Engineer Design
Resume:
John D. Nelson, P.E.
Orem, UT *****
Years of Experience
Lead Hydrology Engineer with PB: Nov 2008 to Jul 2010
Engineering Consultant for Nelson Engineering: Aug 2004 to Nov 2008
Design/Hydrology Engineer for Ringo Abernathy: June 2001 to Aug 2004
Technical Support Manager for C&G Software: Sep 2000 to May 2001
Design Engineer for Casey $ Associates: May 1995 to Aug 2000
Education
M.S., Envorinmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005;
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 1994.
Professional Affiliations
American Society of Civil Engineers
Professional Registrations
Professional Engineer: Utah, 1999 (343766); Georgia, 2002 (PE028308)
Georgia Erosion & Sedimentation Control Design Professional Level II Certification 2007 (000*******)
Key Qualifications
I am an experienced civil site and hydrology engineer. I have storm system, hydrology design and plan
review experience with many highway projects while at PB, and in all aspects of civil site design of
commercial, industrial and residential projects. I have been involved with these projects through all phases of
development from initial concept, estimations for Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP), obtaining Land
Disturbance Permits, and final as-built documents. My responsibilities have included subdivision,
commercial, and industrial road design, total site grading which includes balancing cuts and fills, sanitary
sewer design, and design locations for all utilities. My storm water management responsibilities have
included storm system design and analysis, culvert analysis, 100 year flood analysis, design and
implementation of Best Management Practices for water quality and erosion, pollution and sedimentation
control and writing associated reports. I managed his business for four years until 2008 and worked as a
consulting design engineer with other design companies and other engineering disciplines, maintaining
design schedules, and ensuring that project plans and reports meet the highest quality standards. I am
experienced in Civil 3D and Microstation CAD programs along with many hydrology modeling software
programs including HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, StormCAD, CivilStorm.
Parsons Brinckerhoff Experience
Hydrology/EIS
• Tooele Midvalley Highway. Create hydrology model for 12.5 miles of highway west of Tooele running
north and south from I-80 to SR36 to provide stormwater impact footprints for three highway options.
• Provo Westside Connector. Create hydrology model for EIS stormwater impacts for three options for the
highway that runs 3.5 miles east and west from the southern I-15 Provo City interchange to the Provo
airport.
• Mountain View Corridor. EIS reevaluation of 14 miles of highway along the west side of the Salt Lake
Valley. The highway was modified to have a frontagte road system added to the design. Initial design of
storm drain system for segments 6 and 7 up to 30% complete.
• Independent Quality Task Lead. Task lead for drainage for the Independent Quality Firm (IQF) to review
drainage plans and designs for Utah SR-92 highway project.
Previous Experience
Prior to joining PB, I had project experience with my own company and other engineering consulting firms
including the following projects. The main design modeling software used was Civil 3D. Storm water runoff
and other hydrological modeling programs include Hydroflow Hydrographs for runoff and detention pond
modeling, Heastad Methods StormCAD for pipe design, HY8 for culvert analysis, HEC-RAS for water level
calculations, and ICPR3 which has modeling capabilities of all previously listed hydrology programs.
Design/Industrial
• Meat processing plant, Hatsfield, Ohio: responsible for: developing a subsurface model of unusable soils,
creating a site grading plan to balance cuts and fills for an initial design and the mirror image, showing
locations and volumes of where grading plan disturbs unusable soils, and developing preliminary storm
drain plans based on balanced sites. The mirrored design required new entrances and accesses, parking
lot, and water quality pond location and size.
• Chico’s clothing distribution center, Winder, Georgia: lead civil site engineer. This project was a design to
increase the overall warehouse space by 300,000 square feet for future expansion to year 2018. John’s
role was to coordinate design efforts of the civil engineering group with all other disciples for the
construction designs of the warehouse addition and to be main point of contact for client for site design.
The civil design included site grading, stormwater drainage, erosion control measures, parking lots, truck
access, and utility connection locations.
• Emporia, Kansas, new petfood plant: John assisted in developing the strom drain system and provided
Qulaity Assurance for the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) for the site. Due to the team
effort on the SWPPP, it was approved in less than one week with no comments.
Design/Commercial
• Ashton Hall, an assisted living center, Lawrenceville, Georgia: John was the lead engineer for this project
and coordinated efforts with the architect and surveyor in the design of the building footprint placement,
parking lot design, and all utilities. The challenge to this site was to redesign the existing storm water
management facilities to meet the current standards for both the existing and new building. He was
responsible for obtaining the land disturbance permits and submitting as-built documents once
construction was completed.
Design/Hydrology
• Governors Cove subdivision, Warner Robins, Georgia: consulting hydrology engineer to determine high
water elevation. This is a 17.66 acre, 40 lot site that is part of a 17.19 square mile drainage basin on
Sandy Run Creek. A new bridge had been built after the date of the flood study available by the Army
Corps of Engineers and the site was in an unstudied A Zone. A new flood study was needed to verify the
high water elevations next to the subdivision. The old bridge had been overtopped by the 100 year storm,
but the new bridge with the higher flows was not overtopped.
• Rivercrest Subdivision, 41.49 acre, 120 lots, Porterdale, Georgia: John was a consulting engineer that
provided all engineering reports and calculations and locations for sanitary sewer, and storm drain
junction boxes and inlets. He also provided all vertical design points and grades for construction drawings
and finished grades for the entire site. This site was extremely hilly with an offsite upstream drainage
basin of 267.5 acres which drained through the middle of the site and discharged into the Yellow River.
The challenge for this site was designing the road grades and grading the site to allow for effective storm
drainage. This included properly sizing the pipe culverts that would allow access to the other half of the
property which size was affected by the backwater from the Yellow River.
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