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Suite 105
Value Engineering Services Transworld (VEST)

1861 Brevor Drive, Walla Walla, Washington 99362
(509) 525-2866

Principal: William L. Kelly, PE, CVS, FELLOW-SAVE

Facilitated Value Studies, Workshops, Classes, VECP Assistance, and General Value Engineering Assistance.

Curriculum Vitae

Birth Date:

August 14, 1925 Nationality: American

Professional Background:

B. A., Walla Walla College, 1950

Passed Civil Engineer Exam, 1955

Registered Professional Civil Engineer, 1964

Certified Value Specialist, 1976

Certified Value Specialist, Life 1987

Fellow-SAVE, 1993

Technical Titles:

Value Engineering/Analysis/Management Consultant with VEST since 1982

Value Engineering Officer, 9 years with Corps of Engineers

Soils Engineer, 14 years with Corps of Engineers

Materials Engineer, 8 years with Corps of Engineers

Specialized Professional Experience:

William L. Kelly served in the SeaBees, Navy Construction Battalions, during WWII, which educated him in a variety of construction projects and practices in the SW Pacific. His initial design experience with the Corps of Engineers was on military projects. He had total responsibility for foundations and materials designs for such things as site characterization, structure foundations (hangars, hospitals, water storage tanks, barracks, vehicle maintenance, PX, clinics, schools, etc.); utilities; Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant (POL) facilities; airfield pavement layout and section design; pavement designs for roads, parking and walks; and associated engineering chores for these installations from 1953 through 1959: Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Gowan Field, Gore Field, Larson AFB, Great Falls AFB, Glasgow AFB, Malmstrom AFB and a portion of Fairchild AFB. He was in charge of preparing designs, plans and specifications, plus directing all activities to obtain background information such as mix designs, exploration programs, testing, locating existing underground utilities, updating as-built drawings, locating borrow sources, quantifying demolition requirements, estimating quantities, etc. He worked on support facilities design for NIKE missile sites for Hanford, WA. He prepared designs for building foundations, thermador structures, plus roads and parking over perma-frost and tundra for Crazy Mountain and Umiat, Alaska, radar sites. He developed expertise in permafrost design. He wrote tailored specifications for all five northwest states covered by the Walla Walla District in all categories dealing with foundations and materials. He designed test stands for engine runup, foundations/berms for fuel storage tanks and ammo storage facilities, water distribution, sewage lagoons, drainage and a variety of support facilities. He was in military design for eight years.

He spent the next fourteen years in civil works design. He performed field work to determine potential dam site conditions, borrow sources, waste areas, work areas, access routes and similar considerations for several dams in Idaho. They included Bruce's Eddy (Dworshak) and White Pines 1 and 2 on the North Fork of the Clearwater River; sites on the Lochsa and Selway drainages on the Middle Fork of the Clearwater, and one site on the South Fork. He worked on site selection for Ririe Dam on the Snake River in Idaho. He prepared the soils portion design analysis for Zintel Canyon Dam near Kennewick, WA, (later designed as a roller-compacted dam) and Catherine Creek Dam near LaGrande, OR.

In 1970 he was given total responsibility for foundation and materials design for 80 miles of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and 50 miles of Washington State highway to be relocated along the North shore of the Columbia River as a result of constructing John Day Dam. Forty miles were located through and upon ancient landslide debris. He developed a photographic rich set of bid documents that included rolls of cross-sections at 50-foot intervals, maximum, to increase bid competition and reduce claims. The project moved more material than was done for the Panama Canal. He was given complete responsibility for instrumenting and supervising a team to monitor performance of the relocations during pool raise. He had total responsibility for relocations of 22 miles of the Burlington Northern RR and county roads on the North shore of the Snake River and for design of the Snake River roads for the cities of Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington due to the construction of Lower Granite Dam. He had total responsibility for the design of the upper reservoir roads and roads to Three Meadows Camp Site, plus landslide repair for the main South road in the pool created by Dworshak Dam.

He designed shoreline protection, harbors, ramps, levees, drainage, quarries, sewage treatment facilities for recreation areas, designed exploration and instrumentation programs, inspected facilities under construction, and invented a detection and monitoring system for landslides. The systems were dubbed "Kelly Wires" by Stan Wilson of Shannon and Wilson, at a U.C. Berkeley Soils Engineering Conference. They have been used in Japan as well as in the United States.

Over a three year period, he personally performed all field investigations in company with a geologist, directing exploration and seismograph crews; locating, testing and classifying potential borrow sources; and preparing preliminary designs based upon available materials within reasonable haul distances for thirty-three (33) dams. He won an award for his design efforts and the simplified design document format he developed.

