GOAL: Seeking new career opportunity – Engineering Manager with 25 years experience in project and construction management, master planning, budgeting and fiscal planning, writing contracts, hiring personnel, making presentations to top management/government officials, security analysis and troubleshooting in both private sector and government sector.
HIGHLIGHTS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Managed multi-million dollar design/constructions projects totaling up to $100 million/ year.
• Master Planning- Set up and defined new master plan to replace old faulty Utility Master Plan with new plan requiring nearly $500 million investment over 5 years.
• Fiscal - Initiated review and setting up of rate studies for new impact fees, user fees, and meter fees.
• Contract Negotiations – develop and write scope of work, advertise, bid analyze, award, and negotiate contracts for design, construction, and equipment purchasing. Includes, architectural, utility, transportation, parks, dredging, design-bid, standard bid, equipment purchase.
• On-time Delivery – took charge of department with sections which were backlogged and behind schedule, implemented improvements, and within three months, sections were on schedule
• Regulatory – implemented regulatory requirements and enforcement actions.
• Presentations - prepare and make to upper management, County and City councils and commissions and answer citizen’s concerns at public meetings.
• Operations - review, analyze, troubleshoot, make recommendations for improvements in department and plant operations.
• Legal – successfully rejected unqualified bid protests, wrote revised contract language, assisted legal departments on legal analysis and lawsuits.
• Real Property Acquisition – make recommendations and assist in property acquisition by purchase and also by condemnation.
• Fiscal/ Budgeting – prepared annual budgets for both department, personnel, and projects annually.
• Personnel - Hire and interview nearly 300 candidates for various positions as Manager. Make requisitions for additional personnel.
• Department Management – headed and managed multi-section department with up to 5 supervisors.
• Emergency Operations – assisted in hurricane preparedness and aftermath damage inspection and analysis.
EDUCATION: M.S., Environmental Health Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, May, 1985.
B.Tech (Hons.), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, May 1983.
REGISTRATION: Professional Engineer-Florida #42777 & Texas #69844 (i)
Registered Environmental Manager #5464
NCEES Experience Certificate of Verification #9928
40-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations OSHA Certification
Basic Supervisory 40 Hours Training-FDEP
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE FROM:
July 2004: Projects and Engineering Division Manager for Project Management Department, Manatee
County Government. Supervise six sections: project management, utility engineering design, utility planning,
records, survey, and locates. Division staff total is around 48.
October 1996: Project Manager with Utilities Engineering Section of OCPM/PWED/Public Utilities
Engineering Department for Collier County Government in Naples, Florida. Activities include construction
management, in-house design, planning, estimating, permitting, consultant management, write
proposals, and presentations to other departments. In-house design include 12-MGD South County
Regional Water Plant Odor Control Scrubber/Pump Station/Backwash Pond Modifications; Naples
Landfill Leachate Pump Station and Meli property Acquisition for FDEP/SFWMD mitigation; North
County Regional WWTP Spray Odor Control for RDP Sludge Process Pilot Test and Evaluate PLC
System over PC System for SCADA; and prepare County Specifications for Sewer and Manhole
Rehabilitation by Trenchless Methods. Manage $40 Million SCRWTP 8-MGD RO Expansion including
additional 12-MGD Expansion; SCRWTP RO Hawthorn Wellfield Design and Property Acquisition.
Manage Design and Construction of Master Pump Station 1.02; 30” Immokalee Sewer Force; Palm
Drive Sewer Force Main; 6- Mile Santa Barbara Sewer Force Main Interconnect and Pump Station.
Do budgeting, handle bid protests successfully, write new specifications, write RFPs, and manage real
property easement acquisitions, and respond to public on complaints. Manage 2001 and 2002 Water
and Wastewater Master Plan and Growth Management Updates and coordinate Impact and User Fee
Updates. Do Water Meter Change and Rate Update and Manage Organic Waste Composting using
Sludge and Yard Waste.
July 1995 - Manager of Domestic Wastewater Program at Florida Department of Environmental Protection,
Southeast District Office in West Palm Beach, Florida. Supervise permitting and compliance/enforcement
activities in area which serves over 50% of Florida's population and wastewater flows and oversee Water
Facilities Program (potable, industrial, UIC) when delegated. Help develop policy guidelines and rules.
September 1993 - Senior Project Manager with Glace & Radcliffe, Inc. at Maitland, FL office for water,
wastewater, solid waste and hazardous waste projects. Major projects include:
1)City of Palmetto - Complete design of WWTP expansion from 1.4 MGD to 2.4 MGD and Areawide Reuse
System. The first AWT WWTP using Bardenpho process in the U.S. was expanded with new fine grit, three
stage Bardenpho, clarifier, filter, chlorine system, belt press filter, aerobic digester meeting EPA 503
rules.Also designed 6 MGD Reuse Transfer Pump Station and Reuse Ground Storage and Pipeline
Distribution System. Did NPDES Permitting for discharge to Terra Ceia Bay, an outstanding Florida water.
2) Dobbins ABS, Marietta, GA - Design soil and water lead removal and abatement system at Shooting Range. This design would meet BMPs for stormwater per NPDES. 3) Orange County Utilities Division - Project Manager for sewer remediation by trenchless methods at Rio Pinar, Bonnie Brook, Subdivisions, etc; did various piping and pumping station studies; evaluated pipeline coatings.
4) Orange County Solid Waste Division - Project Manager for various landfill projects including leachate systems and Master Plan.
5) Hernando County - Project Manager for complete design of brand-new 1 MGD WWTP at Airport with ability to expand to 6 MGD in the future. Also design reuse for effluent disposal on parks and 228 acre disposal site.
October 1991 - Senior Project Engineer with Chastain-Skillman, Inc. at Lakeland, FL office for water, wastewater, solid waste, and hazardous waste projects. Major projects include:
1) City of Bartow - Prepare capacity analysis report projecting 20 -yr. future design capacity for FDER. Upgrade ...
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