims consulting. Mr. Asper has served as an Executive Advisor, Technical Advisor, Senior Project Manager, Claims Manager, and Senior Construction Claims Consultant and has guided public and private organizations in the resolution of construction disputes. He is an expert in the preparation and evaluation of construction claims, schedule delay analysis, project and contract management, dispute resolution and avoidance, project controls, disruption and productivity analysis and arbitration/litigation support. Mr. Asper has been an expert witness in trial, arbitration, and mediation. He has international experience with airport, transportation, commercial, educational, medical, petrochemical, oil refining, pipeline, and power projects. His consulting expertise is based on a broad range of hands-on construction experience including multi-billion U.S. dollar industrial projects in the United States, the Middle East (Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE), and various parts of Central America and South Africa.

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James M. Bolin, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Bolin is a Senior Executive Consultant for Long International, and has nearly 35 years of experience in all aspects of project and construction management, pre-construction planning, and project cost/schedule controls. His qualifications include claims and change order analysis and resolution, preparation of fixed-cost proposals and budget baseline planning, site management and coordination, prime and subcontract development and administration, materials expediting and procurement, and critical path method (CPM) delay analysis, schedule development, progressing and reporting. This diverse expertise has been obtained through involvement on numerous project types, including: oil production facilities, pipelines, refineries, pump stations, water and wastewater treatment plants, nuclear power plants, oil and chemical storage facilities, chemical and petrochemical plants, mineral processing facilities, water storage, hydroelectric plants, hospital/medical, transit, airports, communications, and environmental remediation. The value of these projects has ranged from US$50,000 to over US$10 billion. Through his proven experience in working for management consulting, engineering and construction companies, Mr. Bolin provides clients with superior analytical and problem-solving skills that are effective in mitigating or resolving construction performance and contract related issues.

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Garrett J. Brown, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Brown is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has 25 years of progressive work experience related to various aspects of engineering, procurement, and construction. Key work experience includes planning and team management, project cost and schedule controls, change order management, including change order pricing and resolution, subcontract management, and arbitration/litigation experience related to construction claims. Mr. Brown also has experience in the development and implementation of process improvements to increase workflow efficiency in business units and projects. He has performed schedule delay and loss of productivity analyses, and has evaluated change orders for scope growth and project time and cost impacts. His project experience includes combined cycle power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical facilities, materials handling amenities, coke handling facilities, water storage facilities, and above ground storage tanks. Mr. Brown is proficient with the use of the scheduling programs Oracle Primavera Project Planner P6 and Primavera P3 3.1. He is well versed in the use of all Microsoft software products including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Project. Other software experience includes SAP, Hard Dollar 12.1 (Estimating and Cost Management), Crystal Xcelsius (SAP Presentation Design), ARIS Business Process Modeler, and Acumen Fuse – CPM Schedule Forensics.

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Daniel L. Carlson, P.E., MBA, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Carlson is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International. He is an experienced executive with extensive experience in petroleum refining and associated industries. Mr. Carlson is a subject matter expert concerning refinery project development and execution, project start-up, commercial and optimization processes, value delivery, operations excellence, technical troubleshooting, maintenance and turnaround processes. During his career, he has been involved in major refinery projects valued up to US$600 million. He has also overseen over US$100 million in commercial “better option” value and over US$50 million in “Value Chain Optimization” project initiatives. As a past Vice President, Operations and a Technical and Vice President of Optimization, Mr. Carlson implemented processes and procedures to increase commercial and plant value delivery, develop and manage projects, commission grassroots and revamp projects, and improve reliability. He also has a demonstrated ability to build and lead successful and sustainable teams in corporate or refinery settings, affect culture change, improve safety and environmental performance.

