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Pegasus-Global prides itself on the fact that our consultants have "been there done that" having worked on some of the world’s largest mega projects. The Pegasus-Global team has been carefully selected to ensure the highest level of competence and the widest possible experience base in their respective fields.

As you browse through our list of specialist consultants you'll understand how their vision, reputation and experience continues to keep Pegasus-Global at the internationally competitive levels required in today's engineering and construction consulting climate.

Please click on the 'more...' link below each brief to view a complete resume of each team member.

James H. Anspach, P.G.

Mr. Anspach is a Pegasus-Global Specialist Consultant and an authority on standard of care issues for the practice of subsurface utility engineering. He has 30+ years' experience, 25 years of which has been with So-Deep, in the research, development, and application of risk management techniques in the field of utilities. His specialties include: surface geophysical techniques for the purpose of utility identification and detection, conflict analysis, relocation coordination, condition assessment, and data development, retention and management.

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Gary L. Bane

Mr. Bane is a Pegasus-Global Specialist Consultant who specializes in the development and management of deep ocean and offshore technology projects. Previously as an executive at Rockwell, his principal areas of technical expertise include manned submersibles and work systems, unmanned and autonomous underwater vehicles, offshore systems and structures, deep ocean hardware and instrumentation, acoustical sensors and subsystems and offshore / sea floor oil and gas recovery and production systems.

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Jenelle Black

Ms. Black is a Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. (Pegasus-Global) Supporting Consultant. With 25 years of research and design experience she provides assistance to senior management with research and document management services and provides analysis of events and key issue identification pertaining to Pegasus-Global Clients,. She has extensive knowledge of a variety of online and other research tools. Ms. Black reviews and monitors budgets, develops databases and interfaces with clients and agencies in her role as Supporting Consultant.

Ms. Black has managed both the contracting and the execution of research and monitoring projects, assisted in project scoping and project design development, reviewed and evaluated reports and coordinated the efforts of analysis teams. She has designed document management databases, spreadsheets, exhibits and graphics for use in analyzing and displaying analyzed results.

Prior to joining the Pegasus Global, Ms. Black managed and advised on environmental research and monitoring projects for agencies and environmental and engineering firms

In addition to Ms. Black’s Project Management experience and expertise, her technical expertise includes stream geomorphology; headwater stream hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology. She has participated in fish habitat assessment, slope stability assessment and stabilization, and has performed Washington State watershed analysis and other forest ecological assessment methods and designed environmental monitoring systems. She is experienced in aerial photo interpretation, GIS mapping and analysis, fluid mechanics and flows and statistical analysis database packages (SAS and SPSS).

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James Crumm

Mr. Crumm is a Pegasus-Global Specialist Consultant and has extensive experience in the management and control of engineering and construction projects. Mr. Crumm previously held several senior management positions at Foster Wheeler including President and CEO of the Foster Wheeler North American and Asian power boiler equipment business units. He has worked on a wide range of projects internationally, responsible for all phases of project execution, procurement and construction of process plants projects. Drawing upon his 40+ years of experience, Mr. Crumm is involved in all aspects of Pegasus-Global's Risk Management, Management Consulting, and Strategic advisory engagements.

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Claudio A. Dall' Acqua

Mr. Dall' Acqua is a Pegasus-Global Specialist Consultant. Mr. Dall' Acqua has more than three decades of experience as a Civil Engineer and has extensive experience as a General Contractor in the construction industry and engineering special services. He has built more than two million square meters of diverse types of construction plants for Brazilian and multinational companies, governments, real estate
contracts and others. He has post graduate studies in Business Administration and Engineering for Safety Work in Construction and served as the Past President of UPADI, the umbrella non-profit engineering organization representing all Latin and South American engineering societies.

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William P. Henry, P.E.

Mr. Henry is a Pegasus-Global Special Consultant with more than 40 years experience in the engineering-construction industry, primarily on water resources and environment projects. He served as a technical contributor, project manager, corporate officer, and general manager of major international companies including Parsons Brinkerhoff. Mr. Henry's responsibilities included engineering analyses and design, report preparation, plans, specs and cost estimate preparation, construction oversight, expert testimony, organization development, staffing and quality management. He also served as the 2005 National President of the American Society of Civil Engineers and continues to lead the world-wide engineering effort on combating bribery and corruption.

