Steven M. Kimsey Resume

Stephen M. Kimsey

BACKGROUND SUMMARY
Mr. Kimsey is a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International and has over 30 years experience in the electrical and teledata construction industries. He was previously responsible for the business development and operations of Kimsey Electrical Contracting, LLC in Colorado, Fischbach & Moore Electric, Inc. in California, and Group Operations Manager for Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. in Colorado.

Mr. Kimsey’s experience and expertise include:

Business Planning, Budgets, and Marketing
Financial Management and Job Cost Control
Process Administration and Organizational Structure
Risk Management and Safety Program
Labor Negotiations, Recruitment and Policy
Operations Management and Contract Administration
Estimating, Scheduling and Analysis Application
Business Acquisition and Expansion

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Mr. Kimsey provides expertise in project and construction management as well as the preparation and evaluation of construction claims involving electrical, instrumentation, life safety systems, traffic signal, transit, distribution overhead for underground and outside plant line work, and voice/data/video communications systems installations in public, institutional, industrial and commercial facilities.

EDUCATION
BSBA, Technical Management (Magna Cum Laude), Regis University, 1986
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Electrician Apprenticeship, 1981

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS
Colorado Electrical Contractors License, No. 4413
Colorado Master Electrician License, No. 2810
Colorado Journeyman Electrician License, No. 6030

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Traffic Apprenticeship Subcommittee 1992 - 2005
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Voice / Data / Video Apprenticeship Subcommittee 2003 - 2005
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Multi-Contractor Negotiating Committee, RMDC and JIPF Trustee, 1992 - 2005
National Electrical Contractors Association

Safety Excellence and Contractor of the Year 2004
American Subcontractors Association

PROJECT EXPERIENCE OR TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Kimsey has served in various capacities on more than 250 projects ranging in size from $50,000 to over $17 million. He has been directly responsible for the management of numerous construction and electrical projects including:

Responsible for Sturgeon Electric/MYR Group operations growth from $500,000 in 1985 to over $30 million in 1995. During this ten-year period, over 1,500 projects were successfully completed generating over $70 million in sales and a net return of 10 percent.
Formed Kimsey Electrical Contracting in 1996 with operations of $4 million and 30 employees. During the next 9 years, over 1,000 projects were completed generating over $100 million in sales and an EBITDA of 6 percent.
Managed service and construction projects specializing in electrical service, industrial line work, power plant and refinery construction, and instrumentation and controls. Managed small construction projects of $1 million and under, including competitively bid and negotiated design/build contracts and long-term maintenance projects.
Responsible for traffic and transit operations that competitively bid all phases of RTD, Xcel Energy, Colorado Department of Transportation, and Municipal Transit and Highway projects. Installations included traffic signals, street lighting, ramp metering, fiber optic interconnection for traffic management systems, and track signal and line work.
Responsible for voice and data communication contracts for voice/data/video projects to utility network providers for installation of security, scads, and premise wiring systems.
Responsible for Homeland Security installations at Xcel Energy power plants and service centers in Colorado, working with Trans Alarm for systems design and integration.
Responsible for maintenance, instrumentation, and capital expansion projects at the Valero Refinery in Benicia, California.

Construction Claims

Prepared and defended claims involving delay, disruption, and disputed change orders on the following projects:

