Address: ***** ** *** *****

Miami, Florida *****

Phone 305-***-**** (cell)

E-mail: acekz9@r.postjobfree.com

Educational Background

M.Sc., Environmental Engineering; Florida International University, 2001

M.Sc., Construction Management; Florida International University, 1995

B.Sc., Construction Management; Florida International University, 1994

Certification:

State Licensed General Contractor

OSHA Trained

Experience Summary

My current position is that of Construction Project Manager/Flood Plain

Construction Officer with Miami-Dade County Public Works and Waste

Management (PWWM) Department. Prior to this assignment, I worked with EGSC

Engineering Consultants and Brown and Caldwell (B&C). B&C is the former

County Bond Engineer for whom I worked for more than 11years, in

progressively more responsible assignments. Over the past 30 years I have

developed expertise in project management, construction methodology, and

have coordinated and planned the construction of new public facilities

working closely with consultants, architects and engineers. My

responsibilities also involved the compiling of monthly status reports,

interpreting regulatory codes, drawings and specifications, the

solicitation of bids from prime contractors, conducting pre-bid

conferences, executing NTPs and issuing field directives and change orders

to contractors. I have processed and made recommendation for payment on

contractor payment requisitions, prepared, issued and tracked RFIs. In my

role as project manager, I have provided supervision of construction

projects of various dollar values, as well as provided supervision of

engineering staff on Water, Wastewater, Airport, School and Solid Waste

projects in the United States and the Caribbean. Other responsibilities

included, value engineering/analysis, claims management, construction

scheduling and constructability reviews.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS & WASTE MANAGEMENT (PWWM) Department

Flood Plain Construction Official - August 2013 to date

Working with hydraulic modelers to record and evaluate flood data used in

conjunction with NPDES related capital project. The data is also uploaded

to the FEMA database, and is used by that department to update flood maps

for use in Miami-Dade County. I am responsible for using ArcGIS Maps to

establish flood zone designations for individual properties throughout the

County, and compiling letters for residents, banks and insurance companies

for flood insurance purposes.

Olinda Park Remediation and Closure - (Project cost $2 million) April 2012

to August 2013

Construction Manager: Remediation, clean up and closure of an old County

monofill and converting the cleaned up area into a state of the art

community park. The work involves the implementation of engineering and

work practice controls to minimize exposure to contaminants. During soil

moving operation fugitive emissions were monitored on site, and control

stations were set up along the projects periphery to gauge the migration of

particulate material off-site. A storm water collection system with

attendant drainage structures, landscaping and a sprinkler system were also

installed.

Brown and Caldwell's Bond Engineer Services, Miami-Dade County Department

of Solid Waste Management ($138 million) March 1997 to September 2008

Project Manager/Client Service Manager: Provided construction

oversight during the expansion and retrofit of the Air Quality Control

System at the Miami-Dade County Resources Recovery Facility in the mid-

1990s. This retrofitted plant is a 3,000-tons-per-day Waste to Energy

Facility for which the Capital Expansion Projects were designed to achieve

conformance with EPA Maximum Achievable Control Technology emission

standards in 2001. A few of the projects of note include:

Demolition of two (2) 150 feet tall stacks and the construction of two

new ones each 32 feet in diameter (concrete) and 250 feet tall with wall

12 inches thick

The installation of four (4) Induced Draft (ID) fans

Demolition of four (4) electrostatic precipitators and the installation

of four (4) Air Quality Control bag-houses

Installation of spray dryers, fly ash and bottom ash conveyors, fluid

drive motors

Construction of a computer center, a building that also houses the motor

control centers (MCCs) for all the mechanical equipment

Construction of a concrete clarifier, a well water treatment system, two

lime silos (each 120 feet tall) and two carbon silos (each 80 feet

tall), compressor rooms, a four storey high cooling tower refurbishment

and the installation of air quality control system appurtenances

The expansion of the Trash tipping floor and the installation of new

Trash processing equipment (destoners, trommels, conveyors, concrete

bunkers, cranes and new building, etc.)

The construction of a new cell (monofill) and the closure of two (2)

other monofills at the Facility, as well as the closure of a 170 acre

landfill in North Miami (Munisport). At Munisport the groundwater was

impacted by ammonia, and because of concerns as to how the ammonia would

have impacted a Mangrove preserve adjacent to the site, a two-step

biochemical reaction process was employed to convert the ammonia a

nitrate and then to nitrogen gas.

Client Service Manager (CSM)/Supervising Engineer (Other Administrative

Duties):

In my role as CSM, staff and I conducted countywide inspections of all

Solid Waste facilities, provided technical evaluations, financial

assessments and construction management and inspection of Capital Expansion

Projects (Retrofit and Additional Improvements) at the Miami-Dade County

Resources Recovery Facility. Other responsibilities included the

supervising of the compilation of the Department's countywide systems

reports, annual inspection reports (Waste to Energy Facility), landfill

capacity analysis reports, and landfill closure, long-term care cost

estimates and the Comprehensive Landfill Closure Plans for two landfills.

