Vehans Gasparian
Glendale California 91206
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Summary
Many years of outstanding experience in a wide variety of civil engineering projects in design as well as in construction management and Inspection.
Professional Experience
Resident Engineer/Inspector 1/05-2/10
LA County-Freeman Inc.
• Inspected; Improvement and construction of streets, utilities and public work of Altadena city.
• Construction of soldier pile retaining wall on a segment of Las Flores Canyon road, swept by
• Storm in Malibu.
• Construction of East Ave. 10’x8’ SDB in LA and reinforced concrete bridges in Val-Verde.
• Insured job site safety, verified construction to meet budget, plan and specifications.
• Provided weekly meetings, prepared change orders, reports, EMPs, reviewed and approved
compaction tests, concrete cylinder and slump tests.
Civil Engineer/Project Engineer 1/90-1/05
MTA-EMC Team-PB/DMJM
Parsons/Washington/Kiewit
• Assigned to LA Subway (Metro), Pasadena Gold line, Eastside, Orange County center Line (LRT) and Alameda Corridor Heavy Rail projects.
• Responsible for design of track horizontal and vertical alignments, calculating spiral curves conforming with maximum design speed and dynamic envelope, including location of stations, ventilations, emergency exits and low point sump structures; providing complete set of plan and profiles.
• Designed street improvement including restoration of street surface features, grading, drainage, new catch basins.
• Coordinated utility investigation with agents, providing as-built utility plan and profiles to back up the design progress and maintained client relation.
• Led the design/drafting team activities in solving technical issues in design and providing existing and composite utility rearrangement drawings.
• Maintained technical proficiency, provided hydrology and hydraulic calculations and pipe sizing.
• Reviewed as-built, pothole information and reflected on plans, provided electronic profiles verifying utility depths in conflict to determine protection or relocation requirements. Exchanged update information in meetings and discussed conflicts to make the best decision.
• Relocated and designed telephone, electric, conduits, gas, sewer, storm drain, water, MWD main-water, and oil pipe line, prepared final plan profiles. Realigned 24” and 27” existing vcps to combine into a single 32” vcp running for half a mile split’s to original existing vcps.
• Checked and commented on final submittal drawings and engaged in construction design inspection.
• Worked on Palmdale land development and subdivision project. Designed street improvement, sewer, storm drain and water system, including grading and drainage design, provided plan and profiles.
Design/Construction Project Manager/Project Engineer
Sofiran-Elf 66 & MRT-Iran (Overseas)
• Supervised the construction of airport runway, terminal building, helicopter base and hangar, warehouses, asphalt access roads and site development from layout to final completion, in Sirri Island (Persion Gulf).
• Managed the construction of pump house, pump stations, placing and bedding oil pipelines. Designed and supervised Construction of roads, railroads, highways, tunnels, retaining walls, culverts, multi-span bridges with driven and drilled reinforced concrete piles.
Managed design and construction of water irrigation open channel and related structures.
• Investigated for material resources, designed and installed asphalt concrete and crushed aggregate plants for optimum production.
• Supervised and coordinated the heavy duty machinery and equipment construction activities. Identified and solved field engineering problems including feasibility study, estimating, planning, scheduling budget/man hours, field surveying, completion of as-builts,
change orders, claim negotiations, preparing technical reports and monthly statements.
Skills: Auto CAD, Microstation, Inroads and Microsoft products.
Education:
BS/MS in civil engineering, Tabriz University
Construction Inspector, Pasadena City college
CAD and Inroads, Westech College Pomona CA