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John E. Cheek, CPE, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Cheek is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 40 years of comprehensive experience in the areas of project management, project management consulting, pre-construction, project development planning, and divisional corporate management. He has worked on over 200 projects in commercial and industrial construction. Mr. Cheek is an expert in the evaluation of construction cost claims, project management consulting, schedule impact delay analysis, arbitration/ mediation support, and dispute resolution. He has provided dispute resolution services on over 75 projects totaling over US$3 billion, and has been involved with numerous commercial, institutional, and industrial projects in the US and internationally. Mr. Cheek’s claims and litigation support services include testimony in arbitration and mediation and assisting corporations, municipalities, developers, contractors, and insurers. His involvement included petrochemical, wharf, wastewater, power, government, resort, hospitality, educational, condominium, retail, medical, and industrial projects. He has prepared more than 20 cost estimate analyses, written expert report supplements and evaluations, and supported attorneys in depositions, mediations, and settlement negotiations. Mr. Cheek has claims-related experience in analyses of cost (estimated, bid, and actual), schedule (delay and acceleration), and disruption (labor inefficiency and productivity) for a variety of project types from high-rise commercial facilities to heavy construction facilities. His extensive experience in contract negotiations, project management consulting, pre-development (team member selection, site selection, master planning, and program planning), preconstruction (estimating, scheduling, and cost engineering), and field operation management is utilized to the benefit of clients on both dispute-related assignments and on project management consulting engagements.

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Lance C. Clarke, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Clarke is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 24 years of experience in managing and leading multi billion dollar mega projects in the hydroelectric, oil sands, and offshore oil and gas industries. Mr. Clarke is skilled in procurement and logistical operations including risk analysis, negotiations, contract relationship management, dispute resolution, project finance, insurance, project execution strategy, and organizational development. He also has a proven track record of leading and managing cross-functional teams. Prior to joining Long International, Mr. Clarke served as Deputy Project Director for Nalcor Energy where he managed the CAD$10 billion Lower Churchill Project, a major hydroelectric development located in Labrador, Canada. More specifically, Mr. Clarke was responsible for the overall development and implementation of the Lower Churchill commercial supply chain, legal matters, insurance, information management, human resources, labor relations and training, property management, industrial benefits, and project management systems and processes while supporting all business case and financing initiatives.

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Jeremy M. Connell, PR. ENG, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Connell is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 35 years of business, project management, operations, alliance, and management experience in all aspects of international and domestic capital projects and programs. His project management experience includes brownfield and greenfield project assignments ranging from multiple small programs and projects to large scale projects worth over US$10 billion. He has managed all stages of project execution from conceptual, Pre-FEED, FEED studies through the various stage-gate approval processes, early and detailed engineering, construction, commissioning and start-up and project handover phases. Mr. Connell is an accomplished leader who has often advised clients on whether to proceed with or defer projects based on economic, market, and political conditions. Mr. Connell’s credentials are built on his diverse expertise, providing an international perspective, and impeccable professional training by top-tier management companies such as Fluor, Jacobs, Shell, Sasol, Anglo American Corporation, and Suncor. As part of Long International’s Project Management, Engineering, and Construction Issues Analysis Team, he performed a detailed analysis of change order, delay, and disruption issues on a major LNG project in Australia.

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David E. Drips, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Drips is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 40 years of experience in the mining and contracting industry as a miner, supervisor, engineer, project manager, general manager, president, and owner. Mr. Drips’ mine engineering, construction, and operating experience includes open pit, room and pillar (gassy and non-gassy), longhole stoping, cut and fill, shrinkage, undercut and fill, overhand open stoping, cut and fill resuing, and all phases of mine development which includes shafts, raises, track drifts, laterals, sloped developments and drop raises. His plant operating experience includes raw material management at cement plants, typical aggregate separation, hydrometallurgical plants with refineries, hydrometallurgical plants with Solvent Extraction/Electrowinning (SX/EW), differential flotation processing plants (one, two, and three products), and the operation of roasters for processing refractory ores. Mr. Drips has extensive experience in managing the turnaround of under-performing projects and distressed assets by utilizing in-house personnel for planning, design, and construction. He has successfully dealt with labor unions in the United States, Mexico, Honduras, and Venezuela. His engineering experience includes underground and surface mine design, process plant design, process circuit development, facility power design and tailing impoundment design.