Evaluated on behalf of the owner defective work claims on the fabrication of two offshore oil production facilities.
Federal Bureau of Prisons- Bid Package 6, Correctional Facility located in Beaumont, TX. Prepared a claim involving scope changes, rework, schedule sequence and delay impacts regarding the installation of Security, Communication and Life Safety Systems. Developed a comparative analysis of contract scope as bid vs. as built and determined the merit for disputed change orders for time and cost recovery. Quantified engineering delays, errors, omissions and inadequate document control by the design firm.
Intel Fab 23 - Silicone Chip Plant and Cleanroom Facility located in Colorado Springs, CO. Prepared a claim involving engineering delay, errors and omissions resulting in work around and construction delay on the installation of Life Safety Systems, and Instrumentation and Control Automation. Performed a schedule analysis of delay impacts due to engineering rework and added change order work, causing compression and acceleration with trade stacking, over manning of crews with a shortage of qualified labor causing productivity loss due to overtime fatigue, lack of coordinated drawings, late material delivery, and substandard supervisory management and cost controls by the construction manager.
Utility Engineering and Xcel Energy Metro Emission Reduction Program involving three (3) new Scrubber Additions to the existing Cherokee Power Plant in Denver, CO and the Valmont Power Plant in Boulder, CO. Converted contract from a lump sum bid to time and materials due to only receiving 20 percent drawings completion at the time of bid solicitation. Project was competitively bid at $3.5 million and grew to $17 million at the time of 100 percent drawings completion. Claims were avoided by using a cause and effect matrix to illustrate the impact of engineering and scope changes to the original bid package resulting in a conversion to a time and material contract with a fixed fee. The project was completed on time and within the revised budget without any claim process.
RTD Southwest Corridor Light Rail-Broadway/Interstate 25 to Santa Fe and Mineral Stations, located in Denver, CO. Performed a schedule and delay impact analysis of the Track Signal Installation and Fiber Optic Communication backbone due to late completion of bridgework by civil contractor. Awarded a change order for $1 million to complete the project on schedule by acceleration of work scope and assisted Xcel Energy in the completion of substation and overhead catenary’s work.
Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium, the Denver Broncos NFL Stadium, located in Denver, CO. Performed a schedule analysis for delay and exception reporting of predecessor activities required for the completion of electrical and fiber optic work to meet firm preseason opening date. Project started as a $75,000 bid that was converted to a $9 million guaranteed maximum price contract to incorporate engineering delay, scope changes, compression and acceleration of the project. Change orders were issued as a result of the impacts caused by the general contractor created by not completing predecessor activities timely or in sequence with the baseline schedule.
Colorado Department of Transportation Region 1- Southbore Highway Lighting, 5 kV Distribution and VMS Systems, Interstate 70 Eisenhower Tunnel located at the Continental Divide in Clear Creek and Summit Counties in Colorado. A verified statement of claim was submitted for additional compensation and an excusable time extension for engineering changes, late fixture approval for manufacturing and delivery, including a wage escalator for a union jurisdictional dispute adding $2.5 million in unit price over quantity, changes in design, scope of work, and day rates for extended time. CDOT granted 207 additional work days to the contract which avoided liquidated damages of $1,900 per calendar day. A contract modification order was issued for both the compensation and time was added to the baseline schedule. The project finished on time and budget without arbitration or litigation to settle the dispute resulting in a successful negotiation with the vendors and a new manufacturer for specification compliance, quality assurance and control with adequate production rates to release $10 million in surety funds.

Construction and Services

Exxon / Mobil-Valero Refinery located in Benicia, CA. Successfully negotiated the conversion of the IBEW National Maintenance Agreement contract terms with Exxon / Mobil to allow the new owner, Valero, more flexibility and cost control to facilitate turnaround peak man loading to meet the needs of the refinery for skilled labor and compliance with the Cal OSHA VPP program. IBEW Local 180 and Northern CA Chapter NECA worked with Valero and Kimsey Electrical Contracting to formulate a new labor agreement for the refinery. Kimsey Electrical Contracting was awarded a multi-year contact and was honored as the contractor of the year for excellence in safety and quality. Projects included substation maintenance, security and SCADA systems, co-generation power plant, instrumentation, technological upgrades and modernization for sour crude processing and asphalt plant capital equipment installation. Contract conversion terms avoided late delivery of change orders due to processing time and work could be manned without delay or dispute to meet production schedules, EPA, and homeland security mandates.
Negotiated annual maintenance and capital project contracts for Lockheed/Martin, Valero Refinery, Xcel Energy, and Honeywell.
Negotiated utility engineering T&M MERP contract for three bag house installation at Valmont and Cherokee Power Plants.
Successfully completed $9 million of tenant finish work at INVESCO Field at Mile High, the new NFL Denver Broncos Stadium.
Completed LSS facility instrumentation and controls work at the Intel Fab 23 for GEAS and Siemens.
Managed numerous industrial design/build projects including a 3 Mw distribution wiring for Coastal Chemical in Cheyenne, Wyoming upgrading the distribution system from 10 to 30 Mw.
Completed a 230kV helicopter transmission line replacement project for UNOCAL in Parachute, Colorado.

