SCOTT A. BAYLEY

Mr. Bayley, a Managing Director, is the founder of Accumyn and serves as its President. He has served public and private businesses, governmental entities, and law firms with auditing, accounting, financial, and economic consulting services for over thirty years. A primary focus of his practice is analysis of financial damages and economic claims, valuation analysis, fraud and forensic accounting examinations, preparation of expert reports and expert testimony regarding accounting disputes, claims of financial and economic loss, and valuation opinions. His…

CONSTRUCTION CLAIMS & DISPUTES

CONSTRUCTION CLAIMS & DISPUTES Accumyn provides independent, objective and discerning expert testimony and consulting services to a broad spectrum of clients in energy, refining, petrochemical, commercial, residential, industrial, manufacturing, governmental and juristic business sectors. Accumyn’s experts and professional staff include top industry specialists in the fields of engineering, architecture, geophysics, safety, construction and finance. By leveraging our forensic skills in financing, banking, economics and actuarial science within many different practice areas, Accumyn provides our clients with penetrating analyses, in-depth conclusions,…

GEOFF FLETCHER

Mr. Fletcher is an associate managing consultant at Accumyn Consulting specializing in analysis of construction project controls for capital projects. His education and more than thirty years of experience in executive and senior manager positions crosscuts construction industry executive, project and contract management, quantity surveying, and consulting activities. Projects have involved construction and operational assignments in domestic and international commercial, manufacturing & process, oil & gas and power generation business sectors. Beginning as an apprentice quantity surveyor Mr. Fletcher worked…

JOHN MCREYNOLDS

Mr. McReynolds has provided consulting and expert services in over 100 legal matters. John has been deposed numerous times and provided live testimony in both jury and bench trials as well as in arbitration and state administrative hearings. He assists both individuals and companies with matters of all sizes and scopes, and has been about equally retained by plaintiffs and defendants. John specializes in matters related to construction defects with an emphasis on residential construction, but significant experience in other…

JONATHAN PARRY

Mr. Parry has twenty years’ experience working with IOC’s, NOC’s and Independents. As a Principal Engineer he has participated in major capital projects in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. At ConocoPhillips he provided oversight to Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Caspian and Russian well operations, and contributed to their new ventures and farm-in activities. In Functional Excellence Mr. Parry is familiar with defining appropriate standards and processes to manage corporate risk and enhance value. He…

BENJAMIN SCHRADER, PE

Mr. Schrader provides consulting and expert services to clients and their outside advisors in matters relating to the energy and capital project management sectors.  He has over 35 years of operating and consulting experience in the petroleum and chemical industries. His 14-year tenure at Chevron Corporation provided extensive refining and supply experience, including managing the operations of refinery process units. Mr. Schrader’s broad experience as a management consultant to the industry since 1991 includes extensive advisory assignments on both domestic…

MICHAEL TAUBE

Mr. Taube has over 20 years of experience in refining, petrochemicals and specialty chemicals, including construction, operation and operations support of many different processes. He has worked domestically and internationally for several oil, gas, refining and chemical companies. Mr. Taube has a solid understanding of refining and chemical plant operations. His experience includes proficiency in steady state and dynamic modeling and project leadership and management. He has a track record of leading culturally diverse teams for capital construction projects, consulting…

JERRY TURNER

Mr. Turner is the founder and President of T-4 Investment Solutions LLC (T4IS). His clients include financial institutions, domestic and international governmental entities, law firms, and public and private businesses. Jerry provides a broad array of services, including quantification of damages, transaction assistance, mediation assistance, financial analysis, preparation of expert reports and expert testimony regarding real estate and financial disputes, operations review and analysis, contract examination and valuation analysis. Mr. Turner’s dispute experience includes assisting in matters such as tenant/landlord…

Hospital’s Economic Damages due to Construction Delays

Accumyn’s experts analyzed a hospital’s economic damages from the additional construction costs and rent paid on an unfinished diagnostic imaging facility. Shortly after the non-profit Texas hospital entered a long-term commercial lease, began construction and ordered the necessary equipment, expansion was halted when the hospital learned that an existing ground lease with the landowner had restrictive covenants in place that prohibited diagnostic imaging and signage rights. The hospital continued to pay rent on the unfinished space, incurred significant construction delay…

Galveston Construction Damage Dispute

Not all experts can navigate the difficult and often uncharted waters of Construction Litigation. When faced with such a challenge, our Clients need a team that is responsive, objective and thorough; a team that can provide reliable and defensible results. In 2012, Accumyn created such a team to assist a law firm in a long standing lawsuit involving its Client, the Houston office of a national architecture firm. After being briefed about a major water damage dispute on a 234…

Construction Lien Dispute an HPIB Process Unit

Accumyn project management specialist Robert James and chemical engineer Carl Bradow were hired by counsel for a major surety to provide an expert opinion of its position in a matter involving contractor liens on materials and equipment.  After the bankruptcy of the owner of a High Purity Isobutylene (“HPIB”) unit constructed in Pasadena, Texas, several contractors had claimed removal of their installed improvements. .  Accumyn’s research, analysis, and testimony in deposition and at court, resulted in denial of more than 80% of…