Objective:

Efficiency is the key to successful Civil Engineering...

…keeping that belief in mind, I would like to dedicate my proficiency, productivity and interpersonal skills to an industry that offers professional growth and opportunity to work on cutting edge technology for Civil Engineers.

Area of Specialization & Interest:

Traffic Planning and Management Adv. Reinforced Concrete & Pre-stressed Concrete

Transportation Engineering & Design Advanced Structural Engineering/ Steel Design

GIS and its application in Civil Engineering Construction Planning & Management

Business Analysis in Civil Engineering Quality Analysis & Quantity Estimation

Civil Contracts, Purchase, Procurement Supply Chain Management & Transportation Control

& Logistics Strategies

Education:

Master of Science, Civil Engineering August 2010

Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas, USA GPA: 3.58

Master’s Thesis: Development of a Microscopic Simulation based Performance Evaluation model to Compare Operational Improvements with Capacity Additions.

Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering May 2007

M.H.S.S. College of Engineering, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India GPA: 3.61

Bachelor’s Thesis: Application of Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing using GRAM++

Software and Technologies:

• Entrepreneurship and Resource Planning - ERP (MATRIX), SAP (novice level), MS Project, MS Excel and other MS Office 2010 tools, VISSIM, VISSUM, HCS, STAAD Pro, AutoCAD, Primavera P6, Arc GIS, Arc Info, Arc View, Arc PAD, Arc MAP, MATLAB, GRAM++ , Roadside Safety Analysis Program (RSAP)

• Certified in C, C++ by National Association of Computer Trainers, NACT, India

Experience:

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY- KINGSVILLE, Texas, USA (December’08 – August‘10)

Research Assistant for Civil & Architectural Engineering Department.

Researched and summarized major part of TxDOT (Texas Department of Transportation, USA) project “Development of a Performance Evaluation model to objectively compare Operational Improvements with Capacity Additions (Project: 0-6487)” by developing the micro-simulation part single handedly using VISSIM software simulator.

Researched and summarized major part of TxDOT project “Developing Guidelines for Implementing Roundabouts in Texas (Project: 0-6416)” by developing major onsite data collection and summarizing it to study roundabout risk, usability and improvisation methods.

Managed a team of research workers working for major TxDOT projects that were divided and distributed by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University-Kingsville by strategically augmenting, reviewing and summarizing work from each researcher.

Enhanced Interpersonal skills by conduction and guiding field studies, applying multiple software analysis into the research, interacting with TxDOT personals and directing regular presentations.

Teaching & Grading Assistant for Civil & Architectural Engineering Department.

Assisted and tutored a group of 30 students in major civil engineering subjects like GIS, Transportation Engineering Design & Principles of Transportation Engineering & Management.

Examined, invigilated and graded papers of more than 30 students under the guidance of the professor in charge.

LOKHANDWALA CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES PVT. LTD. (May’07 – August’08)

Bombay, India

www.lokhandwala.com

Civil Contracts & Estimation Engineer

Responsibilities Included:

Negotiating Rates with Contractors on behalf of company requirement after the tenders are called for.

Designing and Preparing of Civil Contracts & Work Orders for

(G + 21) Residential Building (6 Wings)

(G+12) Residential Building

Quantity Survey & Estimation for

Lokhandwala Foundation School

Lokhandwala Housing Development

“Centrium”, Shopping Mall

Residential Building (G+19)

Site Execution & Supervision for

Residential Building (G+19)

Summary:

• Purchase and Procurement of materials required for the company by assessing the best market quality and coordinated the movement of materials in supply chain logistics.

• Distribution strategies, cash flow management and Inventory management using MS Excel and ERP system.

• Rate negotiation with Suppliers.

• Designed and prepared Civil Contracts and & Legal Work orders by proper CODE interpretation as per the current market rate after an estimated quantity analysis (using AUTO CAD) for building projects.

• Quantity Survey & Estimation for Commercial & Residential building projects.

• Site Execution & Supervision for Commercial & Residential building projects.

RAHEJA UNIVERSAL LTD. (May’04 – January’05)

Bombay, India

www.rahejauniversal.com

Trainee Engineer (Internship)

Prepared and estimated basic engineering drawings on AutoCAD.

Visited on-site on regular intervals for a thorough analysis of the steel, plumbing and electrical layout, from blue prints, before final casting of concrete slabs and columns.

Study and implementation of special foundations like, pile foundation, raft foundation, diaphragm walls, etc.

Design of Rain Water Harvesting Methods, Planning and procuring machinery/ manpower required on site.

Detailed explanation about tender submissions to vendors, clients and contractors and also in-depth explanation of bid submission protocols.

Resource identification - (Aggregates/Quarries/Sand/Borrow pits/Installation land/Dump Yards & other major resources), at site.

Study of Quantities, Drawings, Tender Documents and Preparation of Bids for submittals.

Publication:

Dazhi Sun, Vipinshankar Govindankutty, Lin Sun and Pranay Ravoola. “Development of a Microscopic Simulation based Performance Evaluation model to Compare Operational Improvements with Capacity Additions”, submitted for presentation and publication at ITSC 2010- Portugal. (Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference) and also submitted for presentation and publication at the 90th TRB meeting and Journal of TRR.

Extra-Curricular:

Elected and Certified as ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineering) - Student Chapter Secretary for the year 2008-09

Active member of ISA (Indian Students Association), Texas A&M University - Kingsville

Honors: (December’08 – May’10)

Awarded & honored with in-state Tuition Fee Waiver and an additional stipend by Exxon William Parker Scholarship for Texas A&M University, Kingsville graduate students, for excellence in academics.

Hobbies:

Engineering, Music, Long drives & Cooking

Languages:

English (Speak, Read, Write)

Hindi (Foreign Language) (Speak, Read, Write)

Marathi (Foreign Language) (Speak, Read, Write)

Malayalam (Foreign Language) (Speak)

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