Transportation Engineer/Planner

Razaullah Khan

*** ***** *** **., ***. *** ● Arlington, TX-76013 ● Phone: 817-***-**** ● Email: *************@*******.***

OBJECTIVE: Dynamic, highly motivated professional, seeks position as a transportation engineer/Planner in a challenging environment where I can apply my specialized technical and academic skills.

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION

• 9 years of progressive experience in the multifaceted field of Civil Engineering- roadway geometric design, transportation planning, traffic congestion reduction, highway safety & accident reduction, access management, land development and urban planning.

• Proficiency in TransCAD, CORSIM, AutoCAD, ARCGIS, HCS, Spreadsheet and Statistical Analysis.

• Excellent problem solving skill, firm believer of team work with good communication and interpersonal skills.

• Expertise in various transportation design standards as AASHTO, HCM and MUTCD.

• Team-oriented professional eager and willing to lead and work collaboratively with colleagues to successfully achieve goals and expectations.

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX

Master of Engineering in Transportation December, 2008

University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering July, 1997

Bachelor of Science in City & Regional Planning August, 1994

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX

Graduate Teaching Assistant January 2008 - December 2008

• Assisted professor for grading exams & homework and tutoring undergraduate students.

Graduate Research Assistant February 2007 - December 2007

• Worked on the project, Development of a Freeway Incidence Ratings System. The objective of the study was the classification of incidents in terms of their severity, response and clearance time.

Sunbelt Architecture Peshawar, Pakistan

Town Planner/Consultant May 2004 – December 2006

• Provided Consultancy services to various government departments regarding construction and up gradation of major roads and junctions.

• Work involving the recommendation and checking for completeness and accuracy of plans, designs details and materials for the construction and maintenance of transportation systems that include freeways, roads, overhead and underground utilities, drainage facilities and sidewalk.

• Provided low cost construction Plan and field support for implementation of design.

• Provided small schemes of designing and development of Townships.

City Development & Municipal Department Peshawar, Pakistan

Assistant Director March 1999 – May2004

• Responsibilities included; directing the activities necessary to design, construct, and maintain street and sewer facilities for the City. Additional responsibilities included; designing road construction projects, personnel supervision and project coordination.

• Conducted parking needs and traffic forecasts studies.

• Performed professional engineering work involving conceptual planning, meetings with private developers, local city and district planning and road departments, and public utility companies.

• Preparation of transit planning and operation studies in support of public transit expansion and corresponding development.

• Provision of ring road, including site selection, right of way and geometric design.

• Performed geometric design improvement study for intersection, median opening and roadway to reduce travel time and congestion by access management.

• Performed GIS analysis for existing conditions and traffic situation of roadway, underground utilities, and land usage and drainage information were transformed to CAD for proposed highway design.

• Conducted city wide accident study to identify and prioritize high risk locations for improvements.

• Air pollution reduction measures using parking control policies.

• Prepared roadway schematic design and final design for various projects including drainage analysis, pavement marking and signing and traffic control plan considering highway safety and optimum traffic flow.

• Prepared signal design and roadway modification plans based on traffic impact for new development.

• Reduced traffic delay by designing coordinating signals and increasing progression on main corridor.

Capital Development Authority Islamabad, Pakistan

Town Planner September 1997 – March 1999

• Work involved preparation of environmental studies, environmental impact statements, rezoning reports and statements of environmental effects for a wide range of developments.

• Responsible for development control assessment of applications for medium density housing, commercial, shopping, industrial, subdivision and other projects.

• Responsible for development control and strategic planning team in rural areas of Islamabad.

• Conducted safety analysis for intersections improvement including signal design and geometric design.

• Conducted traffic management studies of Islamabad.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Design Software: AutoCAD, ArcGIS, TransCAD, CORSIM, HCS, CALINE-4, Mobile-6, INM, LEDFAA.

Programming: FORTRAN, Visual Basic.

Others: MS Office Suit, Minitab.

RELEVENT COURSES IN MS:

Arc GIS, Urban Transportation Planning, Public Transit Planning and Operation, Highway Design, Pavement Design, Planning and Design of Airports, Traffic Operation, Characteristics of Traffic, Stochastic Models for Civil Engineering, Fundamentals of Air Pollution, Engineering Statistics, Infrastructure Evaluation, Maintenance & Rehabilitation.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS AND RESEARCH PAPERS

• A GIS based approach for playground site selection in City of Plano.

• Level of Service analysis of freeways and ramps using HCS.

• Bus transit planning for city of Arlington using Arc GIS.

• Travel demand model for city of Arlington using TransCAD.

• Development of Airport Layout Plan of Alliance Fort Worth Airport.

• Noise Modeling of Alliance Fort Worth Airport using INM.

• GIS workshop – finding the most polluted roads segments in DFW.

• Research paper on “Quantification of Value of Travel Time Savings”.

• Research Paper on “Long Term Pavement Performance”.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• American Society for Civil Engineers.

• Institute of Transportation Engineers.

REFRENCES:

References will be furnished upon request.

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