Project Engineer

Maria Christina Solis

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EDUCATION

Master of Science, Civil Engineering, Environmental/Water Resource

Engineering, Aug. 1992

Oregon State University, Corvallis

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, December, 1990

California State University, Chico

LICENSE California Registered Professional Engineer

#C57645

Oregon Engineer In Training #9825EIT

WORK EXPERIENCE

MRPE, Sacramento, CA (2-11 to present)

Director of Water Resources

Develop Water Resources business sector including strategic planning, cost

controls, client needs analysis, and preparation of short-term and long-

term project development plans. I am focusing on local, regional, and

international business opportunities within the following water resource

areas: water supply, water treatment, water rights, wastewater treatment,

flood control/plain analyses, stormwater management, water distribution,

wastewater collection, and related regulatory processes.

City of Vacaville, Department of Utilities, Vacaville, CA

(8-10 to 2-11)

Assistant Director of Utilities

Managed, supervised, and directed the programs, activities, operations, and

long range planning and development for Operations and Engineering in the

Utilities Department; provided technical and highly responsible

professional staff assistance to the Utilities Director; and managed and

directed the Utilities Department in the Director's absence.

The team I was responsible to manage operated a 15 MGD average dry weather

flow/55 MGD wet weather flow Wastewater Treatment Facility, a 7 MGD Water

Treatment Plant, a jointly managed 13 MGD North Bay Regional Water

Treatment plant with the City of Fairfield, and 12 municipal groundwater

wells with a capacity of 18 MGD. The City of Vacaville's 38 MGD water

supply consists of Groundwater, Solano Project water, State Water Project

water, and Settlement water.

The individual teams I managed totaled 76 positions and included water and

wastewater certified operators, instrumentation and electrical technicians,

engineers, laboratory technicians, water quality scientists including

pretreatment and industrial inspectors, mechanics, technicians, and utility

workers. I was responsible for overall management, mentoring, coaching,

and succession planning, of these teams. In addition, I managed both the

operations/maintenance and capital improvement budgets for both the water

and wastewater enterprise funds including conducting rate studies and

development impact fee studies.

I was also responsible for the City-wide regulatory aspects of the

stormwater management program and the sanitary sewer management plan that

is regulated by Region 5, Regional Water Quality Control Board.

I contributed to securing a $120 million State Revolving Loan, which will

contribute to funding the $150 million tertiary wastewater treatment

upgrade project to be completed by 2015.

In addition, through the implementation of team based management we have

saved the City and our enterprise customers $7 million dollars in capital

improvements by optimizing existing operations of the wastewater treatment

facility. Both our water and wastewater capital improvement programs total

over $400 million dollars.

City of Yuba City, Department of Utilities, Yuba City, CA

(10-05 to 8-10)

Assistant Director of Utilities

My responsibilities included managing the 10.5 MGD Wastewater Treatment

Facilities (WWTF) daily operations, maintenance, budget, and capital

improvement program. The team I managed included WWTF operators,

engineers, analysts, an administrative assistant, instrumentation

technicians, electricians, maintenance workers, maintenance mechanics, a

pretreatment coordinator, and water and wastewater laboratory technicians.

I managed 35 employees through a management team of three first level

managers. Our responsibilities at the WWTF included leading an innovative,

creative, and efficient team that meets our customer's needs.

Our daily tasks included the following: employee development and training,

safety compliance, ensuring proper treatment of wastewater, compliance of

NPDES WWTF permit and WDR Collection System permit with the CA Region Water

Quality Board, tracking a $10 million dollar operating budget and a $10-$20

million individual fiscal year capital improvement budget, securing

loan/grant/bond financing for capital improvement projects, management of

workload/priority/asset management via use of a CMMS computer program,

individual team member's performance management plans, management of the

Capital Improvement Program, conduct rate studies, preparation and

presentation of all staff reports to City Council, engineering and

environmental consultant management, residential and commercial development

review, succession planning, and Department webpage development and

maintenance.

Key Accomplishments:

. 2010 Water and Wastewater Supply Rate Increase: Managed the water and

wastewater 5 year rate increase studies for fiscal years 2009/2010 to

2013/2014. Conducted a supporting 10 year rate study and a 20 year

capital improvement program.

