Tucker Elliott's Career Highlights

Principal and Vice President, CM-BIM    VN Services Inc., 1998 - Present

Contact Tucker Elliott:
( 440) 729-0514, ext. 25   
elliott@vn-services.com

Mr. Elliott provides expertise and standardized service offerings as well as client and project-specific customized services to address individual client's priorities and risk tolerance. He also oversees the activities of the Project Delay & Cost Analysis group including:

• Delay and claims analysis (both assertive and defensive) from preparation through negotiation, mediation, arbitration or litigation
• Provides neutral services, including Dispute Resolution Boards, for facilitation of issues while projects are underway to help maintain progress and the smooth functioning of project management teams
• Project management consulting / owner's representation services to improve the processes being used on projects to reduce the risk of disputes; this includes the regular review of project documentation, attendance at meetings, and production of periodic project status reports
• Organization and analysis of project documentation
• Collection and analysis of project labor and financial records
• Overseeing preparation of claim exhibits such as Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules, spreadsheets, charts, and project documents
• Expert Witness, advocate and advisor in negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation
• Management of BIM (Building Information Model) processes
• Teaches workshops and trainings
• Mr. Elliott is a partner at VN Services and has management responsibilities for both VN Services and VN International.

Morrison Knudsen Corporation      Toledo, Ohio 1988 - 1998
Senior Project Controls Engineer

• Coordinator of planning for the Eastern Region Environmental and Government Groups

• In-house consultant for project planning and scheduling
• Provided scheduling support for project proposals including acquisition of a security clearance for proposed work with the U.S. Department of State
• Sent to various field locations encountering problems with project controls requirements
• Organized project controls resources to support environmental cleanup projects in the U.S. for the Navy South Div Program 
• Liaison with the Navy South Div Program Management Office and collected progress data from offices/sites on U.S. Navy bases 
• Provided pre-project planning for Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Stabilization Project
• Provided planning and tracking services for demilitarization projects in Ukraine including the destruction of nuclear missiles
• Project Controls for MK's construction planning of the Westinghouse AP600 Advanced Light Water Reactor Project
• Co-authored a "Scheduling Principles and Guidelines"
• Supervisor of Project Planning for the MK/DuPont partnership Sigma Group; responsibilities included scheduling of all engineering projects, management of a sophisticated drawing control system for tracking all drawings, and providing scheduling interface with owner and construction teams

Cleveland State University       Cleveland, Ohio  1985 - 1988
Research Assistant

• Provided qualitative and statistical analysis of survey data for the Northeast Ohio Center for the Advancement of Labor/Management Cooperation 
• Assisted with research questionnaire design, analysis, report writing, and case studies 
• Published and edited articles in the NOCALMC Newsletter

Gilbane Building Company      Cleveland, Ohio  1984 - 1985
Senior Scheduling Engineer

• Responsible for project scheduling and coordination on a $400 million plant modernization for General Motors and two other smaller projects for GM
• Provided cash flow curves, staffing plans, trend analyses, ran weekly status meetings with the client, and assisted in monthly report writing
• Assisted in employee hiring, training and appraisals           
• Helped develop use of personal computer technology for project management functions in field locations
• Beta tested Primavera Project Planner

Davy McKee Corporation      Cleveland, Ohio  1980 - 1984
Project Planner and Scheduler

• Duties included engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) project planning and monitoring; responsible for creation and maintenance of detailed project schedules for active projects as well as producing schedules and manpower studies for proposed projects
• Worked on a variety of projects (all over $100 million) primarily in the petrochemical and metals industries
• One year assignment to a $6 billion petrochemical plant in Sumatra, Indonesia that included chemical plant facilities, shipping facilities, 2 villages, 1 school, and 1 health clinic

Education

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

• Degree: Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
• Area of Concentration: engineering construction management, methods improvement, estimating & project controls

Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio

• Graduate courses in Consumer / Industrial  Research Psychology 

Continuing Education and Seminars:

• AGC Certification for Management of Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• DRBF Dispute Review Board Training
• CDRS Arbitration Training
• Construction Law: Contracts to Claims
• Strategic Project Management
• Top Gun
• Record Retention in the Electronic Age
• AIA Documents
• Measuring Inefficiency on a Construction Project
• Project Management Certificate Program - Dr. H. Kerzner
• Project Management Institute Seminar/Symposium
• John S. Childers Continuous Improvement Seminar
• Principles of Project Management

Professional Affiliations

• Dispute Review Board Foundation: Current
• Construction Owners of America Association
• American Bar Association - Associate Member: Current
• Project Management Institute (PMI): Current
• Cleveland Engineering Society: Current
• Master Builders Association of Western Pennsylvania: 1999 - 2007
• International Project Management Association: 1995 – 1998

Publications

• Co-authored "Scheduling Principles and Guidelines"
  "Why Push Paper?" - BX Magazine

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