Senior Project manager

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Résumé

Bilind “Bill” Armaghani, M.S.C.E, P.E.

Senior Geotechnical Project Manger

A competent engineer with over 33 years of diverse experience in the field of civil engineering, with

emphasis in the areas of Geotechnical and HDD, Quality Control, Material Testing, and Business

Development

EDUCATION

M.S.C.E., Geotechnical/Environmental Engineering, University of Florida, 1993.

M.S.C.E., Structural Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, 1987.

B.S.C.E., Civil Engineering, University of Baghdad, 1980.

REGISTRATION

Registered Professional Engineer, State of Florida.

Registered Professional Engineer, State of Georgia.

Registered Professional Engineer, State of Alabama.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Over the years, managed and provided technical services and design recommendations for

thousands of projects for the State, County, City, and Private Sector in the areas of Geotechnical

Engineering. Specifically, Foundation, HDD, Earth Retaining Structures in addition to Construction

Material Testing and Quality Control.

Broad experience in management, marketing and business development on and cultivating clients’

relationships.

Solid work ethic and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Provided leadership, direction and mentoring to staff engineers to include peer review of

geotechnical reports and analyses to build a high level of team performance.

Provided technical consultants to assist contractors in resolving geotechnical and constr uction

problems and assisted prime consultants in developing technical specifications to what is related to

geotechnical and quality control.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Shallow Foundation Design, to include Bearing Capacity, Settlement Analysis.

Deep Foundation Design, to include Driven Piles, Drilled Shafts and Auger Cast.

Driven Piles Design based on Dynamic Measurements & Analysis (PDA).

Drilled Shaft Design Based on Statnamic and Osterburg.

Earth Retaining Structures Design, to include Concrete Retaining Walls, Proprietary (MSE)

Walls, Sheet Piles, Soldier Pile Walls and Secant Walls. Geogrid Reinforced Earth Slope..

Slope Stability Analysis.

Problematic Soil Evaluation and Mitigation.

Soil Improvement Techniques.

Flexible and Rigid Pavement Evaluation and Design.

Geotechnical Laboratory Testing and Site Soil Exploration.

Material Testing and Quality Control and Assurance for Earth Work and Material

Construction.

Forensic Engineering, in the area of Mining Subsidence, Pavement deterioration, and Foundation

distresses.

Pipeline Engineering Construction to include specifically the Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)

and Push and Bore method of drilling.

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EMPLOYMENT HISTOR

12/2012 to Date Senior Project Manager, Director Business Development of

Marino Eng. Assoc. Inc. (Urbana, Illinois)

12/2010 – 12/2012 Sr. Geotechnical Project Manager, Exp. Previously Trow Engineering

(Tallahassee, FL& Vancouver BC)

02/2010 -11/2010 Sr. Geotechnical Manager and Contractor

Set Square LLC (Euless, Texas) Self Employed, Overseas

04/2009 - 01/2010 Principal Engineer, Area Manager (Tallahassee, Jacksonville)

Nodarse & Associates Inc.Teracon company (Jacksonville, FL)

07/1995 - 02/2009 Geotechnical, Environmental & Drilling Department Manager

Ardaman & Assoc. Inc., Tetra Tech Company. (Tallahassee, FL)

01/1994 - 07/1995 Project Manager

PSI, Inc. (Jacksonville,, FL)

08/1992 - 12/1993 Teaching Assistant

University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

01/1986 - 04/1992 Senior Structural Engineer /Project Manager

Dorsh Consult (Baghdad, Iraq)

07/1981- 12/1985 Structural Engineer

Industrogradnja Construction Co. (Baghdad, Iraq)

AREA OF RESPONSIBILITIES

Business promotion and cultivating clients’ relationships.

Managing task orders and projects. Specifically, preparing bids, proposals and invoices. Moreover,

monitoring job progress, performance, and submitting project status reports to the branch manager,

and/or regional manager.

Serving as technical lead for teams performing engineering site investigation and analyses.

Specifically, assisting project engineers and project managers with management of geotechnical

projects, in addition to reports’ peer review.

Performing analysis and preparation of reports and specifications for more complicated and

challenging geotechnical problems.

Providing technical consultants to assist contractors in resolving geotechnical and construction

problems and assisting prime consultants in developing technical specifications to what is related to

geotechnical and quality control.

PROJECTS EXPERIENCE

Below is a select partial list of large civil and geotechnical engineering projects, where geotechnical

and foundation design analysis were provided to include engineering, construction and quality control

recommendations:

SR 8 (I-10) bridge over Escambia Bay. replacement (Design Built)

This was a $210 million design built project. It consisted of the construction of a new 2.5 mile I-10

bridge over Escambia Bay to replace the one damaged by the Ivan hurricane.

