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Expert's expertise stems from twenty years in the Corps of Engineers managing projects from $250K to over $600M overseas and domestically on offices, cantonement areas, major bases and major infrastructure projects. He spent ten years researching and teaching all aspects of project management through The George Washington University to such diverse clients as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Motorola, the US Coast Guard, the Corps of Engineers, and scores of others. He acquired a Project Mangement Professional designation and was a Registered Provider of Instruction with the Project Management Institute. There, he taught and led workshops in Risk Management leading to full risk mangement programs for clients such as the Department of Transportation, the Corps of Engineers, and the American Red Cross. In addition, he acquired a Master's Certificate in Project Management from The George Washington University. He is currently a senior contracting officer with the Architect of the Capitol and has oversight responsiblities in risk management regarding the $750M renewal of the iconic Cannon House Office building. Through his forty year involvment with the construction industry, Expert is well versed in construction industry standards in mangement of major projects, contracting and procurement, and government policy toward construction.

Expert's expertise stems from having processed claims from the government perspective in the Corps of Engineers and at the Architect of the Capitol and from the private perspective as the Division Chief of Contracts for Parsons Brinckerhoff and other firms. In addition, Expert developed, mediated, arbitrated and argued claims as a construction attorney at a boutique law firm on the West Coast. In developing claims, Expert has skills in the legal foundations of claims (whether the law, the FAR and other regulations, or found in a contract), analyzing construction methods and means, auditing and developing claims budgets and estimates, and analysis of schedules. The types of projects Expert in which has claims experience include asbestos, heavy earth moving, sewage treatment, power plants, government office facilities, military construction, airports, bridges, and more. In over thirty five years of construction experience, Expert has participated in over $450,000,000 worth of claims, lawsuits and disputes.

Expert's expertise is founded in the joint skills of law (he is a construction attorney) and engineering (he is a professional construction engineer) in multiple jurisdictions, and overseas. Expert wrote over 100 contracts and over 400 subcontracts for highways, Government office structures, bridges, dams, petrochemical plants, tunnels and airports of various types to include firm-fixed price, indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity, time and materials, level of effort, design-build, and cost reimbursable vehicles. He has also written contracts for design, construction management as contractors (at risk) and construction management as agent (for fee). Expert wrote the comprehensive course and taught construction contracting for George Washington University which has been presented to over 2000 students worldwide in a ten year period of time. In addition to contracts, he has written changes orders, claims, waivers, and a multitude of documents that support contracts and procurement.

Expert has negotiated in excess of 200 claims, contracts and disputes both as a construction attorney for private parties, and as a contracting officer for the US government. As a contracting officer, he successfully led bid and proposal evaluations for contracts up to $600,000,000 where differences in complex cost proposals were less than 1% apart. Expert has led FAR based evaluations for design and construction contracts, and used local regulations with equally successful results. In over thirty years of contract experience, none of Expert's evaluations has been successfully protested,

Expert has been trained in negotiations according to the Karrass Methods, the Harvard Business School Methods, and other techniques taught by leading universities. He is skilled in the tactics of negotiations, driving for win-win solutions, and closing the deal with sound agreements. In addition, Expert taught negotiations for George Washington University domestically and abroad.

Expert has been involved in construction since his college summers working as a laborer and machine operator, then a surveyor and finally a junior engineer.

He performed successively as a deputy resident engineer, a resident engineer and area engineer in a twenty-two year career with the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Middle East, Europe, Far East and domestically with over $3,000,000,000 in construction and design projects in his portfolio. While primarily involved in heavy construction management, he also wrote policy, Standard Operating Procedures, contract documents and scores of white papers in support of construction operations.

In a subsequent civilian career spanning twenty years, Expert became a construction attorney with specialty in disputes, claims, forensics, contract formation and project management.

In addition, Expert earned the reputation of being a gifted and entertaining adjunct professor of law and contract management with over 3,000 students giving a cumulative 97.5 rating out of 100 points;

Expert is a nationally recognized expert on Design Build delivery of projects, personally lead several successful design-build projects, authored an authoritative course on the topic given to over 1,000 students in the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), other construction agencies in the Department of Defense (DoD), and major commercial client such as Bechtel and Fluor.


Consulted with a government entity in West Virginia that was involved in a Design-Build dispute arising out of the termination of the contractor. Within a month, terminated the Contractor for convenience, hired a new contractor after intense source selection, and began defense of the entity in arbitration for wrongful termination. For a nationally known engineering firm, consulted on a procurement issue dealing with water sanitation units in the Middle East. The result was a total defense in a jury trial that had potential liabilty of $24M. For the Bureau of Land Reclamation, presided over and settled a dispute between warring jurisdictions on how to adjudicate claims, how to manage modifications and how to award construction contracts. For the City of Chicago, successfully trained and led a procurement team in the $5M design-build method of renovating one of the City's buildings in a first ever effort for design build. The effort included writing the statement of work, re-writing procurement rules and procedures, leading the evaluation of proposals, and making the final award.