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Consulting
Staff
[ Dr.
J. Gordon Davis | Joe Hanley
| Michael Cenker | Bud
Bryan ]
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Dr.
J. Gordon Davis,
Ph.D., P.E., C.E.O.
jgdavis@davisconsultinggroup.com |
Dr.
J. Gordon Davis' thirty-plus years project management consulting
experience encompasses a diversity of project types and conditions both
in the U.S.A. and overseas. As a Manager or Consultant, he has designed
and implemented management systems for construction projects having a
wide range of size and type. Dr. Davis also has assisted several large
firms with the development of improved organizational structures for
more effective project management. He is nationally recognized as an
authoritative construction claims analyst and expert witness. He is
C.E.O. of Davis Consulting Group, a firm providing project
coordination, cost control, and expediting services to Owners,
Developers, Designers and Contractors.
He
has personally provided direct consulting services on over one hundred
projects and supervised the provision of consulting services on more
than five hundred projects. Dr. Davis has extensive experience in
structuring design coordination processes and leading the
design/construction interfacing of fast-track projects. He has also
served on more than 20 dispute resolution cases, often providing expert
witness testimony in the area of delay claims.
Dr.
Davis has provided project management seminar/workshop training to more
than 2,500 practitioners in a variety of industries. These programs have
been presented in cooperation with major educational institutions and
professional organizations, and also as public and in-house programs
designed and conducted by Davis Consulting Group. Dr. Davis has
also been retained by both the Egyptian and the Saudi Arabian
Governments to provide such training to Design and Construction
professionals in those countries.
Dr.
Davis is an Industrial Engineering graduate of The University of Florida
and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He served for ten years on the
faculty of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia
Tech. He is a founding member of the Project
Management Institute (PMI), and became a registered
Professional Engineer in the State of Georgia in 1967. Dr. Davis is an
arbitration panelist for the American Arbitration Association and has
served on the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Change Orders
in the Construction Industry.
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Joe
E. Hanley
President
jhanley@davisconsultinggroup.com |
Joe
Hanley, President of Davis Consulting Group, has twenty-seven years of
project management experience, mostly in implementing Pre-construction
and Construction scheduling programs worldwide. Mr. Hanley's recent
assignments include the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta
(CODA), the University of Georgia Terry School of Business, Cousins
Properties' Pinnacle Office Building, and Newton County High School. He
is currently providing project management services and scheduling for
the Carl E. Sanders Recreational Facility, Piedmont College, the
Southern Energy Office Building and Energy Trading Center, and the new
Marriott Hotel in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Mr.
Hanley has planned and implemented "fast track" design and
construction programs to achieve very difficult delivery dates. He has
worked closely with owners, designers, project staff, field personnel,
subcontractors, and vendors to establish the overall project schedule
within the context of completion schedule requirements. He facilitates
regular project team progress meetings and provides status reports and
problem resolution recommendations. He has been responsible for schedule
control of more than $250 million worth of construction per year.
Before
joining Davis Consulting Group, he was Vice President of Planning and
Scheduling with Centex-Hamby Construction, Inc., Vice President of
Planning and Scheduling for Toon Construction Company, and Project
Scheduler for DDR International, Inc.
During
the 1970’s, he served as Contracts Administrator to Fluor Arabia, Ltd.
at their project site - the Powered Water Injection Facilities Gawar Oil
Field, Saudia Arabia. He also was Subcontract Administrator and Project
Engineer for Kaiser Engineers at Zimmer Nuclear Power Station in Moscow,
Ohio.
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Michael
S. Cenker
mcenker@davisconsultinggroup.com |
Mr.
Cenker has served as a scheduling / project management consultant on
over 300 projects of varying size and scope over the past 24 years. Mr.
Cenker emphasizes retaining the fundamentals of proven project
management techniques, while introducing and utilizing state-of-the-art
management tools, to provide personal and direct service to our clients.
These clients include financial institutions, commercial office and
retail developers, general contractors, architects, and non-profit
institutions. With over 75% of Mr. Cenker’s personal business volume
based on either repeat or referral business, these clients endorse Mr.
Cenker’s intensive individual attention and his capacity for sharing
his wealth of project experience.
Mr.
Cenker’s project experience includes commercial office buildings,
specialty tenant fit-ups, hospitals, hotels, schools, retail malls and
power centers, mass transportation systems, airports, museums, private
residences, office and retail infrastructures, warehouse and
distribution facilities, and multi-family housing.
Mr.
Cenker serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
He has also provided delay claim analysis and expert testimony on a
number of projects, which have either been settled through litigation,
arbitration, or other forms of dispute resolution management.
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Oscar
(Bud) Bryan,
P.E.
bbryan@davisconsultinggroup.com |
Mr.
Bryan has twenty-six years of experience in managing engineering
organizations involved in maintenance and operation of facilities and
utility systems and directing master planning, design, and construction
for the United States Air Force. He has led and managed engineering
organizations of from 100 to 700 employees, providing work and community
support facilities and utilities, including family housing and housing
for individuals, facility operation and maintenance, prime power, and
fire protection for major airfields of up to 13,000 acres, 9.4 million
square feet of facilities and serving as many as 10,000 people.
He
also managed a $300 million, multi-year, multi-project program to
upgrade facilities and infrastructure at a major military training
installation; the base had a crumbling infrastructure and aging,
maintenance-intensive facilities. Mr. Bryan coordinated construction
projects to provide public works, residential, retail, recreational, and
military operational facilities at an overseas location on time to
support bi-lateral treaty obligations.
At
DAVIS Consulting Group, Mr. Bryan has scheduled projects to construct
fast-track facilities for the Board of Regents of the University System
of Georgia. These included classroom and performance facilities at
Gainesville College and Macon College, and a manufacturing-related
disciplines complex at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Mr.
Bryan was most recently responsible for the scheduling of 16 public
spaces projects for CODA (Corporation for Olympic Development in
Atlanta).
Mr.
Bryan is a registered professional engineer in Georgia. He is a fellow
of the Society of American Military Engineers and a member of the
National Society of Professional Engineers and the Institute of
Industrial Engineers.
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