Officers

JOHN D. JACKSON is a seasoned professional in project management consulting, specializing in the construction sector and litigation analysis. His expertise spans across construction scheduling, project cost control, documentation, and the implementation of project controls software. He is well-versed in organizational, economic, and forensic construction analysis, adept at calculating damages, and proficient in managing information for construction projects.

With a career background that includes roles as a consultant, software developer, educator, and industry expert, Jackson has successfully managed construction projects with budgets ranging from $1 million to over $5 billion. His portfolio covers a wide array of projects, including heavy civil works, infrastructure projects, airport and rapid transit constructions, as well as hotel/casino, manufacturing, commercial, and industrial builds. His experience with over a thousand projects has honed his skills in critical project controls management, encompassing all stages from conceptual design, through procurement and bidding, to the effective execution of project plans, closure, and dispute resolution.

Jackson’s litigation support is marked by his proficiency in both cost and schedule impact analysis, where his delay analyses stand out for their clarity of issues and effective communication. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in setting project budgets, creating CPM schedules, and resolving claims and change orders. For the last two decades, his workshops on “Planning and Scheduling” and “Managing Delays” have gained international acclaim, reflecting his commitment to a proactive approach in the early resolution of disputes.

As a project executive, Jackson has led implementation and training programs for hundreds of organizations, drawing on his 25 years of experience at the helm of one of the largest project controls technology and consulting firms in the US. His firm offers implementation and training services to various public agencies and several top global construction firms, showcasing his leadership in advancing project controls technology and services.

With a multi-disciplinary approach, Rachel uses the knowledge gained to serve as a trusted advisor for projects ranging in size and complexity. She understands the project lifecycle and how to maximize a project’s schedule from design through construction.

Rachel’s expertise includes contract compliance, program planning, scheduling, procurement tracking, submittal review, and risk analysis. She has conducted training for owners, contractors, government agencies, and engineers. Rachel is an authorized Construction trainer for the Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) and specializes in software training for Oracle and Microsoft programs.

Her attention to detail, standards of quality, and design conformance are critical to the successful oversight of projects. Rachel has the public works, commercial, industrial, and private market sector experience to support any type of project.

Rachel has earned her PSP from AACE International, an MSCM from UNLV, an MFA from Florida State University and loves to be an active member of several professional organizations.

Raquel has over 30 years of private and public sector construction experience in scheduling, estimating, cost control and schedule delay analysis. She has provided professional services across all areas of construction including specialty, residential, heavy industrial, hotel/casino, high rise, transportation, commercial and water/wastewater for both owners and contractors.

Raquel is dedicated to instituting “best practices” for her clients in implementing and managing critical path method scheduling on their projects where she proactively manages claims mitigation, delay analysis, document control and process training. She directly manages baseline schedule roll-out and progress management of high profile and at-risk projects for both contractors and owners, excelling in communication and collaboration with all project stakeholders.

Raquel provides senior expert services for clients in both the horizontal and vertical sector speaking routinely as a project controls subject matter expert locally and nationally.

Michael Harris is a Managing Consultant with Aperture LLC. He is a licensed civil engineer and attorney with over forty years of construction experience, including seventeen years in scheduling and construction management, and over twenty-five years specializing in construction delay, acceleration, disruption, loss of efficiency, and termination disputes. His prior construction management experience includes service as an inspector, scheduler, construction engineer, project manager, contracts manager, and scheduling/ estimating department manager. He has prepared detailed and master schedules, reviewed technical submittals, performed constructability reviews, developed cost studies, and managed construction of large projects. Since 1994 Mr. Harris has primarily focused on forensic analysis of schedule impacts to construction projects caused by various issues, including production inefficiencies, weather, design issues, change orders, manpower, differing site conditions, management, and material shortages. He is skilled in construction claims analysis and litigation support. Mr. Harris has assisted clients in numerous mediations and has testified as an expert in arbitrations and litigation.

GINNY HARVEY is the Senior Director of Program Design and Planning for Raytheon Missiles and Defense (RMD) business in Raytheon Technologies and provides program design and planning services for the $16B annual revenue RMD business. Ginny leads an organization of approximately 170 professionals, and is responsible for establishing planning processes and tools, hiring/staffing projects, and providing her team with training, mentoring and career development. Her organization provides expert level support for schedule analytics, Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA), Critical Chain, program startup, and schedule quality assessments.

Ginny is a certified Raytheon Six Sigma Expert and serves as an independent reviewer. She has held program leadership roles in several industries, including Director of Program Management at Micro-ASI, a flip chip technology design company, and Program Manager for a contract under the Dept of Energy (DOE) Building America Project.

Ginny holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology, and a Masters of Liberal Arts in Management from Harvard University.

Peter Vosbikian is a claims expert with more than 25 years of experience in the industry. In addition to testifying in arbitration and litigation proceedings, Peter has been appointed as an expert witness on matters involving schedule delay and disruption, productivity loss, damages, and standard of care. His areas of expertise include contract dispute resolution, construction claims and litigation support, construction advisory and claims avoidance services, and critical path method (CPM) scheduling.

Peter has analyzed and prepared construction claims related to scope changes, schedule delay impacts and extended performance, loss of productivity, disruptive impacts, and damages. He has worked in virtually every market segment with all industry stakeholders, including owners, developers, contractors, architects, insurance companies, and their counsel.

