Our Staff
Our staff of over 30 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.
- Richard J. Long, P.E., Chief Executive Officer
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Richard J. Long, P.E. 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, power/cogeneration, mineral processing, industrial, building, and infrastructure projects worldwide. He has over 40 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 25 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 $1 billion. He has presented and published numerous articles on the subjects of claims analysis, entitlement issues, CPM schedule and damages analyses, 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. Mr. Long managed for 13 years 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.
Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Andrew Avalon, P.E., P.S.P., President
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Mr. Avalon is President of Long International and has nearly 30 years of engineering, construction management, and claims consulting experience. He is an expert in the preparation and evaluation of construction claims, business interruption 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 supported attorneys in depositions, cross-examinations, mediations and settlement negotiations. 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. Mr. Avalon is a registered Professional Engineer with U.S. and international experience in petrochemical, oil refining, tar sands, gas-to-liquids, LNG, commercial, educational, medical, correctional facility, transportation, dam, wharf, wastewater treatment, coal, and nuclear power projects. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Steven J. Bieniewicz, Senior Principal
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Steven J. Bieniewicz, a Senior Principal with Long International, Inc., has over 35 years experience in engineering, project management, project planning and scheduling, cost engineering, construction claims/dispute resolution, project performance audits, and corporate management. He has nearly 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. He has worked on over 100 claims ranging in size from US $50,000 to over US $2 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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Hal E. Buddemeyer, Senior Principal
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Mr. Buddemeyer, a Senior Principal for Long International, has over 40 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, tar sands facilities, nuclear, coal and gas-fired power plants, and building 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 nearly 30 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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Robert J. Lane, Senior Principal
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Mr. Lane, a Senior Principal for Long International, has over 35 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.
Mr. Lane has significant background in the application of the Primavera scheduling systems to proactively develop and update project schedules and/or to retrospectively analyze the impact of various events to a project schedule, including evaluations of entitlement to time extensions, acceleration costs, liquidated damages, and delay-related costs. He has utilized these and other scheduling tools on major construction projects in the U.S. (Lower 48 and Alaska) as well as internationally.
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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - W. Tom Thweatt, Senior Principal
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Mr. Thweatt is a Senior Principal with Long International and has over 40 years of engineering, construction, and management consulting experience. He has extensive experience in major U.S. and international refining, chemical, petrochemical, pipeline, infrastructure, and thermal/ hydroelectric power generation projects ranging from $40 million to $1.8 billion. He has worked extensively in projects that were executed by multi-national joint ventures on both the owner's and the contractor's sides. Mr. Thweatt has served on Joint Venture and Consortium Executive Committees and has participated directly in claims negotiations and settlement agreements in excess of $100 million.
Before joining Long International, Mr. Thweatt served as Vice President and Director of Engineering for Techint, S.A., a major EPC contractor based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He served as a member of the Technint Comite Direccion, the governing committee responsible for all strategic and operational decisions, and was in responsible charge of worldwide engineering operations for all proposals and projects.
Before relocating to South America, Mr. Thweatt served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations, for the Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group Inc., based in Houston, Texas. He had profit and loss responsibility for engineering, procurement, construction, estimating and project controls for all proposals and projects executed by the company's four major operating centers in Houston, Texas; Reading, Pennsylvania; Pasadena, California; and London, England. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Christopher S. Beach, CPA*, CFF, CFE, Principal
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Mr. Beach is a Principal with Long International and has over 35 years of professional experience in public accounting, financial consulting, claims consulting, and dispute resolution. He established and led the professional litigation consulting practice for Peterson Consulting LP (subsequently Navigant Consulting) for eleven years in Houston, Dallas, and Austin. He then founded and developed the litigation and economic development consulting practices at Beach & Company over a twelve-year period until 2005, at which time he merged the practice into the Houston office of LECG, which he led and developed as Managing Director of the office. In these capacities, he has consistently developed, performed, and led others in the practice of litigation and management consulting services for corporations, law firms, and public sector entities.
In providing litigation support, he has testified in deposition, and given testimony in State and Federal courts, including Bankruptcy court. Mr. Beach co-authored, developed, and instructed industry courses for construction industry executives and management on, "Financial Management for Non-financial Executives." These multi-day courses were developed and given to members of one of the two primary construction industry associations in the United States. The courses included GAAP financial accounting for construction companies, micro-economics, project financial management, and company financial management.
