Martin D. Ryan
4759 Lightkeepers Way #14A, Little River, SC 29566
Cell (240) 388 0387
E-mail: martin@martinryanconsulting.com
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Summary.
Forty years of varied professional experience employing the following technical skills:
Develop add-on API programs for AspenTechnology estimating systems.
Conceptual and firm price cost estimating for major petro-chemical projects.
Technical reporting in MS Excel and Access
On-site construction cost control and contract management.
Effective team management for short-term projects.
Writing technical documents.
Customer support and training courses.
The design and development of market-leading software products.
Unix system administration and GUI design.
Computer modeling of construction techniques.
Programming in C, Fortran and VB on Windows and Unix.
Database report design and embedded SQL programming.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001 – present
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President, Martin Ryan Consulting LLC
Estimating Major Projects for Suncor Energy, Calgary using ACCE , 2010 API software development and sales, data import add-on to ACCE
Estimating Tailings Pipelines, Pumpstations, Water Treatment Facil, Alberta, 8/09-present
Calibrating CCE/KBase for Major Oil Co., Houston, TX 2/09-7/09
KBase estimate for Edmonton, AB Secondary Upgrader +15/-10%, 1/08-6/08
Training, custom report writing, implement Excel input methods, UK 7/07-10/07
Continuing with KBase (+/- 15%) through EDS phase for Upgrader, 3/06-6/07
Implement Kbase for grass-roots Upgrader (>$7bn) DBM phase, Canada 3/05 – 3/06
Develop Excel input programs for Kbase using VB, Kbase API, 2/04 – current, ongoing
Consulting re creating Kbase model of specialty chemical technology, 2/05-3/05
On-site consulting re major Upgrader project conceptual estimate. Canada 2/04 – 6/04
Creating and presenting ICARUS 2000 to Kbase update training course, 10/03
Modeling air-separation technology in Kbase, Tulsa 6/03
On-site consulting re major (>10 user) Kbase implemention, Saudi Arabia, 4/03
On-site consulting re implementing Aspen ICARUS Kbase, Abu Dhabi, 2/03
Present Aspen ICARUS IPM training course in Houston 10/02, Philippines 12/02
Creating cost estimate reports in MS Access, Visual Basic 5/02-8/02
Present 4-day advanced, custom, training course for engineers and estimators in ICARUS
2000 NT and ICARUS piping/instrument/electrical technology. 3/02
Embedded SQL programming for cost accounting interface, Canada. 9/01-2/02.
Consulting re ICARUS Class 3 estimate for China, grass-roots mega-project, incl training,
special reports, system administration, interface of ICARUS to company spreadsheet final
reports, at Foster Wheeler Energy Limited, Reading, UK. 5/01-7/01
Consulting re finalizing ICARUS model of new chemical plant technology, for BP/Amoco
at Technip, Rome. 3/01-5/01
9/99 - 2000
President, Martin Ryan Consulting LLC, Rockville MD.
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1996 -1999
Development of custom reporting system from ICARUS 2000 NT to S&B Engineers,
Houston, meeting internal cost control standards. 5/00-3/01
Programming re major Class 2 estimate, Alliance21, Calgary; development of a database
export interface to Convero cost accounting system. 10/00-3/01
Consulting re major Class 3 estimate, on multi-billion $ project, supporting 14 estimators
using ICARUS 2000 NT, Alliance21, Calgary. 2/00-8/00
Consulting re major capacity-scaling study estimates, chemical plants, using ICARUS 2000
NT, Technip, Rome. 2/00-6/00
Database reporting study, S & B Engineers and Constructors, TX. 11/99
Conceptual estimate using ICARUS 2000 NT for Allied Signal, NJ. 9/99-10/99
Presentation of advanced one-day training in ICARUS 2000, at ICARUS Corporation
offices. 10/99
Director of Cost Engineering, Icarus Corporation, Rockville MD.
Technical Account Manager (TAM) providing sales support, US and overseas.
Consulting services,
 Software systems implementation in large organizations
 design and programming of custom SQL reports.
 internal consulting re software development.
Product manager, WebEstimator (www.webestimating.com), completed 5/99,
 functional design
 business model
Product manager, ICARUS Project Scheduler (Win95/NT), completed 8/98
 functional design
Customer support in strategic situations.
1980-96
Manager of Product Development, Icarus Corporation, Rockville MD.
Product manager, designer of ICARUS 2000 (Unix, X Windows/Motif) a market-leading
estimating system, sold into 18 of the top 20 process industry Owner-Operators and 18 of the
top 20 Contractors. Initial release 12/90.
 Motif user interface design
 Used a GUI builder (UIM/X) to personally create 80% of the interface
 C and SQL programming
 Unix system administration
 Presented internal and external product training classes
Product manager, designer, programmer for ICUE Reporter, a report writer add-on for
Questimate. Completed 8/85.
 Created a high-level command language for defining reports
 Fortran programming of database API, for entire product
 Wrote user guide and reference manual.
Product manager, designer of Questimate (DOS), market-leading estimating system, sold
into over 1000 processing plants. Initial release 12/84.
 Functional design, adaptation of earlier product.
 User interface programming in C
 Created product RDBMS from NASA share-ware system in Fortran
 Wrote assembly language firmware (security) module
Model development for core technology.
 CPM scheduling module, forward and backward pass, float calculations
 Modeled engineering to estimate manhours, drawings from scope
 Design engineering - dynamic CPM schedule, activities and logic
 Multi-Contractor estimates, scope of work allocation, overhead details.
Product manager, designer of SPAN system. Completed 5/80.
