EMILE DAMISSE

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Lake Worth, Florida 33463 561-***-**** (Home)

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EDUCATION:

MS, Civil Engineering, Colorado State University,

1988

Minor: Water Resources Planning and

Management

Research: Optimal Operating Rules for

Peligre Reservoir

BS, Civil Engineering, State University of Haiti,

1978

BS in Economics, State University of Haiti, 1985

CERTIFICATION:

Florida State Certified Professional Engineer: PE0049408

Florida State Certified Building Contractor: CBC057317

Florida State Certified Roofing Contractor: CCC1328037

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

. Water Resource Systems design, planning and Management, using

optimization tools such as mathematical Programming, Dynamic

Programming, Linear Programming, etc;

. Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations to investigate possibility of

erosion, and to generate flow data for calibration of flow rating

equations at major water control structures in South Florida.

. Development of comprehensive project management information systems to

manage large-scale projects in Haiti, including the Storm Water

Drainage of the City of Port-au-Prince (over $150 millions);

. Development and implementation of flow computation algorithms for flow

monitoring at various types of water control structures;

. Design of water control structures including pumps, canals, culverts

and spillways for flood control and eco-system restoration projects in

South Florida;

. Water resource systems analysis and development of real-time reservoir

operation systems including developing an optimal operating plan for

Reservoir Peligre in Haiti;

. Water surface profile analyses using HECRAS/HEC-2 for flood control

projects in Florida and Haiti, including developing a flood control

master plan for the valley of Jacmel (Haiti) in 2001, drained by three

major rivers: Riviere des Orangers, riviere la Gosseline, and riviere

Bras gauche.

. Development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for deployment of

various types of flow meters, including Acoustic Doppler Current

Profilers (ADCP) ;

. Database management and maintenance, and development of software

applications to improve the efficiency and accuracy of flow

computation

. Design of a detention pond system to control flooding in the City of

Tabarre, Haiti

EXPERIENCE:

May 2002 to Present: Section Lead of the Engineering and Hydraulics Support

Section, Hydro Data Management Division, Operation Control and Hydro data

management Department

. Supervise and coordinate staff activities in the Hydraulics and

Engineering Support Section HDM, ;

. Define functions and responsibilities of staff members in the Hydraulics

and Engineering Support Section;

. Devise methodology and provide expertise for flow monitoring at about 500

water control structures throughout SFWMD;

. Develop annual budget, annual work plan, and 10-year plan under the

leadership of the HDM Director;

. Coordinate hydrologic monitoring plan developments with ACCELER8 and CERP

project managers

. Provide guidance to staff involved in the design of the monitoring

network for the Lake Okeechobee Watershed Project

Sept. 98 to May 2002: Lead Engineer, Hydrology and Hydraulics Division,

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Department, South Florida Water

Management District (SFWMD)

. Supervise and coordinate staff activities in the Hydraulics and

Engineering Support Section HHD, EMA;

. Review design and construction plans for large Storm water Treatment

Areas (STAs);

. Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for streamflow measurements

using the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and the Model 10-AU-

005 Field Fluorometer;

. Provide guidance to staff involved in the design of the monitoring

network for the Lake Okeechobee Watershed Project (Comprehensive

Everglade Restoration Project (CERP));

. Develop methodologies to derive flow rating equations at major pump

stations from the manufacturers performance curves;

. Devise methodology and provide expertise for flow monitoring at about 500

water control structures throughout SFWMD;

. Design software applications for flow computation and hydrologic database

management;

. Manage the Flow Monitoring Assistance Contract (FMAC) for more than six

years.

Nov. 95 to Sept. 98: Senior Engineer, Hydrologic Data Management Division,

Water Resource Evaluation Department, SFWMD

. Supervise and coordinate staff activities in the Hydraulics and

Engineering Support Section, HHD, EMA

. Manage the Flow Monitoring Assistance Contract, FMAC;

. Develop flow computation algorithms for various types of structures;

. Review design documents of Storm water Treatment Areas, STAs;

. Perform hydrologic database management and maintenance.

Dec. 93 to Nov. 95: Staff Engineer, Hydrologic Data Management division

(DTA)

. Development of discharge rating equations;

. Streamgauging using various types of flow meters;

. Hydrologic database management and maintenance.

