Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category
Congratulations Tucker Elliott on 16 years at VN Services!
Monday, April 14th, 2014VN Services holds its 2014 Company Renewal
Friday, March 14th, 2014We held our annual company renewal on February 27 and 28 at The Club at Hillbrook. Every year we travel off-site and review the previous year’s goals, accomplishments and LTOs. Then we use basic project management skills and CPM (Critical Path Method) scheduling to create measurable individual and company goals for the year forward. Because the schedule has proven to be a highly useful management tool, we revisit it regularly to ensure that we are on target to achieve our goals.
Of course, we also need some R&R, so we spend the second afternoon doing something that is fun and entertaining. We had a delicious lunch at The Harley Cafe at South East Harley-Davidson (no motorcycles were purchased at the time). We followed lunch with bowling at the Freeway Lanes, where we all let Richard and Bob win!
Tucker Elliott has just returned from another trip to the Middle East.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013While Tucker was in the Middle East, he visited with government officials regarding one of the big mega-projects underway in Saudi Arabia. He also met with several different companies including a real estate developer, a construction management firm, and various contractors. When he was leaving to return home, Tucker’s host told him to “consider himself part of the family”. Sounds like the trip was a success.
Welcome Back Joe Morris!
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Welcome back decorations and "varmints" provided by his co-workers.
We want to welcome back our colleague, Joe Morris, who has spent the past year doing the CPM scheduling for one of our clients at the Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project (DHOUP) for the Marathon Petroleum Company. He better be careful…. you never know what kind of varmints may have moved into his space while he was off exploring new job sites.
Tucker Elliott travels to Qatar & Amman
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Tucker Elliott just got back from his trip to Amman, Jordan and Doha, Qatar. The Amman trip was a quarterly meeting for VNI’s Rotana Hotel Project in Baghdad, where we are the Owners’ Reps. He then went to Qatar to discuss possible work on upcoming projects, as there is a great deal of new construction occurring all over the region.
Tucker also had the opportunity to learn more about Ramadan, which was being observed at that time. He took part in Iftar (the breaking of the daily fast) and got to try some fantastic local dishes and juice drinks. His favorite of the drinks was “Jallab”, a mixture of date juice with rose water topped with pine nuts. Google it!
Clearly August is a tough time to go to Qatar, as the temperature was over 106 degrees F with extremely high humidity! Although Qatar is a desert environment, it is located on the Persian Gulf and is incredibly humid.
All in all, an exciting trip into an expanding world.