Mr. Pescarolo has over 37 years of engineering and construction experience in the USA and overseas in marine terminals, power plants, refineries, nuclear facilities, pipelines, infrastructure and classified projects with the USAF, including six classified “Black Projects.” 

Two of the six Black Projects have been declassified and are included in the resume. On one of the Black Projects Mr. Pescarolo was the Engineering Manager of the Effluent Treatment Facility, in support of the U.S. Air Force Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion System, a “Star Wars” nuclear rocket engine program. On a second declassified “Black Project” he was Project Manger over a classified manufacturing facility for the Northrop Corporation, to produce the US Air force TACIT Rainbow missile system. Mr. Pescarolo has held the following clearances: DOE “Q,” NRC “Q.” DOD “TS.” and TS/SI/TK. 

Mr. Pescarolo’s background includes overseas field assignments in both the Middle East and Far East, and construction coordination in six of the newly independent states. His work in the former Soviet Union was in support of construction of U.S. embassies in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. Mr. Pescarolo successfully managed the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Corporation (KEDO) Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) Monitoring Program at seven power plants in North Korea. This program resulted from US Senator John McCain’s demands for the monitoring of HFO deliveries, after several diversions of oil were detected in North Korea. Mr. Pescarolo is currently Project Director in Fluor’s Infrastructure SBU’s pre-contracts operations group responsible for bid and proposal development including written technical proposals, risk assessments, and capital cost estimates in response to customer requests for proposals. 

Mr. Pescarolo managed the Cost Scheduling and Estimating Department for Fluor Daniel in Irvine. This department had a staff of 300 people providing project control and estimating services across the Government, Industrial, Process, Power and Hydrocarbon Business Sectors of Fluor Daniel. During this time he participated in evaluating capital investments including emerging technologies, and economic feasibility of potential projects for business development. 

Mr. Pescarolo's experience on commercial projects spans small feasibility studies to full engineering procurement and construction services projects ranging from half a million dollars to projects over one billion dollars. 

Mr. Pescarolo has been a lecturer at USC since 1983 and instructed the following courses:

   CE 561 Advanced Cost Analysis and Value Engineering 
   CE 566 Planning, Scheduling, and Cost Control 
   CE 501 Construction Management 
   CE 462 Construction Equipment and Methods 
   CE 558 International Engineering and Construction 

Publications 

“Phases of a Project and Project Delivery Systems,” paper presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002 Symposium. 

“Risk Management in International Engineering and Construction,” presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001 Symposium. 

“Legal Ethical and Cultural Issues in International Engineering and Construction”, paper presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001 Symposium. 

"3D CAD in the Government Sector,” presented paper to the American Society for Engineering Management, 1988. 

"Coal Gasification: Direct Applications and Synthesis of Chemical Fuels,” Pergamon Journals Limited, 1987, contributing author.