I-95 South Widening, Jacksonville FL; Foundation Design of 7 Bridges over I-95 founded on

Drilled Shaft, Concrete and H-Steel Driven Piles ($1.1 million worth of Geotechnical work).

I-10 Widening, Leon County, FL; The project included providing geotechnical and foundation

design recommendations for 6 bridges founded on Concrete Driven Piles and all related retaining

structures, ponds and 12 miles of roadway widening ($1.3 million worth of geotechnical work).

Cervantes Bridge over I-110, Pensacola, FL; the project included Drilled Shaft Foundation

Design, FDOT–D3.

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Scour evaluation of 87 bridges of unknown foundation, N. Florida, FDOT–D3 ($1.6 million

worth of geotechnical work).

(PDA test) for pile foundations in Blountstown, FL; 2 Bridges along SR20; Pile driving analysis

per Wave Equation Theory, Piles production lengths and pile driving criteria. recommendations

US-98 widening, Gulf County, FL; design of one ridge, road way base layers, earth retaining

structures and ponds, ($0.6 million worth of geotechnical work), St. Joe Company.

Foundation design of a total of 16 structures buildings at Florida State University campus; to

include School of Medicine, Parking Garage # 2,3,4 and 5, Psychology Building,, Chemistry

Building,, Dick Houser Stadium Expansion, Montgomery Gym, aquatic center and others.

Geotechnical design of commercial and development projects; to include, Hotels, Banks,

Apartment Complexes, Department Stores, Big developments; such as Wal-Mart, Target, Lowe’s,

Walgreen, and Tallahassee Shopping Malls.

I-10/Thomasville Rd. MSE retaining wall design, Tallahassee, FL; 40 ft. high reinforced wall,.

Jenks Av., Panama City, FL; evaluation and recommendations for problematic organic soil

conditions.

Subsoil Improvement using Surcharging Technique; Apalachicola Potable Water Project.

South Wood and Wind Mark Village Development, St. Joe Company, Tallahassee, FL The

project included hundreds of residential units, roadways, a bank, a school and commercial

buildings).

Geotechnical evaluation and pavement design; Mission Road. Leon County, FL.

Sinkhole evaluation at SR 263, Leon County, FL.

Concrete Mix Design for Snead Weigh Station Pavement, Madison County.

The Keystone XL Project (Client, Trans Canada); preparing in house geotechnical reports in

addition to peer review of subcontractors’ reports for site soil conditions where Horizontal

Directional Drill (HDD) will be performed in addition to preparing specifications for proposed

(HDD) process. The $7 billion Project is a proposed pipeline system to transport crude oil from

Hardisty Alberta, Canada to Nederland, Texas, with an extension to either Houston, Texas, or

Texas City,

Alaska Pipeline Project – Yukon Territory, Canada (Client, Trans Canada; Subcontractor EBA)

Provided geotechnical peer review and quality assurance for “SBD” and Koidern soil testing

program for 30 discrete sites.

COP – Horizontal Directional Drill (HDD) – Grand Lake Crossing; (Client, Conoco Phillips)

Provided project management, technical review and prepared specifications for proposes Horizontal

Directional Drill (HDD) in Oklahoma.

Apasha-Kutaisi Pipeline –Republic of Georgia: (Client, US-AID/US Department of State), Senior

project manager, checking specification and peer reviewer and quality assurance at the job site. The

$1.5 million project consisted of 30.2 Km new gas pipeline construction to include 2 HDD and one

push and bore.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

A well-regarded Adjunct Lecturer at Florida State University, The College of Engineering, teaching

Foundation Engineering & Geotechnical Design courses from 2005 to 2011.

PUBLICATIONS

McVay, M.; Armaghani B., Casper R., "Design and Construction of Auger-Cast Piles in Florida"

Transportation Research Record, 1447, National Research Council Washington D.C., Oct. 1994.

Marino, G.G., Armaghani, B. and Gautam, B. 2013, “Stability Analyses and Remediation of Two

Mined-Out Coal Seams Adjacent to a Building,,32nd International Conference on Ground Control

in Mining, July 30 – August 1, 2013, Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Marino Gennaro, Ph.D.; Armaghani B., "Evaluation of As-Built Airfield Hangar Slab Capacity

under Wide Body Aircraft” published in EJGE, Vol. 18[2013]/ Bund.G, as Paper 2013.115.

Marino Gennaro, Ph.D.; Armaghani B., M.S.C.E.; “Mine Stability and Subsidence of a Retirement

facility” (Under Publication)

Marino Gennaro, Ph.D.; Armaghani B., M.S.C.E.; “Group Behavior of a Deep Foundation in

Swelling Rock” (Under Publication)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Florida Engineering Society (FES)

Transportation Research Board (TRB)

National Society of Professional Engineer

National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveyin g certified (NCEES)

REFERENCES

References shall be provided upon request.

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