VMS team leaders have performed
hundreds of value studies
VMS
team leaders possess broad expertise to meet specific client and
project needs
VMS
team leaders are supported by experienced technical writing and
administrative staff
VMS specializes in leading value studies. Our Certified Value
Specialists (CVS) serve as Project Managers and Team Leaders to plan,
organize, conduct, and document the value study. Key elements
for developing meaningful results are proper project selection and
establishment of realistic and challenging goals for the value study.
VMS Team Leaders work with you during the planning process to assure
successful results from your VM efforts. VMS can execute
value studies at any stage of the design and construction process and
is familiar with a multitude of VE study formats ranging from
Partnering for Design, Functional Analysis Concept Design (FACD)
studies, Constructibility Review, Project Alignment and the management
of Value Engineering Incentive Clauses.
Terry Hays, CVS Life, FSAVE
Terry Hays
is a mechanical engineer with 30 years of experience in engineering, design and
value management for a variety of applications. He has extensive experience in
leading Value Methodology training seminars and workshops for government,
municipal and industrial clients and has participated in many detailed value
studies of technical facilities and processes. Mr. Hays' engineering
assignments have included the design and development of components for the
automobile industry, directing value studies which focus on future
products and development, structural analysis of new vehicles, and concept
development for new products.
Mr. Hays has conducted nearly 500 VM studies on a
wide range of Construction projects. He has served as project manager and
principal team leader for indefinite quantity VM contracts with the California
Department of Transportation, Southwest and Pacific Divisions-Naval Facilities
Engineering Command, New York City-Office of Management & Budget, and Corps
of Engineers-Sacramento District.
Mr. Hays is a leader in applying the Value
Methodology process to the development of program concepts (FACD) and planning
strategies. He is experienced in conducting customer/user focus panels to
identify and understand critical project issues, and use this information during
the value study. Mr. Hays has integrated focus panel and VM techniques into the
Partnering Sessions, Concept Development and Planning Studies he conducts.
Robert B. Stewart, PMP, CVS Life
Mr. Stewart manages VMS’ operations in the
Pacific Northwest. He has been an instructor in
many SAVE approved Module I VM Training Workshops sponsored by a
variety of educational institutions, government agencies, and
private companies.
Mr. Stewart has participated in hundreds of value
studies, as both facilitator and project manager, for a wide range
of projects. He is a past instructor at
Portland
State
University
where he taught graduate level courses in Value Engineering, and at
UC Berkeley, where he taught classes at the University Extension.
In 2001, he was awarded the Federal Highway
Administration’s award for “Most Outstanding Value Engineering
Study” for his efforts on the I-215 Improvement Project in
San Bernardino
,
California
. Most recently, he was awarded an “Honorable Mention” by
AASHTO for a VE/Constructibility Review Study he led for the Seismic
Retrofit of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2002.
Mr. Stewart has made a
number of innovations to the Caltrans Value Analysis program.
This includes the development of performance measurement techniques
that allow Caltrans to effectively measure the qualitative
improvements of value alternatives. This, in turn, makes it
possible for Caltrans to track the overall value improvement for a
project resulting from a VA study.
Luis Venegas, PE, CVS, LEED®
AP
Luis Venegas has over 37 years of engineering
experience in architectural and civil engineering disciplines.Mr. Venegas’ considerable design experience ranges from
high-tech laboratories and vivariums in the medical/healthcare and
pharmaceutical industries, to a multitude of military facilities for
the United States armed forces, to ancillary facilities for
zoological parks.
As a registered professional engineer, a Life
Certified Value Specialist and a member/Fellow of the SAVE College
of Fellows, Mr. Venegas has served as team leader on more than 425
VE studies for a wide array of diverse construction and process
related projects that include military facilities, water and
wastewater facilities, transit/transportation facilities (roads,
bridges, interchanges, intersections, airports, vehicle/bus
maintenance depot, and inter-/intra-modal facilities, etc.),
high-tech laboratories, and environmental clean-up/control
facilities to name a few.He has served as project manager and lead facilitator for
contracts with the Georgia and Ohio Departments of Transportation;
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic,
Northwest, and Pacific Divisions; U.S. Corps of Engineers Louisville
District; and Department of Energy - Oak Ridge Tennessee among
others.
Prior to joining VMS, Inc., Mr. Venegas’
extensive experience in architecture, civil engineering, and cost
estimating enabled him to have serviced as the Program Director for
the VE, Architect/Engineer (A/E) Liability, and Southeast Coastal
Architecture Programs for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
Office in Charge of Construction (OICC) TRIDENT Submarine Base Kings
Bay, St. Marys Georgia; at that time, the largest military
construction project undertaken by the Navy during peace time
activity at $1.7 billion dollars.
