Quality Management Construction Manager

Azam M. Azimi, Ph.D., PE

Azam Azimi

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SUMMARY

A US Citizen with Government Secrete Clearances, and Registered Professional Engineer (State of North Carolina) with over 25 years in planning, design, construction quality management and O&M of bridges, highways including toll roads, elevated structures and aerial guideways supported by piles, CIDH’s and retaining walls; airports expansion and railroads extension.

Extensive experience with contract managements and administration, design/build; design and construction quality management and quality documentations for bridges over the railroads, elevated structures on guideways, highways including toll roads, bridges, vertical structures, train stations; issues, trouble shootings, and dispute negotiations/resolutions; review of contractors submittals, specifications, RFI’s, Change Orders, O&M agreements, personnel hiring & managements; sustainability; contract preparation and negotiation; quality control/quality managements and quality assurance; utility negotiations and relocations; partnering; value engineering and cost control; coordination with the stakeholders and others quality issues on the project; and seismic retrofit and rehabilitation of infrastructure.

Work HISTORY

Parsons Corp. May 2020 –

Senior Resident Engineer/Construction Manager

Review, comment and revise construction plans, submittals, specification related to quality. Write project quality provisions. Provide technical services including contract/construction quality management and dispute resolutions for highways including toll roads, CIDH and columns for elevated bridges and guideways as well as other infrastructure for major projects in California.

Attend various O&M, work progress, submittals & proposals review meetings. Provided technical support and inspection as Construction Manager for Eastern Municipal Water District. The project was a Water Deceleration Plant.

Hill International February 2018 – April 2020

Senior Resident Engineer/Construction Manager

Responsible for construction and overall contract quality management oversight, staff training & supervision, supervising and leading engineering team, providing needed technical support, performed administration support and supervisions, review and approval of estimates, process improvements, risk & issues managements and coordination with all stake holders for a $250 million Design/Build 2.,5 mile long Transit Project. More than half of this project was elevated structure supported by large drilled shafts and columns.

Major responsibilities include:

Manage the independent quality control (quality validation) for the elevated section of the railroad supported by large diameters and deep CIDH’s and bridges over the railroad, and pedestrian bridges. Managed staff’s and all other specialty subcontractor’s quality inspection program to ensure all disciplines are thoroughly familiar with and are following the contract requirements correctly.

Review and approved proposals, submittals, RFI and Change Orders

Participate in the project planning, pre-construction meeting and project management plans.

Functions as the primary point of contact and liaison between the stakeholder for the timely progress of contract ensuring the quality while closely monitoring project schedule, cost, submittals and RFI’s.

Plan, schedule and coordinate meetings to discuss the best course resolving any quality issues as soon as they arise.

Define corrective measures for non-compliance areas.

Coordinate with quality control team in an expeditious manner for follow-up corrective actions and re-inspection when deficiencies are corrected.

Work closely with Project Safety Coordinator to implement and aggressively enforce safety program and practices to create a safe and healthy work environment.

Parsons Corporation, Pasadena, CA Jan 2015 – February 2018

Construction Manager/Principal

Responsible for construction and overall contract quality management oversight, staff training & supervision, administration, CPI, risk & issue managements, and coordination with all stake holders of the SR-91 Corridor Improvement Project (CIP) with 11 miles of toll road. The project included the design and the construction of long span aerial bridges supported by large diameter CIDH.’s and tall columns, bridges over the railroad, JPCP, asphalt, retaining wall and rehabilitation of existing structure,

Major responsibilities include:

Functions as the primary point of contact and liaison with the contractor for resolving any quality issues related to the contract.

Review submittals, RFI, proposals and change orders.

Manage, plan and implement the contract engineering including O&M of highway and toll lanes, and construction plans, specifications and other contract requirements ensuring the quality and operations.

Plan, schedule and coordinate with Caltrans, RCTC, OCTA, and the City of Corona to ensure that all required design and construction quality audits/inspections are performed and documented.

Recruit, train and coach new employees and work very closely with the management team.

Review, comment and approve constructability and estimates.

Define corrective measures for non-compliance quality areas.

Coordinate with quality control engineering team in an expeditious manner and acts as catalyst for follow-up corrective actions and re-inspection when deficiencies are discovered and corrected.

Work closely with Project Safety Coordinator to implement and aggressively enforce safety program and practices to create a safe and healthy work environment.

Responsible for continuously expanding and updating professional knowledge of subordinates in order to enhance individual and team innovation and productivity.

Manage all onsite field construction management activities associated with the project quality. Review the daily progress and quality reports of and supervise, manage and coach the inspectors, lead inspectors, construction and resident engineers related to the new constructions and O&M of existing facilities including toll lanes.

Review and approve staff work assignment, time sheets vacations and overtime.

Discuss and rectify potential schedule delays or cost overrun.

Oversea and coordinate the punch lists, close out, as built plans, deployment, demobilization and acceptance of the project.

The overall budget of this Design/Build project was US$1.5 Billion.

Azam Azimi, PhD, PE,

Mission Viejo, CA Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

Independent Consulting Engineer

Provide technical services including contract quality management, and dispute resolutions for highways, toll roads, airports’ bridges, fueling stations, railroads, and other infrastructure for projects in the US and Afghanistan. Afghanistan Projects were mainly USACE and USAID funded Design/Build projects. Reviewed and commented on submittals and proposals.

USAID Feb 2010 - Dec 2013

Senior Infrastructure Manager

Responsible for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) strategy and operations related to the quality of infrastructures design, construction and quality management of civil engineering projects in Western Afghanistan. Served as USAID’s primary senior infrastructure manager by establishing and maintaining contacts with representatives of local and central governments, local communities, International Security Assistance Force Military Units, USACE, United Nations offices, Non-Government Organizations, USAID institutional contractors and grantees, and other United States Government Agencies.

