Civil Engineer
Group Homes Plus
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :37 years, 3 أشهر
• Work with Structural Engineering Firm to design Residential Homes (10, 000 SF & Up) and Reinforced Concrete Projects.
• Collaborate with Contractors, Superintendents, and Engineers in building Residential Homes & Additions (partial homes) and visit other Construction Sites to get familiar with different activities and code issues in the field.
• Perform duties (after daily regular work hours) in evenings, weekends, and holidays to fulfill my own desire in establishing a Family Real Estate Portfolio as follows:
• Entrepreneur who remodels real estate buildings and applies Engineering judgments to replace, enhances, or modifies the overall status of such properties.
• Supervise full Management and Maintenance of several Group Homes.
• Generate new deals for real estate investments that focus on residential projects or group homes including competitive real estate market analysis.
• Knowledgeable in real estate law, Verbal and written communications, Contract Negotiations, Pricing and Purchasing, Submitting Offers, and closing Escrows.
• Ensure compliance with Federal, State, and City laws. Advertise properties to prospective Guests, Buyers or Entrepreneurs.
DESIGN BRANCH:
• Worked in Design of Wadi Arabah Dam. Conducted Knowledge of Structural design and analysis for the evaluation, selection, application, and adaptation of engineering techniques, and procedures.
• Devised new approaches to problems, and prepared or modified drawings, specifications, calculations, graphs, and monitored work for compliance to applicable codes, accepted engineering standards.
• Performed structural design and analysis calculations using engineering formulas, skills, and experience; Conducted Bridge site submittals.
• Assumed the Lead Engineer's role on assigned projects and served as Project Engineer on less complex projects.
• Developed construction cost estimates for projects. Directed other designers or drafters activities.
• Coordinated work with other disciplines such as architectural, mechanical, electrical, etc. and handled routine contract administration.
CONSTRUCTION BRANCH:
• Worked in construction of structural R. C. projects such as Wadi Abdoun Suspension Bridge, other Water tanks, Bridges, Culverts, Tunnels, and Multistory buildings.
• Updated shop drawing submittals, solved issues on the site including Traffic Control and Safety, and directed consultation with the Design Engineers on constructability and design issues.
• Updated construction progress thru Pert-CPM flowchart. Supervised the project construction development, and Kept tract of progress and contractual related problems on daily, weekly and monthly bases.
• Ensured verification and inspection of site works including plans reading, formwork installation and removal, reinforcements, embedments, sampling and testing freshly mixed concrete, placing, consolidation, finishing, curing, and protection.
• Performed inspection procedures for concrete construction projects, which included pre-placement, placement, and post-placement operations.
• Monitored all activities done in accordance with Building Codes and Government Regulations including required Permits.
• Collaborated with Engineers, Contractors, Real Estate Investors, Business Consultants, and Insurance Professionals, to establish several Private Group Homes in San Joaquin Valley.
• Had to join Bankers Conseco Company so they will adopt me and recommend me as an employee to get an Insurance License which was required for Long Term Care and Group Homes.
• Conversant in Microsoft Office, Internet skills, and Computer software such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, and Professional Write.
• Long Term Care Specialist in meeting Senior Citizens' needs and over whelming demands
• Developed public and customer relations and helped the Senior Citizen Market in financial planning and asset protections according to the need, interest, budget and health conditions
• Licensed field underwriter in Long Term Care policies and Group Homes.
• Conducted seminars about Long Term Care needs, Senior Boomers, Group Homes, and explained career opportunities.
• Trained agents about Long Term Care and Group Homes in the office and in the field.
• Developed agents to meet their own goals and the Company's expectations.
• Supervised agents to work within the Company's ethics and the Department of Insurance regulations.
• Observed contractor's operations and its participation in traffic control and conditions.
• Reviewed construction work zones and detours for functionality, adequacy of signs and delineation, and conformance to standards.
• Inspected different construction practices, operations, specifications, and construction equipment, including curve correction projects, pavement rehabilitation, AC overlay, panel replacement, guard rails, and median barrier projects.
• Certified by the department and performed a variety of sampling and testing procedures for construction materials.
• Involved in a variety of change orders, activity reporting, and daily diaries.
