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SECTION MEETING ANNNOUNCEMENT
Program
Program: AACE NJ Section Meeting – Project Controls Reporting: Having the Message Heard
Date: Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Location: Virtual via ZOOM
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
Project controls reports during the lifecycle of a project are critical to helping the management team understand
how the project is performing from a productivity, progress, schedule, and cost perspective. These reports provide
not only information about performance to date but forecast the likely outcomes at the completion of work.
However, all too often the critical messages in project controls reports are not heard or even worse ignored,
negating the benefit they provide in helping the team manage the project to a more successful outcome. These
reports often lack the necessary attributes to ensure the message is heard by the management team such that they
act on it. Best practice project controls reporting depends on having the right content, issued in a timely manner,
formatted well, with the issues identified and recommendations provided where possible. A well-structured, well
delivered project controls report is more likely to resonate with the management team and have the impact it should
on their decision making.
Speaker Bio
Ron Grant has more than 40 years of experience in the construction industry, with 35 years as a professional in
project management, project controls and dispute resolution. His background includes estimating, planning,
scheduling, resource and cost analysis, project management, change management, risk assessment and
mitigation, along with independent project oversight and dispute resolution. Prior to coming to HDR in 2014, Ron
worked for a broad spectrum of contractors, engineers, architects, owners and legal firms as an project
manager, consultant and expert witness on numerous projects and contractual delivery types ranging in size
from $1M to mega projects.
Ron is a member of the Dispute Review Board Foundation and a 20 year member of the American Arbitration
Association where he has severed on several Arbitration Panels including large complex matters. Ron joined
HDR as the Project Controls Director for HDR Constructors, hiring and developing a large team of project control
professionals. Since 2017 Ron has been the Dispute Management Leader for HDR’s Cross Sector Services
Project Controls group assisting both internal and external clients in handling and resolving construction
related disputes.
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Announcement
The New Jersey Section (Region 2) is pleased to announce its Board of Directors for 2020-
2021. Congratulations to all the members)!
Position
President
Dr. Pei Tang
Address
JCMS, Inc.
1741 Whitehorse Mercerville Road,
Hamilton Township, NJ 08619
Contact Information
(609) 977-9064
ptang@mtu.edu
Vice President
Ramani Sundaram, CCP,
CEP, PMP
STV Inc.
225 Park Ave South,
New York, NY 1000
(609) 330-8014
ramani551@msn.com
Treasurer
Allen Hamilton
Project Management Associates
LLC
3 Totten Way, Suite 110 Morris
Plains, New Jersey 07950
(973) 984-1853
ACHamilton42@outlook.com
Secretary
Lisa Wancowicz, PE, PSP
AECOM
30 Knightsbridge Rd. Suite 520,
Piscataway Township, NJ 08854
(732) 614-5211
lisa.wancowicz@gmail.com
Director, Corporate Sponsorship
Sahel Daqamseh
PMA Consultants
1350 Broadway, Suite 1810,
New York, NY 10018
(201) 268-4882
sahel.daqamseh@gmail.com
Director, Membership
Vishnu Divvela
Faithful & Gould
12 Hamilton Dr,
Cranbury, NJ 08512
(540) 449-1226
d.vishu@gmail.com
Director, Newsletter
Rohan P Mutha, CCM, CCP,
PSP, LEED AP, EIT
HDR, Inc.
500 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor,
New York, NY 10018
(224) 532-1878
rohanmutha@gmail.com