. ROWD Application: Lead the team that developed Yuba City's NPDES permit

application package to renew the five year wastewater permit.

. Sutter County Disaster Management Plan: Developed the Sutter County

Multi-Hazard Disaster Management Plan, including a Flood Management

Plan.

. Integrated Regional Water Management Plan: Coordinated with the Yuba

Water Agency and the Northern California Water Association to develop a

sustainable water management plan that includes water, wastewater,

stormwater, flood control, water quality, water conservation, and water

recycling projects for Yuba City.

. Regional Recycled Water Feasibility Study: Managed the Regional

Recycled Water Management plan concurrently with the city of Marysville

and the Linda County Water District.

. Yuba City Stormwater Management Program: Managed the Yuba City

Stormwater Management program from 2005 - 2006.

. Community Rating System - Flood Insurance Rate Savings: Completed the

approved application for Yuba City participation in the Federal Flood

Insurance Community Rating system, resulting in a 15% discount on

mandatory flood insurance rates.

. SRF Loan Application Completion: Completed SRF loan application for

$14 million in wastewater treatment and collection system projects.

. CIP Project Completion: Manage master planning, design, and

construction of all WWTF projects. Manage master planning of collection

system projects through a static hydraulic model. 2009/2010 WWTF CIP

projects include a new Solids Thickening Project, Rehabilitation of 3

Reactors and the 12 KV system.

. New Feather River Water Supply Intake Project: Managed the final

permitting and CEQA and NEQA compliance for the Feather River Fish

Screen Project.

. Regional Wastewater Feasibility Study: Managed a regional wastewater

feasibility study with the City of Live Oak, Yuba City, and Sutter

County.

. Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP): Finalized the City's UWMP for final

approval from the Department of Water Resources.

. Solar Project & Co-Generation Project: Completion of a 700 kW Solar

Project for the WWTF and completion of rehabilitation of gas

conditioning process for the WWTF 300 kW methane co-generation facility.

. WWTF of the Year Award: 2008 and 2009 Regional California Water and

Environment Association (CWEA) Plant of the year award. 2008 Statewide

CWEA Plant of the Year Award.

The City of Yuba City has a strong team based work culture. I truly

believe in this work culture and I was responsible as a mid-level manager

to ensure its implementation. Daily we implemented key principles of

collaboration and continuous improvement to carry out the City's mission of

leadership, quality, and innovation.

City of Sacramento, Department of Utilities, Sacramento, CA

(7-03 to 10-05)

Principal Engineer

As a Principal Engineer I was responsible for the following divisions:

Floodplain Management; Development Review - both on-site and off-site

Residential and Commercial plan check; Drinking Water Quality Compliance;

NPDES Storm Water Management Program; and managed 32 employees through 4

supervising engineers (Capital budget $1.2 million).

Management duties included the following: assigning and managing workload,

administration and development of the budget, project delivery on schedule,

resolving employee conflicts, fostering and building relationships with

internal and external customers, organizing employee recognition events,

training and mentoring of employees, empowering employees to attend

training to further their careers, organized brainstorming sessions to

promote team work/ creativity/project innovation, and staff recruitment.

As manager of the Drinking Water Quality section, I was responsible for

supporting the City's Plant Services Division. This included regular

regulatory updates, consultant training of operations staff on current and

upcoming regulatory and legal compliance requirements, preparation of the

City's CCR, tracking of monitoring requirements, reporting of monitoring

data to proper regulatory agency, legal compliance with DHS drinking water

permit requirements for both surface water and groundwater, completion of

American and Sacramento River Watershed Sanitary Surveys.

I was also the Utilities Department Development Liaison to City Hall; I

coordinated with the Economic Development Department, Parks Department,

Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, Planning Department, Building

Department, Public Works Department, Infill Team, and the Development

Oversight Commission Policy Team. Liaison duties included working

collaboratively on major and minor project teams during various stages of

project development, including policy development.

Key Accomplishments:

. FEMA Remap: Managed the FEMA City of Sacramento remapping that

converted more than half of City from mandatory flood insurance to

preferred insurance rates.

. Disaster Mitigation Plan: Developed the City of Sacramento element of

the Sacramento County Disaster Mitigation plan.

