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Bill Barry
Owner's Representative · Construction Assurance · Critical Infrastructure
Complex capital programs don't fail because owners lack information. They fail because owners lack the right person inside the program — someone who reads contractor behavior, spots execution drift before it becomes schedule impact, and holds the delivery system accountable from preconstruction through commissioning.
That is the role I fill.
Track Record
35+ years across critical infrastructure delivery — licensed chief engineer, nuclear systems, EPC delivery, and 18 years as an independent owner's representative across oil and gas, hydrogen mobility, utilities, and defense capital programs.
150+ major programs across six continents, greenfield and brownfield, from single-site diagnostics to multi-billion-dollar global portfolios.
$1.5B+ in project deliverables under direct owner-side authority — cost, schedule, quality, and commissioning readiness accountability across every engagement.
$6M single-engagement cost avoidance for BP through field-verified fault diagnosis — finding what remote assessment missed.
The discipline that prevents commissioning failure on an offshore deepwater program is the same discipline mission-critical infrastructure programs need and rarely get from the owner's side.
What I Do
Independent owner-side authority across the full capital program lifecycle — from pre-construction governance through commissioning and operational handover.
Front-End Governance
Stage-gate design, constructability review, EPC/GC bid evaluation, and scope and risk validation before capital is committed. The decisions made here determine whether delivery is recoverable later.
Construction Oversight
Embedded contractor oversight during active delivery — reading schedule behavior, enforcing design intent, managing interfaces, and identifying execution drift before it becomes schedule impact. I understand how EPC and GC organizations manage risk internally, which makes owner-side oversight sharper and harder to circumvent.
Commissioning & AI Governance
Commissioning readiness embedded from preconstruction day one — not bolted on at the end. Currently serving as AI Governance Architect at Coodex.ai, designing frameworks that translate AI-generated schedule risk and commissioning signals into executable owner-side decisions.
Engagements range from focused 2–4 week diagnostics to long-term embedded program authority. Available globally.
Assurelytics
Most capital program performance systems are built on lagging indicators; metrics that confirm problems after they've already embedded in the program and begun eroding value. By the time schedule variance or CPI degrades, the decisions that caused it were made weeks or months earlier.
Assurelytics is a proprietary performance management methodology developed through Atlantic Wave LLC that applies leading, cross-phase, normalized indicators across the full program lifecycle. Drawing on the same analytical philosophy that transformed baseball analytics, it identifies where and why programs are going to fail, before it shows up in cost and schedule variance.
The framework tracks 100+ metrics across 10 lifecycle phases, includes a Value Erosion Velocity model that quantifies NPV erosion by work stream, and is anchored to AACE Recommended Practices.
Available as an embedded program diagnostic engagement or methodology consultation.
Contact me to discuss how Assurelytics applies to your program.
Sectors & Environments
Infrastructure environments where the owner-side discipline I bring has been tested at scale, under compressed schedules, and with zero tolerance for startup failure.
Oil & Gas · Offshore & Subsea
Hydrogen Mobility
Utilities & Transmission
Mission-Critical & High Availability
Industrial & Energy
Direct Air Capture
Multi-Site Global Portfolios
Selected Engagements
Coodex.ai — AI Governance Architect · 2026–Present
Designing owner-side governance frameworks for AI execution intelligence deployment across hyperscale capital programs. Bridging construction field reality and AI/technology leadership.
Pacific Gas & Electric via PTAG — Senior Advisor · 2025–2026
Owner-side delivery authority across multi-billion-dollar transmission and substation major projects portfolio. Designed revised Project Execution Plan with commissioning readiness and stage-gate governance.
Hydrogen Systems, Middle East — Interim Director of Construction · 2024–2025
Established construction department and PMO from inception. Led EPC bid evaluation. Implemented AWP — 20% cycle time reduction, 15% cost reduction.
Shell New Energies — Senior Technical Advisor / PMO Lead · 2020–2023
Shell's owner-side technical authority across 60+ global hydrogen mobility infrastructure sites spanning six countries — North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
Shell International via Gibson Applied Technologies — Owner's Rep · 2007–2020
Owner-side authority across multi-billion-dollar subsea capital programs — Appomattox, Stones, Whale, Perdido II/III. Global standardization cut months off greenfield delivery & commissioning schedules across multiple major developments.
Industry Advisory Board — Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI). Federally funded national consortium (BSEE / DOE), up to $40M federal funding. Active member contributing to national offshore energy safety standards and industry governance frameworks.
Complex capital programs requiring independent owner-side authority — pre-construction through commissioning — are the engagements I take on. If your program is at that level, a direct conversation is the right place to start.
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