Mina Ziaei ****.******@*****.***
Project Engineer, EIT 404-***-****
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Mina Ziaei has more than 7 years of technical and academic experience involving watershed and stormwater management, hydrology and hydraulics analysis, GIS mapping, risk analysis, civil site design, as well as project management and team leadership.
Ms. Ziaei’s project experience includes:
Project Engineer - Atkins member of SNC - Lavalin
August 2016 – Present
• Water Quality Management Plan (WQMP) Plan Checks, City of Laguna Beach and Riverside County, CA. Project Engineer responsible for conducting the review of P-WQMPs and F-WQMPs.
• Awareness Floodplain Delineation. Hydraulic modeling lead in charge of using automated tools to create, execute, and review hydraulic models used for comparison to existing Zone A mapping. Assisting in the development of hydrologic inputs and development of hydraulic streamlines. Responsible for verification of the accuracy of the Rapid Floodplain Delineation tool used to perform hydraulic modeling with comparison to detailed model of a pilot reach using the HEC-RAS computer program and HEC-GeoRAS processing tools.
• Federal Emergency Management Agency STARR II Contract, Levee Accreditation. Project engineer responsible for reviewing 65.10 levee submittals for FEMA. Project work includes reviewing hydrologic/hydraulic models, geotechnical reports, operation and maintenance manuals, and overall completeness check that 65.10 requirements have been met.
• Diamond Valley Lake Inundation Mapping Services, Riverside County, CA. Project engineer responsible for providing developing multiple dam breach scenarios for 5 different dams part of or near Diamond Valley Lake using HEC-HMS and detailed FLO-2D hydraulic models of urban/rural areas with levees, channels, streets, hydraulic structures, and buildings.
• Pigeon Pass Dam Failure Inundation Analysis, Riverside County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, City of Riverside, CA. Project engineer responsible for providing data collection, field reconnaissance, and developing multiple dam breach scenarios using HEC-HMS and detailed HEC-RAS 2D hydraulic models of urban/rural areas with levees, channels, streets, hydraulic structures, and buildings.
• Mohave Valley Phase I Future Conditions H&H Modeling Services, Mohave County, Mohave Valley, AZ. Project engineer responsible for providing data collection, field reconnaissance, and developing FLO-2D models and evaluating the hydrologic and hydraulic impacts for the Mohave Valley area.
Water Resources Specialist - Engineering Design Technologies April 2015 – July 2016
• Bellwood Quarry Source Water Assessment, City of Atlanta, GA. Assisted project manager, revised the report, coordinated meetings, and created GIS maps. The project involved mapping the intake water sources to the quarry as well as sources of contamination within 20-mile buffer zone with respect to the pollution level and meeting criteria. Total years of experience
7
Years with firm
2
Education
M.S., Water Resources Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014
M.S., Civil Engineering, University
Putra Malaysia, 2010
B.S., Irrigation and Drainage
Engineering, Shahid Bahounar
University, 2006
Certifications
HEC-RAS 2D
Project Quality Management (PQM)
Stormwater Management
LEED v4 ID +Construction
Honors and awards
Resident Advisor of the Year, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 2015
Best Proposed Project, Summer
Institute on Sustainability and Energy,
University of Illinois, Chicago, 2014
Professional affiliations
ASCE
Floodplain Management Association
(FMA)
San Diego County Engineering
Council (SDCEC)
Software
HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, HY-8, FLO-2D,
ARC-GIS, Auto CAD, @RISK, Hec-
ResSim, Microsoft Office package
Professional development
Sustainable Energy Program, Summer
Institute on Sustainability and Energy,
University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014
Mina Ziaei
Project Engineer
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• Stormwater Management Plan, City of Birmingham, AL. Assisted project manager, reviewed data, and design and created technical memo. The project involved providing solutions for the stormwater issues in Birmingham.
• CMMS - Asset management, City of Atlanta, GA. Digitalized inventory data of the wastewater plants in Atlanta metropolitan and migrated the data into the latest version of Maximo 7.6.
Teaching Assistant/Resident Advisor - Georgia Institute of technologies August 2012-December 2015
• Teaching Assistantship- Environmental Science course, Georgia Institute of technology, Atlanta, GA. Instructed laboratory of the introduction to environmental science course to more than 60 undergraduate students.
• Resident Advisor- Georgia Institute of technology, Atlanta, GA. Supervised and managed more than 70 graduate students and their family. Coordinated monthly events and programs for residents. Volunteer Job
• Insurance Sales Agent, City of Atlanta, GA. Volunteer as a sales agent, collecting information from State Farm clients on their risk profiles in order to offer them the proper solution and targeting potential clients. Publications
Ziaei Mina, Shui Lee T., Goodarzi Ehsan, "Optimization and Simulation Modeling for Operation of the Zayandehrud Reservoir," Taylor & Francis, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2012, pp. 305-318.
Goodarzi Ehsan, Ziaei Mina, Shui Lee T., "Risk and Uncertainty Analysis for Dam Overtopping- Case study: The Doroudzan Dam, Iran," Journal of Hydro-environment Research, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2014, pp. 50-61. Goodarzi Ehsan, Mirzaei Majid, Ziaei Mina, "Evaluation of Dam Overtopping Risk Based on Univariate and Bivariate Flood Frequency Analyses," Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 10.1139/l2012-012, March 2012, pp. 374-387. Goodarzi Ehsan, Shui Lee T., Ziaei Mina, Dam overtopping risk using probabilistic concepts – Case study: The Meijaran Dam, Iran, Ain Shams Engineering Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2013, Page 185-197.
Goodarzi Ehsan, Ziaei Mina, Shui Lee T., Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty in Hydrosystem Engineering. Springers, ISBN 978-94-007-5851-3, March 2013. Goodarzi Ehsan, Ziaei Mina, Hosseinipour, Zia E., "Introduction to Optimization Analysis in Hydrosystem Engineering," Springers, ISBN 978-3-319-04400-2, February 2014.
Master’s Thesis: Ziaei, Mina, "Optimization and Simulation Modeling for Operation of the Zayandehrud Reservoir," Master Thesis, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, 2010.
Presentations
Ziaei Mina," Mohave Valley Future Condition Analysis," FMA Conference, Long Beach, CA, 2017.