Engineer Project Manager

Steven R. Sommer, Professional Engineer

**** ******** *****, **********, ** 95826

Home: 916-***-****, Cell: 916-***-**** **********@***.***

Immediate Objective

A Challenging Senior Civil Engineering position with the opportunity to update and expand current design and general engineering experience while utilizing current skills and experience to fullest advantage.

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

California Civil Engineer/Land Surveyor #C33576, Oregon Civil Engineer #14590.

Forensic Engineering and Project Management.

• 31 years experience as a member of design and investigative teams for liability cases.

• Designed residential and commercial developments; subdivisions and buildings.

• Oversee the production of construction documents for the design of both public and private infrastructure projects and responsible for stamping and signing finished project documents.

• Planned and supervised highway surveying parties and construction crews.

• McClellan A.F.B. Project Manager. Supervised industrial building and roadway construction.

• U.S. Testing Office Engineer. Earth dam construction Project Engineer at Rancho Murrieta.

• Exceptional computer skills: Competent using Word/Excel/Access/PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, gINT and Arc GIS applications to generate drawings, reports, and publications.

Skills Summery

• Exceptional computer skills: Competent using Word/Excel/Access/PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, gINT and Arc GIS applications to generate drawings, reports, and publications.

• Proactively manage clients to insure their needs and expectations are being met.

• Conduct business development: pursuing, scoping and bidding prospective projects.

• Dale Carnegie Courses: Sales and Human Relations & Public Speaking.

• Qualified to testify as an expert witness on accidence and flood litigation.

• Experience in design and production of infrastructure construction documents including roadways, utilities, pumping facilities, onsite improvements, stormwater management facilities and related infrastructure using AutoCAD and Civil 3D production software.

• CA driver’s license and federal off-road vehicle certification

CORE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, SPEAKING AND WRITING

• Office Engineer for soil testing lab at US Testing, Modesto, CA. NRC requirements.

• Supervised field soil testing techs during earth dam construction at Rancho Murrieta.

• Produce estimates, specifications and calculations in the construction documents

• Prepare periodic and annual performance reports from Site data.

• Perform fieldwork to complete damage survey reports, successfully represented food victims for flooding events for legal Counsel involving liability cases, i.e. Vacaville flood victims.

• Article in Litigator (CCTLA) Magazine) on "Premises Liability and the Role of the Expert”.

• Deliver verbal and written reports as liaison for SMUD to Bechtel Co. at Rancho Seco facility construction and for Sacramento County to contractors during construction of Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant.

• Speaker at the California Real Estate Inspection Association Convention.

Professional Experience

Project Engineer, Forensic Engineering Sacramento, CA. Present

• Prepare engineers cost estimates, bids and contract documents, negotiate and manage consultant contracts, prepare task orders, and check invoices for accuracy.

• Perform environmental and engineering planning for clean-up studies, making field inspections on sites, building structures and infrastructures existing and under construction.

• Review engineering, environmental, and geotechnical analyses, documents, and reports by program participants for accuracy and applicability.

• Prepare engineering designs, reports, documents, correspondence and presentation materials to Sacramento County Hazardous Material Department management.

• Environmental studies include evaluations to support project feasibility engineering and environmental documentation and permitting requirements, Assist in evaluating, conducting, and coordinating related planning studies to support, hydraulic analyses, environmental effects and mitigation, engineering design and cost estimates.

• Hydroelectric feasibility studies include evaluations to support project feasibility engineering and environmental documentation and permitting requirements for both existing and proposed hydroelectric plant sites in the Sierra. Studies included; hydrologic and hydraulic evaluations for, water supply, reservoir design, spillways, channels, piping, intakes, turbines, infrastructure, environmental effects and mitigation, cost estimates, and project formulation.

Civil Engineer, GS-11 USDAFS, Tahoe City 2008

Design and construction inspection of new buildings and roads and walkways rehabilitation around the Tahoe shore line.

Civil Engineer/Construction Inspector City of woodland 1981-83

Engineer inspecting street grading, underground piping and overlay paving on new residential streets and rehabilitation projects. Oversaw earthwork staking, grading and trenching for streets, curbs, gutters, sideways and lots on residential subdivisions for compliance to construction plans.

Education

California State University, Sacramento, CA Current GPA 3.0.

Master of Science Water Resources, in progress

Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering, Major: Structural Engineering & Water Resources. Reinforced Concrete, Pre-stressed Concrete, Timber, Steel, Masonry & Bridge Design, Systems Analysis of Resources Development, Advanced Hydrology, Groundwater Hydrology, Open Channel Flow, Computer Hydraulics, Modern Hydrological Techniques, Geology, Soil Mechanics, Geomorphology, Arc GIS.

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics. Major: Theoretical Algebra; Logic, Analysis, Statistics.

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