Quality Assurance Engineer

MARKIAN B. PETRINA, P.E.

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Home (preferred): 707-***-****; Mobile: 773-***-****;

SUMMARY and OBJECTIVES

. Major Skills: Major-project engineer with extensive experience on high-

profile contracts, including management expertise encompassing Quality,

proposals, and personnel.

. Experience: 6 years, Transportation/Infrastructure Construction /

Quality Assurance, Geotechnical Design; 9 years, management / high-level

staff positions as a U.S. Navy officer

. Short Term: Management engineering position in Transportation

Infrastructure, Geotechnical, General Civil, Construction

Materials/Quality, or Forensics

. Long term: Upward mobility to Principal level and senior management

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

. Licensed Professional Engineer: California (Civil 77949) and Michigan

(620*******)

. M.S., Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, December

2004

. B.S. (Magna Cum Laude), Mathematics (Operations Research), Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, May 1993

EXPERIENCE

Structural Materials Representative March 2006 - August 2010

Consultant, California Dept. of Transportation (Caltrans)

MacTec Engineering and Consulting (Caltrans Group), Mare Island and

Oakland, CA

General Duties, Structural Materials Representative (SMR)

. Bay Area Quality Assurance (QA) lead for three phases of the New Oakland

Bay Bridge

. Oversight of Construction Materials Quality Control (QC), Code and

Contract enforcement

. Scope: job sites, fabrication facilities; Quality coordinator among

contractor/designers/owner

. Key contributor to proposals, bid preparation, contract-related document

preparation

Major Projects

Assistant SMR, New Bay Bridge (March 2006 - December 2008)

. Skyway (mid-Bay concrete viaducts)

Oakland Touchdown (East landfall span)

Cables & Castings, Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge (SAS)(Yerba Buena Isl.

landfall span)

. Frequent stand-in for San Diego-based Senior Principal Engineer during

overseas trips

. Owner Representative ensuring contract compliance for Welding and

Construction Materials

SMR, Caltrans Districts 4 West and 5 North (January 2009 - June 2010)

. Managed Quality Assurance for multiple Caltrans contracts in 7 Pacific

Coast counties

. Tunnel, bridge, and highway construction QA for concrete, structural

steel, and paint

SMR (Office Engineer), Retrofit of Antioch & Dumbarton Bridges (July 2010 -

August 2010)

Staff Geotechnical Engineer August 2004 - November 2005

H.H. Holmes Testing Laboratories, Inc., Wheeling, IL

. Soil engineering consulting: shallow and deep foundations, retaining

walls

. Frequent coordination with clients, project managers, and structural

engineers

Civil Engineering Fellow/Research September 2002 - August 2004

Assistant

Dept. of Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Group), Northwestern University,

Evanston, IL

. Helped develop first-generation commercial equipment to monitor

structural crack responses

. Wrote proposed ASTM standard to qualify commercial equipment for

industrial application

U.S. Navy Officer May 1993 - August 2002

Executive Program Manager (Lieutenant, U.S. Navy)

U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, NE (January 2000 - August 2002)

. Supervised major portions of Joint Chiefs and CEO-level plans, programs,

and reports

. National intelligence coordinator with Joint Staff, Washington, DC

. Managed six-figure programmatic funding procurement

. Additional Duty (2/00-9/01): Intelligence Plans & Policy Division Top

Secret Control Officer

Chief, Strategic and Long-range Analysis

Assistant Chief, Operational Plans (Lieutenant, U.S.Navy)

USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63), Yokosuka, Japan (January 1998 - December 1999)

. Managed assessment branch, largest group of intelligence professionals in

Task Force

. Promoted to Operational Plans: Scheduling Planner/Watch Officer; Bridge

Watch Officer

. Chief, Emergency Structural Repair/Firefighting Team #7B: in charge of 40-

person team

Deputy Chief, Navy Analysis Section (Lieutenant, U.S. Navy)

U.S. Forces Korea, Seoul, Korea (January 1997 - December 1997)

Furnished analysis and regular briefings to Director- through CEO-level

decision-makers.

Officer Under Instruction (Ensign and Lieutenant (junior grade), U.S. Navy)

Navy Training Command (June 1994 - December 1996)

Pensacola, FL; Randolph AFB, TX; Virginia Beach, VA

Graduate, Naval Intelligence Officer Basic Course, Virginia Beach, VA,

December 1996.

Assistant Naval Attach (Ensign, U.S. Navy)

U.S. Embassy, Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine (December 1993 - May 1994)

. Diplomatic duties: #2 U.S. Navy representative to Ukraine; Aircraft

Clearance official

. U.S. State Visit Airport Control Officer for U.S. Presidential and

Cabinet visits to Ukraine

. Simultaneous translator and VIP escort

Navy ROTC Recruiter (Ensign, U.S. Navy)

Naval Recruiting District Michigan, Detroit, MI (May 1993 - November 1993)

PUBLICATIONS

. Standardization of Automated Crack Monitoring Apparatus for Long-Term

Commercial Applications, M.S. Thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston,

IL, 2004.

. Contributor, Micrometer Crack Response to Vibration and Weather, Charles

H. Dowding, International Society of Explosives Engineers, Cleveland, OH,

2008.

DISTINCTIONS

. Foreign Languages: Ukrainian (native ability), French (conversational)

. Walter P. Murphy Fellow, 2002-2003, Dept. of Civil Engineering,

Northwestern University

. Honorable Discharge, U.S. Navy, August 31, 2002.

. Top Secret security clearance, 1997 - 2002, in good standing at

discharge.

. Military Decorations: Dept. of Defense Joint Service Commendation Medal

(3 awards);

Navy Achievement Medal

. Salutatorian, DeLaSalle Collegiate High School, Warren, MI, 1988

. Relevant personal information: Amateur Structure/Bridge Historian; Scout

Patrol Leader (3 years); Scout Camp Counselor (3 summers)

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