My responsibilities also found me working with County Task Managers

assigned to individual Work Orders to ensure that good quality work

products were delivered to the Department on time and within budget.

STORMWATER AND WASTEWATER PROJECTS

EGSC Engineering Consultant: Miami-Dade County, Florida September 2009 to

June 2011

City of Sweetwater Stormwater Improvement Project, Phases II A and IV. -

Expansion of the existing stormwater infra structure ($5.7 and $4.0

million, respectively)

Project Manager: Responsible for preconstruction and construction

administration. The construction assignment included the inspection of

work carried out by the contractor, compiling daily reports and monthly

project status reports, processing progress payments, RFIs, RFPs and

liaising with the design engineer (Craig A. Smith and Associates), public

utility vendors and the city's Maintenance and Capital Projects Divisions.

Included on these improvement phases were the construction of four (4)

undergrounnd pump stations, the installation of pipes sized from fifteen

inches (15") to eighty four inches (84") in diameter, various types of

concrete inlet structures, manholes, a new head wall at the SFWMD's C-4

Canal, electrical appurtenances and asphalt restoration and overlay of the

streets impacted within the project's footprint. Four (4) new generators

were provided as standby power, one for each pump station. The constructed

improvement is comprised of a force main and a gravity system.

City of North Port Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade - 2008 Expansion of

the 3.7 MGD Facility to a 7.0 MGD ($23 million)

Senior Project Manager: Provided construction administration as the

projects's resident engineer. The assignment included the inspection of

work carried out by the contractor, processing progress payment, RFIs, RFPs

and liasing with the design engineer (Brown and Caldwell) and the city's

Utilities Division. Included in this expansion was new yard piping, the

costruction of a new clarifier, new headworks, anoxic basins, effluent

fliters, chlorine contact tank, a reuse tank, the refurbishment of existing

facilities and installation of new equipment.

BND Consulting Engineers; Miami-Dade County, Florida April 1994 to

March 1997

Phase II Expansion, North District Wastewater Treatment Plant, Miami-Dade

Water and Sewer Department (WASD), Florida ($65 million)

Construction Manager: Responsible for project management and contract

administration (updating schedules, tracking and processing RFIs, RFPs,

monthly progress payments, as-build drawings, change orders, and work

directives). I was in charge the inspection team, coordinating and

supervising the contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. Detail of work

on this project included:

Contract No. S-486, WASD, Florida

Supervised the construction of a moving screen facility, deep injection

well pump station, meter vault, junction box, pump stations, electrical

duct-banks, lift stations, new roadway and the installation a of 96 inches

diameter pipeline and appurtenances. The installation of seven vertical

turbine pumps; HVAC, four RTUs, MCCs, pump drives, hydrostatic accumulator,

surge tanks, and general instrumentation. Construction of the moving

screen facility, deep injection well pump station, meter vault, junction

box and pump stations included:

Excavating to formation elevation within cofferdams, pumping tremie

concrete to anchor the foundations associated with various structures

mentioned above, pumping water from the top of the tremie, drilling and

installing anchors for the reinforced concrete foundation that supports

these structures, check and verify that reinforcement are sized, cut,

spliced and spaced correctly in columns and walls, that formwork is

properly designed and firmly installed, that concrete is vibrated

adequately during pour and that location is clean prior to pour. Checked

rebar distribution and spacing in the walls as well as the stability of

formwork during the concrete pour. The approval of the pour methodology was

also in my jurisdiction.

Contract No. S-428 A and B, WASD, Florida

Supervised the construction of a 160 feet diameter primary clarifier

(concrete), clarifier dome and all interior mechanical equipment; concrete

enclosure for an odor control facility; Oxygenation Trains, flow-meter

chamber, roadway, french drains and the laying of 72 inches diameter pipes

and appurtenances. Construction of the clarifier, odor control building,

Oxygenation Trains and the flow-meter building included:

Excavating to formation elevation within cofferdams, pumping tremie

concrete (850 C.Yds.) to anchor the foundations associated with the

clarifier mentioned above, pumping water from the top of the tremie,

drilling and installing anchors in the tremie for the reinforced concrete

foundation that supports these structures, check and verify that

reinforcement are sized, cut, spliced and spaced correctly, that concrete

is vibrated adequately during pour and that location is clean prior to

pour. Checked rebar distribution in columns and spacing in the walls as

well as the stability of formwork prior to and during the concrete pour.

Here as well I approved the concrete pour methodology.

