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Program Manager, "Michael Baker Jr., Inc.", Afgahnistan Engineering District

START Date: 
February, 2009

Program Manager at Afghanistan Engineering District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. As direct liaison with client responsible for increased contract: 6 months to 4 years; 10 to 30 personnel; value by over 600%.  Infrastructure design-build projects ($3M to $100M) including military complexes, wastewater treatment plants, roads, and airport projects.  Supervise team of personnel for: field office construction management (project engineers, office engineers, construction representatives); project controls (schedulers, estimators) for project conception through completion, bid package preparation and analysis, claims analysis, contractor pay request evaluation; data management (database managers, analysts, coordinators) for creation of databases, quality control of data into U.S. Government’s Project Management software (RMS) and management reporting of contract, cost and schedule; training support for cost and schedule systems; authored cpm schedule requirements section used in all construction contracts. 

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