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Duncan Forsyth
Career Objective
Seeking a technically oriented, hands-on career opportunity that will enable me to enthusiastically apply my asset
performance, procurement and construction management knowledge, mechanical and technical aptitude to develop,
deliver, support and enhance highly effective solutions to competitive business opportunities within a professionally
challenging environment.

Professional Summary
Technical and management acumen, internationally, in business process improvement, financial analysis, project
management, executive management communication - reporting, budgeting, cost allocation, scheduling, logistics software development, implementation, integration, training and support, change management. Extensive industrial
& technical experience to include project management capabilities, technical and industrial training & experience in
tribology, computer network system planning, installation and maintenance and as a senior facilitator for
maintenance and engineering initiatives in large, process-industry, manufacturing facilities.

Professional Experience
Jan, 2015 - July, 2015

Altran, NA

Bordentown, NJ

Senior Cost Controller-Project Controls (site based Corpus Christi Buckeye Partners L.P.
Owners Rep.)
Plan, coordinate, supervise and perform tasks required to develop and maintain budgets and schedules for
assigned projects. Provide administrative and technical direction with project personnel, coding time sheets,
invoices, collecting actual installed quantities to cost and monitor progress for assigned projects.
Develop and implement project controls standards and procedures; monitor compliance and initiate corrective
measures as necessary.
Ensure all project cost, data collection, field estimating, productivity analysis, budget forecasting, scheduling
updates, progress reporting and problem analysis activities comply with specific project requirements.
Represent company cost engineering in meetings with client, engineering and owners representatives,
subcontractors and other project stakeholders, as required.
Maintain liaison with project management and supervision, accounting department, client and subcontractors on
all controls related items and functions including schedule updates, reporting requirements, budgets and cash
flow.
Support management through preparation and maintenance of budgets and forecasts to include identifying
potential cost overruns, reexamining over-expended accounts and margin analysis.
Interface with other various departments to provide cost and budget data for items such as subcontract change
requests, bid comparisons, new work item estimates and expenditure control.
Provide oversight of facilities administration office build-outs & fit-ups.

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Develop installation man-hours, material and equipment costs based on varying degrees of engineering definitions
from:

Process Flow Diagrams

Piping and Instrument Diagrams

Piping routing plans, Isometrics

General Arrangements

Electrical single lines and routing plans

Instrument index and loop diagrams

Civil and Structural layouts, elevations and sections

Ensure compliance with all documented estimating development, review and approval procedures.
Actively develop and maintain estimating system(s) and databases.
Data analyses to ensure costs are within budgets, coded correctly and adjusted as required.
Ensure projects adhere to published change management procedures.
Participate in analysis of forecast final costs.

2010 to 2014

NRG-Solar Partners

Princeton, NJ

Project Controls Manager-Cost Engineer(Lead)Procurement/Contracts

Administrator - (contract employee through Aerotek, ABS as Owners Rep.)
Middletown, CT Repowering ($300MN) & Ivanpah I, II, VIII, CA Solar-Thermal Power
Generation Plant ($2.3BN) builds & modifications.
Inspect delivered electro-mechanical packages and modules to ascertain compliance with engineered

specifications, vendor submittals and omission, shortage, defect & deviation (OSD&D) issues of power generation
plants.
Review details, specifications, drawings, schedule and cost impacts associated with proposed field change orders,
back-charges and liquidated damages and negotiations thereof.
Review, negotiate, revise contractor/vendor purchase orders and contracts to ensure compliance with governing
corporate terms, conditions, processes and procedures.
Develop IT support protocols with relevant IT managers providing on-going support to construction management
& operations team to included network infrastructure build-out coordination & project management aspects.
Provide owners rep supervision of facilities administration office buildouts & fit-ups.
Integrate cost, data and reporting with accounting and management information systems in order to meet
organizational performance and financial goals.
Develop, prepare, review and submit monthly financial records and reports for:

project accruals and actuals,

monthly funding draws (US Dept. of Treasury)

project completion forecasts,

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cashflow analysis,

C-Level management financial summaries,

requests for expenditures (RFE),

pro-forma financial modeling,

monthly project progress reports (US Dept. of Energy-DOE),

budget development & forecasting,

Davis Bacon(prevailing wage) - US Dept. of Labor required payroll submissions,

American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA) government scrutiny,

property tax calculations,

reconciliations between project financial reports & system of record - JDE.

earned value, productivity and risk analysis - utilizing cost metrics and tools to collect daily performance
data - installed quantities, expended labor hours, and other progress measurements for direct hire and
subcontract work.