He also co-authored, developed, and instructed a course on "Financial Management: Job Cost Control." This was a multi-day course developed for the Mechanical Contractors Association of America that included financial statement analysis, micro-economics, construction industry GAAP, financial management, and project cost control utilizing proprietary job cost estimating methodologies.
*Long International, Inc. is not a CPA firm. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Rod C. Carter, CCE, PSP, Principal
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Mr. Carter is a Certified Cost Engineer, Planning & Scheduling Professional, and Principal with Long International. He has over 15 years of experience in construction project controls, contract disputes and resolution, mediation/arbitration support, and litigation support for expert testimony. He has experience in entitlement, schedule, and damages analyses on over thirty construction disputes ranging in value from US $100,000 to US $2 billion, related to oil and gas, heavy civil, nuclear, environmental, chemical, power, industrial, commercial, and residential construction projects. Mr. Carter has experience in document discovery and the development of internet-based document repository databases. He is proficient in the use of Primavera Project Planner software, and has extensive experience in assessing the schedule impact of RFIs, change orders, and other events to engineering and construction works. 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 has presented expert findings to an international arbitral tribunal. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Ronald E. Downing, Principal
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Mr. Downing is a Principal with Long International, and has over 35 years of
experience in the management of power, process, industrial, and environmental construction projects, and in the analysis and preparation of construction claims. His direct project management experience includes estimating, contract administration, and the development and implementation of project control systems (cost, schedule and quality) for ongoing projects. His construction claims experience includes claims evaluation, analysis, and expert testimony related to construction means and methods, technical issues, schedule delays, productivity losses, and the quantification of damages.
Mr. Downing has significant experience in the role of project manager in the construction of various systems at heavy industrial and power generation plants throughout the U.S.
Process/Industrial projects include conversion of an open car coke oven quenching system to a closed system, complete rebuild/upgrade of a continuous annealing line, installation of three air separation plants, Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) systems, numerous bulk material handling systems, and major process piping installations. This experience has involved all facets of the construction process including foundations, structural erection, equipment erection, and piping installation, and includes new construction as well as repair/renovation work within operating plants.
Power projects ranged from 65 MW to 750 MW and include coal, waste coal, waste to energy, and geothermal technologies for both public utilities and independent power producers. In addition to involvement with new construction, he was also responsible for management of numerous repair/renovation projects including power boilers, turbine/generators, air pollution control, and material handling equipment.
As a Lead Analyst, he has performed numerous analyses that have played a key role in the successful evaluation and negotiation of over $500 million in claims arising from power, industrial and commercial projects in the U.S. and Canada. In the performance of delay/disruption studies, labor productivity analyses, damage quantification, and other litigation support activities, this practical and broad-based experience has been frequently utilized to identify the "root cause" of problems. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Curtis W. Foster, Principal
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Mr. Foster is a Principal with Long International, and has a background that spans over 30 years of involvement in design,
construction, and dispute resolution on over $5 billion of projects. This experience includes process/industrial, power, environmental, 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 in the U.S. and 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 gas-fired combined-cycle cogeneration facilities, waste-burning facilities, and other facilities burning various fuels. A significant amount of his project experience was at various locations around the world. 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 client on both dispute-related assignments and on project management engagements. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Michael Harris, Principal
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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, 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 reporting 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 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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Douglas A. Kage, P.E., Principal
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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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Truman D. King, P.E., Principal
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Truman D. King, P.E., a Principal with Long International, has over 35 years of experience in engineering, procurement, and construction operations in the mining, oil and gas, refining, and real estate development industries. He has successfully completed assignments in the U.S., Middle East and Europe. Mr. King was a Senior Project Manager for Worley Parsons, where he managed the Front End Engineering Design and acquisition of Process Design Technology for a $500 million expansion of an oil refinery in the UAE to produce clean diesel fuel. He has also managed oil & gas, refining, power distribution, marine, and other engineering projects and provided analysis and resolution of contractor's claims. Mr. King has extensive knowledge of the owner's and contractor's project management responsibilities on EPC turnkey projects. He has successfully analyzed claims involving mismanagement, defective engineering, delay, disruption, and disputed change orders. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Philip R. Moncrief, P.E., Principal
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Philip R. Moncrief, P.E., a Principal with Long International, has over 40 years of U.S. and international consulting experience involving engineering and construction, contract disputes, project management, project development, engineering/construction management, and process engineering. As an internationally recognized expert in the engineering and construction industry, he has managed large projects and had profit and loss responsibility for the engineering and construction operations of four major engineering-construction companies. He has published two books and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado and Texas A&M University in their Construction Management Programs, and is a frequent presenter of project management topics to industry forums and seminars.
