Frank Casertano
Scheduling Manager Lighthouse Electric Company
Frank Casertano is Scheduling Manager at Lighthouse Electric, with a decade of experience in project management, planning, and scheduling. His work spans data centers, hospitals, airports, and stadium renovations, with a focus on LEAN construction and detailed CPM schedules that improve coordination, labor planning, and field execution. A Penn State graduate with bachelor’s degrees in Interdisciplinary Business with Engineering Studies as well as Finance, he brings both a technical and business perspective to complex electrical construction.
Seminars
- Questioning whether current scheduling approaches are keeping pace with project complexity, delivery speed, and field execution needs
- Exploring how different planning philosophies can help teams think differently about sequence, flow, reliability, and control
- Discussing how schedulers can choose the right approach for the project rather than relying on one default way of planning
Practical Takeaway: Leave with a clearer understanding of how different scheduling philosophies can be applied, challenged, or combined to improve planning decisions across different project environments
- Validating trade durations and sequencing with the people delivering the work before commitments become unrealistic
- Documenting GC-side constraints, coordination issues, and readiness gaps so trade accountability is fair, transparent, and defensible
- Strengthening schedule trust by showing trade partners that the project team is holding itself accountable, not just pushing risk downstream
Practical Takeaway: Leave with a more balanced approach to trade partner accountability, helping teams secure realistic commitments, document constraints fairly, and reduce disputes when schedule delays emerge
