Gary Straub Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Responsible for Contract Management of existing and new contracts for hydro turbines, steam turbines, and services for the Americas. Scope includes executive management approvals, all legal interface, review and resolution of terms and conditions with and among business units, support business units with negotiation of client contracts, changes, establishing Master Service agreements, assist purchasing with review and resolution of sub-supplier agreements, corporate sale and purchasing terms and conditions for equipment and services.

Charlotte, Nc

Responsible for Contract Management of existing and new contracts for domestic and international BWR, PWR and Fast Breeder nuclear power generating plants. Scope includes executive management approvals, all legal interface, review and resolution of terms and conditions with and among business units, negotiation of client contracts, establishing Master Service agreements, assist purchasing with review and resolution of sub-supplier agreements, contractor licensing and corporate sale and purchasing terms and conditions for equipment, services and small modular nuclear generating plants. Management of executed contracts. Procedure writing. Reporting to the Assistant General Counsel-Bob Temple.

Responsible for procurement (equipment, services), site materials management and estimating support associated with the design, supply, and installation of fossil fired generating stations. Scope entailed mainly proposal, sale and supply of a $1.6B, 585 MW state of the art coal fired power plant for Dominion Energy in Virginia. Interfaced with all disciplines in support of project goals. Interfaced with legal and Prime Contracts groups to resolve major equipment terms and conditions (single contracts nearly $800M). Member of the procedure re-write, and AP-1000 nuclear audit teams. Purchasing software systems: Smartplant-Marian, Perfect Commerce, E-Room. Smartplant-Marian software trainer. Directly supervised team of 14 employees and over 100 sub-reports in the field. Reporting to the Director of Procurement-Ben Jones.

Responsible for procurement (subcontracts, equipment, services) associated with the proposal, design, supply, and service of circulating fluid bed boilers, bubbling bed boilers, and chemical recovery boilers. Created and implemented formal corporate wide procurement procedures. Established annual purchasing agreements and protocol agreements. Member of the Project Execution, and Service Workshop Task Force teams. Purchasing software system Oracle. Directly supervised team of 6 employees. Reported to Operations Manager Kevin Lynn-Lato.

Responsible for contract management of Task Orders for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Directly interfaced with government agencies commercially in support of execution of Task Orders associated with design, supply and installation of facilities overseas. Interfaced with all Fluor groups providing support services (engineering, estimating, procurement, compliance, etc). Functionally supervised 1 employee. Reported to Project Director-Mike Twitchell.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Responsible for procurement (subcontracts, equipment, services) associated with the design, supply, and installation of a turnkey CFB power boiler for Manitowoc Public Utilities.Reported to Director of Procurement-Jeff Wolfe.

Responsible for all procurement (subcontracts, equipment, services), materials management, logistics, and estimating support for power projects bid and administered from the Charlotte office. Interfaced with Ray Roth, General Council directly to resolve conditions of contract.Member of the Jones, Inc. Procurement Council, Proudfoot National Agreement Task Force and Colt / J.D. Edwards Implementation Team, Construction Leadership Team and the Procurement Leadership Team. ACCOMPLISHMENTS:Created and implemented formal corporate wide procurement procedures.Major participant to establish national purchasing agreements across the Jones, Inc. companies.Instrumental in setting up protocol agreements for conditions of contract with outside suppliers.Implemented Constructw@re software system on projects (home office and field).Assisted Jones Construction Co. with procurement services.Set-up internal office procurement procedures.Supported pharmaceutical projects in other divisions.Purchasing software systems LG Purch, Constructw@re, LG Contractors Database, PROLOG. Directly supervised team of 4 employees with dotted line responsibility to 7 field buyers.Reporting to Mike Adams-Vice President Power and then Don Zabilansky-Senior Vice President, with dotted line responsibility to Frank Hull-Director of Supply Management.

Responsible for procurement (subcontracts, equipment, services) and logistics for all capital projects in the eastern U.S.Member of the corporate Hiring BoardPurchasing software system trainer (Group 3 software)ACCOMPLISHMENTS:Resolved outstanding purchase order backlog and payments. Negotiated all terms and conditions. Identified and documented office procedures. Saved 4.5% on average on purchases beyond savings from national agreements and competitive bids. Annual purchases nearly $30M.Functionally supervised team of 2 employees. Reporting to Eastern Division Manager Scott Loomis

Responsible for procurement (subcontracts, equipment, services) and logistics for capital equipment, spare parts and services from the North American market to ISPAT steel mills worldwide.Co-chaired the 401k Plan CommitteeACCOMPLISHMENTS:Led the effort to provide project support services for capital mill expansions.Established purchasing agreements and standardized terms and conditions of sale.Instrumental in sales of products to 3rd parties. Established procedure for bid solicitation via e-mail.Functionally supervised 2 employees.Reported to General Manager Terry Durso.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Responsible for procurement (subcontracts, equipment, services) and estimating support associated with the design, supply, and installation of turnkey power boilers, chemical recovery boilers, circulating fluid bed boilers, gasifiers, evaporators, digesters, filters, and various retrofits in North America. Specific activities include vendor qualifications, inquiry, bid review, negotiation, final contract and contract administration on individual external orders through $12M. Interfaced directly with corporate legal to resolve final conditions of contract. Additional duties: 401k Plan Trustee Software Trainer Work Group Leader Lead Auditor Work Group Facilitator A partial listing of merit and open shop subcontract experience includes procurement of civil, structural steel, architectural, boiler erection, turnkey precipitators, boiler retrofit subcontractors, piping, electrical, instrumentation, refractory design/installation, insulation, and field erected tanks.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:Consistently obtained best value for products and services from outside vendors.Successfully interfaced with all internal and external customers in support of corporate goals.Lead company into selection and implementation of integrated corporate wide computerized accounting, purchasing, project management and estimating system (COINS).Significantly involved in work groups to establish policy and fine-tune the corporation resulting in ISO 9000 certification in 1994 on the first try.Instrumental in establishing national purchasing agreements and protocol agreements.Successfully changed corporation's 401K Plan and instilled confidence in the new system.Established procedure for bid solicitation and analysis via computer.Provided quality audit reports reducing third party audit durations.Functionally supervised up to 5 employees.Reported to Purchasing Managers Ben Jones and Alex Dick.

Responsible for marketing as manufacturer's representative of primarily power related goods and services to utilities, industries, consulting engineers, and OEM's in the Carolinas region for domestic and international projects. Included cradle to the grave responsibility. Sales included turnkey supply of equipment at the executive level with individual pieces of equipment through $17M.A partial listing of equipment handled included precipitators, baghouses, cooling towers, steam turbines, hydroturbines, feedwater heaters, valves, pumps, presses, dampers, filters, and treatment plants.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:Expanded company visibility at all levels for present and perspective clients.Instrumental in securing significant additional client base.Exceeded projected sales forecast for nearly every period.Successfully specified and sold equipment with no client perceived competitive equal.Instrumental in securing additional product lines. Functionally supervised up to 2 employees.

Responsible for inside and outside application engineering and sales support worldwide for valve, desuperheater and sootblower product lines to utilities (fossil and nuclear), industries, government, military, consulting engineers, and OEM's. Performed all sizing calculations, proposal preparation, and contract negotiations in support of representatives in the field. Efforts included technical client presentations, final negotiations and closing sales in the field. Interfaced with all engineering, manufacturing, product development and all support departments in pursuit of company goals.