Major responsibilities include:

Overall training of Public Works Engineers in understanding the importance consistency in the civil engineering contract documents, construction quality, dispute resolutions techniques, selection of reliable contractor, partnering, design/build, and value engineering.

Provided technical design recommendations, oversight/advice and management for the preliminary and final design, quality management, constructability, value engineering, issues resolutions for the airports, rails, roads, bridges, and water facilities projects.

Reviewed submittals and proposals.

Provided technical support and inspection for a water purification plant.

Hired, coached, trained and managed local engineers and support staff.

Met with various departments’ heads and the engineers/managers of the host government, as well as the staff of ISAF, USACE, UN, NGO’s, USAID’s institutional contractors, Japanese, Italian, German and Indian Government representatives, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, other donors, grantees, and many Afghan & US Contractors to discuss the needs, progress, budget, technical requirement, and team building for the projects.

Coordinated with all other administrative field staff, field management and O&M staff and particularly the Project Managers during construction of active airports and roadway.

The overall budget of the infrastructure projects in the Western Afghanistan was over US$500M.

URS Corp., Irvine, CA April 2007 - Jan 2010

Project Engineer

Served as Senior Design & Project Engineer for a mega project in Edmonton, Canada. This project was for Petro Canada, and the work included design and construction of rail roads, overpasses, reginal airport, and other infrastructures upgrades as well as construction of a 2-mile detour road around the affected construction area. The entire budget for the project was over $US12 Billion including a few Design/Build contracts.

Major responsibilities include:

Contract quality management, and coordination and administration of the overall infrastructure related project design and construction.

Attend various quality, constructability, and permitting coordination meetings with the owner, subcontractors, and vendors discussing any issues including design and construction issues as well as quality managements for the smooth progress of the project.

Build professional and strong civil engineering team.

Oversee the review and approval of design and construction quality submittals of roads, railroads, bridges, and storage tanks elements such as CIDH’s, Piles, and retaining walls design, as well as concrete quality, CIDH constructability and heat of hydration, pile driving, hydraulic capacity and strength of the tanks.

Oversea staff assignments with coaching and training as needed.

Interface and negotiate with suppliers, O&M subcontractors, and vendors.

Review invoices prior to approval to ensure all relevant work has been completed in accordance with the contract requirements.

Perform other duties as requested by supervisors and senior level managers in support of successful performance of the projects.

Attended weekly quality meetings with the contractor to discuss technical issues, NCRs, RFIs and other issues with clients, consultants, subcontractors, vendors and government officials.

Acted as liaison with numerous various government agencies including California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

Worked with subcontractors and utility companies for timely completion of the design/build project within the authorized budget of $50 Million.

Reviewed design and construction changes proposals by contractors.

Ensured projects completion on time, within budget and owner satisfaction.

Athalye Consulting Engineering Services August 2006 - April 2007

Lake Forest, CA

Field Engineer

Provided construction management, QA/QC, and inspection services for the widening construction of highway and bridge project involving bridge, CIDH’s, retaining walls, intersection improvements and utility relocations on US Highway 101 in Los Angeles County.

RDCM Corp., Raleigh, NC August 2005 - August 2006

Senior Project Engineer

Provided comprehensive business development, budget, and management and engineering services including design, construction, contract management for several individual projects.

North Carolina DOT, Raleigh, NC August 1985 - August 2005

Senior Project Manager, Design and Construction

Responsible for implementation of design, construction, and maintenance policy changes according to the AASHTO specifications and FHWA guidelines. In addition to the design, construction and O&M responsibilities specialized duties included the evaluation and dissemination of information regarding technological advances in transportation design, construction, and maintenance.

The quality of design and construction were related to various sizes of CIDH, steel piles, retaining structure, concrete, asphalt and steel quality and cost containments. Administration of the department’s solid waste and recycled product program addressing environmental concerns and materials employed in future construction, department’s value engineering and new products programs were another responsibility. The department’s annual operation budget was approximately $ 1 Billion which included several design/build projects annually after 2000.

Major responsibilities include:

Demonstrate ability to address and resolve issues.

Attend monthly meetings with the contractors O&M department to discuss and address contract, constructability, and O&M issues.

Address concerns that arise relating to budget, schedule and quality issues of the project.

Hire, train and coach new engineers, and build a strong team for the successful completion of the projects.

Work closely with contractors, suppliers and vendors for the construction of CIDH foundations, jack and bore, soil nail walls and MSE walls.

Work closely with Management Team, Municipalities, Counties, USACE in the project development to ensure accurate estimates and assumptions meet project requirements.

Review, evaluate, discuss and approve design, standards, and construction change proposals.

Massachusetts DOT

Boston, MA May 1984 - August 1985

Civil Engineer

Review and comment on the design of railroad and highway bridges by the consultants. Analysis of existing structures, foundations and retaining walls. Work closely with O&M staff.

These projects included the rehabilitation of Interstates 93 and 95 near the City of Boston. Reviewed and approved plans, specifications, and estimates before project letting.

Universal Testing Services

Stoneham, MA August 1983 - May 1984

Field Engineer / Inspector

Field Engineer & Inspector duties included quality managements as well as inspection and QA/QC of water & sewer plants, highway and railroad bridges, airports, and retaining wall structures in Massachusetts and adjacent New England States. Assessments of existing facilities resulted in comprehensive reports on structural conditions and repair recommendations.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan - 1982

MS Structural Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan - 1986

BSCE Civil Engineering Kyoto University, Japan - 1974

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATION

Licensed Professional Engineer

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Certifications

Contract Officer Technical Representative (COTR) Certifications

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE)

Kyoto University Alumni

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