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APPENDIX B
Biographies of Committee Members
Kenneth F. Reinschmidt (National Academy of Engineering) is professor of
civil engineering and holds the J. L. Frank/Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC
Chair in Engineering Project Management at Texas A&M University. He retired
from Stone & Webster as senior vice president. He was appointed chair of this
committee for his combination of expertise in the disciplines of civil engineering,
project management, cost estimating, and the management of large-scale con-
struction projects, including nuclear and fossil fuel power plant construction. He
held various positions at Stone & Webster, including president and CEO of Stone
& Webster Advanced Systems Development Services, Inc., and manager of the
consulting group in the Engineering Department. In these positions he was
engaged in structural engineering, operations research, cost analysis, construc-
tion engineering and management, and project management. Prior to his work at
Stone & Webster, Dr. Reinschmidt was a senior research associate and associate
professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he was engaged in interdisciplinary research on power plant
engineering, design, construction, and project management. Dr. Reinschmidt
served as chair of the committee that produced the recent NRC report Improving
Project Management in the Department of Energy and was reviewer of the NRC
report Assessing the Need for Independent Project Reviews in the Department of
Energy. He is a former member of the Building Research Board of the NRC and
served or chaired several other NRC committees, including the Committee on
Integrated Database Development, the Panel for Building Technology, the Com-
mittee on Advanced Technology for Building Design, and the Committee on
Foam Plastic Structures. He has also served on several National Science Founda-
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tion review panels on construction automation, computer-integrated construction,
and engineering research centers. He obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Don Jeffrey (,Ieff) Bostock retired from Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc.,
as vice president for engineering and construction with responsibility for all
engineering activities at the Oak Ridge nuclear complex. He is serving on this
committee because of his experience with managing projects as a DOE contractor.
He has also served as vice president of defense and manufacturing and manager
of the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant, a nuclear weapons fabrication and manufacturing
facility. His career at Y-12 included engineering and managerial positions in all
of the various manufacturing, assembly, security, and program management
organizations. He also served as manager of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion
Plant, which provides uranium enrichment services. He was a member of the
committees that produced the NRC reports Proliferation Concerns: Assessing
U.S. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials and Tech-
nologies in the Former Soviet Union and Protecting Nuclear Weapons Material
in Russia. Mr. Bostock also served as a panel member for the annual NRC
assessment of the Measurement and Standards Laboratories of the National Insti-
tuteofStandards end technology. Mr. Bostock has a B.S. inindustrialengineer-
ing from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in industrial management
from the University of Tennessee. He is a graduate of the Pittsburgh Management
Program for Executives.
Donald A. Brand (National Academy of Engineering) retired from the Pacific
Gas and Electric (PG&E) Company as senior vice president and general manager,
engineering and construction business unit, and is currently a lecturer in the
Department of Civil Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.
Mr. Brand was appointed as a member of this committee because of his expertise
in the management of the design, engineering, and construction of large, complex
energy-related facilities. During his 33 years with PO&E, he carried out numerous
managerial and engineering responsibilities related to the design, construction,
and operation of fossil fuel, geothermal, nuclear, and hydroelectric generating
facilities, as well as of electrical transmission, distribution, and power control
facilities. Mr. Brand's industry activities have included membership on the
Electric Power Research Institute's Research Advisory Committee and on the
Association of Edison Illuminating Companies' Power Generation Committee.
He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in mechanical (nuclear)
engineering from Stanford University. He also graduated from the Advanced
Management Program of the Harvard University School of Business.
