Selected Engagements

Representative programs that show how Exsto Cura supports schedule integrity, project controls visibility, and leadership decision-making.

These examples are framed to help prospective clients quickly understand the kinds of environments, responsibilities, and value Michael Craig has supported across major capital programs.

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CHPE Transmission Program

Transmission Infrastructure Integrated Master Scheduling Multi-Scope Delivery
Challenge
The program required stronger schedule visibility across marine, terrestrial, and metro scopes, with multiple delivery parties needing alignment to common milestones. The challenge was not simply to build a schedule, but to make it useful at a program level where interfaces and dependencies mattered.
Role
Michael Craig supported the program through integrated master scheduling work, helping create a clearer structure for schedule logic, milestone alignment, and cross-party coordination.
Approach
The work focused on building a schedule framework that linked major work fronts, highlighted critical interfaces, and improved how program leadership could understand delivery alignment across the broader effort.
Value Delivered
The result was a more integrated view of delivery, a stronger basis for milestone discussions, and improved visibility into how separate scopes rolled up into the program story leadership needed to manage.

Ørsted / Eversource Offshore Wind

Offshore Wind Fabrication to Commissioning Execution Planning
Challenge
Offshore substation scope required planning support across fabrication, construction, and commissioning in a delivery environment with complex handoffs and high interface sensitivity. Reporting also needed to help decisions happen faster, not just look complete.
Role
Michael Craig supported planning and reporting improvements for offshore substation work, helping teams sharpen execution visibility and create more useful decision support around active delivery.
Approach
The work centered on planning support across fabrication, construction, and commissioning activities while improving reporting cadence and giving teams a clearer view of status, sequencing, and upcoming decisions.
Value Delivered
The engagement strengthened progress visibility, improved reporting usefulness, and helped decision-makers respond more effectively in a high-stakes offshore delivery environment.

Hess Gulf of Mexico Decommissioning Program

Gulf of Mexico Decommissioning Schedule and Cost Risk
Challenge
A major decommissioning effort required stronger visibility into schedule and cost risk in an environment where uncertainty, sequencing, and operational timing all influenced the credibility of the plan.
Role
Michael Craig served in a project services leadership capacity, supporting schedule and cost risk work and helping frame the program’s status in a way leadership could use.
Approach
The work focused on program-level visibility, risk-informed schedule thinking, and improving the connection between project controls analysis and leadership decision support.
Value Delivered
The engagement helped strengthen management visibility into uncertainty, sharpen the conversation around schedule and cost exposure, and support more informed planning discussions for the broader program.