He served as a designer and coordinator for cleanup efforts following the Teton Dam failure, Mount St. Helens eruption and restoring river bank protection following the winter floods in Northern California in 1978. He worked on foundation and materials designs for six fish hatcheries that included site layout, concrete designs, levees, lagoons and similar features.

DEMONSTRATED KNOWLEDGE OF VE/VA METHODS

William L. Kelly was elected to the honorary position FELLOW-SAVE in May 1993 by the Society of American Value Engineers International. Its purpose is "to acknowledge SAVE members of high distinction and professional eminence. Nominees shall be more than 40 years of age, nationally recognized in the value engineering field and have practiced in the profession for a minimum of 15 years." He is a CVS for Life, which means he has recertified by earning required points in several fields each four years for three recertification periods or a total of 12 years. He has been involved full time in VE/VA for over 25 years. He directed a major VE program for the Walla Walla District, Corps of Engineers for 9 years and manages a partnership consulting firm which he established in 1982 after retirement from the Corps. He taught VE principles for 8 years with the Corps and has continued instruction ever since. As of January 1998 he has performed thus:

Taught 175 Module I 40-hour workshops, two Module II workshops and 635 VE/VA seminars. He has led 390 VE Studies. He has hands-on experience with over 1,630 projects as a team leader, advisor to workshop teams, team member or director.

Projects vary from restructuring organizations to a $1,300,000,000 building to convert liquid radioactive waste to glass. He has led studies, taught workshops and seminars and served as a VE/VA/VM consultant in Nepal, England, West Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the Czech Republic and Zimbabwe, besides throughout the United States. He has introduced VE programs into national governments, such as Nepal, and industry, such as Kodak Chemical. He has done the same for government agencies and bureaus at state, national and local levels in the U. S.

He was the first Corps' employee to be awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal for outstanding achievement for VE program management and leading studies. He was awarded the ACTION PLUS Excellence Award from the Department of the Navy for a VE study he led on the Industrial Support Complex at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA. A VE study he led was named the OUTSTANDING CIVIL WORKS PROJECT IN SPECIAL CATEGORIES for the State Of Washington in 1988. It was the Picnic Point Bridge Replacement project for Snohomish County.

William L. Kelly rewrote and added portions to the Corps VE training materials, including lesson plans and handouts, the textbook, workbook and proposal book, and edited the Operational Guide. He formatted and wrote the annual progress booklet for the Corps VE program for five years. He wrote a textbook, You and Value Whatnot, wrote and presented several technical papers at SAVE International Conventions and papers for other conventions. He writes lesson plans, handouts, articles, exercises, examples and similar materials for his Module I and Module II VE/VA/VM courses.

William L. Kelly wrote the DEPARTMENTAL MANUAL and VALUE ENGINEERING GUIDANCE HANDBOOK for the U. S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR and its nine bureaus and agencies. He has written VE/VA policies and guidance for several government agencies.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AT CONDUCTING VE/VA STUDIES

William L. Kelly led or directed 200 studies during his 9 year tenure heading the VE program for the Corps' Walla Walla District. They included such projects as comfort stations, an exterior elevator at Dworshak Dam, blasting concrete from the spillways at three dams to install "flip lips" for nitrogen super-saturation control, fish hatcheries at five locations, Willow Creek Dam; powerhouses at McNary and Lower Granite Dams; maintenance facilities at Dworshak; Visitor centers at several projects including Ice Harbor Dam, Lewiston Levees, Dworshak Fish Hatchery and Reservoir, McNary Lock, etc.; the Palouse River trail system; Marina facilities at the Palouse River, Lewiston, Clarkston, Crow Butte, etc.; fish passage facilities at five dams; fish holding facilities at McNary; and dozens more categories. He has a complete file of the studies for perusal.

As a consultant, he was VE Team Leader on these representative studies. He has others on file.

Papers

William L. Kelly presented a State-of-the-Art paper, "Conquering the Evil Empire of Paperwork", at the 1991 SAVE International Convention in Kansas City, MO. It is a complete format for studying organization, products, processes, paperwork, and individual efforts. It reported a 1989-90 effort that preceded Re-engineering and Re-inventing nomenclature. He has used VE/VA principles to study non-hardware items for all his years in the VE field. Early efforts were fought and delayed by management experts who deemed VE/VA an unwelcome intrusion into their specialty area. It was discovered by "re-engineering consulting gurus" in 1996, two decades later.

Summary

He has both applied and taught application of the VE/VA process and techniques to physical processes; training programs; design and procurement processes; organization of offices, agencies and companies; reducing regulations; rewriting large documents into two pages; and similar software items. He has specialized in using functions and FAST to define current mission and services to restate organization goals, objectives, required skills and organization structure. Useless functions are identified and eliminated to prevent overload of remaining personnel.

William L. Kelly February 1998

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