Experience

• 

  Eaton Contract Services, Inc.

  • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

  • President

    • May 2003 - Present
    • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    Engaged by contractors in Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, North Dakota, Ohio, Virginia and California to pursue equitable contract adjustments for their claims against facility owners and/or prime contractors. Engaged pro bono to advise Kentucky developer regarding his claim against his site contra...

• 

  Eaton Contract Services, Inc

  • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

  • President

    • Aug 1998 - May 2004
    • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    Closed ECS, Inc. as a Government contracting business December, 1997 as result of extreme losses not of my making on two Corps of Engineers contracts at Ft. Bragg, NC.By then, I needed $350,000 just to be dead broke. I attempted to open meaningful negotiations with the Corps of Engineers which fa...

• 

  Rust Constructors, Inc., Birmingham (subsidiary...

  • Vicksburg District Corps of Engineers District ...

  • Full Charge Site Manager

    • Apr 2001 - Aug 2002
    • Vicksburg District Corps of Engineers District ...

    Full charge Site Manager, Rust Constructors, Inc., Birmingham (a Washington Group company, it’s government contracts element), on its Vicksburg District four-year IDIQ/Job Order contract. My staff was two superintendants; they in turn supervised the subcontractors. I estimated and contracted ne...

• 

  Various General Contractors and Eaton Contract ...

  • Various: NE, IN, DE, TN, GA, KY, OK, NC, MI, AL...

  • General Contractors' Employee (see Titles in list below); and also as Sol...

    • 1958 - 2001
    • Various: NE, IN, DE, TN, GA, KY, OK, NC, MI, AL...

    Hands-on field manager-construction engineer practitioner. Many years of experience dealing with subcontractor issues, schedule issues and performance recoveries, as well as potential default problems. Consummate mentor of young, trainable, construction engineers and supervisors.Career-long histo...

• 

  The Buchalter Co.

  • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

  • Superintendent

    • Oct 1998 - Jan 2000
    • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    Superintended the ground-up construction and finishes of 15,000 sf, steel framed 2-story pharmacy operations headquarters facility for large nursing home operator. Superintendent, other store build-out, maintenance and repair issues on housing and store structures, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.

• 

  Eaton Contract Services, Inc.

  • President

    • Oct 1993 - Jan 1998

    Negotiated surety and credit lines, entered sealed bid, fixed price, U.S. Government construction contracting business. Awarded first project August, 1994. Subsequently five (5) more projects. (See “starred” (*) projects in the 1-page, 1958 - 2001 “Overview” experience spreadsheet.) Bidding Record, December, 1993 -December, 1996: Bid 43 projects totaling approximately $14 million. Low on $3.7 million, some $1.4 million going un-awarded due to lack of owner funding or other owner reasons. Average below 2nd low bidder: approximately 10%. (This project size range is considered by some contractors to be the most competitive “hard-bid” construction market of any.)Closed contracting business 12/1997; surety bond and working capital credit lines suffered fatal shock by government’s defective design delays and other government-caused contract and corporate financial disruptions. Small-contractor financing insufficient to sustain these disastrous losses, or to obtain the level of legal counsel necessary for successful recovery pursuit.

  • President

    • Jul 1992 - Jun 1994

    ECS, Inc. was engaged to provide the General Site Manager, U.S. Army tank training base, Vilseck, Germany - July, 1992 until August, 1993, for international investment bank in bank takeover to complete $48,000,000 family housing project, cut further losses. The Bank was Letter of Credit (LOC) holder & primary financier for U.S. based continuing joint venture partner (previous German partner having taken protection under bankruptcy), itself near-bankrupt. Brought project to “substantial” and successful completion 8/93, for which owner received the Army’s “Communities of Excellence” award. More importantly, Bank was able to withdraw its DM2.4 million LOC. Retained by Bank until June, 1994 to manage warranty work effort from the U.S. and also collaborate with legal team to execute claim preparation and cost recovery efforts. This resulted in recovery by Bank of an additional DM11.7 million in equitable adjustment to contract. (At the outset, I identified and recommended to the Bank’s General Manager the legal team, Watt, Tieder, Hoffer & Fitzgerald, which managed the successful workout and final negotiations.)

