Capital Projects & Project Controls Leader · Infrastructure · Energy · Utilities
I lead the cost side of billion-dollar capital programs — and build the systems that check them.
- $1.5B+Capital portfolio
- 14+Years, energy & infrastructure
- $1BProgram — sole cost authority
- PMP · CCP · PSPMBA, UCLA Anderson
- 2019–now
CMS · Principal Project Controls Manager
Utility client · Los Angeles, CA
Seven years embedded as the sole cost, estimating, and forecasting lead across three consecutive client engagements — $1.5B+ in total capital value.
- 2026–now
Ridgeline · Independent R&D — Project Controls Automation
Independent build · Los Angeles, CA
Owner-side project controls platform, built solo with AI coding agents — contractor estimate audit, drawing take-off, schedule forensics, executive reporting.
- 2011–2016
Larsen & Toubro · Construction Manager (progressive roles)
Chennai, India & Abu Dhabi, UAE
Joined in Chennai on tendering and commercial work, then the UAE across planning, estimating and construction management. Core tendering-team member on nine major bid-build pursuits; value-engineering alternatives I developed were credited in four winning bids.
- Education
Executive MBA · UCLA Anderson School of Management2026
M.S., Civil Engineering · University of Kansas2018
B.S., Civil Engineering · Nagpur University2010
I spent a decade performing these audits by hand. So I built the system that performs them.
Most construction firms have no dedicated project controls team. On most capital programs nobody with the right expertise reviews the contractor’s monthly schedule update, payment application, or change proposals. Ridgeline sells the review, not the record.
- 26 of 65findings that survived an independent challenge
Contractor estimate audit
- 83 daysattributed change by change
Schedule forensics
- 566 of 7,422rows the take-off declines to total
Drawing take-off
The discipline, demonstrated — on a fictional project that says so.
Nine pages that turn a project-controls workbook into the three things leadership needs from it — where we land on schedule and cost, how sure we are, and what to decide this month.
Volunteer instructor, AACE International
Preparing practising project controls professionals for Certified Cost Professional certification. Teaching the discipline is how I keep testing whether I actually understand it.
PMP · CCP · PSP · Lean Six Sigma Green Belt · OSHA 30 — Project Management Institute · AACE International
Open to conversations about capital delivery, project controls, and where the tooling should go next.
Recruiters, advisory enquiries and speaking requests are all welcome. The fastest route is email.