Before associating with Long International, Mr. Moncrief was Senior Vice President and General Manager of CDI Engineering Solutions’ Houston office, Vice President and General Manager of Technip’s Houston office, Vice President Project Management for Bechtel, Senior Vice President of Davy McKee and Vice President of Fluor Corporation. In these roles, he had responsibility for management and oversight of engineering and construction projects in the US and internationally including the development and implementation of project management policies and procedures to ensure that profit, cost, schedule, scope, quality, and safety objectives were achieved.
Mr. Moncrief is a graduate of Rice University with a Masters in Chemical Engineering. He has wide experience in the Refining, Petrochemical, Chemical, Pipeline, Terminals, LNG and other areas including treatment of waste from the facilities. His knowledge and experience includes process design, overall facility design, project management, project engineering, procurement of materials and equipment and construction of numerous facilities thorough out the world. His experience with these projects includes conceptual development, estimating of project cost, economic analysis, scheduling, contracts, marketing, and all areas of facility management and operations. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Ronald J. Rider, Principal
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Mr. Rider, a Principal with Long International, has over 25 years of comprehensive construction experience and expertise from over 85 projects in the areas of project management and dispute resolution services. Mr. Rider 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 has a proven track record, and his work experiences encompass project types such as petrochemical, oil refinery, power, industrial, commercial, road/highway, transit, hospital/medical, and airport projects ranging in size from $50,000 to $2 billion. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Peter van der Schans, Principal
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Peter van der Schans, a Principal with Long International, has 40 years of project management, engineering management, and engineering experience. His extensive international experience includes the overall responsibility for engineering, project control, procurement, construction, and start-up of oil refining, oil and gas, gas to liquids, petrochemical, chemical, industrial facilities, municipal and refinery hazardous waste processing, and environmental projects. His experience covers all project phases from feasibility studies, preparation of FEED packages, EP and EPC project execution to start-up and operational troubleshooting. He has extensive experience in execution of refinery and petrochemical plant projects. He has analyzed delay, cost overrun, and lost production claims for refinery, offshore, and petrochemical plants.
Mr. van der Schans has experience in detailed commissioning planning of refineries, and mechanical completion and handover efforts, and has extensive commissioning and start-up experience. He also resolved many warranty claims to the satisfaction of the owner and contractor by technical and operational analysis of damages. He participated in many HAZID and HAZOP reviews, and functioned as HAZOP Chairman. He was an expert witness in a large reactor damage claim, and was a Process Consultant for FPSO conversions. He participated in contract negotiations with Contractors for US $50 to $450 million contracts on behalf of the owner.
Before joining Long International, Mr. van der Schans served as Senior Project Manager with Parsons E&C for 5 years, primarily as a leader of Project Management Consulting Teams and as individual Project Management Advisor for Middle Eastern Refiners and Oil Producers. He also served 23 years with Badger and Raytheon Engineers and Constructors as a Process Engineer, Technical Services and Start-up Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Engineering Manager, and Project and Sr. Project Manager. He started his career with Selas of America in process design, engineering, and start-up of Hydrogen, Ammonia and Methanol Syngas, and Olefins plants. He served as Director and Vice President of Engineering and Technology for Power Recovery Systems Inc., and as Director for Project Engineering Services GmbH. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Jamal F. AlBahar, Ph.D., PMP, AVS
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Dr. Jamal F. 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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - James S. Dielschneider
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James S. Dielschneider is the Managing Director of European and Asia Operations of Long International, Inc. He provides onsite investigation, analysis, presentations, and expert witness testimony regarding engineering and construction disputes involving project, program, and construction management issues. Mr. Dielschneider testifies in arbitrations, High Court, and US Courts, and serves as a mediator and arbitrator of complex design, procurement, and construction disputes.
Mr. Dielschneider's dispute testimony includes: program, project, design and construction management, programming, quantity surveys, cost estimates, budgeting, estimating errors, scheduling, defective design, late drawings, errors and omissions, contractor approval problems, procurement delays, substitutions, changes, unforeseen conditions, constructability, change orders, resource allocation, safety constraints, interference of construction work, costs of acceleration of work, revenue loss, profit loss, overpayment, productivity loss, equipment standby costs, delays, acceleration, time extensions, quality control, final acceptance problems, rework, and impacts of these problems on construction projects and ongoing facilities operations.
