Mr. Helmes has over 40 years of practical project management experience. He has participated in numerous large-scale construction projects as design engineer, contractor, independent project inspector, owner’s representative and developer. Mr. Helmes experience has provided him with the skills and insight to effectively perform forensic analyses in the areas of delay, productivity, damages, technical and management root cause investigations as well as project management standard of care evaluations. He has performed these analyses and evaluations on a wide range of infrastructure and building projects. Further, Mr. Helmes has participated in complex mediations and negotiations and provided expert testimony under different adjudication  proceedings both domestically and abroad. Testimony has been associated with delay and impact analysis, damages, project management. Mr. Helmes’ collective experience gives him a keen ability to unwind complicated situations and provide clients sound guidance and opinions

Mr. Nagorzanski is a founding member of Veritas and has more than 30 years of experience with financial, economic, construction, scheduling, and statistical matters. He has provided expert testimony in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration. He has provided training and served as a conference instructor related to various aspects of construction scheduling, construction claims, forensic investigations, valuation, and damage issues. To provide solutions to contractors, owners, sureties, lenders, manufacturers, subcontractors, and design professionals, Mr. Nagorzanski has calculated costs-to-complete and assessed the time required to complete troubled projects. He has analyzed and calculated the impact of delay, disruption, and acceleration events. He has performed investigations of contractors to determine financial status, profitability, ability to perform, effectiveness of controls, and use of contract funds. Mr. Nagorzanski has consulted with counsel and clients on matters such as securities fraud, forensic investigations, professional malpractice, business valuation, lender liability, business interruption, lost profits, bankruptcy, intellectual property, breach of contract, construction claims, surety bond claims, and fraud investigations. He prepared and defended lost profits claims utilizing market considerations, statistical results, historical parameters, and future projections. He has performed event studies, and developed statistical models to predict stock price movements. He has utilized numerous techniques to value business, securities, intellectual property, and various damage claim components.

Mr. Monson is a Senior Vice President in Veritas’ Houston office with more than 30 years of experience in construction project management and consulting.  His expertise includes project management and project oversight, mitigation of project risk, contract administration, schedule analysis, construction cost analysis and forecasting, and dispute resolution.  Mr. Monson has a demonstrated ability to quickly assess and understand the risks encountered by various stakeholders in a construction project or construction dispute, and to perform the relevant analyses and investigations necessary to provide his clients with accurate, meaningful information to improve their decision-making. Mr. Monson has worked with owners, developers, investors, government authorities, sureties, contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, and end users on a wide variety of projects domestically and internationally, including, oil and gas pipelines, storage facilities, and processing facilities, power plants, manufacturing facilities, commercial and residential buildings, highways, rail projects, and public works projects, stadiums and arenas, hospitals, universities, museums, military installations, airports, and theme parks. Mr. Monson has provided project advisory services to clients on ongoing construction projects, which can include monitoring progress and resource usage, reviewing Contractor invoices for contract compliance, measuring productivity, change order review and/or negotiation, cost and schedule forecasting,  asset disposition, and assistance with contract close-out.  He has prepared and critiqued construction claims, assisted sureties in project investigations and termination decisions, developed and reviewed recovery schedules and acceleration costs on delayed projects, and monitored the completion of construction projects for completing sureties and lenders. Mr. Monson has provided expert testimony on schedule and cost issues in various State and Federal courts as well as AAA and ICC arbitration proceedings. Prior to joining Veritas, Mr. Monson held consulting positions with Navigant Consulting, Inc. and The Barrington Consulting Group.  He previously held field engineering, project management and estimating positions with Turner Construction Company and other contractors.

Mr. Bright is a founding member of Veritas and a nationally recognized expert in the construction industry with more than 35 years experience in contract administration, scheduling, estimating, and consulting. Mr. Bright has provided assistance to clients on such issues as delay, disruption, proper construction management, defective work, surety bond claims, termination, and damages. Encompassing a wide variety of projects, his endeavors have included power plants, pipelines, airports, petrochemical facilities, mass transit, sports arenas, prisons, hospitals, wastewater treatment plants, high-rise office buildings, theme parks, and road construction. Mr. Bright has managed a variety of commercial matters involving such issues as breach of contract, investment fraud, embezzlement, bankruptcy, franchise disputes, and loss of profit issues. His engagements have spanned a variety of business interests including manufacturing, product distribution, cable television, real estate, shipping, and construction. Mr. Bright has prepared and evaluated numerous economic models for the purposes of analyzing and quantifying damages. Mr. Bright has rendered expert testimony on construction matters and on economic damages in state and federal courts, as well as in both domestic arbitration and international construction arbitration proceedings. Prior to Veritas, Mr. Bright was a director with Peterson Barrington, and a founding partner of The Barrington Consulting Group. Additionally, he has held positions as a consultant with Peterson & Co. and as an internal auditor and engineer with Austin Industries.