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David
T. Laird
203
Southside Court
Fort
Collins, Colorado 80525
970-635-1871
Home
970-290-4497
Cell Phone
Lairddt@aol.com
Career
Summary
PMP and CCC certified with over
twenty years of project management, project controls and scheduling
experience in a variety of large projects.
Project controls manager and the
lead project scheduler for government projects as well as large heavy
construction and marine related non-governmental projects. Primary expertise
is in earned value, risk management and the utilization of Primavera 8.4,
6.7, 6.2, P3 3.1, Deltek’s Acume Fuse and Oracle Risk Management/ Primavera
Pertmaster software.
Non-government project experience
includes Synthetic Crude Oil projects with Shell Oil in Alberta Canada. As
well as new combined cycle power plant construction and coal fired power
plant upgrades to clean coal technology. Also extensive experience with
combined cycle shutdowns/retrofits, soda ash plant construction and
fiberglass mat line construction.
Mr. Laird also has extensive
experience working with the US Department of Defense, US Depart of Energy,
the US State Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs in the area of
new hospital construction. His Department of Defense experience includes
projects ranging from warship overhaul, and new warship construction to major
weapon system development.
Work Experience
November 2012 – Present
Jacobs Engineering
707 17th Street
Suite 2300
Jacobs Global Buildings Division
Denver, Colorado 80202-5131
Position: Project Controls
Manager- Jacobs Engineering
· Mr. Laird’s current project
is the $1.73 billon, Denver VA Medical Center Project. As a working manger he
utilizes Primavera P6 version 8.4 daily to develop and maintain project
schedule projections for senior VA and Army Corps of Engineer’s management. In
addition, he manages a team of six individuals that perform schedule
development, risk analysis, earned value analysis, and change and contract
management support.
· As a Project Controls
Manager on past projects for Jacobs Engineering Mr. Laird has been involved
in heavy construction projects that supported Conoco-Phillips on their
Nirobrara Oil and gas well construction. This included the entire array of
project controls functions and developing high level summary as well as cost
and resource loaded detailed construction schedules. In addition, he
has supported similar heavy construction oil and gas projects associated with
Shell Oil in Calgary Canada.
August 2007 – November 2012
Project Time & Cost, Inc.
2727 Paces Ferry Road
Suite 1200-1
Atlanta, Georgia 30339
Position: Senior Project
Manager
· From June 2012 to November
2012 Mr. Laird lead the development of independent Government cost estimates
for the completion of the Department of Energy’s Salt Waste Treatment
Facility at the Savannah River Site in Aiken South Carolina. This was a $1.5
billion dollar project that included the development of a fully cost and
resource loaded schedule and supporting cost and risk analysis.
· From May 2009 to March 2011
and again from January 2012 to May 2012 Mr. Laird, under a contract with the
Army Corps of Engineers, was the site manager providing onsite project
management support for the Department of Energy’s West Valley Demonstration
Project in West Valley New York. Functioning as the project lead, he managed
a team of five consultants performing various project management duties that
involved the two billion dollar phased deconstruction and remediation of the
West Valley New York, Nuclear Waste Treatment and Reprocessing facility. This
project included risk analysis, estimating, contract and budget functions. In
addition, as a working manager, utilizing Primavera P6 version 7, he
personally developed and integrated various Department of Energy schedules
with the contractor’s schedule to form an overall site integrated master
schedule. In addition, he performed earned value analysis and conducted
oversight (surveys) of the contractor’s earned value system. He also
functioned as the liaison between contractor and senior management and
managed the development of the independent government cost estimates. These
estimates subsequently supported modification to the Department of Energy’s
life cycle baseline for the West Valley project. This also included the
development and integration of a Federal Risk Management Plan for the
program’s lifecycle. In addition he provided various routine project
management support functions that included the writing of project execution
plans, procedures, and reports for the Department of Energy that lead to
Independent Project Reviews in preparation for Critical Decisions by senior
DOE personnel.
· From March 2010 to December
2011 Mr. Laird was on a special assignment as Project Time & Cost’s
project lead. He provided progress and cost analysis support to Charles
Taylor Adjusting Ltd, concerning a $600 million dollar loss at the Canadian
Natural Resources Horizon oil refinery in Alberta Canada. This
assignment was primarily a project controls oversight and forensics analysis
of the contractor’s cost, schedule. In also included verification of project
scope to support insurance claims of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd,
synthetic crude refinery located in northern Alberta.
· August 2007- May 2009 Mr.
Laird supported the Department of Energy (DOE) in implementing an Earned Value
System and developing baseline cost and schedule estimates for Department of
Energy sites at DOE sites in Paducah Kentucky and Portsmouth Ohio. This
assignment involved helping the Department of Energy established a Certified
Earned Value Management System and helping developing customized project
management support plans for both Paducah Kentucky and Portsmouth Ohio
Department of Energy’s nuclear facilities decommissioning projects.
