Employment History
Sept. 2009 – Present Engineer, NCDENR Public Water Supply Section.
Manages projects receiving funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. Guides funding recipients through contracting, financial reporting, and other requirements. Reviews and inspects progress of construction.
Jan. 2006 – March 2009 Project Engineer, The John R.McAdams Company, Inc.
Designed structural stormwater BMP facilities, including dry detention, wet pond, and wetland facilities. Designed culverts and bridges for road crossings. Performed and revised floodplain studies and proposed mitigation and floodproofing plans. Produced maps and design drawings.Performed in-field site assessment. Coordinated work with personnel in different departments, offices, and organizations with varying backgrounds. Wrote or edited technical reports, documentation, and presentations as needed. Gave presentations to clients and government officials as needed.
Jan. 2004 – March 2006 Water Resources Engineer, AMEC Earth & Environmental,Inc.
Designed structural stormwater BMP facilities, including bioretention and wet pond facilities. Evaluated peak flow mitigation using HEC-HMS, Dr. Rooney Malcom’s Chainsaw Routing Method, etc. Evaluated GIS-based hydraulics and hydrology software applications. Performed, revised, and reviewed floodplain studies. Produced maps and design drawings. Performed in-field site assessment. Delegated and coordinated tasks, including field survey. Wrote or edited technical reports, documentation, and presentations as needed. Gave presentations to client as needed.
Feb. 2001 – Dec. 2003 Project Engineer, Greenhorne & O’Mara, Inc.
Designed culverts and bridges for road crossings. Performed, revised, and reviewed FEMA flood studies. Produced maps. Performed in-field site assessment. Delegated and coordinated tasks, including field survey, among personnel in different departments, offices, and companies with varying technical backgrounds. Wrote or edited documentation and presentations as needed. Gave presentations to client as needed.
Jan. – Dec. 2000 Research Assistant, North Carolina State University
Analyzed disinfection processes using mathematical species-specific inactivation reaction rate models. Compared predictions of reactor products from differing flow models. Flow models included segregated flow of residence time distribution, CSTR in series, plug flow – dispersion, and Navier-Stokes – based computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Knowledge of underlying fluid mechanics and disinfection processes as well as technical writing skills was required.
Jan. – Dec. 2000 Teaching Assistant, North Carolina State University
Assisted with instruction of undergraduate civil engineering lectures by providing and reviewing materials as well as assessing student progress. Lectures covered topics of fluid mechanics and systems engineering. Prior fundamental knowledge of the subject as well as limited personal instruction was required.
Aug. – Dec. 1999
Instructed and demonstrated hydraulic phenomena in the laboratory. Use of public speaking and technical writing skills as well as a fundamental understanding of fluid mechanics was required.
Summer 2000, Engineering Technician, CTL Engineering, Inc.
Summer 1999
Assisted in quality control for building construction and site development. Duties largely included testing and written reports of the associated soil, masonry, and concrete grain size, density, moisture, and bearing capacity analysis. Use of laboratory and field observation and oversight was required.
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