Schedule preparation, analysis & review using Primavera P6.

Develop audit procedures of time & material, sales & use tax & reimbursable contracts in excess of $200MM.
Developed feasible system to process through Accounts Payable department in excess of 300 monthly electronic
invoices & oversight of day-to-day processing.
Collaborate, develop and integrate within a matrix organization effective workflow processes to ensure quality
change and document control management, and critical path method network analysis.
Prepare for and host internal and external audit team visits - KPMG, DOE.

2000-2010

Strategic Corp. Assessment Systems/ABS, Inc.

Boston, MA

Regional Director - Snr. Asset Management Project Manager

Collaborate and determine project scope - contracts, budgets, logistics, quality assurance, schedules, deliverables,
staffing resource allocation and management.
Responsible for planning, directing and coordinating functions for one or more areas of asset optimization/process
improvement projects through earned value and other productivity metrics - e.g. single, value-added, multifactor.
Utilize computer systems for data collection/generation/analysis of cost metrics associated with current asset
utilization and workflow processes in order to cost justify how improvements in process reliability can be
achieved through effective change management and implementation of new workflow processes.
Provide recommendations on direction of projects and track how effective changes in project scope - potential or
implemented - will be through cost/benefit analysis.
Experience with continuous improvement/ life cycle management - TCO/Cost-Risk Analysis/lean manufacturing
training and implementation with focus on process critical path, supply chain and associated inventories.
Collaborate with site management/personnel to ensure implementation of new workflow processes.
Determine and develop execution strategies, performance evaluations and training practices.

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Responsible for the control of all associated project documents and files.
Provide technical services and sales seminars to process-industry executives and engineers.
Identify opportunities for new and existing business.
Demonstrated initiative implementation highlights over 10-year analyst-consulting career include:

Integral involvement in $147MM OandM inventory optimization for major southeastern US power
authority over 6 years.

Routinely optimized annual maintenance budgets 20-35% of targeted facilities, while simultaneously
increasing OEE.

$500K OandM inventory optimization in one week (during emergency shutdown) for fossil power station,
despite several previous years of similar initiatives by a Big 4 consulting firm.

Specialist in power systems/utilities/generation, mining, chemical & consumer products, brief example of key
client assignments include Barrick Gold, Rio Tinto Mining, Florida Light and Power Turkey Point Nuclear,
Duke Energy Brunswick Nuclear, TVA, NRG, TransAlta, Hydro One, Westar Energy, Eli Lilly, CoorsMiller
Brewing, Philip Morris, Heineken, Dow Chemical, Methanex, Pilkington Glass.

1997-2000

TriTek Information Systems

St. Louis, MO

Senior IT Network Field Technician Wide Area Network

Managed team of fourteen (14) IT support technicians responsible for installation and maintenance of IT
infrastructure and premise wiring for a national investment companys northeast branches.
Duties included involvement and collaboration in planning, scheduling, coordination, quality assurance, inventory
management, service equipment repair and calibration, operational and financial reporting and team performance
evaluations.

1993-1997

Holzner Electric Construction /Northeast Generator

Bridgeport, CT

Site Supervisor, Project Manager

Initially site managed smaller (under $1MM) competitive bid (CB) construction projects.

Earned increased responsibility for site managing larger CB projects (under $2MM) culminating with
appointment as project manager for multiple and simultaneous CB projects with financial scope over $2MM.
Liaison between project stakeholders - principal, architect and engineering consultants, building officials and
committees, and state agencies.

