Our world renowned Alliance Members offer a unique combination of technical expertise and capabilities. This includes professional engineers, project and program managers, claims experts, construction managers, scheduling and productivity experts, quality assurance professionals, certified cost engineers, and academic professors.

They are listed in alphabetical order after the founding officers. Below their summary backgrounds is a link to their detailed resumes.

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Anamaria Popescu, PhD, P.E., PMP

President CPM Consulting Inc.

CPM Scheduling /Program & Project Management /Project Controls /Construction Claims

Dr. Popescu is the President of CPM Consulting Inc., and a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas and Colorado with over 13 years of international experience in CPM scheduling, engineering, project management, project controls, and construction claims. Her experience in project controls (cost, schedule and risk) spans multiple disciplines world wide, including airports, electrical utilities, oil and gas production facilities, commercial buildings, pipelines, chemical plants, power plants, lift stations, and telecommunications. Dr. Popescu has performed project management and project controls services for projects up to $2 billion in value including oil and gas development projects and alternative energy power plants. She has prepared and analyzed complex CPM schedules to identify delays, apportion delay responsibility, and support entitlement to time extensions on construction claims up to $150 million. She has also prepared and given depositions and testified at arbitration hearings. Her experience includes the preparation of the baseline schedule and schedule control system for construction of a $2 billion Coalbed Methane Gas Field in Colorado for 1,000 wells over 10 years including the construction of more than 2,000 miles of connecting roadways and accompanying infrastructure; the development of the baseline CPM schedule and control system for a $1 billion Hydrogen Power Plant in Texas using Primavera P5 Enterprise software, and the evaluation of key project schedules to determine entitlement on a $100 million claim for the largest offshore Spar (oil production facility) in the world. She has also evaluated performed a windows delay analysis on a $900 million international airport project in Miami, Florida. Dr. Popescu also taught several short courses in construction claims, project controls, scheduling, and PMP certification. Dr. Popescu earned her B.S, M.S., and PhD in Civil Engineering: Construction Engineering and Project Management (CEPM) Division from the University of Texas at Austin. She is proficient with Primavera P3 and P5, Microsoft Project, SureTrak and Claim Digger.

John Jerz

Vice President CPM Consulting Inc.

CPM Scheduling /Project Management /Cost & Schedule Control /Construction Claims /Quality Assurance /Information Systems

John Jerz is the Vice President of CPM Consulting and has over 20 years of combined experience in international project management, cost and schedule control, engineering, implementation, operations, industrial construction contract disputes, construction claims analysis, and quality assurance. Mr. Jerz's expertise includes schedule development and analysis, productivity analysis, cost control and cost analysis, claims preparation, claims defense, and change order analysis. Throughout his broad and varied career, Mr Jerz has performed project management and project controls on projects ranging from $20 million to over $2 billion, analyzed delay and disruption claims ranging from $3 million to $100 million and developed cause and effect relationships between project events and claim issues. His experience includes developing project controls systems (cost and schedule) for a $2.5 billion oil platform decommissioning project in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, he developed the project controls systems for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a $1.5 billion hydrogen power plant for an oil and gas corporation. He performed an as-built but-for schedule delay analysis for a $20 million claim on a lift station in California to determine what delay issues. Analysis of delays associated with change orders on a $100 million claim on PET chemical plant projects in Argentina and the Netherlands and a cost Analysis of a $100 million cost overrun on an oil refinery fire rebuild project in Canada are among other projects Mr. Jerz has worked on. As a Director for Engineering Program Management, for various large corporations, and in conjunction with the Project Scheduling department developed an integrated CPM network in Primavera for the engineering, procurement, implementation and construction of telecommunication network facilities as well as the deployment and testing of network equipment over the entire United States as well as in Europe. He held the position of Senior Engineer of Quality Assurance in which he conducted technical audits of domestic and international telecommunication networks. Mr.Jerz also served as a Sergeant in Germany for the US Army, where he supervised the workloads, work schedules, and repair priorities for the 24-hour operation and maintenance of a satellite communication facility. There, he operated and performed extensive troubleshooting, testing, and repair of all satellite communication equipment. 

Dr. Borcherding is the leading expert in productivity analysis, human resources, and construction motivation techniques and an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the CEPM program. He has conducted over 480 productivity evaluations on construction projects for research studies, improvement programs, and litigation support. Dr. Borcherding developed the nationwide National Electrical Contractors Association Field Managers three-day short course on construction productivity improvement through more effective field supervision and gave a nationwide series of workshops, symposiums, and lectures on Improving the Utilization of Human Resources in Construction. He has also participated in the development, implementation, and evaluation of over 40 programs to encourage construction productivity improvement. His experience includes conducting an evaluation and developing a monitoring system to relate unit rates and craftsman delays of the Washington Public Power Supply Systems Nuclear Projects in Hanford and Elma, Washington, for the State of Washington Legislature. He has performed witness testimony and claims analysis on numerous chemical processing plants, power plants including nuclear power plants, offshore drilling platforms, airport terminals, subways, and highway construction projects. Dr. Borcherding has appeared as an expert witness in 31 arbitration hearings, 13 court cases and 5 government appeals court hearings. His testimony is based upon an investigation of factors adversely influencing productivity and quantification of the losses. He has also written numerous professional publications on productivity, CPM analysis, scheduling, and research techniques.