• Directed and inspected the work of Freeway 99 Multimillion Dollar construction project near Livingston area involving grading, earthwork, AC and PCC paving, drainage systems, traffic control plans and detours.
• Applied sound engineering judgment in evaluating variety of issues concerning locations of metal beam guard rails and chain link fence, through several change orders, all over the project route 99 ramps and main line.
• Conducted rules and regulations pertaining to the state and Highway Code, construction manual, traffic manual and standard specifications.
• Prepared contract change orders, progress and final pay estimates.
• Periodically observed material testing and completed work to ensure general compliance with plans, specifications and design intent.
• Made recommendations for changes in the plans to the Senior Transportation Engineer.
• Prepared pay and quantity estimates.
• Analyzed situations regarding transportation facilities or system design concepts and applying sound engineering principles to various Construction activities in the field.
Design Branch
• Performed roadway engineering design work of Freeway 168 Project in Fresno, California, involving the preparation of highways construction plans using AASHTO and Caltrans design criteria. Established geometric design, horizontal and vertical alignments, profiles, drainage design, grading, layouts, surveying, utility coordination and relocation, as-built plans, cross sections, earthwork quantities and cost estimates.
• Prepared Plans, Specifications and Estimates (PS & E) for various types of transportation facilities using Auto Cad and Micro station.
• Computed contract quantities for several highway projects.
• Performed technical analysis by hand and computer aid for design transportation systems including roadway intersection design, construction staging design, pavement marking design, and landscape..
• Prepared different types of reports (PSR, PR, PSSR and bridge site submittal).
• Analyzed data necessary for highway design in compliance with Federal, State, and City codes.
• Responsible for preparation of bridge site maps and several internal and external correspondences.
• Calculated earthwork quantities, contour grading, and toe of slopes within several project limits.
• Designed detours on local roads.
• Prepared alternative proposals for widening project including quantity calculations, cost estimates, and typical cross sections.
• Performed Analysis of traffic safety and field reviews.
• Recommended Installation of current standards median barriers, guardrails and crash cushions for various types of Highway projects.
• Worked on Calculations of safety and delay indices, Permit engineering evaluation review, and Warrants for left and right turn channelization.
Prepared traffic safety and conceptual reports for various types of highway projects.
Civil Engineering Department
• Reading similar published research articles in Delaminations of Concrete Slabs and attended related courses in Geophysics. When fresh concrete is placed and compacted, the solids (cement and aggregate) settle. This natural settlement causes excess mix water and entrapped air to be displaced (called bleeding), and the lighter materials migrate toward the surface. If finishing operations start prematurely and close or seal the surface before bleeding is completed, air and/or water are trapped under the densified surface mortar. As concrete hardens, subsurface voids develop where the water or air is trapped. These voids create weakened zones right below the surface that can eventually detach during slab use. Thin mortar layers over delaminations may even detach when struck with a hammer, as you try to sound out the extent of the delaminated area.
• Research in delaminations of concrete slabs for Bridges all over Interstate-10 in El Paso, Texas (Texas Department of Transportation) using computerized sound waves.
• Determination of inhomogeneity and malformed layers in slabs of concrete bridges by coring anticipated areas. To achieve a quality surface, remove the defective concrete to a depth where only sound concrete remains. Proper removal of unsound concrete by suitable methods such as shot blasting, grinding, or hydro-demolition.
• Inspection of internal cracks in concrete slabs, collected data, and adopted trends of technical hints and made judgmental explanations. After proper removal of unsound concrete, apply a new surface. The slab can be ground smooth and sealed, resulting in an attractive final surface with an exposed aggregate appearance. Bond a topping or concrete overlay to the prepared roughened surface. Apply resurfacing products to bond to a sound substrate and provide an attractive surface.
• Fracture Critical Member Inspection Training and Experience.
• Worked in Ashrafiah Water Tank Project, including plans reading, formwork installation and removal, reinforcements, embedments, sampling and testing freshly mixed concrete, placing, consolidation, finishing, curing, and protection.
• Practiced inspection procedures for concrete construction, through heavy training by a Construction Engineer, including pre-placement, placement, and post-placement operations.
• Collaborated with Foremen and Inspectors in verification of compliance with Plans, Specifications, ACI, and City codes for all of the soil density underneath foundation, delivered concrete, and steel rebar sizes used.