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Peter F. Franco, P.E., Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Franco is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 40 years of experience on large projects ranging in size from US$100 million to over US$1 billion. He is a heavy civil engineering and construction professional recognized for his expertise in project management and corporate strategy. Mr. Franco provides standard of care analyses, constructability reviews, contract issue resolution, claims management, corporate strategy development, business process improvement services and expert witness testimony. Mr. Franco has provided claims management on behalf of a government agency contractor, in which he developed and presented multiple claims exceeding US$10 million for compensation and compensable time extensions. His efforts positioned the client for favorable monetary settlements by presenting articulate and compelling arguments that forced the owner to negotiate, rather than continue its practice of summarily rejecting claims. During his prior employment with a global heavy civil construction company, he leveraged his experience with profitably by managing numerous transportation and infrastructure projects in his role as Director of Corporate Strategy and Business Process Improvement. He spearheaded numerous corporate improvement projects, including: implementation of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system; development of governance, risk management and compliance models; and implementation of workable corporate policies and processes to manage projects and control risk. Mr. Franco has managed some notable projects during his career, such as the US$250 million reconstruction of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway interchange with the Grand Central Parkway in Woodside, Queens, New York, which at the time was the largest project ever for the New York State Department of Transportation. He also managed the design and start of construction of a section of the US$1 billion Air Train light rail service for JFK Airport in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and a design-build project for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey with multiple stakeholders including airport operations and airport tenants.

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Richard E. Hussey, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Hussey is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 40 years of engineering, procurement, construction, and project management consulting experience. He has extensive experience with onshore and offshore oil & gas development, LNG, oil sands, petrochemical, refinery, pipeline and other infrastructure projects valued up to US$54 billion. Mr. Hussey has utilized his expertise for major capital projects in the US and in diverse locations such as Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and the UK. He has worked extensively on projects that were executed by multi national joint ventures on the owner’s side. Mr. Hussey has been the schedule assurance lead on over 100 reviews including mega and giga projects totaling over US$200 billion. He has served as a Senior Scheduling Engineering Consultant for Chevron USA, Inc. and as a Project Field Engineer and Project Controls Manager for Bechtel Corporation. He has in-depth experience related to the execution of modular projects including design, engineering, procurement, logistics, fabrication, construction, hook-up and commissioning.

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Eric J. Klein, PH.D., P.E., PMP, Senior Executive Consultant

Dr. Klein is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International. He has 19 years of industrial experience as a Technical Leader, Project Manager, and Consultant in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), manufacturing, and research and development (R&D) environments. Dr. Klein is skilled in corporate leadership and has significant experience leading cross-functional teams to design, build, test, and start-up chemical processing systems in the power generation and semiconductor manufacturing industries. He possesses project management experience for multi-million-dollar capital projects including earned value management, risk management, contract and scope of work negotiation, technical project proposals, cost estimating, change control, request for information (RFI), change order management, design management and equipment procurement oversight. Prior to joining Long International, Dr. Klein held the positions of Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of Chemical Systems, Director of Chemical and Process Engineering, Staff Technologist and Senior Process Engineer.

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Sherard A. McIntosh, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. McIntosh is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has 23 years of experience in the engineering and construction (E&C) industry working for a major licensor of refining technology and E&C contractor. Mr. McIntosh has served as a leader in diverse roles spanning Technology Licensing, Research & Development, Engineering, Project Management, Organizational Management and Business Development. His experience covers the entire project life cycle from conceptual design, technology package, FEED, detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, and start-up services. He has developed strategic, technical, and commercial plans for major oil and gas technology projects including ammonia plants, refineries, and petrochemical complexes. Mr. McIntosh served as Director of KBR’s Mexico operations, headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, and has significant international experience working in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Hungary, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Kenny W. McNabb, MBA, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. McNabb is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has more than 30 years of experience related to the design and build of industrial chemical manufacturing facility projects, projects to execute complex cross functional corporate initiatives, and projects to navigate and execute acquisitions/divestitures and subsequent transitions. He has expertise in manufacturing projects including all phases of engineering, project planning, functional coordination, procurement, and construction. Mr. McNabb is also proficient with industrial control systems, automation, and integration of plant floor to business systems. He has performed owner due diligence evaluations of acquisition targets, corporate restructuring for industrial automation modernization, and forensic analysis of contractor performance. Moreover, he is experienced with the selection of appropriate contracting strategies, contract development (project, engineering, procurement, construction, transition services, continuing services), contract administration, claim analysis, risk prioritization, constructability, turnover and commissioning. Facets of this work include contract analysis, control estimates, unit price and lump sum estimates, cost variance analysis, rigorous change order management, overhead and indirect cost analysis, and the evaluation of bid error claims. Mr. McNabb has lived and worked in five countries on four continents and was personally involved in the planning, execution, contract negotiation, and resolution of project problems. He has been involved with projects ranging in size from small plant-support improvements to world scale international facilities, both wholly owned and joint venture. Mr. McNabb oversaw project management for a Fortune 300 Asia Pacific chemical company. He also became skillful at facilitating interaction among owner, contractor and subcontractor teams, and normalized executive expectations. Mr. McNabb has been called upon to coach contractors through difficult labor situations for the benefit of the project at hand, and has firsthand experience in the U.S., Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and China quantitatively analyzing cost, damage, and schedule claims for chemical plant design and construction, both concurrently with execution and retrospectively. In addition, he has expertise negotiating settlements of cost, damages, and schedule claims as part of day-to-day project management, to close out projects, and as part of arbitrations. As part of Long International’s Project Management, Engineering, and Construction Issues Analysis Team, he performed a detailed analysis of change order, delay, and disruption issues on a LNG project in Australia.