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Feb. 93 to Dec. 93: Civil Engineer, Hydrologic Data Management Division

. Hydrologic Data Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC);

. Water budget analyses (ref. Listing of technical papers below)

Jan. 92 to Sept. 92: Professor of Operations Research and Water Resources

at the School of Agronomy, Department of Agricultural Engineering (Haiti)

. Teaching design of Irrigation systems and design of water control

structures;

. Teaching operations research applied to water resources systems design,

planning and management;

. Teaching on-farm water management techniques.

Feb. 91 to Sept. 91: Coordinator of Public Works Department, Ministry of

Public Works and Transportation (Haiti)

. Supervise a group of more than 50 professionals including international

consultants involved in planning and managing urban infrastructure

(roads, drainage systems, water supply, waste management, erosion

control)

. Coordinate the effort with UN water resources experts, towards the

creation of an organization to better manage the water resources systems

throughout the country.

Jan. 89 to Feb. 91: Director of the Urban Development Division of the

Public Works Department, Ministry of Public Works and Transportation

. Supervise a group of more than 100 people involved in Urban and Regional

Planning, contract administration and project management

. Project implementation (construction of Roads and other urban

infrastructure, annual budget of more than $250 millions)

Sept. 86 to Dec. 88: Graduate Studies in Colorado State University, Fort

Collins

Mar. 81 to Sept. 86: Supervisor of the Engineering Section, Urban

Development Division of the Public Works Department, Ministry of Public

Works and Transportation

. Supervise a group of more than 20 people involved in designing and

implementing the Port-Au-Prince City Storm water Drainage Project (about

$150 millions)

Jul. 78 - Mar. 86: Staff Civil Engineer, Ministry of Public Works of Haiti

. Design of Storm water Drainage Systems

. Supervision and Project Management

COMPUTER BACKGROUND:

. UNIX and VAX Environments, BASIC and Fortran Programming, Microsoft Excel

and Word, Oracle, SQLPLUS, Unix Programming, C Programming, HEC-RAS

TECHNICAL PAPERS:

1) A New Computation Algorithm to Estimate Flow at Compound Culverts in

SFWMD, co-author with Jie Zeng and al, conference paper to ASCE

Water Resource and Environmental World Conference, Tampa, May

2007

2) "Flow Rating Development for G335 Pump Station in the Storm water

Treatment Area 2 (STA-2)", January 2001, unpublished report, SFWMD,

West Palm Beach, Florida

3) "Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Flow Data Management in

DBHYDRO" (co-author), December 2000, unpublished report, SFWMD, West

Palm Beach, Florida

4) "Determining Discharge Ratings for Coastal Structures in Dade

County", 1996, U.S. Geological Survey and South Florida District

5) "Rating Curve Improvement for S65, S65A through E, SFWMD", September

1995, unpublished report, SFWMD, West Palm Beach, Florida

6) "Flow Computation Algorithms for Culvert Structures", December 1995,

unpublished report, SFWMD, West Palm Beach, Florida

7) "Selection and Design of Flume", July 1994, unpublished report,

SFWMD, West Palm Beach, Florida

8) "Water Budget Analysis for Everglades Agricultural Area, Period: 1991-

1992", September 1993, unpublished report, SFWMD, West Palm Beach,

Florida

9) "Regression Analysis for Major Water Control Structures in the

Everglades Agricultural Basin", September 1993, unpublished report,

SFWMD, West Palm Beach, Florida

10) "Improving the Projection Model through Developing Rainfall-Runoff

models to Simulate Watershed Inflows", October 1993, unpublished

report, SFWMD, West Palm Beach, Florida

11) "Mass Balance Analysis for S2 Complex", November 1993, unpublished

report, SFWMD

West Palm Beach, Florida

12) "A Comprehensive Project Management Information System Using the

Critical Path Method (CPM)", Ministry of Public Work, unpublished

report, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

13) "Water Resources System analysis and Optimal Use of the Haiti

Hydraulic Potential", UNESCO/Haiti, September 1989, unpublished

report, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

14) "Design of Storm Water Drainage System", April 1990,

unpublished report, Ministry of Public Work, Port-Au-Prince,

Haiti

15) "Linear Programming, Theory and Practice", CTPEA/Haiti, October 1990,

unpublished report, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

16) "Water Resources System in Haiti: Problems and Policies", June 1991,

unpublished report, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

17) "Pricing of Public Services based on the Marginal Theory",

CTPEA/Haiti, August 1991, unpublished report, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

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