Paul Bryant

Lead Multi-hundred million dollar manufacturing and industrial projects

Managed a reorganization and redesign office project for Carnival Maritime, which was shelved because of Coronavirus. Built the estimate and scope of work for new ships with our UK office for the China Joint Venture Developed the project plan for the preparations required for the China JV to assume ownership of two Costa ships

Building or process PM on multi-hundred million dollar Engineer Procure Construct (EPC) projects in North America and Europe. I provide project management and management consulting services to engineering, construction, and manufacturing firms.

I was installed by the parent firm to figure out why the engineering firm was stalling and devise a strategy to bring it back to a positive trend. Operations Associates began in 1993 and provided supply chain services in the areas of plant layout, office layout, supplier studies, heavy analytics on inventory, and optimization of supply chain.

Working with customers from the U.S. and Japan, I managed the design, build, and start-up of industrial facilities. Projects included aluminum wheel stamping, foam core board manufacturing, soy sauce production, taco & tortilla shell manufacture, silicon chemical vapor deposition, graphite purification, automotive part plastic extrusion, and synthetic quartz crystal growing.

Tracked deliveries from Germany and Saudi Arabia to cogen powerplant in Iran. Learned basic German while I was there.

Project Management