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Vikram Pai

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New York, NY-10021 716-***-****

Summary:

Civil Engineer with experience in design implementation, construction oversight, soil, groundwater, indoor air sampling, auditing, SPCC plans, human health risk assessments, feasibility studies, groundwater modeling, GIS and AutoCAD.

Work Experience:

Civil Engineer, Confidential, New York, NY, Nov 2008-Present

• Quality Engineer responsible for the maintenance of an effective program to manage and control plans, procedures and other project documents, and to ensure that the project work is conducted in accordance with the contract documents, for a New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) project to rehabilitate eight deep wells along the Fulton IND Line in Brooklyn and for the installation of a dry chemical, fire standpipe and wet sprinkler system at the Newtown Creek Waste Water Treatment plant.

• Conducted field pump tests, with NYCTA personnel of three pumps at the East Hudson and Ludlow Street pump room, to ensure that the pumps met contract specifications.

Civil Engineer, Ecology and Environment, Inc., New York City, NY, Feb 2007- Sep 2008

• Liberty Industrial Finishing Superfund Site, 55 Motor Avenue, Farmingdale, New York

o Conducted third party remediation contractor oversight, prepared daily and progress meeting reports and all appropriate sampling and monitoring, to implement a design to dredge a local pond, contaminated by the presence of cadmium and chromium in pond sediments, in order to ensure clients compliance with remedial element IV at the site.

o Coordinated with up to six subcontractors to ensure uninterrupted operation and any necessary maintenance of an existing contaminated groundwater pump and treat system, prepared related monthly DMR’s, semi-annual compliance reports and a client approved proposal for continued site services for 2008.

o Conducted semi-annual and annual groundwater sampling of onsite and offsite monitoring wells and oversaw well repairs for onsite recovery and monitoring wells.

o Estimated the cost for the installation of three onsite infiltration galleries using RSMeans Data, prepared ‘Schedule Of Values’ and estimated material takeoffs for three separate contracts related to the design upgrade of the existing groundwater pump and treat system.

o Demonstrated the lack of an increasing trend in groundwater contaminant concentrations and the lack of need for a supplemental metals treatment system, in response to U.S.E.P.A Region 2 comments to the design upgrade of the existing groundwater pump and treat system.

• New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Greenpoint Oil Spill, Brooklyn, New York

o Conducted sub-slab, soil vapor, indoor air and ambient air sampling at fifty-two residences to determine any adverse impacts to indoor air quality, due to the presence of a 17-33 million gallon oil spill beneath the Greenpoint neighborhood.

o Field Team Leader: Conducted twelve rounds of split sampling of various components of ExxonMobil Brooklyn Terminal’s onsite and offsite groundwater treatment systems, computed mass of contaminants removed at each stage of the treatment systems; compared laboratory analytical results and prepared reports for submission to NYSDEC related to split sampling activities.

o Oversaw construction activities related to the removal of thirty-four ASTs and seventeen USTs conducted by C.A. Rich Associates at the Empire State Varnish property, prepared daily site reports updating NYSDEC project manager and reviewed and recommended appropriate changes in the associated site closure report.

o Assisted NYSDEC track the progress of remedial efforts being conducted by the various potentially responsible parties (PRP) related to the Greenpoint oil spill by conducting weekly oversight at various PRP sites in the Greenpoint neighborhood, prepared daily and quarterly oversight reports and assisted in conducting public meeting aimed at informing the Greenpoint residents of the progress of remedial efforts.

• New York City Department Of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP), Office of Environmental Health and Safety Compliance (OEHSC), Facility Compliance Audits

o Task Manager: Conducted environmental and health and safety compliance audits at various BWS, BWSO and BWT facilities; trained audit team members in applicable federal, state and local environmental and health and safety regulations and prepared reports detailing audit findings and other relevant items to be addressed by facility personnel for submission to OEHSC.

• Division Of Military And Naval Affairs (DMNA), Camp Smith Training Site (CSTS), Groundwater Under Direct Influence (GWUDI) Study and Facility Personnel Training

o Demonstrated to NYSDOH and Westchester County that drinking water at CSTS is not influenced by the Hudson River surface water by conducting a six month comparative study of specific conductivity and temperature of groundwater recovered from two onsite drinking water wells with data from the USGS monitoring station at West Point.

o Trained three water treatment plant operators on the various components, sampling, certification requirements and applicable federal and state regulations related to the O&M of the onsite water treatment plant.