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Peter Hughes

Mr. Hughes is a Pegasus-Global Specialist Consultant and as an Engineer and a Lawyer he has experience at many program and project levels. He has provided the legal, risk management framework, contract negotiation, project development, process management, project and team management, and Insurance management for projects and organizations. Mr. Hughes provides significant engineering, Management and Legal expertise making him an integral part of our Risk Management team. Mr. Hughes has experience in the development of design/build alliance management and documentation and for legislation. He provided counsel and lobbying support on pending federal legislation and regulations, particularly energy, environmental, labor and international business matters. His experience in Project Delivery business / project development, minimizing claims and litigation brings a unique blend of disciplines to the table in our Management Consulting Division. Mr. Hughes was engaged in international and domestic project development for water, wastewater, federal, transportation, and environmental projects, and design/build alliance management and documentation. Prior to his legal work at CH2M Hill, he was employed at Bechtel Corporation and was heavily involved in several of the prudence audits in which Bechtel served as the Program Manager. Mr. Hughes was recently inducted into the American College of Construction Lawyers.

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Dana S. Hunter

Dana Hunter is a Pegasus Global Holdings Inc. Specialist Consultant with over 34 years of experience in the construction industry and more than 25 years of experience in estimating and Project Management in commercial projects. He is experienced in all forms of estimating including conceptual, hard bid and design-build. He also possesses a detailed background and understanding of all disciplines of the construction industry from architectural and civil systems to structural, mechanical and electrical systems. He has been instrumental in the coordination of the design efforts and preparations of cost proposals, negotiations and value engineering that lead to successful contract award. Upon award he is responsible of the design advancement to insure and control the design, mitigating scope and cost slippage, and manage the project until hand-off to the construction team for construction.

He maintains a diverse experience base of project management in government, public works and private sector projects ranging from extensive civil infrastructure work, structural systems, heavy industrial construction, commercial buildings construction, LEED certification, Building Information Modeling (BIM) and environmental and hazardous remediation.

Mr. Hunter has held such diverse positions as Building Inspector, Contractor Quality Control, Estimator, Project Manager, Superintendent and Project Engineer. His tasks have included site inspection, project close-out and value engineering. He is also experienced in change order scope pricing and negotiations and change management, Value Engineering and management and other construction management disciplines such as analyzing claims, providing claim support, job cost analysis and design analysis.

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Jason Kliwinski

Mr. Kliwinski is a Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. Specialist Consultant with over 14 years of experience in environmental design issues. He provides Pegasus-Global Holdings with assistance in the LEED Certification, architecture and project management processes of both public and private buildings. Mr. Kliwinski is a founding partner of The Green Living and Building Center, an integrated green consultancy specializing in product design, construction and education. Mr. Kliwinski is a thorough, experienced, and responsible Project Manager with extensive experience in all phases of the architectural profession from design preparation to project close out. Mr. Kliwinski has been heavily involved in the restoration, preservation, and adaptive reuse/renovation of existing facilities as well as design and construction of new buildings.
While studying architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Mr. Kliwinski explored the potential of sustainable design in the built environment. Mr. Kliwinski has served as President and then Vice-President of the American Institute of Architecture Students while at NJIT School of Architecture. One of his personal goals has been to educate the public and private sectors about contemporary methods of creating cost-effective, sustainable communities. Mr. Kliwinski is an adjunct professor at NJIT in the School of Architecture’s Masters in Sustainable Design degree program and one of a select few nationally recognized LEED Faculty in the United States.

Mr. Kliwinski’s educational and experiential qualifications are based on hands-on experience. He is intimately familiar with LEED standards and has applied them to successful “green” building projects including: the 162,000 sq. ft. LEED NC Gold Certified Microsoft School of the Future in Pennsylvania (USA) and the 3,000 sq. ft. LEED Homes Silver Certified, New Zero Energy Holmes-Rulli residence(USA).

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David J. Nash, P.E.

Mr. Nash is a Pegasus-Global Specialist Consultant who served in the U.S. Navy as a commissioned civil engineer for 33 years before entering the private sector. Having previously worked for major international engineering and construction companies including Parsons Brinkerhoff and BE&K, during his 43 year career as a professional engineer, he has experience at all program and project levels, including multi-million dollar complexes and multi-billion dollar infrastructure reconstruction programs. Mr. Nash has provided construction, program, financial and acquisition management services for programs and projects all over the world including multiple billion dollar global construction programs that encompassed industrial facilities, transportation, housing and utilities projects. Mr. Nash has provided strategic guidance and leadership to large government entities and private sector company executives focused on project development.

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Lia Nielsen

Ms. Nielsen is a Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. Consultant specializing in the management of commercial and institutional construction projects, particularly those seeking LEED certification. Ms. Nielsen has extensive experience in application and certification processes of LEED buildings and solar projects. Her educational background is in Business and Construction Management, which, with her specialization in sustainable building, brings a unique perspective to the construction projects she manages.

In 2005, while in graduate school, Ms. Nielsen spent three months in Tokyo, Japan learning about the Japanese construction industry with Maeda Construction, one of the five largest firms in the country. She also worked with the Japan Public-Private Partnership Association, studying the ways PPP agreements are utilized in different counties and how they might best be applied to projects in Japan.