Allan V. Burman is president of Jefferson Solutions, a division of the Jefferson
Consulting Group, a firm that provides change management services and acquisi-
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tion reform training to many federal departments and agencies. He serves as a
member of this committee because of his expertise in federal acquisition, pro-
curement, and budget reform. Dr. Burman provides strategic consulting services
to private sector firms doing business with the federal government as well as to
federal agencies and other government entities. He also has advised firms, con-
gressional committees, and federal and state agencies on a variety of manage-
ment and acquisition reform matters. Prior to joining the Jefferson Consulting
Group, Dr. Burman had a long career in the federal government, including serving
as administrator for federal procurement policy in the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), where he testified before Congress over 40 times on manage-
ment, acquisition, and budget matters. Dr. Burman also authored the 1991 policy
letter that established performance-based contracting and greater reliance, where
appropriate, on fixed-price contracting, as the favored approach for contract
reform. As a member of the Senior Executive Service, Dr. Burman served as
chief of the Air Force Branch in OMB's National Security Division and was the
first OMB branch chief to receive a Presidential Rank Award. Dr. Burman is a
fellow and member of the board of advisors of the National Contract Manage-
ment Association, a principal of the Council for Excellence in Government, a
director of the Procurement Round Table, and an honorary member of the
National Defense Industrial Association. He is also a contributing editor and
writer for Government Executive magazine. Dr. Burman obtained a B.A. from
Wesleyan University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Political Studies,
University of Bordeaux, France, has a graduate degree from Harvard University
and a Ph.D. from the George Washington University.
Lloyd A. Duscha (National Academy of Engineering) retired from the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers in 1990 as the highest-ranking civilian after serving as
deputy director, Engineering and Construction Directorate, at headquarters. He
serves as a member of this committee because of his expertise in engineering and
construction management and his roles as principal investigator for the NRC
report Assessing the Need for Independent Project Reviews in the Department of
Energy and member of the committee that produced the NRC report Improving
Project Management in the Department of Energy. He served in numerous pro-
gressive Army Corps of Engineer positions in various locations over four decades.
Mr. Duscha is currently an engineering consultant to various national and foreign
government agencies, the World Bank, and private sector clients. He has served
on numerous NRC committees and recently served on the Committee on the
Outsourcing of the Management of Planning, Design, and Construction Related
Services as well as the Committee on Shore Installation Readiness and Manage-
ment. He now chairs the NRC Committee on Research Needs for Transuranic
and Mixed Waste at Department of Energy Sites. He has also served on the
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment and was vice chairman
for the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology. Other positions held
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were president, U.S. Committee on Large Dams; chair, Committee on Dam
Safety, International Commission on Large Dams; executive committee, Con-
struction Industry Institute; and the board of directors, Research and Management
Foundation of the American Consulting Engineers Council. He has numerous
professional affiliations, including fellowships in the American Society of Civil
Engineers and in the Society of American Military Engineers. He holds a B.S.
degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota, which awarded
him the Board of Regents Outstanding Achievement Award.
G. Brian Estes is the former director of construction projects at Westinghouse
Hanford Company, where he directed project management functions supporting
operations and environmental cleanup of the Department of Energy Hanford
nuclear complex. He was appointed as a member of this committee because of
his experience with DOE, as well as other large-scale government construction
and environmental restoration projects. He served on the committee that pro-
duced the recent NRC report Improving Project Management in the Department
of Energy and has served on a number of other NRC committees. Prior to joining
Westinghouse, he completed 30 years in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps, achiev-
ing the rank of rear admiral. Admiral Estes served as commander of the Pacific
Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and as commander of the
Third Naval Construction Brigade at Pearl Harbor. He supervised over 700
engineers, 8,000 Seabees, and 4,000 other employees in providing public works
management, environmental support, family housing support, and facility plan-
ning, design and construction services. As vice commander, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command, Admiral Estes led the total quality management transfor-
mation at headquarters and two updates of the corporate strategic plan. He
directed execution of the $2 billion military construction program and the $3
billion facilities management program while serving as deputy commander for
facilities acquisition and deputy commander for public works, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command. He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the University
of Maine, an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois, and is a
registered professional engineer in Illinois and Virginia.
