Glen L. Eaton Email & Phone Number

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Engaged by contractors in Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, North Dakota, Ohio, Virginia and California to pursue equitable contract adjustments for their claims against facility owners and/or prime contractors. Engaged pro bono to advise Kentucky developer regarding his claim against his site contractor for defective construction. (To view the engagement examples, click the viewer icon, right-click the image, then click: "View Image".)

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Closed ECS, Inc. as a Government contracting business December, 1997 as result of extreme losses not of my making on two Corps of Engineers contracts at Ft. Bragg, NC.By then, I needed $350,000 just to be dead broke. I attempted to open meaningful negotiations with the Corps of Engineers which failed. I ultimately sought justice at the available Federal Government boards of contract appeals and the Federal courts. From mid-1998 until final negotiated settlement May, 2004, I pursued recovery of money damages on these contracts. By early,1999, the Corps’ Savannah contracting officer had rendered all final decisions on my claims in the negative. So I - [See attached document for continuation of this unhappy chronicle](To view the attachment, click the viewer icon, right-click the image, then click: "View Image".)

Vicksburg District Corps Of Engineers District Waterways Experiment Station

Full charge Site Manager, Rust Constructors, Inc., Birmingham (a Washington Group company, it’s government contracts element), on its Vicksburg District four-year IDIQ/Job Order contract. My staff was two superintendants; they in turn supervised the subcontractors. I estimated and contracted new “task orders” with the Corps (typically $50,000 to $200,000), negotiated and issued subcontracts, completed old task orders, pursued outstanding claims, and negotiated same. The contract and the job office were then closed, which completed the scope of my original engagement by Rust. (To view the attachment, click the viewer icon, right-click the image, then click: "View Image".)

Various: Ne, In, De, Tn, Ga, Ky, Ok, Nc, Mi, Al And Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Hands-on field manager-construction engineer practitioner. Many years of experience dealing with subcontractor issues, schedule issues and performance recoveries, as well as potential default problems. Consummate mentor of young, trainable, construction engineers and supervisors.Career-long history of operations safety indoctrination and practice; see list of Corps of Engineers projects below. Extensive experience U.S. Government projects. At Vicksburg (see list below), I personally produced all monthly & weekly performance & financial reports, handled all accounts payable, invoicing, negotiated, wrote and administered all subcontracts, in addition to full responsibility for estimating and negotiating the price of all new Task Orders with the Corps of Engineers. Strong track record with problem workouts. In 1992, I was engaged by a failing contractor’s supporting bank to cut losses and complete a $48 million U.S. Army family housing project in Europe. Successfully completed in one year, earning the Army Post and award. Retained by the Bank for another year to control the warranty issues ensuing, and support the U.S. legal team in contract claims. Instrumental in very substantial cost recovery.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Superintended the ground-up construction and finishes of 15,000 sf, steel framed 2-story pharmacy operations headquarters facility for large nursing home operator. Superintendent, other store build-out, maintenance and repair issues on housing and store structures, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Negotiated surety and credit lines, entered sealed bid, fixed price, U.S. Government construction contracting business. Awarded first project August, 1994. Subsequently five (5) more projects. (See “starred” (*) projects in the 1-page, 1958 - 2001 “Overview” experience spreadsheet.) Bidding Record, December, 1993 -December, 1996: Bid 43 projects totaling approximately $14 million. Low on $3.7 million, some $1.4 million going un-awarded due to lack of owner funding or other owner reasons. Average below 2nd low bidder: approximately 10%. (This project size range is considered by some contractors to be the most competitive “hard-bid” construction market of any.)Closed contracting business 12/1997; surety bond and working capital credit lines suffered fatal shock by government’s defective design delays and other government-caused contract and corporate financial disruptions. Small-contractor financing insufficient to sustain these disastrous losses, or to obtain the level of legal counsel necessary for successful recovery pursuit.

U.S. Army Post, Vilsek, Germany

ECS, Inc. was engaged to provide the General Site Manager, U.S. Army tank training base, Vilseck, Germany - July, 1992 until August, 1993, for international investment bank in bank takeover to complete $48,000,000 family housing project, cut further losses. The Bank was Letter of Credit (LOC) holder & primary financier for U.S. based continuing joint venture partner (previous German partner having taken protection under bankruptcy), itself near-bankrupt. Brought project to “substantial” and successful completion 8/93, for which owner received the Army’s “Communities of Excellence” award. More importantly, Bank was able to withdraw its DM2.4 million LOC. Retained by Bank until June, 1994 to manage warranty work effort from the U.S. and also collaborate with legal team to execute claim preparation and cost recovery efforts. This resulted in recovery by Bank of an additional DM11.7 million in equitable adjustment to contract. (At the outset, I identified and recommended to the Bank’s General Manager the legal team, Watt, Tieder, Hoffer & Fitzgerald, which managed the successful workout and final negotiations.)