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Jeffrey A. Moore, P.E., PMP, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Moore is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 29 years of experience with a strong focus in upstream oil and gas field developments using decision driven stage gate processes. He is adept at front-end scoping and planning, capital project execution and brownfield operations support. Mr. Moore established a successful parallel track record of business acumen and company leadership, having transformed a little known and unprofitable subsea front-end consulting engineering firm into an industry-recognized and profitable full-service engineering and capital project management services firm. He is known for creating a cohesive team culture, employing a hands on leadership style, and leading from the front. Mr. Moore specializes in full-field development concept feasibility, pre FEED and FEED engineering studies, topsides greenfield and brownfield expansion detailed design, installation/hookup/pre-commissioning planning, contracting strategy formulation, capital project execution planning and management, brownfield operations support, and structural analysis and design. During his career, he has worked on project locations throughout the world including US Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, North Africa, Northwest Africa, Angola, Nigeria, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, and Vietnam. Project types include FPSOs, subsea developments, and fixed platforms.

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Matthew A. Muse, MBA, PMP, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Muse is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 23 years of project management experience, including contract analysis, delay analysis and dispute resolution, subcontractor management, risk management, budgeting, change control, critical path schedule preparation, earned value reporting, and cost forecasting. He has analyzed construction schedules for owners and contractors to determine the causes of construction delays and to equitably allocate responsibility for delay related costs. His project experience spans various industrial sectors including energy, combined cycle, coal, nuclear power plants, utilities, as well as automotive body, paint, and assembly facilities. Mr. Muse is proficient in the use of Primavera P6 and P3, Microsoft Project, Oracle and SAP financials, Prolog and Prism cost reporting, Hard Dollar estimating and cost control. Prior to joining Long International, Mr. Muse held positions as a Field Engineer, Project Manager, Project Controls Analyst, Project Controls Manager, District Project Controls Manager, and Director of Project Controls.

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Douglas K. Oppman, J.D., Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Oppman is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 35 years of consulting, construction management, and engineering experience involving construction contract dispute analysis and resolution, arbitration/litigation support, project management, engineering and construction management, cost and schedule control, and civil engineering. His project experience includes refineries, liquid natural gas plants, wastewater plants, pharmaceutical plants, hospitals, high-rise buildings, large aircraft maintenance structures, tunnels, high-speed rail programs, highways, commercial and industrial buildings, and electrical power generating stations. He has worked directly with legal counsel to provide claims expertise during construction-related arbitration and litigation matters. Prior to joining Long International, Mr. Oppman managed claims and revisions for a 30-mile high speed rail project. Before that, he oversaw a team of engineers producing subcontracts and resolving construction disputes for the North American territory of an international contractor. In this role, he also was responsible for producing, managing and defending several multi million dollar claims.