David Brush

                                                           Program & Project Management

Mr. Brush's career in the construction industry spans nearly forty years and includes work in the United States, Europe, Russia, Central/South America, Mexico, the Bahamas and Caribbean.  During the first ten years of his career he worked for a general contractor that focused primarily on large commercial, industrial and highway programs.  During the past 29 years he has acted as an owner's representative for both the airlines and airports working primarily on large capital improvement programs.  As the program director solely responsible for the program's overall success, he has managed multi-year $1 billion to $2 billion airport programs in Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Miami and San Jose.  He has extensive experience forming and then leading large teams of professionals selected to advance a program through the planning, design, permitting, financing, construction, commissioning and close-out phases.  His emphasis has been on structuring winning teams that permit owner, design and contractor relationships to flourish to the benefit of the program.  He has dedicated his career to the achievement of program safety, quality, schedule and budget goals and to the avoidance of litigation through the application of partnering principles and institution of effective dispute resolution processes.

Mr. Brush was selected as the only outside member of the board of directors of a large New England based engineering consulting firm.  During his five-year tenure on the board he led the search for a new CEO/President and later helped guide that ESOP company through an acquisition that resulted in its merger with a company of 14,000 employees in the successful effort to move his smaller company towards greater profitability and enhance career opportunity for the employees of that firm.

Mr. Brush is familiar with both traditional design-bid-build and emerging design-build project delivery strategies.  He is a strong advocate of the latter contracting methodology as a means of compressing the overall program schedule, strengthening working relationships among the various parties to the contract and reducing the likelihood of claims. 

Aldo D. Mattos, MSc, PMP, JD

Website: http://www.aldomattos.com/

Planning & Scheduling / Project Controls /Cost Estimating/

Project Management / Contract Administration/Risk Management

Mr. Mattos began his career in the construction industry in 1991.  He has extensive experience in estimating, planning, scheduling, cost control, contract administration and risk management of large construction projects in several countries (USA, South America, Africa, Middle East). He has provided consulting services and training to public and private companies. Mr. Mattos is author of "How to Prepare Cost Estimates". Additionally, he has multiple language skills: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French. He is located in Brazil.

Jeff Ottesen, P.E., PSP, CFCC

Planning & Scheduling /CPM Scheduling / Project Controls /Dispute Resolution /

Project Management / Construction Claims /Expert Witness

Mr. Ottesen is a Certified Planning and Scheduling Professional and a licensed Professional Engineer with more than 18 years of professional experience in civil engineering, planning, CPM scheduling, construction management, and dispute resolution. He has extensive experience in dispute resolution and EPC contractor management process improvements in the transportation, power, process, building and heavy civil sectors. Mr. Ottesen has worked for city, county and state DOT authorities, contractors, lawyers and surety companies. A few projects that demonstrate his experience include evaluating cost and schedule impacts as contract manager of potential change orders on the $1.2 billion I-15 Interstate Freeway Reconstruction Project in Salt Lake City, Utah; performing window delay and productivity analyses on power plants, buildings and highway projects; and in developing the baseline schedule in P5 for the Caltrans Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge Project in the Bay Area, California, which contained approximately 4,500 activities covering work of 45 different subcontractors and suppliers over a 7 year period. He has published papers related to scheduling and cost issues, made numerous presentations and has conducted training seminars on how to perform CPM delay analyses. He has a B.S. from BYU and an M.S in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Transportation from Texas A&M University. He is proficient with Primavera's P3 and P5 software, SureTrak and Microsoft Project (1998 to present), Claim Digger and Schedule Analyzer Pro having prepared, evaluated and performed delay/time impact analyses with each. 

Glen R. Palmer, PSP

CPM Scheduling /Project Planning / Risk Management /Project Controls /Construction Claims

/Project Management / Productivity Analysis/ Expert Witness

Glen Palmer is a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional with over 27 years of domestic and international experience on engineering and construction project execution and disputes worldwide. His experience includes power, transportation/infrastructure, commercial and process projects. He has extensive experience in cost, scheduling, project and risk management covering all project phases. His experience includes schedule development, maintenance and/or analysis of infrastructure and transportation including airports, roads, sewer and storm drainage systems, tunnels, and light rail systems. He has prepared and evaluated a proposal schedule for the Ted Williams Tunnel Surveillance System and prepared a schedule for a $400 million change order on New Jersey's light rail system. He has performed analyses of corporate project management approaches, project estimate validation, planning and scheduling auditing, earned value auditing, change control program evaluations, and project controls procedure writing. Mr. Palmer's risk management experience includes the analysis of both contract and project execution risks, the development of action plans to avoid or mitigate risks, and monthly audits to track the changes in risk over time. He also served as an expert witness on several dispute resolution issues. Mr. Palmer previously was the Vice President of Power for The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc. Prior to that, he was the Manager of Planning and Scheduling for Stone & Webster, Inc. He also served as a Project Controls Manager at the Boston office of Raytheon Engineers and Constructors, Inc., (formally United Engineers and Constructors, Inc.) where he managed Project Control's for all engineering product lines with the exception of hydrocarbons. While at Raytheon Engineers, he worked on projects in Singapore and Europe, and lived in Milan, Italy for two years. While in Italy, he trained schedulers on Primavera software and was also responsible for preparing a project controls manual for the Italian National Electric Company. Mr. Palmer is proficient in SureTrak, Microsoft Project, and the P3 software. Mr. Palmer was a member of the United Engineers and Constructors team that helped test the early versions of Primavera software.

