DREAM WORLD ENTERPRISES – NEOTHINK – LEVEL 2 TEN SECOND MIRACLE

LEVEL 2 INTEGRATION TEN SECOND MIRACLE

MR. MARK HAMILTON – (MENTOR)
My “FNE” Friday Night Essence falls into the category of Master Planned Community (Paradise City), as I highlighted in Level 01. I, however, did find the many years I worked to be somewhat interesting and not all that boring. I started out doing Accounting and found that I hated doing the same routine week-in and week-out, so I moved onto Cost Accounting, which offered a great variety of different tasks and functions.
I started out with Bethlehem Steel Company, Fore River Ship yard in Cost Control for 4 years. Then, the ship yard was sold to General Dynamics Corp. and I worked for them for 8+ years in the Cost Engineering Department and was involved with bid proposals, contract change orders, industrial sales, large recovery cost claims, management dilution, disruption in efficiency, compound interest on borrowing and pricing, and documentation preparation of government submittal forms and supporting documents, ensuring good traceability for audits under the Public Law 87-653, Truth in Negotiations Act.
Such activity involved development of pricing rates, payroll analysis, projections of fixed and variable cost, recurring and non-recurring costs and labor trends. (These I’ll come back to later as they pertain to a “Paradise City”). Improved systems and guidelines were developed to meet stringent cost control and government documentation requirements. Main Frame Computerized systems included the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) and the PERT system for scheduling, monitoring, compiling, expediting and controlling from bid and proposal, contract definition, production and development phases through project execution.
When General Dynamics decided to give up surface shipbuilding, I took a position of 21+ years with Stone and Webster Engineering. They had about 1,500 employees when I started to work there and during the Nuclear Construction Years, had grown to 15,000+ subs, only to decline to 1,200 in 1993 and filed bankruptcy in 1995. They are a much smaller company today, operating under the Shaw Corporation. I worked for “S&W” in the Cost and Scheduling – Project Management Dept. overseeing Project Controls functions on many projects.
I guess because of all the varieties of work and all the different kinds of projects, I can say I was never bored and did all I could to keep cost under control, in spite of the government regulations and the change orders they created.
While working with Stone and Webster, John Maxim, an Engineering Manager, took my concept and headed up the task force for the development of the ‘STANDARD NUCLEAR PLANT CONCEPT”. This is a form of Engineering and Designing a prototype and duplicating it 100 fold, which is where the fixed and variable cost, recurring and non-recurring costs come into play. If the Government Regulations hadn’t pushed the cost so far out of hand for building Nuclear Plants, S&W was in a great position to have implemented the safe Standard Plant Concept at great savings to the Utility Companies at the time. These same concepts would also work on future duplication “Paradise Cities” all over the world and this does NOT have to be cookie cutter construction by any means, but interior and infrastructures, and general layouts, functions, etc. are standard designs.
These concepts can be used in all types of infrastructures and other energy sources besides just Nuclear Power Plants. Everything of similar functions, including space exploration, from homes to rocket ships and still have individual curb appeal and be totally functional.
A home floor plan that meets the needs of almost every individual is not that difficult to obtain, Kitchen, Dining, Living, Family, Office, Exercise Room, Media Room. Five bedrooms and five bathrooms and three car garages, pools, etc., all on one level with open concept or same standard layout in a high-rise, with automobile elevators, similar to those on aircraft carriers. Well designed and engineered high rises.
Stone and Webster Engineering was a leader in the industry and should have won the “Big Dig” contract in Boston, Massachusetts. But, because they were a part of the New York Stock Exchange, and the completion wasn’t, we had to comply within the laws and regulations. By the way, did you know that S&W worked with Disney, in a joint team effort, in the software development of the 360 degrees – 3D design system called Stoneware, Stonebridge, etc. Together they changed the construction of large projects through the new dimension in Design and Engineering Software. Only since the S&W downfall has my life been dull and hopefully I’m on track for a change and able to help others to do likewise on the Neo-Think Team. Other life events I’ll share with you, all in good time.