Paul A. Rizzo, PLS
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Austin, Texas 78749
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OBJECTIVE:
Career opportunity as a Professional Land Surveyor utilizing my extensive
experience in a variety of engineering environments.
EXPERIENCE:
SENIOR CAD TECHNICIAN
Uintah Engineering & Land Surveying, Vernal, Utah
2013- Present
. Successfully generated dozens of plan and profile construction drawing
sets using ACAD Civil 3D for surface modeling and mapping for oil and
gas pipeline projects. Respon ibilities included bringing in photo
imagery as a backdrop in plan view to creating profiles with complete
with all stationing and ancillary data needed for the construction
process.
. Successfully generated Right-of-Way and Ownership Plats using ACAD
Civil 3D 2012 for dozens of Oil pipeline and Gas pipeline projects in
the states of North Dakota, Colorado, Utah, and Kansas from field data
collected by field crews at those satellite offices. Used both TGO and
TRC to process the raw data.
. Successfully generated as-built drawings for well sites using ACAD
Civil 3D to generate surface model for contouring a well as computing
volumes and cut/fill analysis. Final mapping included a site plan and
production facility plan. Aerial imagery in a rater format was
utilized to create real time overhead views of the facilities being
developed.
SENIOR CAD TECHNICIAN
SURVEYING & MAPPING, INC., Austin, TX
2011- 2012
. Team Leader for successful completion of EPCO Seaway 2 Oil Pipeline
Design Phase, generating hundreds of plats and descriptions using ACAD
2012 with LDD (Land Development Desktop).
. Lead Technician for generating well over fifty ROW crossing exhibits
for URS - Tallgrass Oil Pipeline Pre-Construction Phase using ACAD
2013 Civil 3D. (Samples available at time of interview)
. Field Office Technician for EPCO Seaway 2 Oil Pipeline Construction
Phase, successfully managed database for staking of over 6500 points
along with processing all incoming data from field crews using TGO
2013.
. Received an outstanding achievement award for performing 'above and
beyond' the call of duty to help reach a critical benchmark on EPCO
Seaway 2 Oil Pipeline Design Phase.
SENIOR CAD TECHNICIAN
SPECTRUM SURVEYING & ENGINEERING, Las Vegas, NV
2007 - 2009
. Computed, processed and analyzed over 50 cell tower developments.
. Project Manager for Las Vegas National Golf Course ALTA/ASME
survey.
. Successful completion of construction drawings for a variety of
IDACOM projects.
SURVEY CAD TECHNICIAN
VIRATECH, Rochester, NY
2005 - 2006
. Worked independently with a variety of local licensed land
surveyors; computed stake outs of commercial, residential and
municipal developments using working expertise of the Auto CAD
software.
. Computed and performed stake-out of the Medley Center Target Store
. Analyzed and mapped over 150 boundary surveys; computed over 100
lots and buildings for new home construction.
CAD TECHNICIAN II
CLARK PATTERSON ASSOCIATES, Rochester, NY
2003 - 2005
. Civil engineering and survey CAD tech for MCWA Water Main
Expansion, Irondequoit Water Treatment Plant, & Mobbs Road Water
District Extension.
. Responsible for maintaining AutoCAD files to generate bid for
commercial construction, and major municipal water and water
developments.
PROJECT SURVEYOR
FISHER AND ASSOCIATES, P.C., Rochester, NY
2002-2003
. Surveyor's assistant for Southtown Connector Project, Erie County,
NY, which required full DTM of 12 separate overpasses in the south
Buffalo area using GPS, RTK, and digital leveling.
. Project Surveyor for US 90, Wayne County, NYSDOT Region 5, TASS
2002 requiring full DTM of 4.5 miles of thruway pavement using GPS
for control, auto-lock for topography, and digital level for
control.
. Party Chief for annual Akso-Nobel level runs involving precise
digital leveling of over 300 monuments in greater Genesee Valley
to monitor seismic activity in the region.
DESIGN ENGINEER to SALES MANAGER
BF PERKINS a STANDEX CORPORATION, Rochester, NY
1996 -2002
. Mechanical Design Engineer for Bondex Calender; P&G Line, 3M
Calendar. Eventually moving to Sales Manager and responsible for
sales in the NE United States and South America.\
. Increased sales of parts & lab use by over 100% in my first year
as sales manager.
. Project Manager for Laboratory Expansion, Company Brochure, &
Company Website always delivered on schedule and under budget.
INTERN SURVEYOR to CIVIL CAD DESIGNER
D.J. PARRONE AND ASSOCIATES, P.C., Rochester, NY
1986 - 1995
. Party chief for topographic for topographic survey, boundary
survey, monument setting
. Instrument person for construction stake-out for lot, building,
utility, road box, bridge layout
. Civil tech for traffic study data collection, and performing
percolation tests, site development
. Survey tech for translating & rotating data, contouring, office
computations, legal descriptions
EDUCATION:
Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
Associates of Science in Business Administration, December 2005 (with
distinction)
LICENSURE:
State of Nevada Professional Land Surveyor as proclaimed by the NPE&LS on
May 1, 2008.