. Financial Management Team: Key member of several teams that developed

strategic financial plans to identify vital capital improvement

projects.

. Emergency Response Plans: Managed the development of key GIS mapping to

support the City of Sacramento's emergency response plans.

. Sacramento City General Plan: Represented Utilities Department on the

Policy, Planning, and Technical Teams that developed the city's revised

General Plan.

. Developed a Downtown Combined System Development Master Plan:

Coordinated with internal modeling staff and development agencies to

develop a combined sewer and stormwater master plan.

East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), Oakland, CA (5-95

to 7-03)

Freeport Regional Water Project Coordinator

Responsible for all project management responsibilities related to delivery

of EBMUD's USBR Central Valley Project Contract supplemental water supply

from the Sacramento River including alternative analyses, public outreach,

CEQA and NEPA environmental documentation, legal compliance, real estate

services, preliminary engineering, field studies, State and Federal

permitting, coordination with Sacramento and San Joaquin County project

partners and stakeholders, coordination with internal operations and

maintenance departments, preliminary engineering to support environmental

compliance and permitting, Strategic Planning, presented regular project

updates to EBMUD Board of Directors, Freeport Regional Water Authority

(FRWA) Board of Directors, and to the City and County of Sacramento, and

development of project mitigation commitments . I managed over 28

employees indirectly and 6 directly. Responsible for implementation of

$490 million in capital projects (EBMUD's share, 2003 total project cost

$760 million) and $3.6 million in consultant contracts.

I also reviewed environmental documents for the San Joaquin County

Conjunctive Use Project and other groundwater projects including well

abandonment's.

Key Accomplishments:

. Freeport Regional Water Project Manager:

o FRWA: Formed the Freeport Regional Water Authority through the

development of a Joint Powers Agreement with EBMUD and the City

and County of Sacramento. Developed a regional management

structure to guide the project through planning, engineering,

and construction.

o Public Outreach: Managed the pubic outreach program which

included a 4000 person contact list with no formal complaints

against the project presented to the EBMUD Board of Director's

or to the City and County of Sacramento over a 7 year period. I

also led over 50 public outreach meetings concerning the

Freeport project.

o ESA Process: Managed the ESA process with the US Fish &

Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fishery Service along

with the SHPO and US Army Corps permit requirements. Final

project approval was granted after these permits were approved.

. Enlarge Pardee Reservoir Project: Managed a $3 million dollar

feasibility study for enlarging Pardee Reservoir, including

identification of costs, benefits, and risks of the enlargement project.

In addition, I designed and implemented mitigation plans for the

preservation of animal habitats, including the development of a bat cave

for indigenous species common in the Pardee Reservoir area.

Water Education Foundation-"1999 Water Leaders Class"

(1-99)

Class Leader

Participated in various WEF tours and conferences. I worked with an

assigned agricultural mentor throughout the year on various agricultural

and urban California water issues. Worked as a team member creating the

"1999 Water Leaders" class report on Groundwater Management and Conjunctive

Use.

California Department of Transportation, Redding, CA (12-90,

various to 5-95)

Assistant Resident Engineer

Construction contract administration for three Highway projects, both

rehabilitation and replacement projects. Responsible for construction

contract management, project safety, project records, reports, contract

budgets, construction details, contractor employment practices and contract

change orders.

Underground Storage Tank Coordinator

Responsible for site closures of 14 maintenance stations. Responsible for

investigating and developing cost effective remedial cleanup plans.

Determined mitigation measures, which were presented to regulatory agencies

for approval and permit acquisition.

Hydraulic/Transportation Engineer

Designed highway drainage plans and cost estimates including hydrologic and

hydraulic calculations. Performed backwater analyses using HEC2 for bridge

replacement projects. Designed erosion control for various highway

structures. Performed field investigations concerning drainage

rehabilitation projects. Coordinated final plans, specifications, and cost

estimates for highway rehabilitation projects. Organized recruiting

efforts for student assistants.