Traffic and Transit

Managed Stapleton, Colorado redevelopment traffic signalization, street and bridge lighting, and fiber optic infrastructure.
Completed Phase 1 of E-470, 7 miles of highway lighting, modular traffic signals and toll plaza.
Managed the south bore Eisenhower Tunnel Lighting and 5 kV distribution system upgrade for CDOT.
Completed RTD Southwest Corridor overhead and underground distribution and track signal installation for Harmon Industries and XCEL Energy.
Completed CBD/ITS installation of Fiber Optic interconnect for the City of Denver.
Managed bridge replacement projects including I-70 and I-25 Interchange, Speer Viaduct, Broadway at Speer, Lincoln Avenue at I-25, I-270, US-36 and I-70 corridors, and 15th & 20th Street.
Responsible for Traffic Management System fiber optic interconnect projects include 38th and Fox, Coors Field HOV, and the City of Thornton.
Responsible for negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement for traffic signal work and developing a 3-year BAT certified apprenticeship program.

Outside Line and Communications

Captured a $15 million, 3-year partnering agreement with Qwest through recruitment and acquisition of key personnel. This general contract is comprised of installation and maintenance work orders with the average unit priced job of $5,000 that require building and processing over 1,000 jobs each year. Opened a new office in Grand Junction, Colorado with 50 crews and subcontractors covering the Western slope.
Responsible for long line utility projects including approximately 1,000 miles of cable plow in Ault, Eaton, Hudson, Avondale, Limon, Evergreen, Brighton, Hayden and Glenwood Springs, CO.

ComTel Technology Inc.

Negotiated independent voice and data collective bargaining agreement and organized the employees in 1994 with IBEW Local 68 to composite crews with electricians for tray and conduit installation for structured premise wiring systems as a Lucent Systemax VAR in Colorado.
Successfully completed inside structured cable plant systems at the Qwest Reliability Center, 40 schools in Adams County District 5, Broomfield Municipal Buildings and AMS at Denver.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Long International, Inc.
Littleton, Colorado (July 2005 to Present)

As a Senior Executive Consultant with Long International, Mr. Kimsey provides expertise in project and construction management as well as the preparation and evaluation of construction claims involving electrical, instrumentation, life safety systems, traffic signal, transit, distribution overhead for underground and outside plant line work, and voice/data /video communications systems installations in public, institutional, industrial and commercial facilities.

GECO / Kimsey LLC (dba Kimsey-Guarantee Electrical Contracting)
Denver, Colorado (2003-2005)

President and Member of GECO/Kimsey LLC, dba Kimsey-Guarantee Electrical Contracting. Guarantee Electrical of St. Louis, Missouri acquired Kimsey Electrical Contracting from Exelon / Infrasource Services in 2003. Kimsey-Guarantee revenues in 2004 - 2005 were in excess of $35 million with a combined workforce of 200 employees located Aurora, Colorado and Benicia, California. Kimsey-Guarantee was awarded the 2004 American Subcontractors Association (ASA) Safety Contractor of the year.

Kimsey Electrical Contracting
Denver, Colorado (1998-2003)

Vice President and Division Manager of Operations for Fischbach & Moore Electric Co., Inc. and parent holding company, Exelon / Infrasource from 1996 to 2003. As President/CEO/Managing Member/Partner, Mr. Kimsey was responsible for operations, budgeting and business planning, financial performance, safety program, new business development and acquisition.

Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. and ComTel Technology, Inc.
Denver, Colorado (1974-1996)

As Group Operations Manager for Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. (Service, Industrial Line, Traffic and Communications) and as Vice President and General Manager of ComTel Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. (Voice/Data/Video Contractor) from 1994-1996, Mr. Kimsey was responsible for satellite operations in Broomfield, Colorado producing revenue of $3 million with 30 telecom technicians and 7 office staff. Operated as Lucent/Systemax VAR and negotiated a local communications agreement with the IBEW Local 68.

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Revised: December 22, 2007