He has over 40 years of international management, design, construction, and consulting experience involving electrical power plants, waste treatment plants, water systems, sewer systems, roads, highways, bridges, rail, tunnels, utilities, airports, moorage facilities, oil refineries, environmental remediation, electronic manufacturing plants, research facilities, hospitals, universities, high rise office buildings, school facilities, hotels, recreation facilities, parks, retirement centers, dams, and other large, complex projects costing up to US$1 billion. Mr. Dielschneider has presented seminars, provided training, and published numerous articles on project management, construction management, multiple project scheduling, project planning and control systems, and mediation. He authored a book on construction planning and scheduling. This capability is founded on the actual performance of planning, programming, quantity surveying, estimating, scheduling; the management of programs, projects, design, procurement and construction; and the direct field management of construction crews and subcontractors. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Dr. Dan Patterson, PMP
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Dr. Patterson is a Schedule and Cost Risk Analysis Partner affiliated with Long International. Dr. Patterson is the CEO and founder of Acumen, a project analytics company specializing in risk and schedule analytics. He is the inventor of Acumen Fuse, a project analytics software tool that is used for project planning quality improvement, performance insight, and forensics analysis. Dr. Patterson leads risk workshops for billion dollar projects and serves as an expert witness on many of these projects after the workshop has been completed. Additionally, he leads projects qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, writes and presents executive summaries, and conducts in-person executive briefings of findings to company executives when required. Dr. Patterson acts as the primary lead on various company and project internal risk optimization procedures. He specializes in risk workshops, project audits, and strategic project analysis on various capital expenditure projects. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Daniel A. Copeland, Director of Business Dev. & Marketing
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Daniel A. Copeland is Director of Business Development and Marketing for Long International, Inc. He has 20 years of business development and marketing experience, with 12 of those years spent in the construction claims consulting arena. Prior to joining Long International, Mr. Copeland was the Director of Business Development of Hill International's claims group in Washington, DC, where he established the business development practice. For nearly 10 years prior to working for Hill International, Mr. Copeland managed the Center for Management Development and Training, Inc. (CMDT) and Lion Worldwide, Ltd, an internationally renowned construction contracts and claims seminar company that promoted and held seminars throughout the U.S., S.E. Asia, India, UK, and the Middle East primarily for owners, contractors, and lawyers worldwide. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - James M. Bolin, Senior Executive Consultant
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Mr. Bolin is a Senior Executive Consultant for Long International, and has over 25 years 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) schedule development, progressing and reporting. This diverse expertise has been obtained through involvement on numerous project types, including: oil production facilities, pipelines, pump stations, water and wastewater treatment plants, mineral processing facilities, water storage, hydro-electric plants, hospital/medical, transit, airports, communications, and environmental remediation. The value of these projects has ranged from $50,000 to $360 million.
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. Specific responsibilities include job cost analysis, schedule analysis, document database development, and arbitration/litigation support. He provides clients with CPM schedule delay and acceleration analysis, job cost variance modeling, change order impact analysis, issue identification, correlation of impacts to schedule activities, claims preparation and negotiations, and damages quantification. Mr. Bolin is heavily involved estimating project costs, productivity analysis, and cost control and monitoring. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - John Cheek, Senior Executive Consultant
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Mr. Cheek is an Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has nearly 35 years of experience in commercial and industrial construction. He is an expert in the evaluation of construction cost claims, schedule impact delay analysis, arbitration/mediation support, and dispute resolution. He has been involved with numerous commercial, institutional, and industrial projects nationwide. Mr. Cheek's claims and litigation support services include testimony in arbitration and mediation and assisting corporations, municipalities, developers, contractors, and insurers. His involvement has included government projects, resorts, hotels, schools, condominiums, retail facilities, and industrial projects. He has prepared more than twenty cost estimate analyses, written expert report supplements and evaluations, and supported attorneys in depositions, mediations, and settlement negotiations.
