Senior Civil Engineer / Project Manager with 26 Years Experience

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Sue Purushotham; Senior Civil Engineer/Project Manager, MS; EI

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33310. e-mail: *********@*****.***

Sue Purushotham has 26 years of professional experience, including major federal government contracts such as US Department of Energy (USDOE), US Department of Defence (USDOD), and US Department of Homeland Security (USDHS). Her work experience includes civil and industrial engineering design and evaluations, preparation of design specifications, building inspections, design of petroleum remediation systems, project management, cost estimating, technical proposal preparation, computer aided design/computer modeling, and client and regulatory interface for large scale federal and commercial clients. Her work experience is as follows:

Professional Experience:

To the weak, I became weak; I am made all things to all men by all means I might save some. Servant evangelism in civil engineering, manufacturing, and industrial plants, as directed by the FATHER, SON/LORD JESUS, and the HOLY SPIRIT. Following the guidance of the HOLY SPIRIT.

Educational and Research engineering: Senior Civil Design and industrial/petroleum work experience:

OBE/Fluor, Asheville, NC FEMA Senior Civil Engineer 2025- September

FEMA DR-4827-NC Tropical Storm Helene - Category III Major disaster, Severe flooding and tornadoes. Engineering damage evaluations, and engineering assessments for buildings, civil engineering/architectural, mechanical/electrical systems for Hurricane Helene, devastated Public Assistance (PA) communities in Asheville, North Carolina. Technical expertise with applicants including city managers and city engineers in McDowell County, Haywood County and Transylvania county.

CDR Maguire, Miami, FL FEMA Monitor 2022- 2024

FEMA DR-4863-FL Hurricane Milton - Application of engineering hydrodynamic principles such as Archimedes principle, Newton’s Law, Boyle’s Law, Dalton’s Law, gaseous laws for Hurricane Ian, in the oceanic waters of Gulf of Mexico. Deployment for derelict vessel removal with marine expertise and interface with ACT/Divecom, Andy’s Group, Maverick, TSI, Ashbritt, SWFL, AVI Logistics, R.J. Gorman, and Trilogy Services. $34 million.

LF Staffing, Port Charlotte, FL Construction/Mfg/QA/QC 2020- 2024

Civil work included construction services for low rise and high rise buildings and transportation industries, including ten (10) low rise buildings. Building Nos: 1, 2, 4, 7-12 at Swiftwater residential complex, North Port FL, and Kittle Property Group. Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) specialist for Baxter’s of North America/Wornick Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Work included QA/QC for production of USDOD in the Midwest, Gulf coast, Atlantic, OCONUS, and overseas.

SERCO, Rock Island, IL FEMA Civil Engineer/Technical Specialist/roster 2020- 2024

Advanced validation spreadsheet - Costs/Quantities for 161 Applicants. Technical expertise for engineering site inspections. FEMA ISP certifications/applications included, IS-01019 Codes and Standards; IS-01013 Cost Estimating Format CEF; IS-01190 The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution and Contingency Plan and the National Response System; IS-01103.a Elevation Certificate for Surveyors; IS-01023 Electrical Systems Considerations; IS-1024 Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems Considerations, and IS-00276.a Benefits Cost Analysis Fundamentals, and IS-01021 Bridge Damage Considerations IS-01021.

Staffmark/CBS Personnel, Cincinnati, OH Mfg./Industrial Specialist 2010 - 2020

Baxters’ of North America/Wornick Company, Ohio –USDOD contract and United States Department of Homeland Security – (USDHS) FEMA contract and USDOD military bases, FEMA production: Category IV Hurricane Harvey FEMA DR-4332-TX, Category II Hurricane Irma FEMA DR-4337-FL, and Category V Hurricane Maria FEMA DR-4339-PR.

AECOM, Arlington, VA FEMA Project Specialist/Project Engineer 2005 - 2010

Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana; Mississippi, Maine, and Wisconsin: Buildings included Life of CHRIST Christian Academy, Bishop McManus, and Arch Diocese of New Orleans. Technical expertise and interface with city engineers, for estimation of damaged quantities for reinforced concrete CMU walls, standing seam metal roofs, built up roofs, architectural, roadways, water/sewer collection and distribution systems, bridges, etc. Civil engineering interface, project management, technical Assistance, and cost engineering for Hurricane Katrina, in Louisiana and Mississippi. Application of principles from Uniform Building code, 2000; ACI 318 concrete; and AISC 360-5,10, 16, 22 steel codes and standards. City of Long Beach obligated amount: $50 million, and City of Biloxi obligated amount: $180 million respectively.

MACTEC/Fluor Fernald, Cincinnati, &Portsmouth OH & Oakridge, TN Project Engineer 2000 - 2001

AISC N690 American national standard specification for safety related to nuclear steel structures; and ASME NQA-1 Nuclear Quality Assurance standard for design, operation and construction of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) facilities. Compiled technical specifications and quantity takeoff calculations for the X 701A Limehouse Building and X 701C Neutralization Pit. Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) of Plants 2, 3 and 8, at Fernald, Ohio, for production of former nuclear weapons.

Working environment included of ACI 349 Nuclear safety related standards for nuclear concrete buildings. Quick Adaptability to DOE 1020 Natural Phenomena Hazards Analysis and Design criteria for NRC buildings. Interest in plutonium pits production and design of new nuclear plants and reactors.

Design and technical proposal preparation for Solid Waste Storage Area (SWSA) 4, and Intermediate Holding Pond (IHP), Oakridge Tennessee - $12.1 million dollar contract. Technical oversight of building systems at the Portsmouth X-701C Facility, Piketon, Ohio. Quick adaptability and self training of codes and standards, for concrete reactor vessels ACI 359.