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Todd W. Pickett, CCP, CEP, Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Pickett is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 40 years of experience working in or consulting for the engineering and construction industry. He is a recognized expert in project estimating from conceptual through detailed execution, cost engineering, project cost and schedule control, risk analysis, and project benchmarking. Mr. Pickett has been involved with a wide variety of industries and projects including refining, chemicals, petrochemicals, oil sands, synfuels, gas plants, pipelines, power, manufacturing, photochemical, film sensitizing, and similar industrial facilities. He has supported organizational development with estimating, projects controls, and risk management for a variety of companies in addition to developing and implementing both conceptual and detailed cost estimating databases. More specifically, Mr. Pickett has supported these initiatives by formulating and enacting processes and procedures for estimate tracking, cost estimating, project controls, and risk analysis applications. Mr. Pickett has utilized his experience on construction projects in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and China. Mr. Pickett began his career as an Electrician for Eastman Kodak Company. He progressed from an Apprentice to a Journeyman and, subsequently, to Lead Electrician. After several years in the field, Mr. Pickett transitioned into the role of Estimator/Planner where he developed his skills as an estimator and utilized his invaluable field experience. Mr. Pickett has been an active member of AACE International for over 25 years, and currently serves as Chair of the AACE International Technical Board. He is the primary author of an AACE International Recommended Practice, and is a contributor to more than 12 other recommended practices.

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R. Neal Rich, P.E., Senior Executive Consultant

Mr. Rich is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 35 years of experience in all aspects of electric power system design, installation, operation and maintenance, including distribution, sub transmission, and transmission systems upwards to 500 kV and generation and industrial plant distribution systems of 34.5 kV down to 480 VAC. Mr. Rich previously led the substation and large EPC projects group for General Electric, held a leadership position at a national protective relaying and substation EPC firm specializing in protection and control, and acted as a sales/application engineer to support advanced relaying, metering and communication equipment and systems. He now shares his extensive knowledge and expertise on a broad array of client projects. Mr. Rich has also been a project manager and lead engineer on many electric air and gas insulated substations and other specialized power projects such as static var compensator, cycloconverter, series compensation, harmonic filters, battery energy storage systems, and generation projects of many technologies. His clients included large municipal and investor owned utilities, generation and transmission cooperatives, independent power producers, large industrials, contractors, and consultants. Mr. Rich speaks on technical subjects, professional development, and ethics in various national and regional settings.

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James E. Bortz, P.E., Executive Consultant

Mr. Bortz is an Executive Consultant with Long International. He has over 25 years of process engineering and project management experience including budgeting, cost estimating, cost control, preparation of detailed schedules, schedule analysis, change control, change order analysis, and all aspects of contractor management. Moreover, Mr. Bortz has expertise with plant design, construction, and operation, constructability reviews, expert analyses, litigation support, and dispute resolution. His industry expertise includes oil, gas, energy, chemical, paper mill, and biofuels projects. Prior to joining Long International, Mr. Bortz held positions as a Senior Project Manager, Senior Process Engineer, Engineering and Maintenance Manager, and Senior Production Engineer with engineering, chemical, biofuels, and paper companies, including ENGlobal, Harris Group, Range Fuels, Tronox, International Paper, Arizona Chemical, and Dow.

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Chris Kochevar, Executive Consultant

Mr. Kochevar is an Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 35 years of experience in project controls, scheduling, estimating, procurement, expediting, subcontract coordination, and cost analysis. He has been involved with construction projects spanning a variety of sectors, including oil and gas projects, gas combined cycle power plant facilities, water treatment plants, pumping stations and containment facilities, oil shale facilities, subsurface mine facilities, module fabrication facilities, aerospace projects, roads and highways, wireless cell sites, telecommunications buildings, breweries, and airports. His qualifications include preparation and updating of critical path method (CPM) schedules, change order analyses and resolution, document control and field supervision, subcontractor scope development and monitoring, productivity analysis, and cost analysis and estimating. Mr. Kochevar is skilled in the use of Primavera Project Planner (versions P3 through P6), Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project Scheduler, Open Plan/Cobra, and Prolog software.

