Rahul
Balar
Los Angeles, CA *****
(open to relocate)
Phone: 361-***-****
Email: **********@*****.***
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OBJECTIVE
Seeking a full-time position in a Construction Engineering firm with an opportunity for growth. EDUCATION
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
M.S. in Civil Engineering (January 2018 – May 2019) GPA: 3.85 Gujarat Technological University, India.
B.E. Civil Engineering (September 2012 – September 2016) WORK EXPERIENCE
Project Engineer, KDBS Construction, Gujarat, India (January 2016 – November 2017)
• Worked on $4.3 million cost,10-Storey Residential building project in Surat.
• Coordinated with superintendents and foremen to ensure that the project requirements are met.
• Identified, extracted and organized information from contemporaneous project documents - Contract, Schedules, Submittals, RFIs, Transmittals, Emails, Completion Certifications, Invoices, amongst others.
• Cooperated with project manager in performing monthly safety inspection and submitting safety inspection report.
• Worked with project manager and clients to achieve the project scope.
• Resolved problems/issues, independently, that arose during the duration of the project. Field Engineer Intern, Surat Municipal Corporation (S.M.C), Gujarat, India (December 2014 – December 2015)
• Worked on $50+ million cost, 4,500 feet long, 4-lane prestressed concrete bridge across Tapi River in Surat.
• Developed project objectives, reviewed proposals, plans and contractor’s qualifications and conferred with management.
• Conducted sites duties, minutes of the meeting and regularly updated projects plan tracker.
• Sampled soil for testing, concrete and making daily work report and perform safety operation.
• Responsible for updating daily construction journal and project schedule in MS Project. COURSEWORK PROJECTS
Level of service(LOS) and Intersection Delay Time of roadway street (Texas A&M University, January 2018)
• Field study of a roadway crossing of Kingsville during peak hours and calculated factors affecting timing of signal lights, traffic speed and peak hour volume.
• By using HCS Mc Trans program came up with the level of service and intersection delay time for street way. Repairs, maintenance and costing management of 20 roads in Texas. (Texas A&M University, September 2018)
• Examined 20 roads of Kingsville, Corpus Christi, San Antonio about damages, traffic condition.
• Calculated the repair cost, damaged percentage and inventory repair criteria of Appendix-B (scoping document) and Appendix-E (scoping cost estimation)
Optimistic Cost of pavement design (Texas A&M University, August 2019)
• From given data individually prepared most cost-effective payment design, shoulder width using FPS 21 software. Design of building for different seismic zones (Gujarat Technological University, India, September 2015)
• Designed 26-story Residential/Commercial Building. Analyzed maximum stiffness, displacement, shear, overturning moment and period.
• Analyzed residential and commercial buildings in different seismic zones i.e. II, III, IV, V
• Compared the performance of residential and commercial buildings on the basis of wind load and lateral load in different seismic zones.
SOFTWARE SKILLS
• Primavera P6, MS Project, HCS Mc Trans, Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, ETABS, FPS 21, Timberline, HEC-RAS, Bluebeam & Prolog.
• OSHA-30 hrs. (Construction Safety and Health Course) Certification. PERSONAL
• U.S. Resident (Green Card), fluent in English, good communication skills, Learning Communicative Spanish. loyal, adaptable, hardworking and has good work ethics.