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Experienced project services executive with a long track record improving predictability, performance, and governance across capital, maintenance, and turnaround programs. Combines engineering foundations with practical field insight to build systems and teams that elevate consistency, transparency, and decision-making quality. Work spans oil & gas, utilities, and industrial infrastructure, with responsibilities including project controls leadership, operational excellence integration, and the deployment of scalable tools and standards. Known for strengthening project organizations, aligning portfolios with strategic priorities, and mentoring teams to build lasting internal capability.

Project services and project controls executive with more than two decades of experience improving capital project, maintenance, and turnaround performance across the energy and industrial sectors. Recognized for operational excellence leadership, strong governance frameworks, and the ability to integrate cost, schedule, risk, and change into cohesive project strategies. Trusted advisor to executives and project teams alike.

• Deep expertise in project controls across cost, schedule, risk, and change

• Strong leadership in capital, maintenance, and turnaround environments

• Ability to implement governance frameworks and portfolio management systems

• Proven history driving operational excellence and standardization

• Experience improving predictability through earned value and performance analytics

• Effective mentor and builder of high-performing project services teams

• Strong communication skills for executive reporting and decision support

• Earned value management systems

• Project controls software and digital tools

• KPI dashboarding and portfolio reporting

• Risk and change management systems

• Scheduling and planning methodologies

• Process improvement and lean/Kaizen frameworks

• ISO 9001 QMS principles

• Construction and maintenance execution support

• VP, Project Services – DPMA Group (Nov 2020 – Present)

• Executive Board Member – Swiss American Chamber of Commerce, Southern California (Jan 2022 – Present)

• Director of Project Services – Aegion Corporation (Nov 2018 – Oct 2020)

• Operational Excellence Manager (Andeavor) – Marathon Petroleum (Jan 2017 – Oct 2018)

• Sr. Project Controls Manager (Tesoro) – Marathon Petroleum (Jul 2013 – Oct 2018)

• Project Controls Manager (Turnarounds) – BP (Dec 2009 – Jun 2013)

• Project Controls Manager – TotalEnergies (Sep 1998 – Nov 2009)

• Led project services and project controls advisory across oil, gas, and utilities, improving forecast accuracy and governance for major capital programs

• Designed and deployed integrated project control frameworks combining cost, schedule, risk, and change for high-performing client organizations

• Established portfolio governance systems and executive-level reporting for strategic investment alignment

• Standardized project controls processes across multi-regional construction and maintenance teams, increasing consistency and transparency

• Implemented earned value management practices to strengthen performance measurement and early variance identification

• Directed operational excellence initiatives integrating OEMS requirements and improving field execution practices

• Managed project controls for major refinery turnarounds, developing standards, analytics, and structures adopted across teams

• Applied ISO 9001 principles to elevate documentation, quality practices, and project execution discipline

• Master of Science, Engineering Management – University of Southern California (2001–2003)

• Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering – University of Southern California (1994–1998)

• Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI

• Financial Management Certificate, Cornell University

• ISO 9001:2015 QMS Auditor / Lead Auditor, DNV

• Divemaster (DM), PADI

• Transformed project predictability and governance across multi-billion-dollar capital, maintenance, and turnaround portfolios by integrating cost, schedule, risk, and change into unified, high-discipline project control systems

• Elevated organizational performance by architecting standardized frameworks, KPI dashboards, and decision-grade reporting adopted by executives to steer complex project portfolios

• Strengthened operational reliability and event readiness across refineries and industrial assets through earned value deployment, integrated planning, and refinement of turnaround management standards

• Built and mentored high-performance project controls organizations capable of sustaining long-term excellence, improving transparency, and driving earlier variance detection and intervention

• Accelerated strategic investment alignment for senior leadership by deploying portfolio governance structures that clarified risk exposure, resource allocation, and capital prioritization

• Increased execution efficiency across construction and maintenance programs by establishing repeatable processes, lean improvements, and field-ready operating models that reduced waste and boosted consistency