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Water District Power Plant

Location:
San Diego, CA
Posted:
March 23, 2022

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JOHN CLARK, CELL 571-***-****, ************@*****.***

S tructural Engineer (15+ years)

P roject Experience Federal Experience

ITT Defense Contractor Pacific Missile Range Barking Sands, Hanapepe, Hawaii.

2005 (1 year)

Facility Civil Structural Architectural Engineer with DOD clearance. I was responsible for the design optimization, management, execution, commissioning of multiple small capital improvement projects located on the missile defense base and range on the Island of Kauai. Some of these projects were the Nihau LADAR helicopter pad, the Target boat operations relocation from Port Allen to Barking Sands, the missile launch pad 90- degree rotation, the Road widening and improvement, the Makaha Ridge Stair project, the Makaha Ridge Radar platform expansion, the Makaha Ridge embankment retaining wall, the Ordinate Overhead crane corrosion monitoring. Participated in startup meetings and other design review meetings and construction progress meetings.

Washington Group

2002 (1 year)

EELV Mobile Station Tower Upgrade

Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Helped design the heavy steel structural seismic, wind and gravity retrofit to raise tower 35 feet to accommodate the Expandable Evolving Launch Vehicle (EELV) Slick 6 launch site Mobile Station Tower and Fixed Umbilical Tower for the conversion from Space Shuttle launches. I also was a resident engineer on the Vandenburg Airforce base slick 6 launch sites for 6 months during construction. I prepared weekly reports, answered RFI’s, investigated contractor change orders, liaison with project engineers in the Denver Office, communicated with the onsite Contractor and the onsite Boeing the Operations Management.

Washington Group

2004 (1 year)

Department of Energy Savanah River PIT Disassembly Conversions Facility, (PDCF) UCNI project.

I helped with the Title I structural design as part of a team to create construction drawings for several reinforced concrete structures for the PDCF, using DOE design criteria and with a Q clearance. Participated in DOE design review meetings with DOE officials.

P roject Experience

LG&E Mill Creek Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization System Project Units 4, Unit 1&2, Unit 3. (CH2M Hill, Denver, CO) i) Responsible to optimize Structural Design of Unit 1 & 2 Duct Support Steel as basis for production of IFC drawings. Reduced tonnage by 80 tons (~$200,000).

ii) Responsible to optimize the Structural Design Unit 1&2&3 Stair Tower structural steel as basis for IFC drawings. Reduced tonnage by 70 tons (~$175,000).

iii) Responsible to produce Structural design as basis for IFC drawings for the cable tray supports to meet critical deadline for Unit 4 Tie in outage.

iv) Responsible for several Unit 1 & 2 punch list structural items close out.

v) Responsible to perform the structural design for the micro pile cap foundation for the Unit 1 & 2 Duct support steel to meet an aggressive construction schedule. Scope of Work & Cost Estimate

AEP J.W. Turk Jr., Coal Fired Power Plant Concrete & Steel, (Shaw Stone & Webster Denver, Colorado) Responsible to design pipe supports and pipe access platforms for high pressure steam lines in Steam Generation building for six degrees of restraint loading. Responsible for Checking of Computer Analytical model loads, parameters, geometry for Ash Silo Auger Cast Pile Mat Foundation, Miscellaneous Access platforms operating valves and instruments. Reclaim Tunnel, Lowering well, Rotary Plow Maintenance Vault, Coal Conveyor Support Foundations, and Slab on Grade Turbine Generator Building.

Boeing, IBC 2000 Special Structural Steel CA Field Inspector Engineer Washington Group International, Denver, CO. I provided independent inspection for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) heavy steel construction at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Lompoc, California. I prepared weekly structural inspection reports of steel sub-contractor progress and adherence to contract required design modifications for seismic upgrade of launch tower facilities. I maintained working relationship between, sub-contractor, general contractor, Boeing Construction Management and Washington Group International Denver structural department.

Comanche Unit #3 SEGS Concrete,

I helped meet the construction milestones by preparing the structural calculations and engineering sketches for production of the construction drawings for North Boiler building deep and shallow foundation; STG building deep and shallow foundation; Boiler area topping slab; STG electrical vault foundation; AQCS Bag House drilled pier and grade beam design; Steel framing plan for electrical vault ground floor and turbine pedestal platform.

CLIMAX RESTART 2010 Pebble Crusher Steel, Molybdenum Mine Grinding Plant, (Jacobs Engineering, Golden, Colorado) Responsible to create, develop and optimize the 3D STAAD Pro, Seismic Design Category C, computer analytical model with primary loads, load combinations, and primary main frame columns (w14x311, w14x90), girders, vertical bracing (w12x72) and secondary platform members for the 5 story Pebble Crusher Building and Ball Storage Pit attached at common grid line 3. Responsible to strategically place the heavy vertical bracing to take loads efficiently to the foundation. I also determined the foundation concept and created the 3d finite element deep and shallow foundation model for ball pit walls and mat and footing design for the Pebble Crusher Building. Responsible to design the 6 base plates, shear lugs, pedestal rebar, anchor bolts supporting the 6 columns which support the 500ton surge bin. Responsible to design the wide flange stiffeners and plates for the 500ton pebble surge bin supported by the Pebble Crusher Pedestal structural design done in Houston. Responsible to design the Transfer Tower foundation

Boeing EELV Structural Steel Field Engineer (Washington Group International, Vandenburgh AFB, Lompoc, CA)

I helped qualify and upgrade heavy braced steel connections in a high seismic region, by performing hand calculations on 50 individual connections for the Moving Support Tower (300 ft tall). I helped provided on site Structural Engineering support at the Vandenberg AFB construction site for Four months.