Federal Highway Administration, Vancouver, WA (9-92

to 6-93)

Hydraulics Engineer/Transportation Engineer

Performed hydrologic and hydraulic design calculations using HEC2 and

HYDRAIN computer programs. I designed fish passage systems, habitat

restoration projects, bank stabilization projects, and construction

diversion plans. I performed backwater and scour analyses for various

types of drainage projects along with floodplain analyses. I assisted with

the NEPA process concerning fish related issues and submitted and

coordinated all hydraulic permits with Army Corps, Water Quality

Boards/NPDES, US Fish & Wildlife, FEMA, Dept. of Ecology, and Wild & Scenic

River regulatory agencies. Participated in final internal design reviews.

Public Utility Commission, City and County of San Francisco, CA

(6-90 to 9-90)

Assistant Project Engineer

I performed structural and hydraulic calculations for rehabilitation of the

Moccasin Penstock Project. In addition, I completed the final technical

report that was presented to internal clients. Actively participated in

technical brainstorming sessions with project team. Computed cost

estimates for structural drawings. Assisted with field reviews and

preparation of as-needed consultant documents.

CH2Mhill, Redding, CA (6-89 to 9-89)

Student Engineering Assistant

I calculated the hydraulic profile for a wastewater treatment plant using a

computer-assisted program. Coordinated final record drawings for

wastewater treatment plant. Performed preliminary calculations of bridge

replacements with box culverts. Calculated hydraulics for gravity bypass

pipeline.

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (8-91 to 6-

92)

Teaching Assistant

I lectured Transportation and Water Resource Undergraduate Courses.

Maintained undergraduate student records.

Raleys Supermarket, Benicia & Chico, CA (10-83 to 4-

90)

Journeyman Cashier

I assisted customers in a helpful and efficient manner, and developed

strong communication skills. I also planned and constructed store displays

that won many district competitions.

Additional Skills

Communication/Interpersonal: Extensive Public speaking experience, active

listening skills, coach and mentor team members to improve from good to

great, ability to work successfully with people from diverse backgrounds

and viewpoints. Ability to manage multiple assignments at once, focus on

meeting deadlines, manage projects within authorized budget, prioritize

workload, and prepared to take initiative as needed.

Computer: Word Perfect, MS Word, MS Project, Excel, Power Point,

Access, HEC software, HYDRAIN, CALSIM modeling, DSM2 modeling, distribution

and collection system modeling, & various groundwater remediation and pump

testing software.

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Hydraulic Engineering Chemistry of Environmental

Systems

Groundwater Hydraulics Microbial Proc./Environmental

Systems

Groundwater Remediation Water Quality Dynamics

River Engineering Hydrogeology

Microbial Processes of Municipal and Hazardous Waste Treatment

Physical/Chemical Proc. of Municipal/Hazardous Waste Treatment

Sediment Transport Transportation Engineering

AWARDS & HONORS

Oregon Laurels Graduate Scholarship

ASCE/Marysville Branch Award for Professionalism

Minority Engineering Program, Outstanding Achievement Award

1998 East Bay Municipal Utility District Customer Service Award

1993 Letter of Commendation from Federal Highway Administration

1991 Letter of Commendation from CALTRANS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & LEADERSHIP

Toastmasters International EBMUD Membership

American Society of Civil Engineers 2004/05 San Francisco

Section Director

2003 San Francisco Branch President

2001/02 SF Branch Treasurer

"1999 Water Leaders Class" Water Leader Water Education Foundation

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers 2001 San Francisco

Branch President

Alameda County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Former Member

Water Environment Federation Member

CA Water Environment Association Member

Central Valley Clean Water Association Member

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Upward Bound, UC Berkeley Program Mentor & Perform Outreach

EBMUD Student Intern Program Mentor & Supervisor

Volunteer Intercity School Outreach Mentor & Tutor to various primary &

secondary schools

Healthy Start Tutor for Peres Elementary, Richmond

The River Church Student Teacher

REFERENCES - see attached letters of recommendation

Dennis Diemer, EBMUD General Manager, 925-***-****

Bill Lewis, City of Yuba City, 530-***-****

Randy Kanouse, EBMUD 916-***-****

Jim Sequeira, Retired Department of Utilities Director, 916-***-****

Robert Jung, former EBMUD Supervisor, 415-***-****

Stan Gryczko, Operations Manager, 530-***-****

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