Calin M. Popescu, PhD, P.E.

Program & Project Management /Construction Claims /Contract Development/Project Controls /CPM Scheduling/

Training & Short Courses/Expert Witness

Dr. Calin Popescu serves as a Senior Executive Consultant to CPM Consulting and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas. With more than 40 years experience in engineering, management, consulting and teaching in various disciplines including highways, power plants, industrial farm complexes, hotels, restaurants, commercial buildings, and various other large industrial projects, he is one of the world's premier consultant in project management and construction claims analysis.  Dr.Popescu served as a licensed arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. His experience includes providing expert testimony, claims preparation and defense, project management training, CPM schedule development, analysis and implementation, cost control, and contract development and negotiation on over 50 projects in various construction disciplines world wide. This includes performing scheduling delay analysis and testifying on several roadway rehabilitation projects and segmental bridge projects in Texas, serving as a Project Management consultant to the State of Texas for the remodeling of the State Capital, and serving as a construction manager for the successful completion of five, 10-story hotels (1,000 rooms) all associated roads and parking lots and their related infrastructures (construction also included the sewer main system located 30-feet below the existing water table). Dr. Popescu also taught for decades as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and has written numerous professional papers and published many books in the field of Construction Project Management, among teaching over 60 short courses in project management and planning, scheduling, cost control, and productivity.

Augustin Purnus, PhD, PMP

Program & Project Management /Project Controls / Cost Engineering

Dr. Augustin Purnus is the Vice President of European operations for CPM Consulting headquartered in Bucharest, Romania. In a career spanning more than 20 years, he has held senior positions in management, operational, and project delivery roles, and gained a wide range of experience in Project Management and Cost Engineering for power plants, oil refineries, chemical, commercial, civil construction, and transportation projects. He lent his expertise as a consultant and training professional to many Romanian companies by implementing Project Management Systems and the Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. He was also an Assistant Professor for more than 15 years at the Technical University of Civil Engineering in Bucharest. Dr. Purnus has published as author and co-author 6 books, and more than 60 articles and studies in professional reviews, and in national and international conferences and symposiums. Dr. Purnus is the founder of the PMI Romania Chapter where he acted as President from 2001 to 2006. He holds an international certificate in Project Management. He is proficient in schedule analysis using both CPM and Critical Chain approaches, cost and resource analysis, project risk analysis using The Three Estimates approach, implementation and development of project controls systems, and schedule development and updating. Dr. Purnus has extensive experience in using Project Management Software like MS Project, Primavera Project Planner P3, SureTrak, Primavera Project Planner for Enterprise P3e/c 5.0, and Spider Project Professional.

Ana Maria Rodriguez, M.S.E, PMP

Website:http://www.erapm.com.ar/

CPM Scheduling /Program & Project Management /Project Controls /Cost Management /Quality Assurance

Ms. Ana Maria Rodriguez has over ten years of experience in engineering, project and program management and consulting positions. Ms. Rodriguez has implemented Project Management best practices in a wide variety of projects including government, paper plants, steel lamination plants, infrastructure, commercial buildings, pipelines, highways and land developments, ranging from $500,000 to 70million. Her experience in these projects includes project planning, development of detailed schedules, project budgeting, cost, quality and time monitoring and control preparation of documentation for claims, project closure.  Colombian by Birth, after obtaining her Civil Engineeing Degree at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, she entered the Masters Program of Construction Engineering and Project Management Program at the University of Texas at Austin. While pursing her Masters Degree, she was a member of the Workforce Thrust Team at the Construction Industry Institute (CII). In 2000, she moved to Rosario, Argentina, were she has been actively involved on implementing Project Management Best Practices.  From 2003 to 2005, Ms Rodriguez implemented and ran the Rosario Habitat Program PM office, a $70 million housing program funded by the Inter American Development Bank (IADB).  During the last few years, Ms. Ana Maria Rodriguez has being in charge of the planning, monitoring and control for large turnaround projects in the Automobile, Petrochemical, Steel and Paper Industries in the Rosario region. Ms. Ana Maria Rodriguez  teaches Project Management postgraduate courses at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Ms. Rodriguez is also an active member of PMI in Argentina, being a member of the Buenos Aires Chapter and actually supporting the formation of new chapters in the cities of Mendoza and Rosario.