Professional Biography John R. Cunningham PMP, CFCC Current Responsibilities
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Professional Biography John R. Cunningham PMP, CFCC Senior Vice President and Operations Leader Current Responsibilities John Cunningham is a managing consultant for the Construction Consulting Practice. He provides and leads client services in complex engineering and construction disputes and claims, serving as an independent expert. He provides management consulting services in all phases of engineering design and construction regarding claims management and claims avoidance. He is an advisor in corporate governance and risk management. John’s expertise is in engineering and construction, with a focus in the energy sector, including power generation, electric transmission, pipelines, refineries, LNG facilities, petrochemical complexes, and chemical plants. His engagements also include structures, such as high-rise buildings, and specialty issues, such as asbestos. Experience As a disputes expert, John performs, leads and manages client services in such matters as scope disputes, forensic analysis, standard of care, prudence/negligence issues, errors and omissions, roles and responsibilities of the parties and causation, delay and disruption, productivity, damages quantification and calculation. He provides services to both contractors and owners. John has testified as an expert in various claims proceedings and is experienced with ICC and AAA forms of arbitration. As a management consultant, he advises clients seeking to defend against or avoid claims or who may need to initiate them. He performs and leads contract administration support services, conducts project performance reviews, and analyzes engineering and construction practices in comparison with industry accepted standard of care. As an advisor in corporate governance and risk management, John’s experience includes project risk management evaluations and risk management training sessions. Having extensive experience drafting and negotiating numerous types of contracts and financial instruments, he also performs contract controls assessments. John offers over three decades of practical industry experience as a project developer, contract negotiator, engineering officer, project construction manager, asset manager and board member of various complex energy projects, many on the order of US$1 billion in size. Prior to joining Marsh, John was an engagement manager for The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc., a dispute resolution, management consulting and risk management services company whose assets were acquired by Marsh USA, Inc. Before then, John was employed for 30 years at El Paso Corporation, culminating as an engineering officer. Early career responsibilities included involvement in many FERC regulatory and certificate matters and service as a plant engineer at a petrochemical complex. Professional Biography Page 2 Education BS in chemical engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, summa cum laude MS in chemical engineering, University of Michigan Registrations PMI Project Management Professional AACEi Certified Forensic Claims Consultant Affiliations Project Management Institute (PMI) American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society) Representative Engagement Experience INDUSTRY PROJECT BUILDING & SPECIAL STRUCTURES Residential Residential Municipal High rise residential facility; United States (Florida) Multi-level senior living facility; United States (California) City of Venice Floodgate Risk Assessment; Italy ENVIRONMENTAL Asbestos Asbestos Litigation/Engineer-Constructor Class Action Asbestos Litigations; United States OIL/GAS/CHEMICAL Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Process/Refinery Pipeline Pipeline Pipeline LNG Natural Gas Liquids Separation Plant; Peru Chemical Plant Disaster Recovery Investigation; United States (Michigan) Blast Furnace Air Compressors and Blowers; Brazil Refinery Expansion; Mexico Ethanol Plant; United States (Various) Ethylene Complex; United States (Louisiana) Hydrogen Plant; United States (California) Refinery Expansion Project; United States (Louisiana) Refinery Revamp; United States (Kentucky) Ethylene-Polyethylene Complex; Brazil Blast Furnace Air Compressors and Blowers; Hungary C4 Olefins Plant; United States (Texas) Natural Gas Pipelines; United States (Southwest) Crude Oil and Refined Products Pipelines; Mexico Multi-national Natural Gas Pipeline; United States and Mexico LNG Liquefaction and Regasification Units; Algeria, United States POWER & UTILITIES Combined Cycle Combined Cycle Combined Cycle Combined Cycle Cogeneration Cogeneration Cogeneration Simple Cycle Steam Turbines Transmission Combined Cycle Expansion; United States (Colorado) Greenfield Project; United Kingdom Greenfield Project; United States (Connecticut) Combined Cycle Project; Mexico Power Generation and Steam Supply to Refinery; United States (New Jersey) Gas Turbine Generator and Steam Production; United States (Florida) Steel Mill; Hungary Gas Turbine Generation Plant; Brazil Steam Turbine Generators, Aruba Refinery; Aruba 69-KV Underwater Cable Connection; Brazil Professional Biography Page 3 Transmission 220-KV Transmission Line; Peru CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS Claims Claims Risk Risk Risk Corporate Claims Management Support; United States (California) Blast Furnace Air Compressors and Blowers; Brazil Corporate Risk Management Training Program; United States (Ohio) Project Risk Management Evaluation, Urea-Formaldehyde, Phenol-Formaldehyde Plant; Brazil Risk Management Program; United States (Louisiana)
