b'Joel Kohler PMP, Project Manager, Project Engineer\n920 Sunflower St., Louisville, CO 80027 \xe2\x80\xa2 Phone 303/665-5517 Cell 303/929-9550 \xe2\x80\xa2 jkohler173@aol.com\n\nProject Engineer PMP, with exceptional credentials managing project scope, cost, and schedule, in a multidisciplined organizational environment, delivering successful industrial projects from developing user\nrequirements, scope definition leading to conceptual design, construction, startup, and turnover. Typical\ncompleted projects include:\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nOil & Gas: Suncor Project Engineering Manager and EPC coordinator for $500 Million - 320 MW gas\nturbine co-generation addition.\nInfrastructure: NREL Project Manager for $5.4 Million design build automation and site wide security\ncontrol system connecting twenty facilities across two campuses.\nNuclear: Los Alamos design package manager and project coordinator for $3.0 Million new nuclear\nfacility design and construction.\nRenewable: Project Manager for Minera El Tesoro Solar Thermal Project in Calama Chile including\nscope, schedule and budget control.\n\nProject Manager PMP with current credentials managing a $20 Million portfolio infrastructure, energy, and\nfacilities improvements and additions for the National Renewable Energy. Typical activities include:\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nControlling program budget and individual project budgets across all program projects.\nImplementing and maintaining weekly program manager meeting with project managers focused on\nidentifying and resolving technical and budget issues that might a negative impact on the progress.\nSingle point of contact for all program related communications with internal/external stake-holders.\nDeveloping clear and concise weekly/monthly program management reports detailing program across\nschedule, budget and technical issues.\nManaging and tracking the Design Change and the Request For Information Processes.\nDeveloping and maintaining the program risk registry.\n\nEDUCATION LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nPMP Certification as Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute\nM.B.A., Finance, Northwestern University\nM.E., Nuclear Engineering, New York University\nB.A., Mathematics, Temple University\nInactive Q Clearance, Los Alamos\n\nKEY SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nLeadership: Hands on experience building and leading project teams and stakeholder groups from\nproject initiation through project operations.\nCollaboration and Integration: Routinely collaborates with a diverse group of subject matter experts\nduring project initiation, scope development, and project execution.\nChange Management: Direct experience with managing the RFI and design change processes.\nMulti-tasking: Managing multiple scopes, schedules, budgets, and stakeholder communications.\nCommunications: Excellent communicator with verbal, writing and presentation skills attuned to\nproject goals and stakeholder needs.\nNegotiation and Problem Solving: Conversant across multiple engineering disciplines, understands\ncomplex problems and capable of negotiating mutually acceptable solutions.\nTeam Building: Hands on experience building and leading project teams from project initiation through\nproject operations.\n\nPage 1 of 4\n\n\x0cJoel Kohler PMP, Project Manager, Project Engineer\n920 Sunflower St., Louisville, CO 80027 \xe2\x80\xa2 Phone 303/665-5517 Cell 303/929-9550 \xe2\x80\xa2 jkohler173@aol.com\n\nPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES\n2012 \xe2\x80\x93 Present Abengoa Solar Industrial Systems Project Manager, Lakewood, Colorado\n\xe2\x80\xa2 PMP PMI certified Project Engineering Manager responsible for managing US design, and startup of\nthe Minera El Tesoro Solar Thermal Plant in Calama Chile including managing scope, schedule and\nbudget.\n2009 \xe2\x80\x93 2011 US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado\n\xe2\x80\xa2 PMP Program and Project Manager responsible for managing $20 Million program using design build\nand EPC delivery method from developing user requirements through design, construction, startup and\nturnover.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 $5.0 Million high efficiency heating and cooling upgrade to central heating plant.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 $10.0 Million facility addition of renewable energy (photo-voltaic) addition.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 $5.4 Million design build facilities automation and site wide security control system connecting\ntwenty facilities across two campus.\n2007 \xe2\x80\x93 2009 Suncor Energy Inc., Denver, Colorado\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Denver Area Project Engineer with direct responsibility managing Suncor\xe2\x80\x99s URS - EPC design\ndevelopment of 320 MW Gas Turbine Co-Generation and High Voltage Distribution (260 kV and 144\nkV) for Suncor\xe2\x80\x99s oil sands development in Alberta, Canada. At Suncor, Mr. Kohler acted as the Project\nEngineer assisting the Suncor PM in managing the URS design and construction development.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Managed project communications with key project staff members and stakeholders in the US and\nCanada.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Analyzed project progress using the earned value management system.\n2005 \xe2\x80\x93 2007 US Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos New Mexico\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Design Package Manager for the Confinement Vessel Disposition Project in the Chemical and\nMetallurgical Research Building.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Senior Project Engineer. Responsible for re-engineering and restarting the Confinement Vessel\nDisposition Project (CVD) in accordance with a new safety analysis.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Redesigned the cradle-to-grave process flow for a contaminated vessel so that regulatory concerns\nabout the seismic analysis were answered.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Developed the preliminary design documents and demonstrated that the new design complied with the\nrequirements of the safety analysis. Defended the design to Los Alamos management, and prepared\nthe design documents for re-submittal to the DOE.\n2002 \xe2\x80\x93 2005 Washington Group, Denver, Colorado\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Project Design Integration Engineer for the US DOE Pit Disassembly and Conversion Project.