• New York City Department Of Transportation (NYCDOT), Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans

o Assisted in the preparation and completion of SPCC plans for eight NYCDOT facilities.

• New South Ferry Station, Schiavone/Granite Halmar Design-Build Joint Venture, Environmental/Construction Oversight

o Conducted weekly oversight in order to ensure compliance with the Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan (ESCP) and the Environmental Permit Management Plan (EPMP) for the construction of an expanded subway station at South Ferry along the ‘1’ train line.

Environmental Engineer, AMAI, White Plains, NY, July 2004- Jan 2007

• Conducted, coordinated and oversaw field sampling and monitoring programs including, slug tests, soil sampling, indoor air sampling, sub slab and groundwater sampling at the Topps Dry Cleaners site in Fairlawn, NJ and the Island Transportation Center oil spill site in Newtown, CT.

• Prepared tables and site maps detailing the spread and magnitude of contamination in various media, groundwater flow maps; prepared monitoring well diagrams using GINT software and soil boring logs for various RCRA sites located in Puerto Rico.

• Monitored the progress of a pump and treat remedial system at the Caribbean Petroleum Refinery, Inc. and natural attenuation as the remedial alternative at Bristol Myers Squibb Manufacturing, Inc., located in Puerto Rico.

• Designed a sampling procedure to determine the leaching characteristics of a coal byproduct for AES, Puerto Rico, Inc. and modeled the fate and transport of the coal byproduct leachate to predict impact to groundwater using Industrial Waste Evaluation Model (IWEM). Model results indicated no adverse impact to groundwater, resulting in the approval of the coal byproduct as a suitable fill material for a surface mine by DNER, Puerto Rico.

• Prepared National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Program (NPDES) permit application, forms 1, 2C, and 2F for Shell Chemical Yabucoa, Inc.

• Conducted a human health baseline risk assessment for contaminants present in soil and groundwater, using risk assessment guidelines for superfund (RAGS) Part D procedures for the Caribbean Petroleum Refinery, Inc. and Bristol Myers Squibb Manufacturing, Inc.

• Reviewed 168 reports related to environmental site investigations carried out at various Shell Oil gas stations in Puerto Rico, in order to assess the extent of contamination in various media at each individual gas station and determined appropriate remediation costs to assist the client in purchase negotiations.

• Conducted a remedial investigation study for Bristol Myers Squibb Manufacturing, Inc. located in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

Research Assistant, Research Foundation, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Jan 2003-Sep 2003.

• Examined numerical and computational issues related to the transport of sequentially decaying chlorinated solvents with conditions applicable to flow through a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) and under natural attenuation conditions via U.S.E.P.A funding.

• Implemented two numerical solution methods to solve the one dimensional equation governing transport of sequentially decaying chlorinated solvents, computational simulations were carried out using a single processor and the message passing interface (MPI) on a 32 processor Dell Linux cluster to analyze run time requirements and accuracy of each numerical solution.

• Results of the numerical solutions exposed inadequacies in an analytical solution technique developed for the same problem and implemented in BIOCHLOR.

Education:

Master of Science in Civil Engineering,

The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2003

Thesis: ‘Reactive transport modeling of sequentially decaying reaction products: Numerical And Computational Issues’

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical,

Manipal Institute of Technology, Mangalore University, India, 2000

Relevant Course Projects:

• ‘Watershed delineation for the five great lakes’, implemented using ArcView GIS 3.2., carried out using digital elevation model data and an Avenue script, to analyze the various hydrologic features pertaining to the flow of water to each of the five great lakes. Apr 2002-May 2002

Computer Skills:

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Sun/Solaris, Unix

Programming Languages: C, Fortran, Java

Software: MSOffice, AutoCAD, ArcView, SADA, Mineql, MPI, VisualMODFLOW, Biochlor, IWEM,Surfer, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, GINT, Progen

Certifications:

• Compliance Certificate with OSHA, 1910.120 (HAZWOPER 40-hour and 8-hour refresher courses)

•MTA NYC Transit Track Safety Certification

References:

Available upon request.

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