JD Pearson, PSP

JD Pearson began work with Pearson Management Group, Inc. in spring 2004 after graduating from Auburn’s Building Science program. During the past 21 years JD split his time between active project scheduling and forensic schedule and damage analyses, helping clients achieve timely completion and resolve claims. Since 2020, JD has completed forensic delay analyses on Circa Towers in downtown Los Angeles next to Crypto.com Arena, Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Tribune Tower in Chicago, the River Bridge in New Ulm, Minnesota, and Big Sioux Bridge in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Early in his career, JD prepared a delay analysis on the FedEx Airbus Hangar in Memphis, Tennessee designed as a base maintenance center for the world’s largest commercial aircraft, the 60-story Elysian Hotel and Private Residences in downtown Chicago (now the Waldorf Astoria), McCormick Place Headquarters Hotel in Chicago, and a Korean manufacturing plant (AJIN) that supplies car parts for KIA and Hyundai. At JD’s recommendation, AJIN authorized Pearson to create a full-length construction animation for a bench trial. JD selected and worked with a boutique animator in Liverpool, England to create the animation that clearly conveyed how the project was constructed and the duration of events that caused delay.

JD moved to New Orleans for a year in 2013/2014 to assist a large national surety in successfully completing construction of the troubled Carrollton Water Plant Power Complex project and prepare claims. Other on-site work includes working with the Retirement Systems of Alabama to timely complete the $200M Montgomery Hotel & Convention Center, the centerpiece of Alabama’s capital city. JD is currently working on several projects evaluating contractor’s schedule updates, time extension requests, and damages.