Dr. Spear is the Owner and Principal Consultant of Project Performance Improvement, LLC. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and has 45+ years of experience in leading international E-C companies in the onshore and offshore oil and gas, petrochemical and power industries. He has served on project leadership teams executing EPC projects with TICs ranging from $25 million to $2 billion in all phases of a project ranging from FEL-2 through mechanical completion.Project roles have included serving as a Project Quality Manager and Senior Project Consultant responsible for ensuring that E-C contractors’ project execution systems and CII - IPA Value Improvement Practices, were planned and effectively implemented on projects. He is an expert in facilitating VIPs for Technology Selection, Class of Plant Quality, Design to Capacity, Process Simplification, Energy Optimization, Water Minimization, Project Risk Management and Project Lessons Learned, and in leading Phase-Gate Reviews at the end of all EPC phases. The VIPs he has facilitated have led to well over $500 million in project cost savings. Dr. Spear also has extensive experience in supporting IPA in supporting Project Assessments during FEL-2 and FEL-3, and in analyzing and identifying improvement opportunities in IPA Performance Benchmarking Reports.Dr. Spear also has extensive specialized training in business improvement methodologies, and has benchmarked their use in more than 50 U.S. companies who have achieved best-in-class performance in their industries. His experience includes implementing methodologies to improve both manufacturing and project delivery processes, including Total Quality Management, Theory of Constraints, Critical Chains, Value Engineering, Systems Thinking, Lean and Six Sigma. These insights have allowed him to lead corporate business improvement initiatives in a leading E-C contractor that achieved best-in-class improvements in project execution, customer satisfaction, employee motivation, management leadership and financial performance.Robert is a Professional Engineer (Alberta) and has served on two CII Research Teams identifying best practices in TQM applied to the E-C industry.
Listed skills include Six Sigma, Quality Management, Project Planning, Process Improvement, and 3 others.
