Multi-discipline Engineering Projects
Designed various public works projects as a garrison engineer for the US Army in and around Baghdad International Airport, Iraq. Most projects began with site surveys and meeting with tenant base units to understand occupant requirements and validate facility shortfalls. After establishing priorities and realistic schedules, developed design-build criteria including AutoCAD drawings and scope documents. Responsible for funds […]
Business Continuity Plans
Developed contingency response plan for 3500-person corporate campus in geographically-separated areas of metro Los Angeles, California. The plan detailed engineering recovery during/after disasters. Re-wrote existing plan and checklists to ensure compliance with National Incident Management System. Tested plan successfully during several exercises and inspection by corporate headquarters. Reviewed and updated existing emergency response plans for […]
Civic Center Functional Programming
Met with executives from 14 county departments to understand adjacency, workflow, and space requirements. Developed functional programming studies involving demographic analysis and 20-year staff projections, site selection/analysis, development of relationship-based stacking diagrams, 3-dimensional BIM master plan modeling, and cost modeling in terms of construction materials/methods that offered basic, standard, and extended features.
Consolidated Base Support Complex
Oversaw closeout and commissioning activities for a four-story commercial office building.
Construction Contract Database
Developed a Microsoft Access application to organize Requests For Proposed Change documents, consolidate vital construction budget data such as requested change order amount, approved amount, and transfers between trade contractors. This required rapidly learning the change order process dictated by the school district and the California Division of the State Architect (DSA), as well as […]
Geospatial Project Management Information System, Ver. 2
Second version of the Geospatial Project Management Information System previously developed. Developed for a wastewater treatment plant upgrade. The key to making this useful was having an understanding of the subject matter (construction project execution) and knowing how an information system could make life easier by making the not-so-fun parts of managing a project (document control, […]