Jasper Kigar

Project Director at Los Alamos National Lab

Albuquerque-Santa Fe Metropolitan Area

About

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Experience

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Project Director
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

      Plutonium Infrastructure program.

    • Sr. Project Manager
      Oct 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Plutonium Infrastructure projects.

    • Program Manager
      Jun 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Weapon Modernization Production programs.

  • San Juan Construction, Inc. (1 yr)
    • Project Controls Manager
      Apr 2019 - Aug 2019 · 5 mos

      Cost and schedule control for Federal projects in logistically challenged locations.

    • Scheduling Manager
      Sep 2018 - Apr 2019 · 8 mos

      Goverment contractor specializing in logistically challenged construction.

  • CH2M (7 yrs 2 mos)
    • Field Project Controls Lead (Cost & Schedule)
      May 2015 - Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      • Planned and delivered a chemical plant turn-around within an extremely tight production outage window by using Primavera P6 to manage a 3,500+ activity engineering, procurement, construction, and production schedule. • Actively managed the budgeting, cost reporting and cash flow for a $55MM chemical plant retrofit project using a combination of Excel and Enterprise database tools. Worked closely with construction management, contractors, suppliers, and engineering firms to forecast spend. • Reduced approval & processing time for change orders by implementing a new web-based change order system (Primavera CM).

    • Engineering Quality
      May 2013 - May 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Engineering quality for the Spartanburg office. Quality Lead/Manager on a $500MM EPCM chemical plant project in Louisiana for a major pharmaceutical company. Auditing, continuous improvement, root cause investigation.

    • Quality Assurance/Quality Control
      Aug 2011 - May 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Contractor working on BP Alaska Northern Tier Projects. Quality Assurance, Risk Management, Auditing, Continuous Improvement, and Root Cause Analysis.

  • Capacity Building Administrator at Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON)
    Nov 2015 - Jan 2016 · 3 mos

    I was selected to help solve one of MODON's core issues: who to choose as project managers. Using a psychometric personality inventory (HOGAN), we inverted their selection criteria from hard engineering skills to leadership, sociability, and stress flexibility: core aptitudes required for project management success.

  • Commercial Banking Associate at Wells Fargo
    May 2010 - Aug 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

    •Responsible for the daily operations and maintenance of a $150MM credit and deposit portfolio consisting of large industries and corporations in Alaska, and the Lower 48 USA.