Resident Engineer

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

More than ** years of experience in the Civil/Structural arena.

Work has included structural/civil design and construction observation of bridges, roadways, subdivisions, and dams. This includes periodic bridge and dam inspections & reports; forensic & insurance investigations; expert witness testimony; design of projects to comply with the Federal Disability Act; evaluation of Buckeye Pipeline for the Illinois Attorney General; and truck weight checks for the Illinois Bureau of Weights and Measures.

Additional experience in soil borings, surveying, writing over 100 forensic/soils/hydraulic reports, sizing structures and geometrics for preliminary design (type, size & location development), and final structural/civil design (generating construction plans and specifications).

Multiple years of experience in construction observation, providing innovative and cost saving designs and studies including an award-winning bridge design and being commissioned by the State of Illinois Attorney General to do an investigation.

SPECIALIZATION

Construction Resident Engineer; Bridge Design and Inspection, Team Leader/Program Manager; Dam Inspector

EXPERIENCE

BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION OBSERVATION 2024

Tower Engineering

Observed contractors removing and replacing expansion joists

BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION OBSERVATION

Quigg Engineering 2022-2023

Bridge replacement project in District 9

RESIDENT ENGINEER

Greene & Bradford Engineers 2017-2018

Force main project and an IDOT roadway project for the town of Taylorville, IL

ASSISTANT TO THE IDOT RESIDENT ENGINEER 2014-2017

Infrastructure Engineering

Bridge replacement project in East Peoria, IL on Rte. 116 providing oversight and training of young engineers.

CONSTRUCTION FIELD REPRESENTATIVE

Construction of two railroad bridges for the Carpenter Street Railroad Relocation Project in Springfield, IL.

FIELD/FULL TIME SITE ENGINEER 2010-2014

Patrick Meyer and Assoc. Eng. Inc

Multiple projects including street asphalt overlay projects in Bartonville, IL

Self EMPLOYED 2005-2010

Independently provide Civil/Structural Engineering services

PROJECT MANAGER 1998-2004

Randolph & Assoc. Eng. Inc.

Worked on bridge and roadway projects in Cumberland and Peoria Counties and the State of Illinois

Developed and oversaw 15 miles of roadway maintenance and site drainage for Historic Springdale cemetery.

PROJECT MANAGER 1992-1996

WVP Corporation

Instrumental in developing reinforced earth retaining walls for the Chateau Avenue Bridge Project in St. Louis which resulted in significant savings in design time and construction cost.

Designer of many bridges for Macon County and the State of Illinois including an innovative award-winning post-tensioned timber bridge in Edgar County.

SENIOR CIVIL/STRUCTURAL ENGINEER 1985-1992

Daily & Associates

Designed all five major highway bridges for Rte. 155 in Morton, IL including steel box girder, plate girder, and composite wide-flange beam superstructures, substructures, and foundations.

Worked as the Construction Observer on the Tennessee-Tombigbee River Project which included Pile blow counts and observing construction of numerous railroad structures

Acted as resident engineer on the ICGRR project in New Athens, IL where he observed channel excavation in an Illinois River tributary and truss bolt tightening in the main span railway bridge truss

SENIOR CIVIL/STRUCTURAL ENGINEER 1978 -1985

Clark Dietz Engineers, lnc.

Designed numerous bridges for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad; Edgar, Champaign, and Kankakee counties; and the State of Illinois.

STRUCTURAL DESIGN/PROJECT MANAGER 1975-1978

Illinois Department of Transportation

Designed of over 50 bridges and structures

Designed superstructures, foundations and substructures for nearly all bridge types including reinforced concrete decks, concrete box culverts, pre-stressed box beams, pre-stressed I beams, wide-flange beams, plate girders on projects throughout the State of Illinois.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 1975

CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING

Illinois P.E. License 062.038461 (active)

Missouri P.E. License 028185 (inactive)

Illinois Department of Transportation Certified in The Documentation of Contract Quantities

Illinois Department of Transportation Certified as Team Leader for Bridge Inspection

Illinois Department of Transportation Certified as Program Manager for Bridge Inspection

Prequalified For Civil Work by Illinois Capital Development Board

Certified As Soils Lab Manager for Reynolds Drilling

Railroad Worker Protection Certification 14-1598

Certified To Act as Illinois County Engineer by State of Illinois

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