CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE
COMMUNITY SAFETY AND WELFARE COMMITTEE
CALIFORNIP APPLICATION City of San Clemente
JUL 23 2026
1. Name: City Clerk Department
Chris J Brown
2. Do you live in San Clemente? (Note: City
Residency is not necessary for this Committee Yes
3. What is your occupation? Retired
4. Please explain why you would like to serve on the Community Safety and Welfare Committee? I have a heart for community safety, and the safety and welfare of the public in general. I believe that civil government's greatest responsibility is the protection of it's citizens. I would hope to add my global experience in these areas to the benefit of the city.
5. Please explain your background and experience in the public safety field. -State of Alaska, Division of Aviation, Airport Police and Crash Firefighter Former member of Infraguard, FBI Los Angeles District
Member, Orange County Sheriff's Advisory Council
- Managed a aircraft crash fire station in the city of Cold Bay Alaska.
Also provided law enforcement for the city and over 100 square miles in partnership with Alaska State Troopers. Provided structural firefighting and EMT and medivac services to the city and surrounding villages.
6. What is your educational background?
High School/Colleges Attended Major Field of Study Degree? Fenster Ranch School (High School) Yes
California Lutheran University Political Science No
Organizational
Biola University Yes
Leadership
Please explain any experience that you have in community, governmental, charitable or educational affairs.
Currently serve as a member of my church security team in which I provide armed escort when required.
I also am the current director of Camp Pendleton Ministry for my church. We have provided support to various battalions for over 15 years.
I currently provide firearm and general safety training to the church security team upon request.
8. Please describe your understanding of the principal roles and responsibilities of the Community Safety and Welfare Committee.
My understanding is that the committee considers and reviews all public safety and welfare issues concerning it's citizens, as well as working to reduce the city's liability exposure for all city owned properties and venues
9. The Community Safety and Welfare Committee meets bi monthly on the fourth Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. Please explain any challenges, if any, you may have in meeting this commitment.
I have no challenges in meeting this committment.
10. Please use the space below to explain any other factors about yourself that you would like for the Councilmembers to consider as they review your application.
I have over 45 years of public safety and industrial safety managment experience. (See attached Curriculum Vitae) 1 am looking forward to providing any help and support necessary to assist in keeping our city and it's citizens safe and secure.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Chris J. Brown San Clemente, Calif
Senior Construction Manager (Retired)
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Leadership, Biola University, La Mirada, CA.
State of Alaska, Division of Aviation Police and Fire Academy, Anchorage, Alaska Fluor Site Managers Academy, Houston, Texas
ASSOCIATIONS
Member- Orange County Sheriff's Advisory Council
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Over thirty-five years experience in the construction industry, comprised of construction management and project management assignments on oil and gas, pipelines, mining projects, as well as telecommunications network development and commercial/residential construction/development experience. Knowledgeable in new construction, renovation and upgrade work, commercial/industrial construction, tenant improvements, residential construction, grass roots oil refinery construction, maintenance and complex turnaround projects, with diverse industrial construction supervisory experience in civil, mechanical, electrical, piping, fiber optic, and wireless infrastructure development.
SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE
COMPASS BIBLE CHURCH (2011-2017)
FACILITIES DIRECTOR
Managed and maintained all church facilities. Also provided security on campus as Assistant Gatekeeper Ministry Leader. Managed large church security organization and continue to provide firearms training and certification on a volunteer basis.
FLUOR CORPORATION (1993 - 2011)
AREA SENIOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
KEARL Oil Sands Project Imperial Oil (ExxonMobil)
January 2010 - May 2011 Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Cost Reimburseable $11B
PMC Energy & Chemicals
Area Manager assigned to manage the construction of the $140M Athabasca River Water Intake Pumphouse project. Scope included installation of cofferdam, site slope grading and foundation excavations and construction of the concrete pumphouse water intake wet wells. Scope also included construction of electrical switch yard and electrical substation, structural steel and metal cladded building as well as vertical and horizontal water pumps and associated 30" and 42" piping, instrumentation, and electrical works.
