Engineer Management

Sheida Kalbassi, EIT.

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Education

• M.Sc, Environmental Engineering June 2010

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA

• B.Sc, Civil Engineering July 2008

Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran

Work Experience

MWH Americas, Inc. Walnut Creek, CA, Environmental Engineer 06/2013-Present

Main projects involved in:

Tesoro Martinez Refinery, CA

Helped with Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Management of Change (MOC) for several environmental remediation projects

Led subsurface investigation, extraction well installation and abandonment, LNAPL bail-down/slug test and Operation Monitoring and Maintenance (OM&M) field activities for environmental remediation projects associated with reportable and non-reportable releases

Drafted proposals and cost estimates for subsurface investigation, well installation and OM&M of remediation projects

Engineered and evaluated LNAPL recovery at project sites using LNAPL transmissivity, baildown test data, hydraulic conductivity, and migration modeling (using Bouwer and Rice, Cooper and Jacob, Cooper, Bredehoeft and Papadopulos Methods)

Drafted OM&M manuals, site specific health and safety addendums, work plans, release notification letters, groundwater monitoring, field investigation, technical requirements, and OM&M reports in accordance with Refinery specific Rules and Standing Instructions (R&SIs)

Prepared Spill/Emergency Response Plan and post-field activities lesson learned document for remediation projects

Performed above-ground storage tank clean-out, drafted the Hazard Evaluation Risk Assessment (HERA) document, worked with Refinery operations for scheduling and performing the tank clean-out, helped with field activities and lockout/tagout procedure, prepared standard operation procedure (SOP) and Health and Safety Plan, and trained Refinery contractors on how to use the corresponding HERA and SOP

Prepared Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) for several pump and treat remediation systems across the Refinery in accordance with the Refinery R&SIs and Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements

Coordinated Self-Monitoring Program (SMP) at Tesoro including Refinery-wide groundwater monitoring and sampling for delineating the LNAPL plume, establishing contaminant trigger levels for the Refinery perimeter segments with potential sensitive receptors

Performed quarterly investigation and reporting at the Refinery closed Waste Management Unit (WMUs) to ensure proper sealing and capping at the project area and assess the need to further maintenance at the WMU to avoid migration of the historic contaminants to the surface and potential for sensitive receptor’s exposure

Prepared and reported the quarterly reserved projects financial forecasts at the Refinery

Prepared and presented Tesoro Martinez Refinery Hazard Communication (Hazcom) training

Served as a lead engineer on no further action request for several WMUs where no evidence of waste disposal was found per Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or investigation results indicted no human/environment exposure pathway to subsurface contaminants for current land use

Mt. Poso Cogeneration Company Ash Beneficial Use End User Site Assessment

Performed preliminary site assessment at 50 dairies across the Kern County, CA to identify potential migration paths for fly ash stored onsite and prepared the phase I assessment report

Ergonomic Evaluator

Served as MWH Office ergonomic evaluator and performed ergonomic assessments on employees

JDSU Water Treatment Facility, Santa Rosa, CA

Drafted Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan (SPCCP) in accordance with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Title 40 and National Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (NSPCC) requirements for industrial facilities

Conducted annual surface water sampling and parameter monitoring

Helped with semi-annual surface water discharge reporting

ARCADIS. US, Walnut Creek, CA, Environmental Engineer 11/2010-04/2013

Main projects involved in:

PG&E Former Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP), Stockton, CA

Served as field staff during groundwater monitoring and sampling, and monitoring well installation

Conducted annual site cap inspection and repair

Prepared semi-annual groundwater monitoring reports, annual cap inspection report, Environmental Health and Safety Plan including all Job Safety Analysis’s (JSAs) associated with type field works involved

Managed solid and liquid waste profiling and disposal

Chevron Former PureGro Facility, Salinas, CA

Served as field staff during groundwater monitoring and sampling, utility clearance, monitoring well installation and abandonment, artificial burrows installation for burrowing owls residing onsite

Reported groundwater monitoring and sampling, well installation and abandonment, site assessment, alternative remedial action plan and annual burrowing owl monitoring, cost savings and avoidances

Prepared Salinas Valley nitrate background concentration report to procure closure for the site

Chevron Former Geothermal Residue Processing Facility, Calipatria, CA

Served as field staff during soil excavation activities

Developed site specific Health and Safety Plan and JSAs for the remediation activities

British Petroleum (BP) Service Station, Orinda, CA

Conducted per-sulfate injection into injection wells to achieve low levels of petroleum hydrocarbons in groundwater

76 Service Stations Portfolio, CA

Served as an access agreement liaison to continually obtain and update access on behalf of Chevron to 76 Service Stations to perform monitoring and remediation activities

Prepared Operation and Maintenance (O&M) manuals to implement safety procedures during remediation activities

Prepared groundwater monitoring reports for 76 Portfolio Service Stations

Managed monitoring and sampling data uploading to Chevron and regulatory databases such as: EIM, Strata, FTP, OTIPs, Live Link, GeoTracker

Prepared and plotted figures and boring logs for reports using AutoCAD and Log Plot

Served as a field member in temporary well installation and logging soil

Served as a team member for developing the Chevron Subcontractor Selection Management System (SSMS)

Managed and updated Chevron regulatory reporting and internal databases in the US West Coast such as EIM, Strata, FTP, OTIPs, Live Link, GeoTracker

Prepared Behavioral Based System, Stewardship reports for Chevron Marketing, Upstream, Refining, Superfund Business Units

Chevron Service Station Number 92709, Walnut Creek, CA

Developed phase I & II site assessment report entailing soil vapor and groundwater sampling