 Created a numerically structured set of construction activity definitions
 Created a method of converting estimate manhours to durations
 Created a method of sequencing activities using dynamic logic
Team management of typically one-week duration projects, estimating for $50M - 500M
capital projects.
1977-80
Chief Quantity Surveyor, Icarus Corporation, Rockville MD.
Produced cost estimates for buildings using ICARUS Arches
Conducted training courses for building estimators
Revamped hundreds of estimate work crews based on construction experience
Created a new Equipment Rental model which optimized fleet, cranes, etc
 functional design
Created 30 or more new site development models, such as scraper excavation.
 functional design
 Fortran programming
EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST:
Sep 76 – Aug 77
Dec 75 – Sep 76
Sep 74 – Nov 75
Apr 73 – Sep 74
Jul 72 – Apr 73
Apr 71 – Jul 72
Aug 69 – Apr 71
Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), Amsterdam, Holland
 Cost engineer, Yanbu Project
A. L. Currie & Brown, Quantity Surveyors, Yorkshire, England
 Site quantity surveyor, BP refinery construction project
ARAMCO Overseas Company, The Hague, Holland
 Consultant cost engineer, developing estimating procedures
 Produced $1 billion pipeline estimates for NGL 1975 budget
ARAMCO, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
 Developed estimating procedures for cross-country pipelines, piling and
storage tanks.
 Produced cost study of buried vs above ground pipelines.
Kinnear Moodie, Yorkshire, England
 Site quantity surveyor, soft-ground tunnelling project
 Cost control, subcontractor valuations
Mitchell Construction, Kariba Dam, Zambia
 Section quantity surveyor, outfall rock excavation
 Purchasing agent
Mitchell Construction Kinnear Moodie Group, Nottingham, England
 Assistant quantity surveyor, reinforced concrete factory
 Re-measure complete contract works, claims, weekly cost evaluation
PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS
1999
ICARUS Knowledge Days Conference, Houston TX
“Calibrating KBASE Technology”, paper
“Controlling Scope Creep”, paper
“A Technical Overview of the Scheduling and Engineering
Models in ICARUS 2000”, paper
1998
ICARUS Decision Engineering Conference, Kiawa Island, SC
“Communicating with SAP from a Capital Projects perspective”, paper
“Lump-Sum Bidding with ICARUS 2000” – Panel Moderator
1997
5th ICARUS International User Conference, Baltimore, MD
“Moving Your ICARUS 2000 Results to Primavera”, paper
1996
4th ICARUS International User Conference, Williamsburg, VA
“Online SQL”, a one-day training course
1995
ICARUS Technical Symposium, Houston, TX
“Anatomy of an estimate”, paper
1981-2
SPAN system, three-day training courses
1980
American Association of Cost Engineers Annual Conference, Washington DC
“Automated input for CPM schedules”, paper
MAJOR PROJECTS – CONCEPTUAL ESTIMATES
Team management, execution plan, calibration, estimating and estimate review as consultant.
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Suncor Energy, SAGD CPF +30/-20% DBM estimate, 3rd Gen shippable modules.
Suncor Energy, SAGD Central Processing Facil +50/-30% Scoping estimate.
Suncor Energy, Voyageur Sulphur 10% detailed check estimate >1Bn, Calgary, Canada
Suncor Energy, Booster Pumphouse estimates, Calgary, Canada
Suncor Energy, Coker Drum Replacement DBM estimate, Calgary, Canada
Suncor Energy, Wastewater Treatment Plant DBM estimate, Calgary, Canada
Suncor Energy, Tailings Pumphouses & Pipelines DBM estimates, TRO Project, Calgary, Canada
SNC Lavalin, Montreal, Upgrader DBM estimate, Fort Hills Project, Alberta, Canada
Suncor Energy, Upgrader EDS estimates, Voyageur Project, Calgary, Canada
Suncor Energy, Upgrader DBM estimates, Voyageur Project, Calgary, Canada
ARKEMA, conceptual estimates for chemical plant study, USA
Bantrel, conceptual estimate for solids-handling Upgrader, Calgary, Canada
ADNOC, model estimates for well-head facilities and pipelines, Abu Dhabi
BSF Global, Reading, UK US$3000 million grass roots facility for China
Technip Rome, US$350 million PTA chemical plant, Italy
Alliance 21, CDN$2700 million UE-1 Syncrude expansion, Canada
Allied Signal Inc., toxic chemical reclamation facility, USA
Mead Corporation, $200 million paper plant revamp, USA
Lubrizol Corporation, $50 million petrochem project, USA
Grass roots refinery proposal, $100 million, Pakistan
GE Plastics, $600 million LX PC project, Cartagena, Spain
CIBA-Geigy, chemical plant expansion, $75 million, USA
FMC Corporation, 7OH chemical plant revamp, $75 million, USA
Norsk Hydro, chemical plant fire damage estimate, Norway
FMC Corporation, Carbofuran chemical plant revamp, $75 million, USA
US Steel, grass roots chemical plant in construction (runaway overrun), USA
US Dept of Energy, coal gasification projects $200 million, USA
Met Life office building estimate, $9 million, USA
Argonne National Labs, fluidized-bed pilot plant studies $50 million, USA
EDUCATION
1996
1991-4
1991
1970
1969
Learning Tree International
Relational Databases: Design, Tools and Techniques
Xhibition, San Jose.
X Windows training: application development, distributed computing
Hewlett Packard Training Center
Unix system administration.
Associate, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
Post-grad Test of Professional Competence, for Associates, ARICS
Liverpool College of Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Diploma in Quantity Surveying, (converted to Bachelor of Science 1970).