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Until 1991, engagements focused on helping contractor-clients work out of problems, seek cost recovery under contract clauses. Engaged by contractors in based in NY, CA and FL to formulate cost recovery procedures on projects in NY,CA, FL, PA, MA,TX and the Virgin Islands. The resulting claims approached $20Mil. and ultimate recovery was upwards of 40%, substantially due to my fact organization, analysis & writing skills. [Click here to see some examples of these engagements.] 1990: Numerous cost estimating engagements, contractor-client support on quantity surveys and direct field cost pricing, large international projects in the South Pacific, Egypt and South America. These included embassies, water and sewage treatment plants and general infrastructure. I staffed this with experienced construction trade estimators working as independent contractors remotely from my office. We coordinated our spreadsheets by telephone-modem connections. July 1991: Began moving ECS, Inc. toward general contractor business. From 3/91 to 7/92: pricing, bidding and constructing sealed-bid, "hard-dollar" U.S. government, state and city commercial projects in a project-by-project, joint venture, profit sharing arrangement under another general contractor’s bond and insurance lines.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Same as above but in California and Florida.

Atlanta, Georgia

PBT was the general engineering-architect consultant to the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Executed CPM schedule analysis on extended performance, acceleration and disruption claims of tunnel, structure, electrical, and mechanical contractors. Reduced same to less complex elements for presentation. Employed CPM networking technique testing on contractor's schedules in defense of extended performance and delay claims, capsulized elements into presentation form, as well as made presentations. Performed cost estimate, change order and specification analysis.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Similarly engaged by same Group to begin producing conceptual “order-of-magnitude” estimates for a $500,000,000 major housing and infrastructure project for the Saudi government in Riyadh. The Saudis shelved the project study in late November, 1977.

Kingdom Of Jordan

Engaged as an independent consultant-construction operations expert and cost and schedule analyst by a Lebanese consulting group. The group itself engaged by an Arab Bank, the holder of the multi-million dollar letters of credit on the largest infrastructure contractor in the Kingdom of Jordan. Traveled to air base and road projects for on-site worker interviews, visual inspections and data collection. These were all multi-million Dinar projects, the highways being 30 to 50 miles in length, all in harsh, equipment-intense conditions.Experienced third world desert construction with the Palestinian and Jordanian workers and supervisors. Analyzed the contractors problem issues on the new highway to Baghdad out in the Jordanian "panhandle".Basalt is commonly known as one of the hardest of all rock formations. Basalt of that density was later shown to destroy all rock crushing units available from England, France, or anywhere else in a matter of three or four days. The contractor therefore would have to replace nearly all elements in the hammermill, jaw crusher or any other type rock crushing unit in a matter of a week or less. Investigated and wrote reports on these and numerous other issues the group officials used in their own reports to the bank of the financial and management "health" of its financially supported contractor.

Omaha, Ne

Field inspection and office design work.Storm waste water and sanitary sewers in Nebraska and Iowa.Worked on design and cost estimates for Military clients for projects on military posts in the mid-west and western U.SFiled investigation in South Dakota for Minuteman Missile silo sites. Worked in company's Seattle office on ammunition storage facility for Hill AFB, UT.

Davisville, Ri

Korean War intervened, I chose the Navy. "Boot Camp" in San Diego until June 1951. My test scores permitted Navy school rather than being immediately assigned a ship and sea duty. I chose and reported to Port Hueneme for Seabee Heavy Equipment school. I was assigned mobile construction battalion one. After graduation in September of 1951, I reported to my assigned home port in Davisville, RI. Deployments:1. Orange, TX (re-commission LST barracks boat) 2. Naples, Italy (motor pool & other)3. Guantanamo Bay NS. Five (5) 6-months each, (family housing site preparation) 4. Argentina, Newfoundland NAS (extend north end N-S runway into Atlantic Ocean)Commanding officer recommended me for Officers Candidate School in return for my reenlistment, I instead chose Honorable Discharge, Brooklyn Navy Yard, March 5, 1955.

Michigan

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.)

Education record

Diploma