Served as a field member in installing three soil vapor monitoring wells and soil vapor sampling

Logged soils during soil vapor well installation

Southern California British Petroleum (BP) Portfolio

Managed and obtained valid work authorizations for ARCADIS, British Petroleum (BP) Portfolio sites on a regular basis

Prepared hydrograph trends for historical groundwater monitoring data and concentration trends for analytical data to obtain site closure

PG&E Shell Pond Cleanup and Wetland Restoration, CA

Performed sustainability study by drafting quarterly Cost Savings and Avoidances, based on PG&E, Green Remediation Action Matrix (GRAM)

Chevron Former Service Station, Newark, CA

Served as field staff in monthly oxygen injection

Endpoint Consulting, Inc. Burlingame, CA 05/2010-11/2010

Performed data analysis and prepared tables, graphs and charts for quarterly monitoring data

Drafted groundwater elevations contours, site specific contaminants iso-concentration contours and rose diagram for the prepared data

Prepared drafts, table and figures for remedial action plans, remedial investigation work plans and regular monitoring reports for several PG&E former MGP and former dry cleaner site across the Bay Area

Participated in sampling, drilling borings and soil geology investigation field activities

Reviewed risk assessment reports of Shell Oil Company for Del Amo superfund site in Los Angeles, prepared conceptual site models and looked up the Environmental Screening Levels for that specific site

Modeled soil vapor transport into outdoor and indoor air using assigned equations

Prepared sustainability reports based on PG&E Green Remediation Action Matrix for several PG&E sites in Northern California and assessed the benefits and price associated with sustainability studies and best management practice implementations

Accomplished presentations for sustainability management and green remediation uses and benefits

Participated in preparing the draft of PG&E sustainability manual

Conducted a phase I site assessment at Aetna Springs Golf Course and drafted the correspondent assessment report

Terra Pacific Group, Inc. Irvine, CA, Intern 06/2009-10/2009

Performed analysis for price assessment also reviewed remediation plans and drafts for Former MGPs in Santa Rosa, San Luis Obispo, and Watsonville

Sampled water, air and soil on PG&E sites and assessed the contamination and toxicology

Performed analysis to estimate the minimum distance for hazardous contaminant’s disposal and minimum excavation depth in order to meet background levels and clean up goal concentrations

Prepared excel spread sheets containing contaminants of concern, concentration prior and after the remediation, sample position, cost and time associated with all possible remediation methods to come up with best method for remediation

University of California, Los Angeles, Computer Science Department 07/2008-05/2009

Conducted experiments and analyzed results for research in application of wireless and remote techniques in data collecting and health assessment for Embedded Systems lab and Wireless Health Institute

Participated in the poster designing and management committee of BodyNets 2009 conference in UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles, Environmental Engineering Department 07/2008-05/2009

Sampled surface water and conducted in-situ and lab experiments in Santa Monica Bay for contaminants of concerns such as Total Dissolved Solids, mercury, and arsenic

Measured physical parameters in water flow such as speed, depth and cross section of channel and surface roughness

Research Projects

Research for Monterey County Floodplain Management Plan, ARCADIS

Research on Salinas Valley nitrate concentration for Department of Land, Air and Water Resources in University of California, Davis

Research on remedial alternatives on nitrate attenuation in Unocal Former PureGro Facility in Salinas, ARCADIS

Research on geo-environmental waste containment system design, ARCADIS

Research on treatment of active pharmaceutical ingredients in industrial wastewater, ARCADIS

Research on Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (NAPL) remediation strategies with surfactants and co-solvents, ARCADIS

Research on no purge sampling, the new frontier for groundwater monitoring, Berkeley

Research and lab experiment on storm water run-off and surface water contaminants, UCLA

Literature paper review on modeling the chemical transports in aquatic ambient using MATLAB, UCLA

Literature paper review on gas transfer from air-water interfaces using surfactants, UCLA

Literature paper review on membranes in sequestering pharmaceutical and personal cares from water bodies, UCLA

Research on Zeolite Membrane Reactors and the process of CO2 Hydrogenation into Methanol, UCLA

Surveying and financial estimation of an 8 story steel structure, using ETABS

Literature paper review on application of nano-technology in wastewater treatment, UCLA

Literature paper review on application on bio-sorption methods in ions uptake from aquatic media, UCLA

Project on price assessment, shadow prices and construction costs of a desalination plant, UCLA

Numerical simulation of microscopic aerosol particles in turbulent airflow using MATLAB, UCLA

Computer Skills

Technical software/ programming: SAP, SAFE, ETABS, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Lingo, and Log Plot

General software/ programming: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Related Coursework

Environmental Engineering: Basic water treatment methods, Numerical simulation of contaminant transport in environment, Biological treatment of wastewater, Membrane technology, Chemical fate and transport in aquatic environment, Aerosol technology, Physical and chemical processes for advanced water and wastewater treatment, Engineering economic analysis of water and environmental planning, Air pollution technology

Sustainability: Green Politics, Driving a Sustainable Economy, Introduction to Sustainability Management, Sustainability leadership

Trainings and Certificates

HAZWOPER 8-Hour Annual Refresher, HAZWOPER Supervisory, Refinery General and Specific Safety Training, First Aid and CPR, HazMat IATA/DOT, Smith Driving (Defensive Driving), Loss Prevention System, HazCom, HazMat MOT, Well Installation Techniques, Drilling Methods, No-Purged Groundwater Sampling Methods

Engineer In Training (E.I.T.) Certified: No. EIT 148994

Principles of Process Hazard Analysis for Team Members, PrimaTech

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