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PERSONAL INFORMATION:
* Engineering Qualifications: Geotechnical, Civil, Geological & Project Management.
* Worldwide and offshore experience.
* Languages spoken and written: French and English (excellent), Portuguese (spoken).
* Canadian citizen. Married with two children.
* Interested in major construction and international projects.
* Over 8 years of ground engineering / Project Management and over 10 years of construction experience.
* Available for Freelance Contracts or Rotational (such as 1 month on / 1 month off)
* Desired Daily Rate: 350-450 British Pound.
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
Project Management
* Coordinating planning and execution of site work & projects
* Undertake and manage contracts. Problem solving and decision making
* Control of Quality, Cost & Production. Prepare weekly production reports
* Weighing relative costs. Determining required equipment & material.
* Review develop and implement safety, & quality document & procedures
* Liaise with Clients, engineering department and commercial team &
Directors
* Business development Preparing proposals promote services.
* Supervise and select Subcontractors.
* Team player Teaching others. Motivating, developing, and directing people
* Managing & supervising site ad office resources. Engineers, Site
Supervisors & drilling Crews, field and laboratory Technician &
administrative assistants
Design
* Writing reports and recommendations preparing investigation reports.
* Presenting Interpreting and synthesizing scientific and technical information
* Using mathematics and appropriate computer programs for Design
* Review & Prepare geotechnical, Laboratory & geophysical data.
* Trackbed (Railway) Design and renewal recommendations
* Select and Supervise Laboratory Testing. Maintain design database &
establish design standards
* Offshore, geotechnical, geophysical engineering Interpretation & Designs of the following items.
Offshore Engineering (including deepwater projects)
* Foundation design analysis for offshore structures and pipelines, bearing capacity analysis for mud mat designs & piles
* Supervision dri8lling activities, site investigations, soil sampling and Laboratory testing (including Triaxial tests)
* Performed and supervised in-situ testing such as: rock coring, CPT, seismic CPT, in-situ vane
* Performing penetration analysis for jack-up rig and rig moves.
Participated in a research on suction caisson.
* Estimate ploughing or jetting rates of installations for offshore pipelines or communication cables.
* Evaluate Trenching risk and review geotechnical and geophysical data.
Site Investigation, Exploration and other Geotechnical Engineering Works
* Gold exploration geology in the Amazonian forest
* Geological and geotechnical mapping and surveying
* Foundations for high-rise and low-rise buildings and water treatment plants
* Highway work, airports, cell tower soil compaction geochemical sampling
* forensic investigations Phase I environmental assessment drilling campaigns
* Rail track foundation Investigation
* Geophysical seismic refraction, ground penetration radar, blasting monitoring and pile integration testing Geophysical crew member in
Induce Polarization.
Ground Engineering, Piling works & Grouting (Including For Dams)
* Geotechnical engineering for construction of a 170-meter hydroelectric earth dam (Canada)
* Dam foundation remedial & consolidation works using chemical grouting
& Tubes-A-Manchettes (Wales)
* Dam assessments for over 300 locations condition evaluations and foundation risks assessment (Canada)
* Grouting & consolidation of chalk dissolution Features & Coal Mining
Works for residential & commercial Properties
* Modify and implement grouting design. Consolidation grouting, Curtain
Grouting chemical & OPC grouting
* Site reestablishment. Bolting of rock surfaces. Permeability test seismic measures of quarry blasting
* Geological mapping of fractures & discontinuities of dam foundations
* Blasting operations rock and excavation qualification/quantification
* Ground engineering:, mini piles, deep and large diameter piles,
Caissons, soil and rock anchors for major projects
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
UK (England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales), USA, Canada, Trinidad, Russia
(7 months), French Guayana (4 months), Mexico (3 months) and Bahamas
EDUCATION:
1994 - 98
École Polytechnique and University of Montréal, Bachelor in geological engineering, B. Eng.
Coop program, orientation: geotechnics, civil, and hydrogeology
Selected Master degree courses in Foundations, Hydrogeology, and
Geotechnics. Bachelor's degree thesis: Grout injection for dam foundation. Graduate Member of ICE)
1992 - 94
College De Maisonneuve, Montréal.
Diploma in Pure and Applied sciences (Technical degree).
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Jan. 2006 - Freelance Geotechnical Engineer / Project Manager
Apr-August Horizon Survey Company, Offshore Team Leader, Geotechnical
Investigation, Qatar
Jan-Mar Noble Denton, Project Management for Offshore Geotechnical
Engineering. Dubai, UAE.
Aug. 2005 - Jan 2006
CTC Marine Projects (Offshore Cable & Pipeline Trenching Contractor)
Darlington, UK
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Aug. 2004 - Aug. 2005
Cementation Foundation Skanska (Piling Contractor)
York, United Kingdom
Senior Area Engineer / Project Manager
Nov. 2003-Aug. 2004
Jarvis Geotechnical Services (Railway Contractor)
York, United Kingdom
Senior Geotechnical Engineer / Project Manager
April 2001-Nov. 2003
Marsco/Fugro-McClelland Marine Geoscience
Houston, TX, USA
Geotechnical engineer (Offshore Geotechnical Investigation & Design)
July 1999-April 2001
Engineering Consulting Services/ United Consulting/ Soil-Mat Engineers
Canada & USA
Geotechnical engineer/geophysicist/project manager (Onshore
Geotechnical Investigation & Design)
Sept. 1996-Sept. 1998
Environmental Board Of Quebec/ Hydro-Québec / Golden Star
Canada & South America
Geotechnical engineer/Geologist (Part time, Government, & Gold
Exploration)
Other Experience
Residential construction labor. Mining (Underground and surface labor)
Supply teacher and teacher in high school.
SPECIALIZED ABILITIES, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
* Great computer skills. Software: AutoCAD, Word, Excel (Advanced),
Windows, Dips, Geosoft, Geoslope, Winlog, Microsoft Project. GRLWeap,
Grapher, Gint, Design Software, etc.
* CSCS Project Manager Card (Construction). Railway Safety Card (PTS).
* Dynamic, fast learner, critical, practical, like challenges, innovative, autonomous.
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