Contract No. S-428 C, WASD, Florida

Supervised the construction of two (2) 160 feet diameter secondary

clarifiers (concrete) and domes, two return sludge (RS) pump stations, one

return flow sludge distribution chamber, new roadway and the laying of

pipes and appurtenances up to 96 inches in diameter. Construction of the

clarifier, return sludge pump stations and the return flow sludge

distribution chamber included:

Excavating to formation elevation within cofferdams, pumping tremie

concrete (850 C.Yds.) to anchor the foundations associated with the

clarifier, pumping water from the top of the tremie, drilling and

installing anchors for the reinforced concrete foundation (4 feet thick)

that support the clarifier, checked and verify that reinforcement are

sized, cut, spliced and spaced correctly, that concrete is vibrated

adequately during pour and that location is clean prior to concrete pour in

all the structures Check rebar distribution and spacing in the walls as

well as the stability of the formwork during the concrete pour. I also

approved the concrete pour methodology.

Also included in this contract was the installation of RS pumps,

mechanical equipment, variable frequency drive pumps, motor control

centers, duct-banks and general instrumentation.

Contract No. S-501, WASD, Florida

Responsible for the supervision of the construction of a new two story wing

for the maintenance building, and a new fuel dispensing station plus the

removal and disposal of the existing underground storage tanks.

Details of the maintenance building construction included:

The excavation for a strip foundation and column footings per the design

drawings, the placing of formwork and reinforcement along the foundation's

periphery, the column footings, grading of the floor area to formation

elevation, pouring concrete foundation, performing slump tests on concrete

and establishing surveying datum for the general contractor. The

perimeter wall of this two-story structure is of concrete masonry units

(both levels) with rebar at 16 inches on center, a slab on grade and

concrete floor on the upper floor.

Contract No. S-614, WASD, Florida

Also supervised the drilling for and installation of four (4) deep

injection wells, each to a depth of 3,000 feet to complement the deep

injection well pumping station, and the construction of buildings to house

instrumentation and appurtenances for the deep injection wells.

WATER PROJECTS

Curator-Hill Water Supply: National Water Commission (NWC) Jamaica

WI ($2.5 million)

January 1979 to August 1989

Resident Engineer: Provided daily supervision of site-inspectors,

contractors and their teams. Compiled daily, weekly, and monthly project

status reports for three contracts, liaise with consultants and effectively

manage the construction of a half million gallon reinforcement concrete

reservoir, four miles of 6" and 4" diameter ductile iron pipes, and a

20,000 gallons elevated steel tank.

Eastern St. Thomas Water Supply: NWC Jamaica WI ($12 million)

Resident Engineer: Responsible for daily supervision of three contracts,

site-inspectors, project administration, and liaison with consultants.

Compiled as-built drawings, checked elevations and test facilities during

the construction of a 100,000 gallons steel-tank; inspected the

construction of three miles of 12 inches diameter pump main, 8 inches and 6

inches diameter pipeline and a pump station at spring source. The project

was taken to commissioning stage.

NWC Jamaica WI ($ multi-million)

Senior Engineer: Commissioning and general maintenance of constructed

facilities on the Greater Mandeville Water Supply Project, a project

financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and World Bank.

Responsibilities included the supervising of Site Inspectors during the

construction of numerous small water supply projects.

Greater Mandeville Water Supply: NWC Jamaica WI

Project Engineer: Site-Engineer engaged in the supervision of the

construction of transmission pipelines and storage facilities. Supervised

the construction of six (6) half million gallons reinforced concrete

reservoirs, the laying and testing of 4.5 miles of 20 inches and 18 inches

ductile iron pipes for a pump main with a maximum head of 1,150 feet, the

construction of two vertical turbine deep-well pump stations; each with

vertical electrical prime movers and 4.16KV power supply, 500 HP and 600 HP

motors, automatically charged compressed air surge tanks, instrumentation,

and remote control telemetric system. Provided back-up supervision for the

construction of two other reinforced concrete reservoirs each 25 and 1.0

million-gallon capacity respectively.

EARTHWORK PROJECTS

Florida Site Development, Pompano Beach, Florida January 1990 to January

1991

Project Estimator: Responsible for quantity "take-off". Quantities were

used in bidding on new projects.

Other Assignments/Projects

City of North Bay Village, Miami-Dade County, Florida January 1991 to

April 1994

Assistant Public Works Director: Responsible for repair and maintenance

of the city's: sprinkler systems, water supply system, main sewer plant,

three sewer sub-stations, an in-house gas and diesel dispenser and general

maintenance of various physical facilities belonging to the city.

Miami-Dade County Aviation Department, Miami International Airport, Florida

2003 (February through May)

Supervised the closeout of a construction contract involved with the

installation of a 12 feet by 8 feet box culvert on the North-side Utilities

Project.

Awards:

National Deans List 1992-1994

Who's Who among American students 1992-1993

Recchi American/MIA Association Joint Venture Scholarship

Honorary Member Phi Kappa Phi

Honorary Member Golden Key Honor Society

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