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A Runaway Success
When Dwight Pullen was put in charge of a major project at the world’s busiest airport, a friend joked that he was the youngest person in the country managing a billion dollars — and he may have been right. When the first planes thundered down new Runway 10-28 last year, 11 days ahead of schedule and $100 million under budget, Pullen heaved a sigh of relief — and satisfaction.
Travelers passing through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-JacksonInternationalAirport won’t be surprised to learn that it is the world’s busiest passenger airport. In 2005, 88 million passengers used this major southeastern transportation hub, and an estimated 120 million will use it by 2010.
Into this bustling scene enter Dwight Pullen, a civil engineer and project manager for Atlanta-based H.J. Russell & Company, the nation’s largest minority-owned development firm. The 50-year-old company boasts more than $150 million in annual revenues.
Russell, in partnership with four other companies, won the bid for the airport expansion plan seven years ago. While the plan involved such complex projects as moving the air traffic control tower and building a new passenger and rental car terminal, Pullen was put in charge of the most daunting task: The $1.28 billion construction of a fifth runway, a job that involved managing 24 subprojects.
“We started working on …
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