ALFRED AMAGO, L.S.I.T

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

To be part of a project management team in a progressive firm that offers professional advancement and an opportunity to fully utilize my expertise in Land Surveying, and Transportation Engineering or related fields.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Highly articulate, confident, problem solver, team-builder, self starter, able to use own initiative to achieve solutions in specified deadlines, able to motivate and communicate effectively to technical/non-technical staff to achieve exceptional project development performance.

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

Land Surveyor in Training

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Apr.2011–Present: Correctional Officer–Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, Yorktown,Virginia.

Dec 2010 –Mar 2011: Laid off due to economic downturn.

Project Manager – Precision Measurements Inc, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

May 2001 –Nov 2010:

Some of my responsibilities involved the preparation of reports, land title research from record maps and deeds for boundary computation, topographic, stakeout and ALTA/ACSM surveys, complex survey calculations and preparation of survey plat including property line and right of way computations.

Also in addition to my duties were earth volume computations, grade determination, ability to read and interpret maps, surveys and legal descriptions. Use of Autocad drafting system to prepare maps for engineering projects. I have also worked on projects to establish vertical and horizontal control networks for the field surveys using the principles and practices of GPS and also in the reduction of field observations from field notes and review of electronic survey data for accuracy and completeness.

I also operated the HDS Laser Scanner (SS2) for numerous projects from field to finish into a deliverable Cadd format. Route and Highway or Transportation Surveys, Architecture(2D as-built elevation surface drawings), Structure Monitoring Survey, Rail and Road Tunnel Survey are a few areas I have worked utilizing the scanner.

Responsible for reading and understanding construction plans, right of way documents, project report specifications and cost estimate, utility designation coordination and location. Prepare project schedule and provide weekly status report to the Clients. Clients included VDOT, Virginia Cities and Counties and various private entities.

Airport obstruction surveys for Hampton Roads Executive Airport.

Storm/Sewer study analysis for City of Virginia Beach. Collected and catalogued survey and GIS data using MS Access.

Converted/Imported CAD Drawings into GIS and Microstation format to meet VDOT and the City of Virginia Beach standards.

Assisted in the computation and construction stake-out for the Pinners Point project in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Edited/cleaned-up Microstation and Autocad drawing files to meet GIS standards for numerous projects.

Migrated CAD drawing files and shapefiles into geodatabase feature class using modeled empty geodatabase for the Yorktown Beach Survey.

Aligned basemap and survey data with digital orthophotography utilizing ArcGIS for the Oceana Base Runway Rehabilitation project.

Topographical survey of the Montegomery Executive Airport, Blacksburg, Virginia to conform with FAA Cadd standards to be delivered in Autocad Civil 3D platform.

Topographical survey for the traffic signalization intersection improvement project through out the city of Virginia Beach.

200+ Acre boundary survey for the Sawyers property in Virginia Beach.

Established first order control and spot elevations information data around the base foundations for an array of antennas in Puerto Rico for (ROTHR)Raytheon.

Assisted in digitizing aerial photographs of the Chesapeake Jail facility into Microstation deliverable format.

C-2 letters were generated from topographical survey of various cell tower sites and provided to the Federal Aviation Authority.

Augmentation of survey data for the I-64/264 interchange project delivered in Microstation format in compliance with VDOT standards.

Converted coordinate systems/projection from Airport coordinate systems to Virginia State Plane(South) using NAD’83 US Survey Feet.

Wrote proposals for numerous projects.

Survey Party Chief –John E. Sirine and Associates, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

May 2000 – May 2001

Responsible for the laying out of numerous subdivision sites and for staking out block corners of individual single family homes for construction.

Responsible for establishing controls throughout a project site utilizing conventional survey techniques.

Prepared physical (cadastral) surveys for attorneys for loan and mortgage related purposes.

Teaching Assistant – University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Jun 1997- Jun 1998

Responsibilities included the following:

Helping students with their field task and assisting them with how to use a Theodolite, a Level instrument , a Level rod and other survey equipment.

Taught how to prepare base maps and prepare field notes.

Assisted in the laboratory experiments in cartography course work.

EDUCATION

Integration of GPS, remote sensing and GIS techniques for civilian applications

Old Dominion University, June 2007

Norfolk, Virginia.

Bachelor of Science in Geodetic Engineering(Surveying and Photogrammetry), June 1996

University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Microstation J, Microstation V8, Geopak, Carlson Survey, Cyclone, Cloudworks, and ArcView(GIS).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Virginia Association of Surveyors

Associate Member, Ghana Institution of Surveyors

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology (CAA).

Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

March 22-26, 2009

REFERENCESnced I of Transportation, Education Scholarship, 1999 – 200

Available upon request.

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