AREA CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Marathon Garyville Major Expansion Project Marathon Oil Co July 2009 - November 2009 Garyville, Louisiana
Cost Reimburseable $3.2 B
PMC Oil & Gas
Joined this project to assist in completion of the OSBL Tank Farm scope for this major refinery expansion. Duties include senior construction management for the installation of 5 new crude and product tanks, new crude piping from a new offloading dock facility to all tankage and the new crude unit. Scope includes construction management of all contractors to install civil concrete sleepers, earthen containment dikes, dike access roads and crossings, crude and product piping, and E&l work to support all new systems. Responsibilities include managing client subcontractors with respect to manpower, equipment, and material levels for all disciplines.
AREA CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Chevron Richmond Renewal Program Chevron California
May 2007 - July 2009 Richmond, California
Cost Reimburseable $500 M
Union Self-Perform/CM Oil & Gas
Joined this project on the proposal team in May 2007 and mobilized to site in November 2007. Area Manager responsible for Hydrogen Compression Project upgrades and Off-plot projects throughout the refinery. Duties include Construction Management of numerous subcontractors for civil works as well as FCII self-perform piping, structural steel, electrical and instrumentation. Scope includes compressor replacements and upgrades, loading docks, oxygen station, piling, piperacks and misc refinery upgrade projects. Duties also include managing all projects to Chevron budget requirements and schedule, as well as managing turnaround work. Chevron's Fluor-managed capital works portion of the turnaround in May 2009 was Chevron's most successful to date at the Richmond Refinery finishing under budget and ahead of schedule.
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
BP Cherry Point SRU/H2 BP West Coast Products
Sept 2006 - April 2007 Irvine URP Project Office, Irvine, CA Cost Reimburseable $450 M
Merit Shop CM and PMC Oil & Gas
Construction Manager assigned to the BP Cherry Point Refinery project. Providing Construction Support services including constructability, scheduling, estimate input and overall construction coordination during the Select, Define and Execute stages of a new hydrogen and sulfur plant project.
Site Construction Manager as part of a PM team which will mobilize to the site in Ql 2008. (Project postponed by BP in April 07)
PROJECT MANAGER, CONSTRUCTION
CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS Fluor Energy & Chemicals
Dec 2005 - Sept 2006 Aliso Viejo, CA
Energy & Chemicals
Provided construction support doing various portfolio assignments to assist the Regional Construction Operations Manager. Responsibilities including gathering all regional field construction data and preparing reports for submittal to the Construction Director. Also helped to develop construction presentations and proposals to various clients, managed Fluor's participation in trades shows and organizations and generally provided support to project Construction Leads, including constructability reviews, estimate support, as well as development of construction execution plans and procedure manuals.
SENIOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
London Underground Connect Project London Underground Ltd August 2002 - November 2005 London, England
Lump Sum Prime/ Cost Reimbursable Variation $750 M
CM Infrastructure
Senior Construction Manager responsible for construction of the infrastructure enabling works to support the installation of a new safety-critical radio communications system for London Underground Ltd railway. Enabling works include all civils, electrical, mechanical, cable management and fire infrastructure installation. Responsibilities included management of all construction, safety and quality policies and procedures for the project infrastructure construction works in the underground railroad environment as well as controlling contract schedule and cost including on-site management, supervision and coordination of all self-performed and subcontracted work in conformance with project drawings and specifications.