October 2006 – August 2007
JohnsManville Corp
1717 17th Street
Denver, Colorado
Position: Corporate
Project Controls Manager
· Mr. Laird provided project
oversight and analysis for the construction of Johns Manville’s Matt Line
factory in Etowah Tennessee. During this project Mr. Laird utilized Primavera
P6, provided schedule projection and cost and budget reviews and reports to
Sr. Management. In addition Mr. Laird conducted cost and budget audits of the
construction schedules for capital projects in parallel with several smaller
projects involving production line rebuilds and upgrades. This included
integrating various subcontractor schedules into one master integrated
schedule. He also provided the onsite project manager and craft supervisors
with daily progress assessments, look-a-heads and workarounds as well as
providing senior line management with detailed weekly and monthly progress
and earned value reports.
BE&K Corporation
2000 International Park
Drive
Birmingham, AL 35243
Position: Project
Scheduler and Project Controls Manager
· Mr. Laird was the on-site
project scheduler and project controls manager for a year long, $100 million
dollar OCI Wyoming Soda Ash Plant expansion utilizing clean coal
technology. This project, executed in Green River Wyoming, also
included a follow-on 90 day plant shutdown and modernization phase to the
existing plant. Mr. Laird’s duties included the initial planning phase and
baseline cost and schedule development. In this capacity he was the site’s
project scheduler and project controls lead. Mr. Laird conducted weekly
briefings of the client and other stakeholders on schedule status, presenting
Earned Value data and developing work around scenarios to overcome realized
risk and updating cost and schedule projections.
July 2002 – November 2005
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
(Hunting Ingalls Shipbuilding)
P.O. Box 149
Pascagoula, Mississippi 39568
Position: Program
Specialist / Integrated Master Schedule Manager
· Mr. Laird managed a
combined team of seven scheduling and other project management and Risk
analysis personnel from Northrop Grumman Ship Systems and Lockheed Martin for
the $17 billion dollar/40 year Coast Guard Deepwater Program.
· Mr. Laird developed
schedules in MS Project and Primavera P3 that were fully resource and cost
loaded. These scheduled formed the basis for determining earned value for
their respective projects.
· Mr. Laird was the author of
many of the project management procedures that were instrumental in
establishing the Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program.
· Mr. Laird managed the
integration of detailed engineering, procurement and construction schedules
for various multibillion dollar projects. These projects encompassed major C3
and C4 communications equipment, aircraft design, new ship construction and
repair overhauls of existing vessels for the Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program
and the Navy’s LHA and LHD Amphibious aircraft carrier shipbuilding programs.
October
2000- July 2002
ViLinc/ CALPINE Corporation
4828 Holly Berry Drive
Plano, TX 75093
Position: Project Controls
Manager for the North East United States for CALPINE Corp.
· Mr. Laird was responsible
for the project seven different gas turbine combined cycle power plants.
Projects ranged in value from $50 million to over $300 million dollars.
· Mr. Laird was primarily
involved in Project Controls but also functioned as the primary liaison with
the Banker’s Engineer and other stakeholders on these projects often being
the primary representative of the company. His other duties involved
the scheduling and planning of the project from initial conception, through
engineering and procurement and into construction and start-up.
April
1997-October 2000
Synetics, Inc
16539 Commerce Drive
King George, VA
Position: Scheduling
Manager
· Mr. Laird managed a team of
fourteen schedules and planners who utilized Primavera P3 software in
providing scheduling support for various Army, Navy, and Marine Corps weapons
development and information technology projects that spanned several years
averaged over a billion dollars each. This involved the development and
management of integrated master schedules as well as detailed construction
scheduled that spanned the spectrum from purely programmatic, to detailed
engineering development and procurement phases and then up through the
testing and manufacturing phases.
October
1994-April 1997
Ingalls Shipbuilding
P.O Box 149
Pascagoula, MS 39568
Position: Project
Coordinator/Scheduling Supervisor
· Mr. Laird managed a team of
ten planners and schedulers involved in the development of detailed analysis
for the scope of work to be accomplished combined with resource requirements
analysis interlaced with various options involved the planned life cycle of
the Navy’s Aegis Cruisers and Spruance Class Destroyers.
· Mr. Laird utilized
Primavera P3 to develop detailed resource and cost loaded engineering and
construction schedules to support the analysis. These schedules were then
utilized in preparation and execution in the construction and/or overhaul
Destroys and Cruisers.
August
1980 – June 1994 United States Navy
Mr. Laird is a veteran of the
United State Navy. He was a Surface Warfare Officer involved in the Aegis and
Tomahawk weapons development programs.
Certifications:
CCC - AACE
Certified Cost Consultant
PMP - PMI
Project Management Professional
Education:
2001 - Master of Science, Project
Management, The George Washington University, Washington DC
1978- Bachelor of Science,
Political Science University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg Mississippi