Cynthia Dreps

. 501-***-**** ad4js1@r.postjobfree.com Engineer in Training/fe, lsit, agricultural engineering exam passed.

Intent: to find gainful employment. Recently worked as a reader to a stroke victim, school library book reshelving and book maintenance, cleaning and repair, irrigation correction at Fort Gordon-Eisenhower, driving veterans to the VA hospital for scheduled appointements, weed whacked at the cemetery, horticulture consulting at local golf course, Nayya flower arranging and delivery to local sick ailing and recovering, sewing and patching materials and housing and farm equipment while applying for full-time engineering and land surveying jobs during the world wide covid response. (40+ hours per week)

10-2017 to 4/10/2020. Project Engineer, Mehlburger-Brawley in Little Rock, Arkansas. Municipal project lead development, company statements of qualifications. Sidewalks, asphalt road overlays, grade separation, grassed waterways, grade stabilization and land surveying. Surface water drainage. Charts and geometrical models to determine volumes and present information to non-technical audiences. Plans and Specifications. Road design and upgrade estimates. Asphalt testing. Land Surveying. Grassed Waterway and water detention ponds. Erosion control bays and settlement ponds. Strength of materials and design criteria checking. Library and newspaper and management meeting research for future project expectations and public funding securement. Memos and weekly updates using excel and msword. Use of personal protective equipment. Maintaining and expanding the company contact base for future municipal and capital improvement project engineering and construction services in and around the state of Arkansas. Grade separation of roads from rail. Contact: Steve Powell 918-***-**** x 1. (40+ hours per week) Company sold then resold.

10-2015- 9-2016. Civil Engineer, USDA-NRCS in Lonoke, Arkansas. Charts and geometrical models to ease workflow and present engineering concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. Design and construction estimation, focusing on excavation volumes and drainage flows. Trapezoidal method to determine water pit volume storage above clay lense. Soil typing using us soil survey. Land surveying to show size of water collection pits, pumping systems for flood irrigation with collected river runoff and flood water. Public presentation of soil and water conservation materials used in fish hatcheries, soybeans, cotton, cattle production, and river/fishing habitat. Rainfall expectation using usgs isopluvials and weather stations. Contact: retired. (40+ hours/week)

10-2014 to 10-2015. Irrigation System Operator in Sacaton, Arizona. Controlled flow of irrigation water in major canals by pump and water orders made by local land users and land owners. 4 to 30 cubic feet per second. Checking electrical contacts and line availability with grounded materials and tools, Calling for utility electrical linemen when breakers overloaded and opened. Concrete and reinforcing steel inspection for concrete lining pours. Annual working of the gates and bars used to control flow in remote areas to fields at the edges of the project area. Sandy and Sodic soils. Temperature range: 20 degrees to 120 degrees farenheit. Manual and automated rubicon sluice gates. Hand set flood tubing and water gate setting. Irrigation wheel and lock systems. Maintained life and limb in the presence of hostile bandits and rock-throwing people after and during school hours. Use of personal protective equipment. Contact: Kyle Varvel 520-***-**** or Olivia Rubio 520-***-****. (40 + hours per week)

6-2010 to 11-2013. Civil Engineering Technician in New Ellenton, South Carolina. Maintained irrigation system on 80 acres of loblolly pines designed to evapotranspire tritium and solvent-tainted groundwater so that it would not flow underground into the drinking water of Savannah Georgia or any of the farms ranches and towns along the savannah river. Animal identification, tree pruning and replanting. Pine tree and native species collection, storage, replanting and harvest. Harvest contracts, road rehabilitation, replanting for future use of woody materials and cleaning of the soil by carbon capture. Erosion control using grassed waterways, filter cloth, rock riprap, earth bottom half round culverts. Building design addition, planning. Improved roads, repair and maintenance Daily, weekly, monthly, annual hydrologic information collection. NIOSH fire response book updates. Fire hose lays, fire extinguisher efficacy checking monthly and annually. Hydrologic information daily, weekly, monthly and annually collected for post-doctoral hydrologists who are now retired. Presentation of hydrologic materials and concepts at annual bring your children to work day, school presentations. Contact: Vanessa Golden 803-***-****. (40+ hours per week)