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Bonnie L. Long, Executive Financial/Cost Consultant

Ms. Long is an Executive Financial/Cost Consultant with Long International, Inc. She has thirteen years of broad experience in public and private sector accounting with emphasis in project management, budget preparation, financial statement preparation, auditing, and data analysis. She applies her solid accounting background in the analysis of project financial and cost data and ties the data to problems that have led to delays and cost overruns on engineering and construction projects. Ms. Long has experience in the development of financial models; budget development, analysis, negotiation, and expense control; and the preparation and analysis of monthly and annual financial statements. She provides specialized forensic accounting, cost determination, and financial analysis capabilities on engineering and construction projects on which disputes arise due to cost overruns, claims for additional payment, change order disputes, progress payment claims, the propriety of costs incurred and charged, and charges for additional corporate/home office/job-site overhead and profit determination. In addition, Ms. Long performs analyses as to the agreement between engineering and job-site records and the company’s financial books and records; prepares document databases in support of attorney briefs and expert reports; and analyzes project man-hour, quantity, and cost reports for periodic data in the support of the quantification of impacts, change orders, productivity loss, and claim quantification.

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Christopher J. Sable, Executive Consultant

Mr. Sable is an Executive Consultant for Long International, Inc. and has 22 years of experience in various aspects of project and construction management, CPM schedule development and implementation, project schedule risk analysis, construction project auditing, construction claims analysis, and arbitration and litigation support. His qualifications include preparation and updating of CPM schedules, forensic schedule analysis, cost estimating, claims analysis, change order analysis, productivity analysis, arbitration and mediation support, field supervision, and subcontractor scope development and monitoring. This diverse expertise has been obtained through involvement on numerous project types including: LNG, FPSO, petroleum refinery, tank farm, gas supply expansion, semi-submersible oil platform, natural gas floating platform, peaker and combined cycle power plants, cement storage facilities, processing plants and terminals, schools, apartments, museums, commercial buildings, roadways, and bridges.

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Andrea L. Valentine, Executive Consultant

Ms. Valentine is an Executive Consultant with Long International and has 24 years of experience in the construction industry as a project controls manager, PMO lead, and project manager. She is skilled at cost and schedule analysis, CPM schedule development and implementation, project risk analysis, and construction claims analysis. Her experience includes multi million-dollar capital projects in the power generation, oil & gas, and commercial construction industries. She has also been involved in large scale medical facility projects as well as projects for the U.S. Department of Defense. Her involvement in projects includes earned value management, risk management, cost estimating, change control, change order management, civil and structural quality control, time impact analysis, and claims analysis. Ms. Valentine is proficient with the use of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, On Center On Screen Takeoff, Acumen Fuse, and the entire Microsoft Office software suite.

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Edward A. Wheeler, MBA, Executive Consultant

Mr. Wheeler is an Executive Consultant with Long International, and has a background that includes 30 years in the Heavy Civil construction industry. This experience started in the field as an Operating Engineer for one of the largest Heavy Civil contractors in the United States and led to assignments as a Project Engineer, Project Manager, Project Scheduler, Contract Administrator, Scheduling Consultant, Senior Scheduler, and Corporate Scheduler for one of the largest international construction companies in the world. He has had a significant role in the development of large, sophisticated project schedules on several high profile projects from California to New York City totaling over US$4 billion. Mr. Wheeler has proven experience working for management consulting, construction management, and construction companies. He provides clients with superior hands-on knowledge of the industry and the analytical/problem solving skills necessary to understand and demonstrate the effects of complex construction issues and time related impacts.

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Denise G. Lanxton, Manager of Administrative Services and Corporate Treasurer

Ms. Lanxton is Manager of Administrative Services and Corporate Treasurer of Long International. She has over 35 years of hands-on experience in the engineering, design/build, construction, and construction claims industries with accounting processes, finance, taxes, contract administration, project controls and analyses, human resources, information technology, and operational business management for mid-size and large corporations. She is experienced in the development, maintenance, coding, and quality control of document databases to support the evaluation of construction claims, entitlement analyses, and schedule delay analyses. She has prepared detailed analyses of project events and project documentation to support expert witness reports on large construction projects.

