Waylon T. Whitehead, PMP, DRMP
Expert Areas
- Construction Claims Analysis
- Schedule Delay Analysis
- Contract Evaluation & Management
- Cost & Schedule Benchmarking
- Estimating
- Progress, Earned Value, and Productivity Analysis
- Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Change Management
- Risk Management
- Project Services Management
Expertise
- 30 years of experience in engineering, construction, and project management.
- Experience managing large teams, developing management procedures and processes, developing funding-level and execution phase schedules and budgets, negotiating construction and insurance claims, and conducting quantitative risk analysis to set contingency levels.
- Has pioneered methods and techniques to conduct quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses and employed them on major LNG, chemical, and refinery projects.
- Has assisted clients in legal, arbitration, and mediation settings by leveraging cost and schedule expertise along with risk analysis techniques to develop probabilistic models of dispute resolution outcomes.
Biography
Senior managing consultant Waylon Whitehead has 30 years of experience in engineering, construction, and project management. Mr. Whitehead has managed large teams, developed management procedures and processes, developed funding-level and execution phase schedules and budgets, negotiated construction and insurance claims, and conducted quantitative risk analysis to set contingency levels. He has pioneered methods and techniques to conduct quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses and employed them on major LNG, chemical, and refinery projects worldwide. His work has contributed to setting budgets and schedules for several mega projects that then successfully met those expectations. He has also assisted clients in legal, arbitration, and mediation settings by leveraging cost and schedule expertise along with risk analysis techniques to develop probabilistic models of dispute resolution outcomes. Mr. Whitehead’s diversified background gives him critical insight to provide advisory services during the project lifecycle as well as expert services in the dispute resolution process.
Work History
Interface Consulting International, Inc.
Senior Managing Consultant
sCurve Solutions
Founder
Yara Pilbara
Business Manager
Mozambique LNG
Project Risk Manager
ConocoPhillips
Sr. Project Services Representative
SGF Global
Project Controls Lead
Mustang Engineering
Project Controls Manager
Atlantia Offshore, Ltd.
Senior Project Controls Manager
Fluor Corporation
Project Controls Coordinator, Lead Estimator
Credentials
- Certificate of Completion – Global Energy Leadership Program
Rice University, Texas - BS – Economics
Rice University, Texas - BS – Political Science and Government
Rice University, Texas - Project Management Professional – Project Management Institute
- Decision & Risk Management Professional – Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International
Presentations & Publications
- “The Development of Corrected and Summarized Schedules,” AACE International Annual Conference, 2022.
- “Reversing the Flow of Information,” American LNG Forum, 2021.
- “Cost and Schedule Risks Interact in Megaprojects,” Cost Engineering Journal, November/December 2020.
- “Cost and Schedule Risks Interact in Megaprojects,” AACE International Annual Conference, 2019.
- “The Monte Carlo Method for Modeling and Mitigating Systemic Risk,” Cost Engineering Journal, July/August 2017.
- “The Monte Carlo Method for Modeling and Mitigating Systemic Risk,” AACE International Annual Conference, 2016.
LNG & Gas Processing
- Angola LNG Benguela-Belize
- Australia Pacific LNG
- Brass LNG
- Darwin LNG
- Ichthys LNG
- Mozambique LNG
- QatarGas 3 LNG
- Woodfibre LNG
LNG & Gas Processing
- Atlantis Deepwater Oil & Gas Platform
- Barossa FPSO
- Benguela-Belize Lobito-Tombco Platform
- Thunder Horse Deepwater Oil & Gas Platform
- Typhoon Tension Leg Platform
Refining, Chemical & Petrochemical
- Colorado Commercial Oil Shale Conversion & Refinery
- Global Octanes MTBE
- Rohm and Haas Bayport
- Shell Phenol
- Yanbu Export Refinery
- Yanpet Expansion – Glycol, Ethylene Glycol & Polymers
- Yara Pilbara Nitrates TAN Recovery Project
- Yara Pilbara TAN Repair
LNG & Gas Processing
- Extensive LNG project experience developing funding level estimates and schedules, reviewing contractor-proposed estimates and schedules, managing project controls functions for projects in execution, and leading strategic planning for project support
- Led claims analysis & negotiation on projects worth over $10B USD and with claims greater than $100MM USD; prepared strategy and reviews for senior management
- Conducted quantitative cost & schedule risk analysis, work process development, and schedule development & analysis
Refining, Chemical & Petrochemical
- Experience with project management, project controls, contracting, estimating, and arbitration support on international chemical & petrochemical mega projects
Marine & Offshore
- Experience with engineering, design, procurement, fabrication, and cost & schedule risk analysis for fixed & floating offshore platforms, FPSOs, MOFs, and jetties