Company History
SJCC’s founder, Scott Jennings, P.E., exited his construction companies in 2016 and his fleet of yellow iron transitioned to laptops. His love of the heavy/civil construction business lives on today in the firm’s professional services to Contractors, Owners, Engineers, and Attorneys.
Scott’s first consulting project was onsite management of the civil aspects of a fast-paced $100 million hotel renovation in Hawaii. Three months of this field assignment were actually accomplished from a wheelchair mandated by Scott’s orthopedic surgeon after a bad fall and a broken ankle.
Since 2016, the firm has had over 500 heavy/civil construction and engineering projects in North America, Guam, and New Zealand.
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I had a client once tell me ‘Scott, we hired you because you can see the future’. He didn’t realize that I wasn’t alone. Every senior member of our team brings this vision to your issue.
Mr. Scott Jennings, Founder
Meet The Team
SJ Construction Consulting, LLC (SJCC) key management includes:
Scott Jennings, P.E., CCM
Principal
Background: Mr. Jennings started his construction career while in the cooperative education program at college. For the past 30+ years across North America and Hawaii, Scott has taken roles from field engineer to division manager to company owner in the heavy/civil sector. His passion lies in the many facets of construction including means and methods, contract law, estimating, and cost controls. Scott enjoys teaching and writing in the construction field as evidenced by his 250+ podcasts and his recent time as an HCSS HeavyBid Contract Trainer.
Proficiency: Claim support, estimating, expert witness, and constrution management
Disciplines: Underground utilities, shoring, bridge/roadway, structural concrete, and WWTP
Education/Certifications: BS Civil, MS Civil, P.E. (civil), CCM (CMAA), CEP (AACEI)
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: (808) 271-5150, sj@sjcivil.com
Kevin Bunting
Sr. Estimator
Background: Mr. Bunting has over 30 years of construction experience working for contractors and for a large public agency. After college graduation, Kevin began his career in construction as a field engineer and moved into project management and estimating. Most of his career has been in the heavy/civil industry where he has generated hard bid estimates and agency-independent cost estimates. As an LSU graduate, Kevin bleeds purple and yellow.
Proficiency: Estimating (HCSS HeavyBid) and project management
Disciplines: Underground utilities, WWTP, WWPS, cast in place concrete, and roadway
Education/Certifications: BS Architecture
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: (833) SJ-CIVIL, kb@sjcivil.com
Patrick Mullen
Sr. Scheduler
Background: Mr. Mullen’s experience was gained through simple schedule analysis on projects throughout southern California, large fast-tracked work on Google data centers in the United States midwest, and then his resume continued to build with SJCC on projects up to $430 million in Hawaii and Guam. Pat left southern California in 2020 and leads all scheduling for SJCC from his home in Boise, Idaho.
Proficiency: Primavera P6 and MS Project scheduling – time impact analysis, monthly update, and litigation support
Disciplines: Infrastructure of all kinds, building
Education/Certifications: BS Civil Technology
Location: Boise, Idaho
Contact: (954) 309-6259; pm@sjcivil.com
Erik Golubjatnikov
Claims Consultant & Estimator
Background: Thirty (30) years of heavy/civil experience in project management and estimating. Projects include a wide range from resort work in Hawaii to railroad work in Montana. Design-build project development for projects to $4.3 billion.
Proficiency: Estimating, especially using the HCSS platform. Erik has built HCSS systems for over thirty (30) different companies. Erik is also outstanding in contract/change negotiation and development of extraordinary construction means and methods to optimize job costs. Erik has extensive experience in small to large ($500 million) simple to complex claims.
Disciplines: Bridge, tunnel, highway and any work heavy/civil related.
Education/Certifications: Landscape Architecture education; Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Member
Location: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Contact: (208) 827-1501, eg@sjcivil.com
Rob Bonnett
Claims Consultant & Estimator
Background: Mr. Bonnett brings over 35 years of heavy/civil and environmental construction experience to SJCC. Rob has had varied roles in self-performed construction from field engineer to division manager, and is expert in claim support, estimating, entitlement review, and contracts.
Proficiency: Claim support, estimating, entitlement review, and contracts
Disciplines: Heavy/civil, utility, shoring, and dewatering
Education/Certifications: BS Construction Management
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Contact: (833) SJ-CIVIL, rb@sjcivil.com
Travis Olson, P.E.
Claims Consultant
Background: Mr. Olson is a construction expert with over 15 years of construction industry experience. As Project Manager, Travis self-performed Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Steel scopes of work. During his project management career, he directly set up and maintained project document control systems, cost reports, labor reports, baseline schedules, schedule updates, escrow bid docs, and claims processes. He has also led large-scale estimates for Joint Venture Design-Build projects totaling over $2.9B.
Proficiency: Estimating, schedule review, project inefficiency and delay cost impact calculations, and dispute resolution support.
