01— Work
Fourteen years of capital delivery, and the record behind it.
- 2019–now
CMS · Principal Project Controls Manager
Utility client · Los Angeles, CA
Six years embedded as the sole cost, estimating, and forecasting authority across three consecutive client engagements — $1.5B+ in total capital value.
- 2026–now
Ridgeline · Product & Engineering
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 · Senior Construction Manager
Chennai, India & Abu Dhabi, UAE
Joined in Chennai on tendering and commercial work, then the UAE across planning, estimating and construction management. Won four of nine major bid-build pursuits — a 44% capture rate.
- Education
Executive MBA · UCLA Anderson School of Management2026
M.S., Civil Engineering · University of Kansas2018
B.S., Civil Engineering · Nagpur University2010
02— Case studies
- 01Standing up a function that outlived meI designed and built Change Management as a standalone department where none existed — then deliberately handed it away.
- 02Sole cost authority on $1.5B+ of capital workThree consecutive engagements as the single point of accountability senior leadership relied on for capital cost decisions — and what it takes to be believed.
- 03Recovering 15% without losing the relationshipRebuilding the change lifecycle to close approval gaps — and negotiating the recovery in a way the contractor could still work with afterwards.
- 04Winning four of nine, and learning what a win costsA 44% capture rate on major bid-build pursuits — won on value engineering rather than price, and a lesson about which projects are worth accepting at all.