Frank R. Walker, P.Eng., PMP President
Education &
Qualifications
Bachelor
of Engineering, Civil (Structural), University of Sydney, Australia – 1974
Project
Management Professional (PMP ® # 289), Project Management Institute (PMI) ® -
1989, Professional Engineer, BC, Canada – 1977, Turkey - 1979.
Background
TWG, incorporated in 1998, is
a similar, smaller company that supports clients through all the stages of the program
or project life cycle. It allows Frank to stay more hands-on with clients and
in PM instead of marketing and running large offices in multiple states. He is
an excellent leader with the ability to pull the best people together for a
project and to create great teams. He is adept in all the aspects of project
management including the management of time, resources, cost, risk, scope,
procurement, quality and communication. Specialties include, team planning,
fast-track project management, management by exception using earned value,
litigation avoidance and mediation. He is also experienced at portfolio
management and helps implement PM Offices (PMOs).
Frank’s seminars on PM, PMP certification & PM
software are in demand in North America, Europe and Austral-Asia. He has given PM
classes to more than 12,000 people. At Microsoft’s request, he led an in-house
team to produce and market GTW’s Project Partner (derived from our PVS
Mainframe software) and other Microsoft Project companion products and to
customize Microsoft Project for specific industries and companies. He has been
quoted in Fortune Magazine, Engineering News Record, PMI publications, etc. and
has lectured on Satellite/Webcasting and Distance Learning classes. Frank has
lived long-term in Sydney, Vancouver ,
Turkey
We have had no litigation on GTW or TWG projects
where we had a key role from the beginning. However, Frank has been called in
to mediate many construction disputes and as an expert witness on schedule
impact claims on non-GTW / TWG projects. He has learned a lot from others’
mistakes.
General Experience
Frank has worked forty plus
years on many unique and challenging projects worldwide for many different
industries and public agencies. He is currently giving PM classes in the USA
and Europe, helping with PM services on a large ERP project in Alaska, a
Spectra project to pipe natural gas from NJ into Manhattan, Distance learning
classes for Smartpros, Atkins, ASCE, et al. and is hoping to bring PM to the
medical profession at a famous hospital shortly. Construction projects are
still his #1 passion and he has a unique perspective because he has worked as
Owner, Designer, Contractor and PM consultant on so many interesting projects.
A small sample of past projects follows. See www.TWGpm.com and http://twgpm.blogspot.com/ for more details, clients, etc.
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Construction - High-rise buildings (e.g. QANTAS suspended floor building
and slip-formed buildings in Sydney). Transit projects in Sydney, Las Colinas,
Texas, and the Sky Train project in Vancouver, BC. Roads and Bridges in
Australia. Buildings and facilities with Baugh, Bayley, B.Northern, et al. Bid for
Hibernia off-shore platform in Canada with ES Fox. California earthquake repair
for FEMA, UI - 345kV Transmission and Facility projects, Amazon.com – fast
track facilities in USA & Germany, marine and port facilities, incl. the Sea-Bus
project in Vancouver, B.C., Pulp, Paper and Sawmill construction in North
American and Turkey, many high-school construction projects, gas distribution
with Henkels & McCoy, etc.
·
IT –Microsoft, AETS, NY Life, Vanstar, The Limited, United Illuminating
(UI) SAP project. State of Florida – PeopleSoft ERP implementation project,
DuPont (USA, Germany and Switzerland), various IT projects for DOF in Juneau,
Alaska. Pharmaceuticals - Novo-Nordisk, CTI.
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Miscellaneous - Mobil, Las Colinas Corp, 747 airplane retrofit for
Saudi Prince (USA & England), Moss-Adams, Ford, ModemMedia (USA &
England), Spectrum, International Institute for Learning (USA, Canada &
England), Mars Electronics (USA & Europe), Marystown Shipyard (Canada),
ABAM Engineers (USA & Canada), Harris Corp (USA & France).
·
Frank led a GTW team to help NEDA and the World Bank on Energy,
Transportation, Water Resources, Industry & Tourism and other projects in
Asia worth $10.8 billion US. His team also taught the principles of project
management and PM software directly and by training the trainers to help
institutionalize PM throughout the Philippines. He is particularly proud of the
hospitals we helped build for the urban poor.
·
GTW helped manage nine Boeing Company projects including the
state-of-the-art 530,000sf Integrated Aircraft System Laboratory (IASL) for the
new 777 aircraft.
Transit Experience
·
Frank was
Construction Manager of the APT Light Rail Transit System for DCURD and Las
Colinas Corporation, Dallas, Texas. This system uses Westinghouse vehicles on elevated
pre-stressed concrete beams. It will eventually connect with the DART system.
·
He managed the
construction of the elevated guide way for the Phase I Sky Train Transit System
in Vancouver, British Columbia. His team developed new computer driven variable
formwork methods for incorporating direct fixation track work into pre-stressed
concrete guide way beams, which resulted in significant cost savings. This
experimental phase finished on time and on budget in marked contrast to
subsequent phases. He learned a great deal about the importance of public relations
on these very sensitive and political projects.
