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James
W. Brown
2020 Tall Ridge Road
Melbourne FL 32935
(321) 242-0103
Mr. Brown has a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the
Florida Institute of Technology. Since his graduation, he
has worked uninterrupted for almost thirty years in the fields
of scientific and engineering applications programming, project
management, management consulting and delay and impact analysis.
Since 1990, Mr. Brown has been an independent consultant
specializing in preparing automated project schedules, delay
and microcomputer applications and training others in these
fields of expertise. He performs delay and impact analysis
and is available to present testimony relative to the alleged
delays and the impacts of those delays before the various
Agency Boards of Contract Appeals and Federal Courts in the
capacity of an expert witness. He prepared the network analysis
system on the $110 million VA Hospital in West Palm Beach,
FL, various NASA and USAF projects and for other equally demanding
Government agencies. Among his accomplishments was the performing
of delay and impact analysis and the presentation of Expert
Witness testimony for delay claims involving a $100 million
solid waste facility in Virginia, a multi-million dollar VA
hospital in Nashville, Tennessee and at Universal Studios,
Florida. Work on the Universal Studios claim resulted in the
dismissal of a $250,000 delay claim in its entirety. He regularly
provides microcomputer assistance to law offices, corporations
and other independent consultants.
During the ten years before becoming an independent consultant,
Mr. Brown worked as a Senior Consultant and Scheduler with
Brownell-Bitner & Associates during which time he analyzed
construction schedules, change orders, and other construction
documents involved in major construction claims. He also provided
Expert Witness testimony while working for Brownell-Bitner
& Associates. During this period he designed and implemented
the CPM schedules for numerous construction projects including
NASA, Holmes Regional Medical Center, Tampa Bay Performing
Arts Center, Westinghouse Steam Turbine, and EPCOT Living
Seas Pavilion. He worked closely with major clients providing
assistance in scheduling and defining requirements for complex
software systems. In addition, he was responsible for day-to-day
computer operations of all in-house scheduling and data base
systems. He was noted for his ability to take an existing
software package and tailor it to fit the needs of a particular
client by modifications, enhancements, the addition of new
and different reports, adding multiple file capability, adding
meaningful error messages, improved search capability and
improved loop reporting.
Other areas of expertise include, the development of real
time control applications, real time data acquisition, real
time data reduction, computer modeling, design and implementation
of graphics applications, task planning and scheduling, system
specifications, and the integration and testing of completed
software systems. Mr. Brown’s programming experience
included such highly technical functions as calculations associated
with rocket propulsion and antenna propagation.
Mr. Brown has the training and software to perform scheduling
and delay/impact analysis utilizing Primavera Project Planner
(P3), SureTrack, PMS-II, CMCS, PREMIS and MSCS. He is proficient
in and regularly develops electronic spreadsheets in Excel,
Quattro Pro, Lotus 123, and Supercalc. He regular works in
ACCESS, Condor, Smart, and DataStar data base systems. He
is fluent in FORTRAN and BASIC with some use of assembler.
Mr. Brown’s publications include:
“Mean Solar Radiation for Florida Cities”, Florida
Solar Energy Center, April 1977
“Use, not equipment, often cause of failure.”
Florida Specifier, April 1984
“Computer Advances in Critical Path Scheduling”,
Florida Specifier, November 1986
“Contractors and Their Genes, or Why Can’t I Get
My Project On Time?” Florida Specifier,
March 1990
“The Week of Chaos, CPM Scheduling Applied to Magazine
Publishing” PM NETWORK,
Project Management Institute, February 1992
He is an active member of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee
for the Metropolitan Planning Organization.
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