PROJECT MANAGER CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Various Telecommunication Construction Projects AT&T, Bell Mobility, Worldcom 1997-2001 Chicago, Vancouver, Western US, Republic of Taiwan Responsible for all construction management and construction engineering support on multiple wireless and fiber optic cable network construction programs. Scopes of work included submarine cable landings, facility development, and wireless site construction. Duties included construction management, program management, quality control, permitting, environmental/cultural compliance, and local agency interface. Responsibilities also included managing the Fluor city implementation teams including, CAD support, permitting, outside plant engineering, conduit system construction, fiber optic cable installation and splicing, as well as facility construction, quality control, system testing and turnover.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
Cameroon Oil Transportation Pipeline Co. Esso Oil Company Jan 1998 - Sept 1998 Cameroon, West Africa
Provided construction support and forward logistics planning and construction for all route survey operations for a 950 mile underground oil pipeline from the Chad border to the Cameroon Atlantic coast town of Kribi. Providing construction management and supervision of all heavy earthmoving equipment, all applicable road construction & repair where necessary, bush airport new construction airstrip renovations including grading and surfacing for final use, existing bridge repairs and re- building, forward logistics planning, telecommunications infrastructure and camp construction. Camp construction included acquiring the camp sites from local villagers and permitting construction, all site grading and drainage construction as well as site restoration when projects were complete.
GENERAL SUPERINTENTENT
P.T. INCO Upgrade Project P.T. INCO
Jan 1996 - July 1996 Soroako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia Construction superintendent responsible for housing and camp infrastructure construction, port modifications, dredging, housing/camp management, site administration, quality control, and government relations. General Superintendent for civil work on two hydroelectric dams, including land clearing, site prep, dam foundation excavations, exploratory adits, and diversion tunnel excavations and tunneling. Scope also included major port modifications requiring heavy civil construction to create new sulfur storage facilities. Overall scope included upgrades and expansion of the nickel process units and construction of dams & hydroelectric powerhouses to support the new power requirements.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
Pertamina Refinery Debottlenecking Project Pertamina Oil Company 1995-1996 Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia
General superintendent responsible for supervision and construction management of all support services, pipe fabrication, warehousing construction, concrete pile fabrication/installation, tank erection, and infrastructure development including project scheduling and quality control plan implementation.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
Rayong Refinery Project Shell Oil Company, Rayong Refinery Project (1993 - 1995) Map Ta Phut, Thailand
Lump Sum / CM
General Superintendent responsible for total night shift senior management of a $1.3 billion "grass- roots" oil refinery. Responsible for construction management and field supervision of all trades and contractors including civil, structural, piping, mechanical and electrical. Duties included site management of all safety and security programs, assessing and implementing all quality control plans including coordination of all NDE activities. Included senior supervision of concrete placement, civil site prep and tankage surcharge work, piping and structural steel QC monitoring, as well as reporting all night shift progress and hand-off activities for all areas of the refinery including construction of process units, tankage, port loading facilities, utilities and waste management facilities.
WOODS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
PROJECT MANAGER / CONSTRUCTION SUPERINTENDENT
1988 - 1993
Responsibilities included project management, construction management, bidding and estimating for several commercial tenant improvement projects throughout the Southern California area THE BROWN COMPANY (1977 - 1988)
PRESIDENT / OWNER
A custom building/remodeling firm specializing in "upper-end" residential projects, and light commercial construction. Responsibilities included all business development, estimating, contract negotiations, construction management and project controls functions for a family owned construction firm in Southern California.
STATE OF ALASKA, DIVISION OF AVIATION
SAFETY OFFICER / AIRPORT POLICE Anchorage International Airport 1974 - 1977 Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Airport police officer and crash firefighting responsibilities including law enforcement for all State of Alaska Division of Aviation properties and airports. Extensive experience in managing safety and security for all airport ramp areas, runways, and terminal buildings. Spent three years on duty at Anchorage International Airport, completing 960 hours of airport security and aircraft crash firefighting training. Graduate of Airport Police and Fire Academy.
Transferred to Cold Bay Airport, and served as Senior Airport Safety Officer and managed the Airport Crash Firefighting station and provided safety, security and local law enforcement coverage for all airport properties and the local community of Cold Bay. Also served as Chief of the Cold Bay Volunteer Fire Department.