• Participated in the project evaluation of a complete concrete construction for Foundations, Walls, Columns, Beams, and Floor Slabs.
• Calculated quantity & pay estimates, wrote documentations of laborers attended & machines used, and filed reports of inspection results and daily diaries.
• Worked in Amrah - Hotel Reinforced Concrete Construction Project (Water Tank on a Tower). Reviewed project specifications, as built plans, and special provisions, and pointed to the Resident Engineer few constructability issues to be corrected.
• Performed Inspections, with the help of the Resident Engineer, of formwork installation and removal, reinforcements, embedments, sampling and testing freshly mixed concrete, placing, consolidation, finishing, curing, and protection of concrete areas.
• Conducted inspection procedures for concrete construction, including pre-placement, placement, and post-placement operations and checked the delivered cement mortar daily to control the production in qualities and quantities.
• Assured that contractor's work is performed in conformance with the plans, standard specifications, codes, and special provisions.
• Informed the Resident Engineer about the project progress and related issues, calculated quantity and pay estimates, and wrote daily diaries.
• I received Research and Teaching Assistant ships. January 1987 – December 1987 (1 year) RESEARCH: • COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN DEFORMATIONS & FATIGUES DUE TO TRAFFIC IMPACT & DYNAMIC LOADS ON BRIDGES. • It is well known that long term movements of structures can be monitored using a total station. • Comparative Studies in this field proved that measuring slow dynamic deformation is possible in long bridges. • Measurements are taken over minutes, hours or weeks to a number of targets to measure settlement or long term permanent deformations. • The segmental, cast-in-place concrete cantilever bridges has shown some propensity to develop larger deflections than those were predicted in the design calculation. Excessive deflections may lead to deterioration of aesthetics, serviceability problems and eventually early reconstruction of the bridge. Also in the construction stages the deflections have to be properly compensated to achieve the smooth camber in the completed bridge deck. • Deformation prediction in concrete cantilever bridges is not as reliable as it would be necessary due to several factors. The high degree of uncertainty in creep and shrinkage prediction in concrete constitutes the major difficulty. Other factors are the complex segmental construction procedure and the sensitivity of the deformations to variations in the construction schedule, the uncertainty in estimating the frictional loss of Prestress and relaxation in the Prestressing tendons and uncertainty in estimating model parameters such as temperature and relative humidity. • Effects of Increasing Truck Weight on Steel and Prestressed Bridges produce extra Fatigue on the details of steel bridges which is the primary mechanism for deterioration. Researchers attempted to collect information about all bridges and analyze the entire group for fatigue effects in light of requests for increased load limits. • Tau Beta Pi Member of Civil Engineering Honor Society.
Took graduate Courses in Civil Engineering. January 1986 – August 1986 (8 months) RESEARCH ASSISTANT • Performed Lab research in fiber reinforced concrete structures; Fiber reinforced concrete is a composite obtained by adding a single type of steel or synthetic or a blend of both fibers to the concrete mix. • Conducted Concrete lab tests for various types of structural elements; Steel fibers are used to reinforce the concrete adding mechanical properties for structural design purposes. Synthetic fibers are added to the concrete to control the effects of moisture and water lost in the first stage (24 to 72 hours) of curing. • Studied behavior and compared strengths of fiber reinforced concrete slabs, columns, beams, cylinders, and foundations. Adding fibers improve mechanical properties to increase toughness, ductility, flexural resistance, tensile strength, and shear resistance, and it can improve control for the effects of Fatigue, Impact, Shrinkage, and Fire resistance. - Chi Epsilon, Vice President. - Civil Engineering Honor Society.
• Graduation Project: Bus Station (Reinforced Concrete Two Story Building). • Received Army Merit Scholarship, 1981-1985. • Volunteered in the Engineering School Workshop. • Welding Machines • Glass Shop • Activities and Societies: - President of Students Union Committee, Volunteer in a local construction company. - Alpha Phi Omega Active Member - Civil Engineering Honor Society - Great experience dealing with classmates and faculty members, like Dr. Alpair, Dr. RamaSwamy, Tayseer Sammak, Juma'ah Amayreh, Talal Masoud.
