Mr. Dignum is Senior Vice President, the Chief Quality Officer and a Principal of The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc. He is also a Senior Vice President, the Chief Operating Officer and a Principal of Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. Drawing upon 30 years of experience in project management and controls, project risk management and contract disputes, Mr. Dignum is extensively involved in all aspects of Nielsen-Wurster’s Dispute Resolution services and Pegasus’ Management Consulting and Risk Management services. Having held senior positions with both owner and contractor organizations in private and public environments, he is fully knowledgeable and experienced with the roles and tasks needed to ensure successful completion of complex projects throughout the building, power, process, infrastructure and transportation industries.

Mr. Dignum has expertise in Management Consulting formal management compliance reviews and audits; contract formation, negotiation and compliance; project management system design and development; project control system development, implementation and use; and organization of project management teams and structures. Mr. Dignum has performed project prudence audits, progress assessments, change management and control functions, and has consulted on critical issues and Lessons Learned. He has led project management teams, including project management and controls formation, implementation and results assessment, and analyzed schedules, delay and cost impacts. He has developed extensive project management training programs for a variety of audiences (owners, contractors, engineers and constructors) in private, multinational corporations as well as local, state and federal government agencies.

Mr. Dignum’s Risk Management experience includes the design, development and implementation of a project risk management program for a large, international EPC contractor; development of several risk management techniques, tools and systems addressing risk identification, quantification, avoidance and mitigation plans; risk element integration into standard project control tools; and project specific risk profiling. He has led risk management teams in projects in North America, Australia, Europe, Asia and South America for both owner and contractor clients ranging in value from $500,000 to over $12 billion. Mr. Dignum has taught numerous training courses in every aspect of risk management in the construction industry.

In Nielsen Wurster’s Dispute Resolution Division, Mr. Dignum has led and participated in myriad dispute resolution engagements, with claims ranging from $50,000 (differing site condition issues under mediation) to $1.5 billion (federal court litigation on a nuclear power plant). As an Engagement Director, Mr. Dignum oversees Dispute Resolution analyses and evaluations performed by Nielsen Wurster’s interdisciplinary teams. He has worked on a wide range of issues involving management standard of care, schedule delay, disruption, change orders, productivity and inefficiency, acceleration, early completion, causation / responsibility, measured mile, damage calculations, cumulative impact, termination and fraud. As a specialist in project management standards of care, project controls, contract formation, causation and damages, he also serves as an active project team member. Mr. Dignum has prepared expert witness reports for international arbitrations (AAA, ICC, and SIAC) on claims involving breach of contract, project management standards, contract formation, scheduling, cost controls, labor productivity and other issues.

Prior to joining Nielsen-Wurster, Mr. Dignum served as Senior Contracts Director of the Americas at Kvaerner E&C, a major multinational engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm, where he directed, designed, implemented and presented Kvaerner’s E&C Risk Awareness Initiative to project management personnel. He was responsible for resolving and managing international claims and disputes, including the analysis of dispute and claim positions and the engagement of legal and expert assistance. Mr. Dignum also held previous positions of Manager of Subcontracting and Project Controls Manager while at Kvaerner, and as Project Manager and Contracting Manager at private construction claims consulting firms. Mr. Dignum was Division Chief for a Federal Health and Human Resources regional grant-in-aid program, where he was responsible for operations, management and supervision of division staff; consultation with state government divisions and officials on program initiation and operations; fiscal management and oversight of federal funding; project planning and operations; drafting and enforcement of federal regulations; and consultation on federal program legislation.

Mr. Dignum has rendered his expertise both in the public as well as private sectors. His experiences include working as a Project Manager for the State of Colorado and as Division Chief US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Region VII, Denver, Colorado. Mr. Dignum has managed all AOA Title 3 programs in six state regions. He has conducted program and performance audits as required by federal legislation. He has shown his expertise in Development Program Planning and Management system and trained state personnel in use and implementation of that system. Mr. Dignum also taught two summer seminars at University of Southern California in Project Planning, Management and Evaluation. He has participated in redrafting of the enabling act in 1978 in Washington, D.C.