Plymouth

801 West Ann Arbor Trail
Suite 200
Plymouth, MI 48170

313.963.8863

PMA Detroit-area clients are served by a new office in Plymouth, Michigan. Adjacent to major freeways and convenient to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Plymouth boasts a small-town feel with many unique shops and restaurants and a charming, walkable downtown that hosts numerous free public cultural events that draw nationwide attendance.

The PMA Detroit-area staff have been involved with numerous high-profile projects, including the home of the Red Wings, Little Caesar’s Arena, and a surrounding 50-block development; the Detroit RiverWalk, voted the #1 Best Riverwalk in the United States by USA Today 10Best; and a technical center that services Detroit’s streetcar system, QLINE. Team members also work collaboratively and individually on projects with PMA’s longest repeat infrastructure clients while cultivating and expanding professional relationships with new agencies. Our new accessible location is a great environment to continue growing our project management and project controls talent!

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Robert Sanders

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Leadership

•Gui Ponce de Leon

Gui Ponce de Leon PhD, PE, PMP

CEO Emeritus, Plymouth

Dr. Gui is recognized as one of our nation’s foremost planning and scheduling subject matter experts. His broad professional experience includes executive and senior roles as investor’s developer, program manager, construction manager, and EPC contractor planner/scheduler.

Dr. Gui led PMA for over 50 years as its founder and CEO,  He continually pioneered innovations in project management throughout his career. He has written widely on the use of CPM in construction contracts and schedule, delay, and acceleration analysis. His recent work with the Graphical Path Method (GPM®) is revolutionizing planning and scheduling at a level not seen since the advent of critical path methods.

Core Traits of a Reliable Schedule

As the primary author of the Core Traits of a Reliable Schedule, Dr. Gui endeavored to codify the essential elements of a reliable schedule into a comprehensive protocol. The Core Traits of a Reliable Schedule contemplates CPM and GPM schedules, and further highlights that a comprehensive, credible, well-constructed, and controlled (seen as the four corners of a reliable schedule) schedule captures the notion of a great schedule. This work is a must-read/must-have for professionals aspiring to great schedules.

Construction Claims

Dr. Gui is a project management inventor (patents pending), most notably of the Graphical Path Method (GPM®), a new millennium alternative to the critical path method (CPM). He has written numerous papers and authored and published the Guide to the Forensic Scheduling Body of Knowledge. Dr. Gui has been admitted as an expert in construction management, project management, standard of care, contracting, cost/schedule analysis, and forensic scheduling in federal and state courts, before AAA and ICC panels, and administrative boards.

Education
PhD & MS, Civil Engineering and Construction Management, University of Michigan
Affiliations
  • AACE International
  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Construction Owners Association of America
  • Project Management Institute

•Robert Sanders

Robert Sanders

Executive Director, Plymouth

Bob has over two decades of experience in the waste/wastewater, architectural institutional, infrastructure, power, and environmental markets. He is an effective program manager who utilizes a variety of project delivery approaches, including traditional design-bid-build; design-build; and at-risk program management. He has extensive experience in program, project, and contract management for projects with a cumulative value of more than $8 billion. Bob’s public and private sector experience focuses on project controls and cost management, change order analysis and management, and claims administration. He has also facilitated many strategic planning workshops and value engineering sessions for PMA clients.

Education
BS, Civil Engineering, University of Michigan.
Affiliations
  • AACE International

•Darrel Field

Darrel Field PE, LEED AP

Managing Director, Plymouth

Darrel is a seasoned professional with extensive engineering experience in project management, project controls and development, project tracking, scheduling, status reporting, estimating, cost control, consultant procurement, and design-build contracts. His expertise also includes developing consultant and contractor performance evaluation processes, managing consultant and construction contracts, and providing project closeout oversight for major public power plants, refinery construction, water/wastewater systems, and other heavy construction with a cumulative value of more than $10 billion. Darrel has prepared and reviewed CPM schedules for major programs, construction projects, and design-build contracts. He has also been responsible for reviewing, interpreting, and applying contract provisions; performing claims analyses; and evaluating change entitlement under various lump sum and unit price contracts in the public sector.

Education
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan.

•Kirsten Sell

Kirsten Sell LEED AP

Chief Administrative Officer, Ann Arbor

As Chief Administrative Officer, Kirsten oversees the offices of Human Resources, Marketing, Accounting, Administration, and Talent Acquisition. She also manages all facility aspects of PMA regional offices, including market research, designing and planning office space, coordinating contract negotiations, and managing the construction of office build-outs. A LEED-accredited professional, Kirsten is passionate about green building technology and bringing talented people to solve construction challenges.

Education
Affiliations
  • United States Green Building Council

•Bryan Ritch

Bryan Ritch

Director of Marketing, Plymouth

As Director of Marketing, Bryan directs corporate initiatives for brand management, marketing resources development, and lead generation programs. He is a professional services and software product marketing leader with extensive experience in marketing strategy, campaign development, lead generation, digital marketing, and marketing automation. He provides expertise and insight into marketing and sales system integration, including Sales Force, Pardot, HubSpot, SEMrush, Mail Chimp, and Deltek. Bryan began his career with PMA as a graphic designer working on information application systems for major infrastructure agencies designing the graphical user interface for the application while applying industry standard Web design and programming.

 

Education
MBA, Walsh College; BS, Graphic Design, Eastern Michigan University

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Darrel Field

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