Mr. Dooley has more than 10 years of experience providing dispute resolution and advisory services to both ongoing and completed construction projects located domestically and internationally. His dispute resolution experience covers the preparation, evaluation, and management of construction claims at the project level and expert-related services for litigation, adjudication, and arbitration proceedings for the power, process, industrial, and commercial construction industries. Mr. Dooley is experienced in entitlement evaluation, causation analysis, damage quantification for both cost and time, and report preparation for matters involving construction delay and disruption, labor productivity, prolongation, constructive and directed acceleration, change orders, weather events, termination, force majeure events, and design and construction defects. His advisory experience includes the commercial turnaround and delivery of capital asset projects, the development of project-specific progress monitoring tools, and the training and mentoring of project resources to develop a commercial awareness during the execution phase of projects. Additionally, Mr. Dooley has designed processes and procedures for ongoing construction projects focused on document and data retention, project controls best practices, and proactive change management practices. Prior to joining Veritas, Mr. Dooley held senior positions in numerous consulting firms, located both domestic and international, specializing in the provision of dispute resolution services for the construction industry and was assigned for six years to a power plant construction project in South Africa.

Mr. Shine’s responsibilities include analysis of construction claims related to schedule delays, cost overruns, productivity impacts, and additional work.  He has consulted on projects for pipelines, compressor stations, and high rises. Prior to joining Veritas, Mr. Shine was Assistant Superintendent for a large commercial general contractor.  He has experience in project administration, client and subcontractor relations, quality management, safety enforcement and work planning.  Mr. Shine has worked on projects in higher education, healthcare, data centers and commercial development.

Ms. Sandhop has performed review and analysis of construction claims including productivity impacts, cost overruns, schedule delays, additional work, and weather delay. She has consulted on industrial, oil and gas, and other large-scale construction projects.

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.