Mr. Cheek provides a variety of dispute resolution services, including but not limited to schedule delay, cost and damages analysis, productivity analysis, and review of bids, estimates, and contract documents. He specializes in preparing detailed cost analyses and apportioning responsibility for delays, disruption, and acceleration impacts. He is skilled at contract analysis, cost analysis, delay analysis, and claims support, and his skills include testimony in arbitration and mediation and assisting corporations, municipalities, developers, contractors, and insurers in resolving disputes. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Bruce E. Hallock, CFCC, PSP, Senior Executive Consultant
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Mr. Hallock is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 35 years of experience in engineering, construction management, and claims consulting. Mr. Hallock has served as a Principal Contracts Engineer, Corporate Contracts and Risk Manager, Project Manager, Claims Manager, Commercial Manager, and Construction Claims Consultant with extensive experience advising public and private organizations in the resolution of construction disputes and as an expert witness in trial, arbitration, and mediation. He is an expert in the preparation and evaluation of construction claims, schedule delay analysis, arbitration/litigation support, and dispute resolution. Mr. Hallock has published and presented numerous technical papers and articles on construction management, engineering management, contract administration, project controls, scheduling, change management, and other topics. Mr. Hallock has international experience in petrochemical, oil refining, pipeline, power, airport, transportation, commercial, educational, and medical projects. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - F. Paul HerrNeckar, Senior Executive Consultant
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F. Paul HerrNeckar is a Senior Executive Consultant with over 40 years of U.S. and international project management, engineering and construction management, and construction claims experience in petrochemical, oil & gas, power, refining, chemicals, pharmaceutical, pulp & paper, food, and water-related projects. Mr. HerrNeckar also has extensive process control engineering and construction management experience in process control projects. He is skilled in the management of lump-sum turnkey projects in the United Sates as well as internationally. He has participated directly in claims negotiations and settlement agreements in excess of $100 million.
Mr. HerrNeckar provides claims analysis and dispute resolution services include a wide variety of projects for owners and contractors. Specific responsibilities include analysis of engineering project management performance under the contract, job cost analysis, delay analysis, procurement issues analysis, problems affecting instrumentation and process control systems, and change order analysis.
Before joining Long International, Mr. HerrNeckar managed projects as large as $450 million while living in the Middle East. He also was Projects Engineering Manager for 45 projects valued in excess of $2.6 billion, managing approximately 120 engineers from different disciplines as well as surveying and document control. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Richard L. (Dick) Kelley, P.E., Senior Executive Consultant
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Richard L. (Dick) Kelley, P.E. is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and over 30 years of U.S. and international experience in the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Mr. Kelley has held leadership roles in the development of facilities projects from concept through operations phases. He has managed aspects of both long-term and fast-track projects ranging in value from $35 million to $2 billion, which included natural gas processing plants (NGL and LNG) as well as onshore and offshore oil and gas production facilities. His core areas of expertise include: integration of multi-discipline technical and commercial team performance, application of stage-gate project management processes, and preparation, negotiation and administration of engineering, construction, operation and utility contracts. Mr. Kelley has also provided depositions and court testimony as the owner’s representative in two U.S. natural gas royalty litigations and an International Chamber of Commerce EPC contract arbitration.
Mr. Kelley began his professional career with Amoco Production Company as a process engineer, initially focused on design, start-up, and operation of new cryogenic Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) recovery plants. He then moved into project engineering functions and ultimately project management roles in a variety of oil and gas developments in Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma and internationally in Egypt, Algeria, and Indonesia. His most recent roles and projects for British Petroleum (BP) were Director of Tangguh Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Phase 2 expansion in West Papua, Indonesia and Construction Manager for the In Amenas Gas Project in the Sahara Desert in central Algeria. Between his employment with Amoco and BP, he worked for a small engineering design firm and as a private consultant in the route survey and permitting of fiber optic backbone systems in the central and west coast areas of the U.S. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - William R. Lanius, CPA*, CIRA, Senior Executive Consultant
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William R. Lanius, a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International, has over 25 years of professional experience, both as an executive level manager (CFO/COO) and as a financial advisor, in forensic analysis and corporate renewal including bankruptcy, receivership and out-of-court settlements. His range of financial advisory skills includes interim management, business valuation, complex financial modeling, strategic planning, litigation support and expert testimony, forensic accounting, asset management and disposition, divestitures & liquidations, Chapter 11 and other business restructuring.
Over the years, Mr. Lanius has held the position of Chief Financial Officer for numerous companies. He has significant operations experience in a Profit and Loss capacity to complement his financial strengths and has served as a Board member and/or President of holding companies for several of those businesses. Mr. Lanius has also been a member of project approval committees for underwriting acquisitions and new investments and has served as an operations and financial consultant to other companies in the broad spectrum of industry with a concentration in real estate based enterprises such as construction, contracting, mixed-use land development, income producing properties and related businesses.