Ms. Nielsen was one of the first people to be certified to teach the new accreditation program for contractors, G-Pro, which was developed by the Urban Green Council, New York City’s branch of the US Green Building Council. G-Pro accreditation is similar to LEED, but is geared toward contractors and tradesmen. Ms. Nielsen teaches through the Green Living and Building Center, where she runs all day-to-day operations, manages projects, prepares proposals and consults on both residential and commercial projects

Ms. Nielsen was instrumental in the LEED Gold certification of the Microsoft School of the Future in Philadelphia, PA, providing documentation and oversight services.

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Dr. Rajendra Niraula

Dr. Niraula is a Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. Special Consultant with more than 17 years experience in the international civil engineering and construction industry. He has worked for and provided consulting services to government and private organizations on construction and project management including procurement, contract administration, and project scheduling. Dr. Niraula is a recognized expert in procurement, contract management, contract administration, claim analysis, and project scheduling.

He graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the Institute of Engineering at the Tribhuvan University in Nepal in 1994. Dr. Niraula earned a PhD in Construction and Project Management from Kochi University of Technology in Japan in 2006.

Dr. Niraula is the Secretary General of the International Construction Management Forum in Asia (ICMFA) established in 2008 with faculties from 12 universities in Asia and Australia. The ICMFA focusses on enhancing construction and project management education in Asia. He is also the Secretary of the Nepal Council of Arbitration (NEPCA), and is a guest associate professor for the Institute of Technology of Cambodia in Cambodia.

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John L. Owen, P. ENG.

John L. Owen P. ENG.

Mr. Owen is a Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. Specialist Consultant. He has led a variety of management and forensic engineering analyses involving issues of engineering management, project and operations management, operations facility performance, management consulting and risk management assignments throughout the power, oil and gas, process, building and other industries. Mr. Owen’s brings 30 years of experience in the identification of risks and strategic evaluation of performance, prudence and related project specific and corporate issues to pegasus-Global's client base.

Mr. Owen has analyzed numerous utility and construction engagements, including the forensic analysis of the failure of electric generating stations, the delay and productivity analysis on utilities and commercial projects and the evaluation of engineering performance on multi-billion dollar construction projects.

Mr. Owen has extensive experience in the power industry relating to design and control systems. He has participated in the design of electrical protection and control schemes for hydroelectric power stations, substations and large industrial installations. He specializes in power system studies and planning, design of oil-filled cable systems and the development of computer programs for design calculations and physical design of large AC motors to 14,000hp.

Prior to joining Pegasus-Global as a Specialist Consultant, Mr. Owen was a Vice President and Director of The Nielsen-Wurster Group Inc., an international management consulting firm specializing in management consulting, risk management and dispute resolution. During his time with Nielsen-Wurster, Mr. Owen had a full time position as its Chief Operations Officer while also serving as the president of one of Nielsen-Wurster's subsidiary companies which specialized in forensic engineering.

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Howard L. Sobel, P.E.

Howard L. Sobel

Mr. Sobel is a Pegasus-Global Specialist Consultant. He has more than 35 years of experience in the power generation and construction industries involving design, engineering, change orders, specification preparation, bid evaluation, procurement, construction, startup, operations and maintenance using different contract forms including EPC and design / build. He is experienced in power plant construction, operation and FERC / state regulatory agencies. Projects have included new construction and renovations, power plants (cogeneration, combined-cycle, nuclear, fluidized bed), industrial plants, utility electrical systems and schools.

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Gerald W. Tucker, CPA (inactive)

Gerald W. Tucker

Mr. Tucker is a Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. Specialist Consultant, providing assistance in accounting and financial matters for regulated utilities, management audit services for utility systems and cost damage quantification services in utility and construction projects. His 40 years of experience include numerous large public facilities including roadway and bridge projects, nuclear power plants and fossil power plants and chemical refinery projects both in the United States and internationally. Mr. Tucker has performed reviews of financial management and accounting practices as part of Pegasus-Global’s comprehensive management audits for various state and government agencies. Mr Tucker also participated in the bond default and cost analysis associated with the failure of the Washington Public Power Supply System

Mr. Tucker provides Pegasus-Global’s clients with unique management expertise in all phases of the regulated utility industry, including reporting to the SEC, federal and state regulatory bodies. His experience includes development and application of Cost of Service calculations and Cost Allocation for operating utilities in support of rate applications. Mr. Tucker has testified on behalf of utility and intervenor groups in more than 30 regulatory proceedings in five states.

Mr. Tucker has extensive hands-on analysis in the areas of construction cost auditing, forensic cost accounting, damages quantification analyses, cost allocation reviews and accounting financial management process reviews. Prior to becoming a Specialist Consultant with Pegasus-Global, Mr. Tucker held the position of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc.

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