Disciplines: Heavy/civil, water and wastewater, rail, tunnel, highway and dams. Commercial work in high rise building and hospitals.
Education/Certifications: P.E. (civil), PSP (AACEI)
Location: Mesa, Arizona
Contact: (503) 933-7306, to@sjcivil.com
Monique Kelsey
Licensing Manager & business advisor
Background: Ms. Kelsey started with SJCC in a corporate role as manager of general and adminstrative tasks. However, due to her tireless effort and drive for growth she has transitioned into leading SJCC’s Contractor Licensing Department. Monique now handles licensing, company/RME matchmaking, and business setup for clients in over forty (40) states.
Proficiency: Document control, business management, and accounts receivable improvement for Clients
Disciplines: Adobe Acrobat, Smartsheet, Quickbooks, and TSheets
Education/Certifications: BS Finance
Location: Florida
Contact: (254) 833-1253, mk@sjcivil.com
Jeff Vander Velde
Scheduler
Background: Mr. Vander Velde is relatively new to the field, but has excelled in time impact analysis, project narrative, and quantitative analysis of project delays. Jeff has worked on projects from Maine to Hawaii and is proficient on Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
Proficiency: Primavera P6 and MS Project scheduling – baseline review/creation, monthly updates, and time impact analysis
Disciplines: Infrastructure of all kinds, building
Location: Boise, Idaho
Contact: (714) 308-0235, jvv@sjcivil.com
David Brown
Environmental and Construction Engineer
Background: Mr. Brown’s career started in GIS with a focus on hydrology and geologic work. He later became a Certified Floodplain Manager with experience working alongside FEMA and local governments in their floodplain mapping. Currently David uses his skillset to handle all environmental concerns at a large wastewater expansion project on Oahu. He is the lead engineer on environmental compliance as well as Plant coordination for one the state’s largest public projects.
Proficiency: Environmental construction involving asbestos, PCBs, and other dangers contaminents; coordination with City, State, and Federal environmental compliance agencies
Disciplines: Environmental and WWTP
Education/Certifications: BS Environmental Science
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: (678) 206-7718, db@sjcivil.com
Rodrigo Siles
Drafter
Background: Mr. Siles joined SJCC with a highly technical background in machine design, mathematics, and MEP construction. Rodrigo worked in plumbing and piping construction which has helped in his role as manager of as-builts and drafting at Hawaii’s largest wastewater facility on Sand Island, Oahu.
Proficiency: Drafting (Autodesk), Revit, and PDF manipulation (Bluebeam)
Disciplines: Building systems, power and controls, electrical, and process utility
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: (833) SJ-CIVIL, rs@sjcivil.com
Shane Duckworth, P. E.
Technical Writer
Background: Mr. Duckworth’s technical background is in geotechnical engineering where he practiced as a design engineer. Shane’s career altered course to a degree when he took a lead role in technical. Shane developed a relationship with SJCC from his work with Mr. Jennings in forensic investigation of residential and commercial damage.
Proficiency: Technical writing
Disciplines: Geotechnical and civil engineering
Education/Certifications: BS Civil
Location: Montana
Contact: (833) SJ-CIVIL
Desiree Stabilio
Construction Administrator
Background: Ms. Stabilio has over 15 years of office administrative experience, beginning her career in a small engineering firm carrying out duties such as filing, scanning, and scheduling. During that time, she had the fortunate opportunity to learn how to draft plans, design residential homes, route permits through the City and County, and lead small projects. Fascinated and eager to learn more and see more construction, Ms. Stabilio joined the SJCC team and continued to add to her skillset as a construction administrator.
Proficiency: Administrative duties, office management
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: (808) 256-0092 ; ds@sjcivil.com
Rianna Teixeira
Administrative Assistant
Background: Ms. Teixeira has extensive knowledge in construction administration with over 15 years of construction accounting experience, including A/P and A/R, payroll, and certified payroll from general contracting to specialized fields. Her love of numbers contributes to her success.
Proficiency: Certified Payroll
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: rt@sjcivil.com
Taylor FosterJones
Licensing & Accounting
Background: Ms. FosterJones primarily assists in pursuit of contractor licenses for our clients. She has a background in construction office management, and project management, as well as 7+ years in customer service.
Proficiency: Construction licensing, office management, and administrative duties
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Contact: tfj@sjcivil.com
Why Choose Us
Responsiveness And Results
- We were the Contractor’s lead on negotiating an 86 cents-on-the-dollar claim settlement on a $500+ million public project.
- In the estimating sector, we did a price check on a $60 million bridge job in 5 work days for a public Owner.
- In the professional engineering sector, we stamped traffic control plans in 20 minutes for a Contractor.
- In the realm of customer service, within 48 hours we said “Sorry we’re not best suited for this project” to a client and connected them with three other consultants who fit them better.