In litigation matters, Mr. Lanius has performed accounting investigations, prepared damage assessments and valuation analysis, and has provided expert testimony in deposition and at trial, including the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. In addition, he has extensive training in bankruptcy and insolvency cases and has represented numerous clients operating in Chapter 11 or receivership, developing and implementing plans of reorganization, and disposing of substantial assets pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Prior to concentrating in financial forensics and business restructuring, Bill was in public accounting with the “Big Four” firm of Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). In addition to his CPA designation, Mr. Lanius is a Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor and is also a Certified Building Contractor and a licensed Real Estate Salesman in the state of Florida.
*Long International, Inc. is not a CPA firm. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Stephen P. Warhoe, P.E., CCM, CCE, CFCC
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Mr. Warhoe, a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International, has a proven background in the planning, control, and management of multiple major design and construction projects. With over 25 years experience in the project controls field, he is a recognized expert in the area of schedule delay analysis, project controls, and construction dispute avoidance and resolution. 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. 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, evaluation, and administration of contractor, consultant, vendor, and service contracts. Mr. Warhoe provides a variety of dispute resolution services, including but not limited to change order analysis, cost and damages analyses, schedule delay and acceleration analyses, productivity analysis, and review of bids, estimates, and contract documents. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Scott M. Francis, P.E., Executive Consultant
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Mr. Francis is an Executive Consultant with Long International and has 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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Christopher J. Sable, Executive Consultant
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Mr. Sable is an Executive Consultant for Long International and has nearly 20 years experience in various aspects of project and construction management, CPM schedule development and implementation, construction project auditing, construction claims analysis, and arbitration and litigation support. His qualifications include preparation and updating of CPM schedules, claims and change order analyses and resolution, document control and field supervision, subcontractor scope development and monitoring, productivity analysis, and cost estimating. This diverse expertise has been obtained through involvement on numerous project types, including petroleum refinery, gas supply expansion, semi-submersible oil platform, tank farm, natural gas floating platform, combined cycle power plants, cement storage facilities, processing plants, terminals, schools, apartments, museums, commercial buildings, and roadways and bridges.
Mr. Sable's responsibilities include CPM schedule delay and acceleration analysis, 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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Edward A. Wheeler, Executive Consultant
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Mr. Wheeler is an Executive Consultant with Long International, and has a background that includes over 20 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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - David D. Svoboda, Senior Consultant
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Mr. Svoboda is a Senior Consultant with Long International and has over 25 years experience working for engineering and construction companies in the power plant, process, and mining industries. He has written and administered requests for quotations, contracts and purchase orders, and negotiated all commercial aspects of the contracts including terms and conditions, terms of payment, and delivery schedules. Mr. Svoboda is responsible for evaluating construction claims, assessing the performance of owners, engineers, and contractors, performing searches and developing narratives on issues from document databases, and performing reviews of change orders on numerous types of projects, both in the U.S. and internationally. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Douglas J. Nutter, Manager of Graphic Services
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Mr. Nutter is Long International’s Manager of Graphic Services. He has over 40 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.
Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Helen Avalon, Senior Data Analyst
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Ms. Avalon is a Senior Data Analyst with Long International and has over 20 years of database management, data analysis, and business management experience. 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 based upon contemporaneous correspondence and project documentation to support expert witness reports on large construction projects. In addition, Ms. Avalon is a skilled researcher, writer, and technical editor of construction claims
entitlement analyses and is experienced in the identification and systematic evaluation of major engineering and construction problems. Ms. Avalon has U.S. and international experience on large and complex petrochemical and power plant projects. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Stacie W. Long, Senior Data Analyst
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As a Senior Data Analyst with Long International, Ms. Long provides database development services as part of Long International's claims analysis and dispute resolution services to the construction industry. She 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 on large construction projects. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - R. Alice Nutter, Senior Data Analyst
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R. Alice Nutter is a Senior Data Analyst with Long International and has over 35 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. Summary Resume Detailed Resume - Marilyn A. Ronne, Senior Data Analyst
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Marilyn A. Ronne is a Senior Data Analyst for Long International's Europe and Asia Operations. She has over 20 years of legal case management, legal documentation, database management, data analysis, and business experience. Ms. Ronne is experienced in the development, maintenance, coding, and quality control of document databases to support the evaluation of construction claims, entitlement analyses, damages calculations, and schedule delay analyses. She has prepared detailed analyses of project events based upon contemporaneous correspondence and project documentation to support delay and damages analyses and the preparation of expert witness reports on large construction projects. Summary Resume Detailed Resume
*Long International, Inc. is not a CPA firm.