  • President

    • Aug 1985 - Jul 1992

    Until 1991, engagements focused on helping contractor-clients work out of problems, seek cost recovery under contract clauses. Engaged by contractors in based in NY, CA and FL to formulate cost recovery procedures on projects in NY,CA, FL, PA, MA,TX and the Virgin Islands. The resulting claims approached $20Mil. and ultimate recovery was upwards of 40%, substantially due to my fact organization, analysis & writing skills. [Click here to see some examples of these engagements.] 1990: Numerous cost estimating engagements, contractor-client support on quantity surveys and direct field cost pricing, large international projects in the South Pacific, Egypt and South America. These included embassies, water and sewage treatment plants and general infrastructure. I staffed this with experienced construction trade estimators working as independent contractors remotely from my office. We coordinated our spreadsheets by telephone-modem connections. July 1991: Began moving ECS, Inc. toward general contractor business. From 3/91 to 7/92: pricing, bidding and constructing sealed-bid, "hard-dollar" U.S. government, state and city commercial projects in a project-by-project, joint venture, profit sharing arrangement under another general contractor’s bond and insurance lines.

• 

  Glen L. Eaton, Consulting Construction Engineer

  • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

  • Independent Contractor

    • Apr 1984 - Aug 1985
    • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    Same as above but in California and Florida.

• 

  Parsons, Brinkerhoff, Tudor

  • Atlanta, Georgia

  • Claims Analyst

    • Apr 1981 - Apr 1984
    • Atlanta, Georgia

    PBT was the general engineering-architect consultant to the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Executed CPM schedule analysis on extended performance, acceleration and disruption claims of tunnel, structure, electrical, and mechanical contractors. Reduced same to less complex elements for pr...

• 

  Same As Immediately Below

  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Same As Immediately Below

    • Sep 1977 - Dec 1977
    • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Similarly engaged by same Group to begin producing conceptual “order-of-magnitude” estimates for a $500,000,000 major housing and infrastructure project for the Saudi government in Riyadh. The Saudis shelved the project study in late November, 1977.

• 

  Glen L. Eaton

  • Kingdom of Jordan

  • Consulting Construction Engineer

    • Sep 1976 - Sep 1977
    • Kingdom of Jordan

    Engaged as an independent consultant-construction operations expert and cost and schedule analyst by a Lebanese consulting group. The group itself engaged by an Arab Bank, the holder of the multi-million dollar letters of credit on the largest infrastructure contractor in the Kingdom of Jordan. T...

• 

  Leo A. Daly Co., Architect-Engineer

  • Omaha, NE

  • Engineer, Design and Inspection

    • Jan 1959 - Feb 1961
    • Omaha, NE

    Field inspection and office design work.Storm waste water and sanitary sewers in Nebraska and Iowa.Worked on design and cost estimates for Military clients for projects on military posts in the mid-west and western U.SFiled investigation in South Dakota for Minuteman Missile silo sites. Worked in...

• 

  U.S Navy Seabees Mobile Construction Battalion ...

  • Davisville, RI

  • Equipment Operator, Third Class

    • Mar 1951 - Mar 1955
    • Davisville, RI

    Korean War intervened, I chose the Navy. "Boot Camp" in San Diego until June 1951. My test scores permitted Navy school rather than being immediately assigned a ship and sea duty. I chose and reported to Port Hueneme for Seabee Heavy Equipment school. I was assigned mobile construction ...

• 

  Hospital, State of Michigan

  • Michigan

  • 3rd Shift Ward Attendant

    • Mar 1950 - Mar 1951
    • Michigan