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Managed final design configuration with the goal of identification and elimination of design mismatches\nacross engineering and safety disciplines.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Designed and implemented design change-control process involving tracking, documentation, and\ncommunication of design changes.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Reviewed work packages for compliance with engineering principals, company standards, and contract\nrequirements.\n\nPage 2 of 4\n\n\x0cJoel Kohler PMP, Project Manager, Project Engineer\n920 Sunflower St., Louisville, CO 80027 \xe2\x80\xa2 Phone 303/665-5517 Cell 303/929-9550 \xe2\x80\xa2 jkohler173@aol.com\n\n1995 \xe2\x80\x93 2002 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos New Mexico, Rocky Flats Site, Golden, Co\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Facility Planner Chemical and Metallurgical Research Building.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Responsible for developing integrated facility schedule for all CMR tenants.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Decommissioning Lead Building 371 Tank Farm.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Appointed in 2000 to lead the Tank Disposition Project. Responsible for developing the\ndecommissioning plan and leading the team that emptied 70 high-concentration plutonium tanks.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Selected and trained crew from the available plant operators. Wrote procedure documenting every\nmove required, every piece of equipment needed, and every risk expected.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Dealt with project technical uncertainties, unionized labor issues, and organizational roadblocks.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Managed tight schedules. Satisfied top management, which was watching this job closely because it\nwas on the critical path, and could adversely affect the contractor\xe2\x80\x99s performance and fee.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Worked with a local inventor to develop a vacuum cleaning system that was able to empty a tank and\npackage the contents in about five hours.\n1991 \xe2\x80\x93 1994 Reliance Capital Group Consulting, Boulder, Colorado\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Principal Consultant with direct experience developing RCG\xe2\x80\x99s energy and environmental consulting\npractice. Mr. Kohler was directly involved with managing RCG nuclear power proprietary nuclear power\ndatabases.\n1984 \xe2\x80\x93 1991 Capital Associates International, Boulder, Colorado\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Director of Lease Syndication with direct experience financing equipment purchases through sale\nleaseback agreements with banks, and corporations. Mr. Kohler was directly involved with the\nfollowing project elements purchasing and selling portfolios of leased assets.\n1982 \xe2\x80\x93 1984 Signal Oil and Gas \xe2\x80\x93 Universal Oil Products, Chicago, Illinois\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Senior Financial Analyst and part of the project team that developed refuse to energy facilities in the\nUnited States. Mr. Kohler was directly involved with pro-forma economic analysis of refuse energy and\nclean water businesses.\n1978 \xe2\x80\x93 1982 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Chicago, Illinois\n\xe2\x80\xa2 NRC Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Power Reactor Inspector, Senior Resident Inspector\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Applied nuclear engineering principles and practices.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Conducted nuclear reactor inspections for eight years.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Held responsible positions as a Nuclear Engineering Technical Specialist, a Boiling Water and\nPressurized Water Reactor Inspector, and Resident Inspector at a 2,000 megawatt PWR Nuclear\nPower Station.\n1976 \xe2\x80\x93 1978 US Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, DC\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Nuclear Safety Analyst with the AEC.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Demonstrated analytical capability in the evaluation and interpretation of complex technical subject\nmatter. Vast experience in comprehensive written and oral decision-making.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Participated as a team member, along with the NRC Project Managers, Reactor Engineers, and Health\nPhysicists.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Evaluated the suitability of sites for proposed nuclear generating stations. Site Analyst in charge of\ndeveloping the Site Safety Evaluation Reports (SSER) for the Seabrook and Newbold Island licensing\nhearings.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Analyzed design basis accidents for Seabrook, and Hope Creek nuclear sites.\n\nPage 3 of 4\n\n\x0cJoel Kohler PMP, Project Manager, Project Engineer\n920 Sunflower St., Louisville, CO 80027 \xe2\x80\xa2 Phone 303/665-5517 Cell 303/929-9550 \xe2\x80\xa2 jkohler173@aol.com\n\nEMPLOYMENT HISTORY\n2011 \xe2\x80\x93 Now PMP Project Manager, KPM Inc. Boulder Colorado subcontract to Abengoa Solar\n2009 \xe2\x80\x93 2011 PMP Project Manager Level 3, US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.\n2007 \xe2\x80\x93 2009 Area Project Engineer, Firebag Cogeneration Project, Suncor Energy, Alberta, Canada.\n2005 \xe2\x80\x93 2007 Senior Project Engineer, Confinement Vessel Disposition Project Los Alamos National\nLaboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.\n2002 \xe2\x80\x93 2005 Design Manager, Configuration Manager, Planning and Integration Manager, GD Barri and\nWashington Group International, Inc., Denver, Colorado.\n2001 \xe2\x80\x93 2002 Project Engineer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CMR Facility, Los Alamos, New Mexico.\n1995 \xe2\x80\x93 2001 Lead Project Engineer, Rocky Flats Environmental Test Site, Golden, Colorado.\n1991 \xe2\x80\x93 1995 Management Analyst, A.T. Kearney, Atlanta, Georgia.\n1991 \xe2\x80\x93 1994 Principal, RCG Hagler Bailly, Inc., Boulder, Colorado.\n1984 \xe2\x80\x93 1991 Finance Manager, Capital Associates, Inc., Boulder, Colorado.\n1982 \xe2\x80\x93 1984 Financial Analyst, Allied Signal/Universal Oil Products, Chicago, Illinois.\n1976 \xe2\x80\x93 1982 Senior Resident Nuclear Reactor Inspector, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Bethesda,\nMaryland.\n\nPage 4 of 4'