Board Members
Officers
PRESIDENT
Yan Li, PE, CCM, PMP
CES CONSULTING LLC
Ms. Li is a professional engineer, certified construction manager, and project management professional. She is an engineer with extensive construction management, inspection, constructability, and scheduling experience with a focus on civil and transportation infrastructure. She received both of her master's degree and bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
VICE PRESIDENT
Beau Gutridge, PMP, PSP, DBIA
CES CONSULTING LLC
As a Senior Project Engineer and Project Controls Engineer with CES Consulting, Mr. Gutridge consults clients in the areas of construction management, project controls, and quality assurance. His areas of knowledge include constructability, bidability, cost estimating, risk analysis and mitigation, scheduling, and claims avoidance. Mr. Gutridge has a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia, and his credentials include Project Management Professional (PMP), Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP), and Design Build Professional (DBIA).
Kevin Goryance, CCP
Michael Baker International
TREASURER
Urvashi Shah, PSP
ATCS
Urvashi is a registered Planning and Scheduling Professional and is currently serving as the Project Controls Director at ATCS. She has over 19 years of project controls and project management experience working in private and public sector projects including infrastructure, buildings and facilities. She has performed numerous tasks including the development of CPM scheduling specifications for various DOTs, development of conceptual schedules, schedule reviews, and claims review and analysis including contract settlement and negotiations. Her expertise entails forensic analysis of contractor claims, including analysis of schedule delays, and performance of independent cost estimates, to review and analyze entitlement and justify merit of any claim on various types of projects.
Urvashi did her Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering in India and then attended the University of Maryland, College Park where she received her Master’s in Civil Engineering.
BOARD MEMEBER
CHOWDHARY GONDY, PMP, PSP, CCP, DBIA
CES CONSULTING LLC
As an Principal and Executive Vice-President with CES Consulting, Mr. Gondy has provided leadership, mentorship, management and expertise in the area of Project Controls (Concurrent Engineering process (pre-construction), contract assembly, such as constructability, bidability, cost estimating & analysis, risk identification and mitigation, user cost benefits and all aspects of scheduling, claim avoidance and analysis during and post construction). Additionally, with over 25 years of constructive work experience, Mr. Gondy brings that aspect of experience based knowledge assisting various clients successfully. Prior to starting CES, Mr. Gondy for six (6) years served as the District Scheduling Engineer (DSE) for VDOT in the Northern Virginia District and provided leadership in the development of VDOT's Highway User Benefit Cost Analysis Program (HUBCAP) initiative. Mr. Gondy has a MS in Civil Engineering and his credentials include Project Management Professional (PMP), Planning and Scheduling Specialist (PSP), Certified Cost Professional (CCP) and Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) certified. Mr. Gondy is married with two grown up boys and when not traveling spends lot of time with his dogs and cheering his son's varsity basketball team.
BOARD MEMEBER
SRINIVASA REDDI VANGA, CCP, LEED AP BD+C
Mr. Vanga did his Bachelors Degree in Technology in Civil Engineering and then completed his Masters degree in Civil/Structural Engineering. Srinivasa also completed a course on Intelligent Transportation Systems Applications & Management in Transportation Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
Srinivasa has more than 25 years of multi-faceted, diverse experience in Planning, Surveying, Design, Construction, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Cost Management, Tenders & Bidding Process and Quality Control in both the USA, and India. He has executed many new construction projects, managed the repairs and renovations of existing large scale buildings and residential communities, and has initiated new construction and infrastructure development projects in various sectors.
Srinivasa Reddi is currently working as Senior Consultant/Technical Specialist in Michael Baker International Company. He has also worked on several country and state level projects such as projects for the US General Services Administration (GSA), US Department of State, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, educational institutions such as schools and universities, along with other data centers as well.
Srinivasa Reddi Vanga has served AACEI,USGBC in various capacities. He was board member and Secretary for AACEI-NCS. Currently, he is a member of Education Board of AACEI, member of USGBC and USGBC-NCR, USGBC-NCR Education Committee, and the USGBC-NCR Advocacy Committee, and was an active member of the GreenBuild Host Committee in 2015. Srinivasa is also a pro reviewer and question writer for the LEED V4 Item/Test questions which is the USGBC LEED examination taken online.
BOARD MEMEBER
ROBERT M. FREAS, PSP
EXPONENT
Mr. Freas advises clients on a range of topics including risk management, project controls, change management, project scheduling, process improvement, change order negotiations, dispute avoidance, and the preparation or defense of construction claims. He has participated in the preparation and presentation of a number of major construction and contract claims and disputes. His experience with construction disputes includes the development, analysis, and defense of construction claims related to delays, inefficiencies, and cost overruns. Specifically, he has prepared as-planned schedules, updates and time impact analyses, prepared and analyzed as-built schedules, and prepared delay and performance related analyses, productivity-impact and acceleration analyses, and cost and damages claims.
BOARD MEMEBER
DAN MELAMED, CCP, EVP
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Mr. Dan Melamed is currently a Program Analyst with the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) where he has worked on budget formulation, the management of the EM Program’s corporate performance metrics, project and program life cycle cost analyses, including risk assessment and analysis for determining the EM Program’s contribution to the Department of Energy’s Environmental Liability Estimate. He has also been involved in the earned value management system evaluation for new contractors for the EM program. He has served as the president for the National Capital Section and is currently a member of the Technical Board of AACE International.
Prior to his work at the Department of Energy, Dan Melamed was a staff scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he did research on waste processing technologies and solar energy conversion. In addition to being a Certified Cost Professional and an Earned Value Professional, Dan Melamed has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University. He is a member of AACE International, Sigma Xi the Scientific Honor Society, as well as the American Chemical Society. He is the author of over 20 peer-reviewed publications and one patent.
BOARD MEMBER
MARK ZEIDAN
CLARK CONSTRUCTION
Mr. Zeidan is a Planning and Scheduling professional who has spent his career on the different aspects of scheduling both on the owner and contractor sides, from project planning and schedule development, schedule management and monitoring to managing schedule related claims and disputes. He started his career in the semi-conductor industry managing tool install schedules before transitioning into the construction industry where he worked on diverse projects, ranging from residential and commercial construction such as hospitals, convention centers and bus maintenance facilities, to mission critical, research laboratories, transit projects and secure government facilities. He graduated with a BE in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Lebanese American University in Byblos, Lebanon. He currently lives in the District with his wife Dina and cat Bazzi.