David N. Ford is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Texas A&M
University. He serves as a member of this committee because of his expertise in
evaluating project management with analytical methods and simulations. He
researches the dynamics of project management and the strategy of construction
organizations, as well as teaching project management and computer simulation
courses. Current research projects include an investigation into the causes of
failures to implement fast-track processes and the value of contingent decisions
in project strategies. Prior to his appointment at Texas A&M, Dr. Ford was an
associate professor in the Department of Information Sciences at the University
of Bergen in Norway. He was one of two professors to develop and lead the
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graduate program in the system dynamics methodology for 4 years. Dr. Ford' s
research during this time focused on the dynamics of product development pro-
cesses and included work with Ericsson Microwave to improve that company's
product development processes. Dr. Ford designed and managed the develop-
ment and construction of facilities during 14 years in professional practice for
owners, design professionals, and builders. The projects varied in size and facility
type, including commercial buildings, residential development, industrial, com-
mercial, and defense facilities. He serves as a reviewer for the journals Manage-
ment Science, Journal of Operational Research Society, Technology Studies, and
System Dynamics Review. Dr. Ford received his B.C.E. and M.E. degrees from
Tulane University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in dynamic engineering systems.
G. Edward Gibson is an associate professor of civil engineering, associate chair-
man for architectural engineering, and the Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellow in
the Construction Engineering and Project Management program at the University
of Texas at Austin. He serves as a member of this committee because of his
expertise and research in preproject planning, organizational change, and the
development of continuing education training programs for project managers.
His research interests include organizational change, preproject planning, con-
struction productivity, electronic data management, and automation and robotics.
Dr. Gibson heads up the owner/contractor work structure thrust area of the Center
for Construction Industry Studies funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He
received the Outstanding Researcher Award of the Construction Industry Insti-
tute (CII) for his pioneering work in preproject planning and is an author or
coauthor of numerous articles and reports on this subject, including the CII Pre-
Project Planning Handbook and the CII Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI).
He also developed several CII education modules for continuing education and
has taught over 125 short courses to industry in such areas as objective setting,
team alignment, continuous improvement, preproject planning, and materials
management. He received an M.B.A. from the University of Dallas and a B.C.E.
and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Auburn University.
Theodore C. Kennedy (National Academy of Engineering) is chairman and
cofounder of BE&K, a privately held international design-build firm that pro-
vides engineering, construction, and maintenance for process-oriented industries
and commercial real estate projects. Mr. Kennedy serves as a member of the
committee because of his experience and expertise with the design, construction,
and cost estimation of complex construction and engineering projects. BE&K
companies design and build for a variety of industries, including pulp and paper,
chemical, oil and gas, steel, power, pharmaceutical, and food processing. BE&K
is consistently listed as one of Fortune magazine's Top 100 Companies to Work
For, and BE&K and its subsidiaries have won numerous awards for excellence,
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innovation, and programs that support its workers and communities. Mr. Kennedy
is the chairman of the national board of directors of INROADS, Inc., and is a
member of numerous other boards, including the A+ Education Foundation and
the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. He is also a member of the
Duke University School of Engineering Dean's Council and the former chairman
of the Board of Visitors for the Duke University School of Engineering. He is the
former president of Associated Builders & Contractors and the former chairman
of the Construction Industry Institute. He has received numerous awards, includ-
ing the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Duke University, the Walter A.
Nashert Constructor Award, the President's Award from the National Associa-
tion of Women in Construction, and the Contractor of the Year award from
Associated Builders and Contractors. Mr. Kennedy has a B.S. in civil engineer-
ing from Duke University.
Michael A. Price is manager of education programs for the Project Management
Institute (PMI), an international association of project management professionals
that provides accreditation and training. He was appointed to this committee
because of his experience and expertise in developing and evaluating project
management training programs. Dr. Price is responsible for the development and
implementation of operational plans for all PMI educational programs and initia-
tives, including accreditation of degrees in project management, selection and
coordination of 150 public seminars annually, management of continuing educa-
tion requirements and record keeping for 22,000 project management profession-
als, and identification of new educational products and programs to meet the
learning needs of the global project management community. Previous to his
present position, Dr. Price was director of professional practice for the American
Institute of Architects (AIA) and director of programs for architecture and engi-
neering with the Research Center for Continuing Professional and Higher Educa-
tion at the University of Oklahoma. He is an active member of the AIA and has
been a member of the Education System Audit Review Task Group and the site
visitation team for the National Architectural Accreditation Board. Dr. Price has
a B.S. in environmental design, a B. Arch., an M.Ed., and a Ph.D. from the
University of Oklahoma.
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