Jacobs Engineering, Cincinnati, OH Project Engineer 1998 - 1999

Design and technical oversight for the Area 6 Project; Fernald Ohio for USDOE. Interaction with the onsite Nuclear silos project, and Onsite Disposal Facility (OSDF). Integrated design with Parsons and Lockwood Greene Engineers. Quick adaptability to ASME NQA-1 Nuclear Quality Assurance standard for design, operation and construction of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) facilities involved with weapons production and nuclear plants.

International Technology/Shaw Group, Pittsburg, PA Project Engineer 1994 – 1998

Innovative Design alternatives for the underground weapons test area located at NTS, Las Vegas, Nevada. Compiled Feasibility Study, design document “Focused Evaluation of Selected Remedial Alternatives”. Evaluated design alternatives including Braced Shaft Excavation, Open Pit Mine Excavation, Pump and In-Situ Treatment, On-Site Disposal, Intrinsic Remediation and Baseline Risk Assessment.

Utilized EPA’s Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) Model for landfill design over nuclear test shots and CAPZONE to determine capture zones around the nuclear test shots. Quick adaptability to codes and standards ASCE 4-16 seismic analysis of safety related nuclear structures; and ASCE 43/DOE 1020 based on specific system component (SSC) for seismic design construct (SDC), based on seismic design basis (SDB). Contract renewal $100 million.

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Facility Remedial Investigations and Corrective Measures Studies (CMS) under Comprehensive Environmental Resource Conservation and Liability Act (CERCLA) for Wright Patterson Airforce Base, Dayton, Ohio (USDOD). Procurement of equipment for treatment system at Wright Patterson Airforce Base based on Feasibility Study Specifications.

Task manager and design engineer for the Florida State Administered Petroleum Cleanup Program/Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management. Detailed systems design - $250K. Engineering Evaluations for UST petroleum contaminated soil and groundwater sites. Project engineering included client interaction, proposal preparation, project coordination, assessments, and design - $1.5 million over a period of three years.

Commercial Clients: Rhone-Poulenc Incorporated Louisville, Kentucky: Compiled “Site Characterization Proposal and Health and Safety Plan (HASP)” following RCRA and Kentucky Administrative Regulations, 401 KAR. BFI CECOS Williamsburg, Ohio – Design of slurry wall remediation systems and installation of pre-engineered metal building for groundwater and leachate accumulation.

Pfister Chemicals Ridgefield, New Jersey – Resident engineer for the remediation of superfund project including slurry wall and surcharge area over sludge lagoon. Implementation of 100 % design documents, specifications, construction quality assurance plans, submittals, and contract drawings. Mobil Oil system design utilizing various remedial design alternatives including pump and treat systems and thermal incineration.

Miami, Florida – Task Manager/Design engineer for State Administered Cleanup Program (SACP)/Dade County Environmental Resources Management (DERM). Client interface, proposal preparation, and detailed design involving pump and treatment with air stripping, soil vapor extraction, for Hazardous Waste Remediation Systems, in Dade county.

CTL Engrg/Foppe Tech/PM, Columbus/Cincinnati OH Project Manager/Mfg 2001 - 2005

Ohio State and commercial clients - Engineering Evaluations and Engineering Assessments, for communication towers and project sites in Solon, Ohio. Design and Project Management of systems for Ohio University, under US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) & Ohio EPA guidelines. Soil vapor extraction (SVE) systems, and groundwater contamination assessments for petroleum underground storage (UST) tanks. Also manufacturing industry of engineering paper rolls/ high grade with industrial machines in compliance with OSHA & NFPA standards.

Cherokee Groundwater Consultants/NEEI, Ft Lauderdale, FL Project Engineer 1992–1994

Technical oversight and Engineering documents and plans for Petroleum Underground Storage Tank (UST) clients – Miami Dade Water and Sewer Authority Department (MDWASAD), Amoco Oil, Exxon Oil, British Petroleum, Texaco, and School Board of Dade County (SBDC), Mobil Oil etc. Technical expertise included geological drilling investigations to groundwater and intermediate aquifers.

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL & School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 1988-1993

MS in Civil Engineering – University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1993;

BS in Civil Engineering – Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 1984;

Research engineer at Virginia Key Wastewater Treatment Plant, Masters’ thesis “ High Energy Electron Radiation effects on suspended surface charge of colloids, an Electron Beam (E-Beam) - US Navy project. Research and design engineer for Advanced Composite Materials – High Stress Analysis of fiberglass material. Reinforced concrete design, Computer Aided Design of steel structures, Strength of Materials, AISC manual, and codes.

Application of Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD); Allowable Stress Design (ASD) load calculations - School of mines and technology. Quick adaptability to RFEM Rigid finite element Method Analysis 6 in 2D and 3D applications (ACI 360-5, 10, 16, 22), AISC 341 Seismic design, and ASCE 7-16 Minimum design loads due wind, live, stationary, weather conditions. Related interest in design of nuclear missiles manufacturing components.

Awards & other interests:

National Merit Scholarship – Government of India, A nationwide merit scholarship, 1981

Masters’ Research and Teaching Assistantships - University of Miami, & School of Mines and Technology, 1988-1990

Ministry serving the afflicted for the cause of the LORD JESUS in prisons and hospitals. Agencies including and others: Vineyard, Transforming Jail Ministries, Inc. (TJMI), and CHRIST’s. ALLELUIA!

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