Fred Kolano, CVS Life
Mr.
Kolano has 25 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing and Value
Methodology. He has led over one hundred value
studies and training workshops for clients in engineering, manufacturing and
management.
Mr.
Kolano serves as a value team leader and co-facilitator. His broad
experience has been used to improve processes, services, facilities and products
in industry and government settings.As
an industrial engineer, he has conducted numerous process improvement studies.
His engineering assignments have included the development of facility upgrades
and process improvements in the chemical and aerospace industries. He also has
considerable experience in environmental restoration and waste management
project design, conducting over 25 value studies in this area.
Mr.
Kolano also has been an expert facilitator of hundreds of team building, issues
and conflict resolution meetings and retreats. Team size has ranged from five to
upwards of 40 individuals. He has extensive expertise and formal training in
Value Methodology, process improvement and facilitation skills and an excellent
understanding of interpersonal skills and group dynamics. Mr. Kolano has
considerable management experience. He has used this to effectively
understand both the management and subject matter expert viewpoints and to
quickly build individual rapport and team synergy. He has served as
manager, lead and supervisor in small and large organizations.
Mark Watson, PE, CVS
Mark Watson is a registered Professional Engineer
and Certified Value Specialist (CVS).He has an in-depth knowledge of the Value Methodology (VM)
and the application of it to many types of construction and design
related projects.Mark's
experience includes value studies on a wide array of projects that
cover the gambit of the design and construction industry.He has conducted value analysis, value engineering, and value
planning studies on roads, bridges, water and wastewater facilities,
transit facilities, airport facilities, and drainage facilities, as
well as buildings for education, health care, prisons, vehicle
maintenance facilities, barracks, and U.S. embassy and consulate
operations.His varied
project VE experience also includes more unusual and high-profile
projects such as the multi-modal Farley Post Office
Redevelopment/Moynihan Station in New York City
and the Transbay
TerminalBuilding in San Francisco. The sizes of these projects and
programs on which Mark has conducted value studies have ranged from
a few hundred thousand dollars in capital costs to as high as $6
billion.Mark has led VE
studies on projects in all stages of design from the
schematic/planning stage to 100% complete.
Howard Sole, CVS Life
Mr. Sole has over 30 years of experience as a Municipal Consultant. His
career experience spans all phases of project delivery. He has served
as Principal Planner, Project Manager, Program Manager, Resource
Manager, and Principal in Charge for many public projects. As an AICP
certified planner he has both participated in and lead the development
of over 25 USEPA 201 Wastewater Facility Plans. As a program and
construction manager he has served in a wide range of capacities from
onsite manager to Principal in Charge for a major US engineering and
construction management Firm. His expertise in this area includes water
and wastewater, K-12 to higher education, rail stations, and municipal
facilities, to name a few. Mr. Sole has also served in the public
sector as a representative on municipal committees and boards, giving
him a unique understanding of public projects. Mr. Sole’s extensive
experience in VE includes transportation; water, and wastewater
treatment plants; and environmental, military, corrections, justice, and
educational facilities as well as private work in the pharmaceutical
industry. With his broad range of program/project experience he has
been an effective Team leader for planning and design charrettes, VE
studies, and Functional Analysis Concept Development projects.
George Hunter, CVS, PE, PMP
George Hunter is a Certified Value Specialist
(CVS) and a registered professional civil engineer. He is an
experienced VE team leader (VETL), trainer, and the former Value
Analysis (VA) Program Manager for the California Department of
Transportation (Caltrans). He has conducted multiple training
courses and advised foreign government agencies on value management
program development. In addition to his value management experience,
he has extensive experience in the design, construction, and
management of transportation projects.
Mr. Hunter’s 23 years of experience in design and
construction includes 9 years of transportation sector value
management as well as service on the AASHTO Value Engineering
Technical Committee. Since receiving his Bachelor of Science in
civil engineering, he has performed as a project manager, VE program
manager, VE team leader (VETL), and trainer. He has led more than
100 studies of diverse construction projects throughout the
United States, Latin America, Western Europe,
and Asia.
As a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Mr. Hunter
focuses on applying VE as a project management tool to improve
and balance project scope, schedule, budget, and quality. To
this end, he has developed a project performance measurement
tool, and his work integrates risk management and value
management.
