Peter Kornelsen

Background

About Peter Kornelsen

A trained and tested manager of people and projects. My skills at managing staff, schedules, and costs from project level to corporate level have resulted in increased project profitability. Over 32 years experience in management roles, with last 5+ years focused on business leadership, management of technical staff, client liaison, project conceptualization and controls, including WBS development, budgets, cost estimates, planning and scheduling, cost control, performance monitoring, risk management. • Developed exceptional managerial, interpersonal, and communications skills through many years of direct management. • Technical knowledge and experience to be equally comfortable dealing with technical/engineering staff, presenting to senior management, leading the controls effort of large projects, and running large multi-disciplinary project teams and projects. • Proven experience in environmental-focused projects and engineering projects in power generation, transmission and distribution, and transportation. • Exceptional knowledge and understanding of business accounting, successfully bridging the communication gap between project operations and corporate accounting for many years. • Excellent data analysis skills and problem solving abilities, having identified and solved many complex project problems impacting financial performance. • Skilled user of common software (MS Office suite, Primavera, Wrench, Prism), and a very quick learner of new tools. • A life-long learner with lots of energy and unwavering loyalty.