Experience:
6/1985-12/1985 US Army Corps of Engineers Arlington, TX.
• Water Quality analysis
1/1988- 12/1989 Zieser Geotechnical Costa Mesa, CA.
• Soils Technician responsible for testing of soil compaction and assuring compaction by the contractors
• Worked on many large projects including the 1000 acre Chino Hills tract.
2/1990 -Present Los Angeles County Dept Public Works:
2/1991-8/2006 Geotechnical Engineering Division Sr. Civil Engineering Assistant
• Soils exploration drilling, trenching and hand boring
• Experience using CPT, rotary wash, bucket auger, hollow stem auger drilling
• Report writing for soils strength parameters and design recommendations for spreading grounds, landslides, retaining walls etc.
• Design piles, slope remediation, landslide remediation, retaining walls, Styrofoam remediation of slopes
• Exploration and design for large projects such as Holly Hills Drain( 60 borings) Alameda Corridor(30 borings), Hume Road Landslide ( a 450 foot wide by 500 foot high landslide)
• Seismic calculations for lateral spreading, settlement, and liquefaction.
8/2006-5/9 2013 Road Division
• Project Manager Hume Road Landslide. A 450 ft wide X 400 ft. high landslide, slide plane 25 ft deep. Quality control of compaction and workmanship of contractor, permits, hydro seed contracting and biological research for site. Managed county crews in the second slope repair for the project.
• Claims research and claims response reports
• Design of geotechnical projects for the Malibu, 336 and 339 road maintenance areas, for example design and project management of the 300 foot MSE wall at the County Water Works project at Winding Way.
• Project manager and geotechnical design for road maintenance projects.
• Initiated the use of “new” technology including the use of geogrid for soft subgrade, geogrid with fabric embedded (i.e. Combi grid) for soft subgrade with base, GRS walls for cut/ fill failures (so that tie backs do not have to be used with the rail and timber walls), MSE walls and the use of Nilex wick drain systems for capturing slope surface run off to prevent erosion.
5/2013-present DOT Alaska
Write Structural Foundation Reports for bridges, calculate pile capacity
for bridges, calculate liquefaction, down drag, fixity for lateral load, design MSE walls, large block (Envior-block walls), calculate settlement, design and access road repairs and widening, and roadway drainage problems. ...
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