Peter has consulted with clients on a wide range of projects, including commercial buildings, transportation infrastructure, prisons, power plants, and industrial facilities. His project experience includes oil and gas pipelines and fuel refineries, chemical plants, water treatment facilities, sports stadiums, hotels and resorts, landfills, bridges, airports, correctional centers, residential complexes, and other facilities in the public and private sectors. Prior to his consulting career, Peter was a design engineer for residential and commercial land development projects and a field engineer for highway, hospital, and hotel projects.

Peter’s extensive skills also include providing guidance on avoiding disputes and managing risk. He has several years of experience performing schedule delay analysis and quantifying the effects of delay, disruption, and productivity loss.

Peter has been a trusted expert and advisor to government agencies in large metropolitan cities. He has been appointed as a delay expert and advised on major construction programs valued at more than $200M.

Peter is an experienced technical writer known for preparing expert reports and presenting claims issues and conclusions in a dynamic, logical, easy-to-understand manner. In addition to having testified, Peter has had extensive involvement with negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations.

Peter has also reviewed and analyzed project documentation and data; prepared as-built schedules; and performed schedule delay, technical issue, and loss of productivity analyses and presented his conclusions in the dispute resolution environment.

Wayne is the International Program Director for Project Management training for Priority Management and is also the Chair of the Priority Management Global Project Management development team.

Wayne has continuously received outstanding feedback from participants for his engaging and inclusive style. He is continually complimented on his communication skills and his clear and structured delivery of programs and how he links projects to his client’s business objectives and company strategies.

Since 2011 Wayne has scheduled Capital projects with combined value of over five Billion Dollars. These Projects range from establishing Oil fields in Malaysia to the Treasury Track of the G20 summit, the Election ready Roadmap for AEC and includes over twenty oil rig refits in locations such as Dubai, Bahrain, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Scotland and Malaysia.

JESÚS DE LA GARZA is the Chair of the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University.  He is also the Vecellio Professor Emeritus in Construction Engineering and Management at Virginia Tech.  Jesús has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction.  He has received ASCE’s Peurifoy Construction Research Award, ASCE’s Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize, and he has been elected to the grade of Distinguished Member of ASCE.  Jesús is the Editor-in-Chief for ASCE’s Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

Jesús has received the Construction Industry Institute’s Outstanding Researcher Award, Distinguished Professor Award, Outstanding Instructor Award, and the Richard L. Tucker Award for Leadership and Service.  He is a Fellow of the Construction Management Association of America and a Fellow of the Project Management College of Scheduling.

JESÚS DE LA GARZA served as Director of the Civil Infrastructure Systems program at the National Science Foundation.   His research is organized around four tracks, namely, Project Controls, Information Technology for Construction Management, Project Delivery Mechanisms, and Infrastructure Asset Management.

Jesús received his MS and PhD from the University of Illinois and his BSCE from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.  He has held visiting professorships at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, Arizona State University and Georgia Tech.

BOB FREAS is a Principal in Exponent’s Construction Consulting practice. He advises clients on a range of topics including risk management, project control, change management, project scheduling, process improvement, change order negotiations, dispute avoidance and the preparation or defense of claims.

Bob has participated in several major construction and contract claims and disputes including the development, analysis and defense of construction claims related to delays, inefficiencies and cost overruns. Bob has been recognized as an expert in CPM scheduling, construction delay and inefficiency claims and related damages. He also provides risk analysis services to large construction owners and contractors including contract risk assessments, probabilistic scheduling, Monte Carlo simulations, and schedule and cost assessments. Bob also has provided project management oversight, construction management and lender presentation services; developed project control systems and prepared project status reviews.

Bob is a Fellow in the Project Management College of Scheduling, the 2020-2021 Board of Directors’ 1st Vice Chairman for the Washington Building Congress and the Past President of the National Capital Section of AACE International. He has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Civil, Environment, and Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University and frequently lectures on project controls, construction claims avoidance and preparation, and risk management and mitigation strategies.

ROB D’ONOFRIO is a Principal at Capital Project Management, Inc. He is a frequent lecturer on CPM scheduling and delay claims and serves on the faculty of Federal Publications Seminars. Rob is the co-author of Construction Schedule Delays, the comprehensive reference work published by Thomson Reuters. He has evaluated over $4 billion in claims on construction projects including schedule delay and disruption claims at the World Trade Center in New York City.

As part of Lendlease Corporation’s Centre of Excellence, Matt is currently responsible for overseeing the international business delivery and execution of their projects across Asia, Europe and the Americas. The role’s focus is on business strategy, conversion, governance, risk management and the safe delivery of both its construction and integrated development projects.

Prior to this, Matt was the Regional Operations Manager for Lendlease in Asia. In this role, he worked with the country/project teams in Singapore, Japan, China and Malaysia to ensure safe project delivery. He also was instrumental in ensuring that Lendlease’s operating policies and procedures, governance protocols and team capabilities benefited from continuous improvements.

ED MAHLER is President of the Project Administration Institute, Inc. [PAI], a consulting firm providing high visibility project scheduling services to the corporate world since 1992. Prior to founding PAI, Ed was an IBM systems engineer supporting international customer accounts and project manager on internal IBM projects. Ed founded the PMI Westchester Chapter, was President from 2002 to 2008, and was VP of Programs for the New York City PMI chapter from 1994 to 2000.