DOE, Mechanical Support and Equipment Bldg. (Washington Group International, Denver, Colorado)

Title I design and Responsible for the supervision of three structural engineers in the preparing and checking of the detailed loading of this building. Convinced Project Management to eliminate outside loading dock to reduce cost and simplify structural analysis. I helped direct the construct ability review board to move underground entrance tunnel seismic isolation joint to a position six feet from the building exterior wall instead of directly adjacent to the wall, in order to facilitate the construction quality of the seismic isolation joint. I helped persuade the Architects to remove intermediate column line in favor of longer span roof trusses to allow flexibility in floor plan and to reduce the number of footings to be constructed. U CNI DOE Q Clearance.

Barking Sands Pacific Missile Range Civil, Structural and Architectural Facility Engineer (ITT Industries, Kauai) Responsible for the Structural, Architectural and Civil Engineering improvements of base facilities. This included some crane inspection for naval records. Design of some roads, from concept to construction, such as 50K launch pad, LADAR and Niihau Hilo pad, Microwave tower relocation, SEPTAR operations relocation, parking lot expansion, mechanically stabilized modular block wall design at the Makaha Ridge site, Ordinate pavement repair. Interfaced and communicated with Government and Navy heads to make sure their desires, expectations, budgets, operational issues and other facility repair and improvement goals were met. D OD security Clearance.

Alameda County Water District (Camp Dresser & McKee, Walnut Creek, CA)

I performed Structural Engineering Design for numerous cast-in place concrete Water Systems and Sanitary Structures pump station, sedimentation, circular storage tank, underground rectangular storage tank for water treatment and wastewater treatment plants.

FMC Phosphorus Mine renovation, Pocatello, Idaho

(Washington Group International, Pocatello, Idaho) Field Construction Manager, Shop drawings RFI, Cost Estimate, Scope of Work. On mining EPA air quality Retro fit.

Batu Hijau, Indonesia, Copper Mine, Newmont Mining (Fluor Daniel, Golden Colorado)

I was member of the structural design team and contributed to the design of the Balance of Plant concrete foundations and structural steel pipe racks for the various mining process structures for the year and half duration of the project at the Golden office.

Boeing EELV Structural Steel (Washington Group International, Denver, Colorado)

I helped qualify and upgrade heavy braced steel connections in a high seismic region, by performing hand calculations on 50 individual connections for the Moving Support Tower (300 ft tall).

Lockheed Martin, Facilities Design Group (Fluor Daniel, Waterton Canyon, Colorado)

Responsible for the execution of various small structural improvements and civil repair projects for facility buildings and process plants at the Waterton Canyon. Interfaced and communicated with various department heads to make sure their desires, expectations, budgets, operational issues and other facility repair and improvement goals were met.

Department of Energy (DOE), 280'x400'x28' nuclear facility

(Washington Group International, Denver, CO)

Title I, Seismic design, for tunnel model settlement Finite Element Analysis soft zone collapse study. I placed tunnel model settlement profile in strategic locations under concrete building to determine stress impact on new structure after seismic event. Then ran analysis, collected data, prepared tables and graphs for

preliminary report. U CNI DOE Q clearance.

DOE, 180'x300'x20' Sand Filter (Washington Group International, Denver, Colorado)

Title I design of Flat plate construction. Created Finite Element Model, calculated loads and load combinations and applied them to FEM. Ran analysis, collected critical section design stresses, and loads for title I preliminary design.

Kiewit Western (Schneider Structural Engineering, Omaha, Nebraska), I interfaced with Kiewit Senior Structural Engineering Representative and Kiewit Field Superintendent for bridge repair study for Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT). Inspected girder damage and verified numerical measurements of web and flange buckling. Prepared Staad III Finite Element software analysis program model too analyzes stress impact of failure. I assisted in the presentation of a report to Kiewit and NDOT Division Supervisors. The report conclusion helped convince the NDOT to minimize construction repairs of damaged bridge girders.

IBP Processing plant (Schneider Structural Engineering, Omaha, Nebraska) Completed the design calculations and engineering sketches as the basis for the preparation of construction drawings for a three story, braced framed industrial building and a two-story precast Beef processing plant expansion with concrete shear walls. I prepared a detailed structural bid. Met with client at the job site to walk down project and determine scope of work definition. I coordinated with client on out of scope design changes and issues.

Oklahoma Water District (Camp Dresser & McKee, Denver, Colorado)

Three stories reinforced masonry & cast in place reinforced concrete frame building for sludge dewatering equipment. Design slab on grade for forklift loading and second story structural slab for Dynamic loading per ACI 318 design code.

Engineering Software

STAAD PRO v8i

Math Cad 14

Excel 2007

Lpile

Auto Cad Light 2014

E mployment History

CH2MHill Power,

Mining, Water, Oil and

Gas Business Divisions.

Englewood, Colorado

Herndon, VA

2010 - 2017

Shaw Stone & Webster Power

Division.

Centennial, Colorado 2006-2010

ITT Facility Engineering

PMRF, Facility Planning,

Architectural, Civil,

Construction Division.

Kekaha, Hawaii 2005-2006

Washington Group

International DOE, Mining,

Government Divisions,

Denver, Colorado 1998-2004

Fluor Daniel Mining Division, Golden, Colorado 1997-1998 Camp Dresser & McKee Water

and Wastewater Divisions.

Denver, Colorado 1989-1997

E ducation

University of California Berkeley,

Bachelor of Science

Civil Engineering

University of Colorado Denver,

Graduate Level

Advanced Concrete Design

Earthquake

Resistant Design of

Reinforced

Concrete and

Structural Steel

Buildings

Geotechnical Earthquake

Engineering,

Liquefaction

Foundation Design for Dynamic Machinery

Matrix Analysis of Structures

Dynamics of Structures.

P ast Licensing

Professional Engineer #32059 (Structural I) State of Colorado.



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