·
Frank supervised
complicated steel false-work and formwork, dewatering, sheet-piling, winching
and post-tensioning of large precast segments for the Eastern Suburbs Railway
Viaduct Project in Sydney, Australia. These massive elevated, “at grade” and
tunnel structures support heavy rail double-deck trains running in both
directions through a very congested, prestigious part of Sydney.
·
Numerous bridges
in N.S.W. Australia, in B.C while working for Dillingham Construction and in
the Philippines for the World Bank.
Ports and Harbors
·
GTW supplied PM / construction management services to the Port of
Seattle SW Harbor project. This large project involved permits, cleanup, design
and construction of roads, rail, buildings etc. in a heavily used, highly
congested, port facility, which remained operational.
·
Frank was assistant Project Manager for the Port of Tacoma’s Sea-Land
project. He helped fast-track the Sea-Land, TOTE, Intermodal Yards and World
Trade Center program from five plus years down to 26 months using multiple
matched prime contracts. The Port of
Tacoma is now a leading North American seaport, handling more than $40 billion
in annual trade and 2 million TEUs.
·
Frank was Project
Engineer and acting Project Manager for construction of the Burrard Inlet Ferry
Terminals (BIFT) in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. This project used unique, highly
complex, pre-stressed concrete caissons, post-tensioned together after
flotation into an E-shape to handle 18 ft tide changes. Steel framed building
superstructures were added. Frank worked on many other marine projects while at
Dillingham including piers, bridges, temporary structures, dewatering, etc.
·
Frank was Project
Manager for construction of the Inter-modal Yards for Burlington Northern
Railroad in Portland, Oregon, and St. Paul, Minnesota. These two facilities were
each designed and built in six months using fast-track CM. (The previous best
time for similar facilities was fourteen months.) He also was responsible for
the schedule and budget for a similar facility at Naperville, Illinois.
·
Airport Reconstruction,
Road and Bridge construction, Cowra, N.S.W. Australia
Unique Projects
·
GTW was
interviewed by Fortune Magazine for our Project Management services on the 530,000sf
Boeing Integrated Aircraft System Laboratory (IASL) for the 777 plane. We
worked on many other Boeing construction projects and the Tacoma Union Station
- Federal Law Courts project.
·
GTW provided the
Project Management for a Saudi Prince 747 airplane retrofit (USA and England)
·
Frank managed the
value engineering study, a construction method investigation for the
feasibility study of large (multi billion dollar) floating concrete structures
for the oil industry in the offshore Arctic, for which he and his team were
granted Patent No. 4,576,519. The ice loadings were so large that the design
required sophisticated finite element analysis and declassified information
from nuclear strikes on concrete, missile silo doors.
·
He was
responsible for feasibility studies and cost estimates for marine terminals, slip
formed water towers, LPG terminal bund walls and the MX Missile project. In
addition, he provided engineering design, scheduling, inspection services and
damage surveys on many projects.
·
Frank was Chief
Civil/Structural Engineer (second-in-charge) in Turkey during the construction
of the Akdeniz Pulp, Paper and Saw Mill for the World Bank at a cost of $350
million (current price $1 billion). During his two years there, he was
responsible for the direction, scheduling, contract administration, and
coordination with other disciplines of all on-site civil/structural work
including the boiler and generator buildings and a 65-meter slip-formed
chimneystack. His Turkish and international engineering staff was also
responsible for off-site work including 40 kilometers of water supply and
effluent pipelines, pumping stations, siphon structures and bridges,
clarifiers, settling ponds, and an ocean outfall and diffuser.
·
He was Project
Engineer for the construction of the unique cable suspended floor, 640-foot
QANTAS office complex and underground computer complex in Sydney, Australia. Special
requirements included mix design and quality control of high strength concrete,
design and construction of temporary works, steel fabrication, scaffolding and
formwork, supervision of production of prestressed beams, cost control,
scheduling and critical path programming, and construction method
investigation.
GTW and TWG have worked on
many university and high school projects, the Waterbury, CT Magnet School being
a recent example. We recently helped with Procurement of A/E and Contractors
for a new Office and Operations Facilities for UI in Connecticut.
Professional Affiliations & Awards
Project Management Institute: President of Delaware Valley
Chapter (Philadelphia) 2009
http://pmi-dvc.org/. Project Management
Institute (PMI) Puget Sound (Seattle) 1991 President, PMI Global Standards
Committee 1997.
Graduate PMI Leadership Institute Masters Class 2008
– Stockholm, Lille and Malta.
PM Advisory Boards, University of Washington and
City University, Seattle.
Various USA and International Who’s Who directories.
Co-inventor of an Offshore Oil Platform Base Structure
for Exxon, Patent No. 4,576,519. President of TWG Project
Management, LLC http://twgpm.com/, http://www.linkedin.com/in/frankrwalker
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