Wayne Kalayjian is a Managing Director at Secretariat with 35 years of analytical expertise for complex capital improvement programs around the world. He specializes in program management systems and controls, fraud investigations, financial damage analytics, forensic accounting, root-cause analytics, environmental risk remediation, cost estimating, quantum and damages analysis, dispute resolution, litigation support, and expert testimony.

His hands-on experience includes design, construction, and oversight of projects within the energy, power, technology, transportation, water, higher education, military, institutional, manufacturing, healthcare, and gaming sectors. As a result, he has first-hand insights into why construction projects succeed, how they fail, lessons learned, and powerful ways to translate complicated technical issues into plain English.

Mr. Kalayjian is a Senior Advisor for a private equity fund in Manhattan, and a Board Member for a mid-sized engineering company in South Florida, where he provides operational guidance. He has provided expert testimony in Federal and State courts across the United States. Mr. Kalayjian holds a BS in Civil Engineering, Art History, and Geology from Tufts University; an MS in Structural and Earthquake Engineering from Stanford University; and an MS in Business Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he studied and wrote about “Skyscraper Technology in Manhattan: 1930 to 1990” for his research thesis. He was part of the construction team that moved a historic lighthouse on Cape Cod National Seashore in 1995, where his engineering drawings are on display at the Highland Light Museum.

Shelley and Wayne discuss the importance of audited documentation on construction projects and the huge savings in time and money that it brings.