11-2009 to 2-2010. Beekeeper in Kern County, California. Fed, watered, medicated 80 plus hives grown and maintained to pollinate the almond crop in the central valley now known as the great valley within the state of California. Selected queens for each hive. Queens are the main females which produce eggs for tending and expanding each hive to over 100000 individual pollen collectors, honey fanners, hive protectors and drones. Increased bee colony populations by 200 percent through proper care, feeding, and watering. Job ended when principal owner and beekeeper had heart attack and died. (40+ hours per week)

9-2006 to 11-2009. Civil Engineering Technician in Roswell, New Mexico. Government contracts for the Bureau of Land Management in the southeast quarter of the state. Fencing and pipelines, campgrounds, roads, culverts, low water crossings, wild animal drink boxes and watershed catchments. Developed written and graphical forms of irrigation data to present to public and private land owners. Charts. Plans and Specifications. Herbicide application from backpack, tank, trailer, aircraft. Forklift, Backhoe and handtool training and use. Design and install multiuse trails, campgrounds and overlooks on public land for the recreational and institutional users visiting and living in New Mexico. Soil typing. Geologic testing for road strength and placement. Hardening of arroyo bottoms for heavy equipment passage. Culvert sizing to allow natural flow of streams. Ephemeral and year round. This computer version of ms word is changing both the vocabulary and the punctuation of all typing. No wonder the show writers are protesting and boycotting in Los Angeles right now, 2023. Driving manual and automatic transmission trucks, automobiles, tractors and trailers. Forklift safety and forklift usage. Welding of standard malleable steel. Rainwater collection systems to extend the availability of drinkable/potable water across the range for wildlife, birds and range cattle of all types. Contract and specification writing using previous examples. Estimates using replacement cost and/or MEANS program which included cost of labor overhead and local availability, a nation-wide computer program. Public presentation of expected programs, funding and projects happinging in New Mexico and surrounding states. Contact: Santa Fe, NM human resources. Dave Evans is now retired. (40+ hours per week)

6-2003 to 9-2006. Land Surveying Technician for Nelms Surveying, Inc. in Bakersfield, California. Lot line adjustments, corner records, tract maps, all other forms of recorded surveys house at the county surveyor’s office. Geometry and Algebra used to determine size of lots, location of land and buildings on the land, upgrades to land. Tree girth sizing. Parking lot sizing and striping. Surface volume for building pads above fema flood zones. Land research to show chain of title and historic use of ingress/ egress. Using handheld and electronic surveying equipment to locate and set property corners. Geometry used to determine size of pits to be used for human and cattle waste. Personal protective equipment. Subdivision details as county and state required. Lsit exam taken and passed. Contact: Ron Nelms or Isaac Sanchez 661-***-****. (40 + hours/week)

9-1994 to 6-2002. Agricultural Engineer at Rain For Rent in Bakersfield, California. Irrigation system design of all types and sizes across North America and Europe. NIOSH fire information updates. Pipeline installation according to health standards. 40 hour Hazmat training. Sewer expansion and wastewater use and reuse training. Checking water for corrosion properties using the electroconductivity charts published by the US Navy and the American society of chemical engineers. Floculation and herbicide application through sand media filter systems. Public presentation of technical information using graphs, charts, plans and specifications, volume calculations. In company presentation of technical information related to the protection of pipelines and the continued strength of steel and polyethylene materials. Contact: human resources, Robert Lake or Ismael Diaz 661-***-****. (45+ hours/ week)

Education:

Bachelor of Science in 1994 from the University of California at Davis. Major: Agricultural Engineering. Minor: Spanish. GPA: 3.4 out of 4.0. Ag E, LSIT, EIT.

Nuclear safety certificate. Two semester review of physics and safety procedure at Aiken Technical College.

Master of Arts in Theology/History at Covington Theological Seminary. Finished thesis in 2015.