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Tanya V. Miller, MBA, Director of Business Development and Corporate Secretary

Ms. Miller is Director of Business Development and Corporate Secretary for Long International and has over 17 years of experience in the legal, energy, and construction industries. Ms. Miller has worked in both the U.S. and Canada and is proficient with business development strategy, marketing and communications, branding, and successfully employing the use of traditional and non-traditional media to enhance brand equity. Ms. Miller has successfully managed several large-scale marketing projects. Her skills also extend into product procurement, proposal development, and tax matters. With her strong legal background, Ms. Miller is adept at contract management, litigation processes, and conducting legal research. Ms. Miller is also proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel with statistical and operational analyses extensions, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, HTML, and Salesforce.

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Stacie W. Day, Manager of Database Services / Cost Consultant

Ms. Day is Manager of Database Services/Cost Consultant and has over 20 years of experience with Long International. She provides cost and man-hour analyses and document database development services as part of Long International’s claims analysis and dispute resolution services to the construction industry. Ms. Day is skilled in the development, coding, quality control, and maintenance of comprehensive document databases to support detailed schedule analyses, damages analyses, contract analyses, claims preparation, claims defense, and negotiated settlements. She has prepared detailed analyses of contemporaneous correspondence and project documentation to identify and evaluate major engineering and construction problems in support of expert witness reports regarding analyses of schedule delay, time extension requests, acceleration, disputed change orders, and quantification of damages.

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Douglas J. Nutter, Manager of Graphic Services

Mr. Nutter is Long International’s Manager of Graphic Services. He has over 45 years of experience in design, illustration, cartography, and graphic production for technical support, arbitration, and litigation. He is skilled in developing complex technical issues and data into concise presentations for use by counsel, juries, and arbitration panels. Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Nutter gained 12 years of engineering drafting and graphics experience on petroleum refining, oil shale, synfuels, mining, and power generation projects with Tosco Corporation.

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Kimberly A. Warhoe, Technical Consultant

Ms. Warhoe is a Technical Consultant with Long International with over 20 years of experience in Web and Windows application design and development using Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Basic 6.0. She is experienced in report design and development using Microsoft Reporting Services. Kimberly also has extensive database design and development experience using Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access and Oracle software. She is adept at identifying and implementing the best analytical approach and design methodologies for each project. She strives to assure project goals are met and that scope and development processes meet project requirements and objectives.

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R. Alice Nutter, Senior Data Analyst

Ms. Nutter is a Senior Data Analyst with Long International and has over 45 years of database management, data input, proofing and analysis, as well as experience in office management, marketing, and training. She is experienced in the input, evaluation, and maintenance of document databases to support the assessment of construction claims, entitlement analyses, damages calculations, and schedule delay analyses. She has prepared detailed analyses of contemporaneous correspondence and project documentation to identify and evaluate major engineering and construction problems in support of expert witness reports regarding analyses of schedule delay, time extension requests, acceleration, disputed change orders, and quantification of damages on large construction projects.

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Suzanne C. Sapp, Technical Consultant

Ms. Sapp is a Technical Consultant with Long International and has more than 13 years of experience in manufacturing, process control and automation. During her career, Ms. Sapp has held roles as Technician, Engineer, Project Manager, Six Sigma and Personnel/Unit Manager. Throughout her nearly 10-year career with GE, Ms. Sapp was consistently rated as a top-performer and progressed quickly through several roles of increasing leadership. In these leadership roles, she built and led teams of all sizes, developed and implemented new global organizational structures and methodologies, and provided technical emergency support and backup for GE Plastics globally. Ms. Sapp excels at communicating, and leading diverse groups across all levels of the company and community. She maintains exceptional rapport with customers, suppliers and contractors. In addition to her leadership experience, Ms. Sapp has training in manufacturing, process safety management, OSHA, and crisis management. She is also proficient in database development, technical issue analyses, and web development programs.

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Brittany N. Crews, Data Analyst

Ms. Crews is a Data Analyst with Long International and provides data input, proofing and analysis, as well as office administration, and project accounting to the project teams and management group. Her support role includes assisting in the assessment of construction claims, entitlement analyses, damages calculations, and schedule delay analyses. She also provides project support associated with detailed analyses of contemporaneous correspondence and project documentation to identify and evaluate major engineering and construction problems in support of expert witness reports regarding analyses of schedule delay, time extension requests, acceleration, disputed change orders, and quantification of damages on large construction projects. She also assists in the preparation and finalization of hard copy and electronic expert reports.

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