Coordinated on-site verifications with project superintendents and contractors.

Collaborated in project bid process document prep., conferences, plan, spec. and addendum review and prep.,
contractor interview/negotiations and contract awards.

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Managed project cost control and scheduling through computer systems utilizing Pert, Gantt, CPM, earned-value
and multifactor productivity reports to stakeholders, to include change order negotiation, preparation and
presentation.
Summary of Important Projects:

State of Connecticut - Dept. of Developmental Services - Western CT group home HVAC installations.

Town of Trumbull - Booth Hill Elementary School - TLC addition, media center, gym alterations and code
compliance updates - asbestos abatement, life-safety upgrades.

Town of Trumbull - Town Library.

Town of Milford - JFK Elementary School - new media center addition, renovations, code compliance
updates - asbestos abatement, life-safety upgrades.

Town of Prospect - Community School - additions, renovations, code compliance updates - asbestos
abatement, life-safety upgrades.

City of Bridgeport - Town Hall and mayoral suite renovations, code compliance updates - asbestos
abatement, life-safety upgrades.

1991-1993

U.S. Army

Various

Bradley Fighting Vehicle Infantryman - (Rank: E4).

3-man team responsible for routine and operational-readiness vehicle maintenance.

1989-1991

Lubrication Engineers, Inc.

Ft. Worth, TX

Account Representative - outside industrial oil sales.

1985-1989

South Shore Builders, LLC.

Stamford, CT

Crew Lead residential stick framing and remodeling contractor in lower Fairfield County.
Provided daily site supervision of 3-6 man framing/remodeling crew.
Framed in excess of 25 new homes over 2,600 sq. ft.

Installed over 45 home kitchens.

Personally provided trim carpentry services of stain wood trim crown, dental, chair-rail, panel, colonial,
wainscot, picture, cove, etc.

1982-1985

Heritage Homes, Inc.

Stamford, CT

Crew Member new home & condominium construction to include Davenport Farm a 70-acre 41 home site
award winning development in North Stamford, CT.

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Education and Skills
University of Connecticut B. Sc., Business and Technology - 2009
Experienced with Work Management Systems, ERPs, CMMS SAP (certified-PM module), Maximo (7.5), MincomVentyx, GL Inquiry/JDE, Indus-Passport, Datastream, etc.
Experienced with scheduling software - Primavera v3, v6, MS Project.

Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and other Microsoft
productivity tools Visio, SharePoint.
OSHA-30 certified.
TWIC current through 2020.
SafeLandUSA
Basic (Safety) Orientation
Terrorist Response Awareness Program
Industrial Mgmt. Training Institute Waterbury, CT Electrical Tech. Program
US Army Combat Lifesaver Certification http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47327
Midwest Energy Assoc. (midwestenergy.org) EnergyU.org Elec 0103 Substation Safety, Elec 0105 PPE, Elec
0107 Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), OS 0111 First Aid, UGE 0102 Energy Industry Dynamics.
L and K International Divn. 243-01 Intro. to Hydraulics, 243-02 Hydraulic Systems, 243-03 Hydraulic Fluids,
511-01 Combustion Turbine Fundamentals, 563-10 Turbine Efficiency, 565-01 DCS Fundamentals, 603-01 I&C
Overview, 621-01 PLC Overview.
Operational experience with backhoe, excavator, forklift, scissor lift, 2 ton trucks, BFV, Humvee.

Professional References
Mr. Tim Fisk
Project Development Director (New Build) - NRG
832-357-5110
tim.fisk@nrg.com
Mr. Kim Davidson
Managing Director - Strategicorp
508-359-1966
kim.davidson@strategicorp.com
Mr. Charles Hackett
Business Analysis Manager NRG
609-524-4771
charles.hackett@nrg.com
Mr. George Anderson
Former Xcel Energy Sourcing Specialist (now semi-retired)
612-384-4721
Anderco7@mindspring.com

Remuneration - Negotiable; opportunity/duration dependent.

Misc. - Current Australian and USA passports.

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