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Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana

• Write Preliminary Engineering Reports that develop and analyze alternatives to solve water, wastewater, and stormwater needs, comparing overall efficacy, cost, funding scenarios, and feasibility to meets the client’s.
• Manage construction administration and oversight for several multi-million dollar water and wastewater projects, ensuring contract compliance and resolving RFIs, Change Orders, and Work Change Directives in an.
• Design various water treatment and distribution projects for both new and existing infrastructure.
• Build and calibrate wastewater collection and potable water distribution models for use evaluating existing systems and developing future designs.
• Perform construction inspection services and engineering fieldwork.
• Create construction specifications, drawings, figures, and maps for reports and active design projects.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana

• Designed municipal WWTP upgrades including UV treatment, hydraulics improvements, capacity increases, and biological treatment process improvements.
• Analyzed industrial WWTPs and design improvements for food processors, automotive manufacturers, and several confidential clients.
• Performed operation and maintenance of treatment systems, site inspections, collection of wastewater treatment process and environmental samples, groundwater gauging, construction oversight, and represent client for.
• Developed treatment alternatives analyses BOD reports, cost estimations, ROI calculations, CAPEX budget estimates, and environmental compliance reports.
• Drafted construction drawings and specifications for wastewater, stormwater, drinking water, and environmental remediation projects.
• Assisted collection systems teams in modeling wastewater, stormwater, and combined systems, analyzing field data and model results, and reporting improvement suggestions to clients.

Longview, Texas

• Set-up and led weekly labs including taping, auto-leveling, and total station exercises.
• Responsible for completing various surveys within required tolerances for use in evaluating students’ lab results.

Longview, Texas

• FOH Engineer for events held in the 2000+ seating performing arts center.
• Crew leader and lead FOH Engineer for student crew working shows, chapels, and other events.
• Recorded and edited both audio and video for various events.
• Operated lighting equipment and media presentations as needed.

Longview, Texas

• Prepared hands-on labs for Intro to Civil class.
• Designed and tested a new capstone team construction project.
• Assisted students as they completed the hands-on portions of the lab.

Fort Wayne, Indiana

• Gained experience in: sewer cleaning projects, stormwater systems analysis, construction management.
• Created aids for gravity collection systems design and piping selection.
• Wrote specifications, performed cost estimations, and researched large diameter sewer cleaning.
• Processed and evaluated RFIs and submittals for several ongoing projects.
• Created maps for project presentations to client and project proposals going to bid using ArcGIS.

South Bend, Indiana

• Gained experience in: sewer network design, environmental water quality projects, transportation, surveying.
• Installed flow meters and collected and analyzed data for improvements to sewer system model.
• Assisted surveyors with surveys, structure inspections, and data processing and presentation.
• Performed quantity checks and INDOT standards compliance reviews for transportation projects.

Bluffton, IN

• Completed skilled labor and preventative maintenance on structural foam injection presses and robots.

Bluffton, IN

• Cleaned and assembled injection-molded plastic parts, adhering to quality control and safety standards.

Mishawaka, IN

• Played bass for Bethel’s three chapel bands (praise & worship, gospel, contemporary).

Mishawaka, IN

• Set up, troubleshot, and operated sound systems for chapel, concerts, and other campus events.
• Trained theatre students in the basics of sound systems and equipment.
• Tested 5 digital consoles over 10 weeks and made recommendations for the console that was ultimately purchased.

Hickory Corners, MI

• Designed and produced nine 16-minute highlight videos, one per week, and four shorter videos. Highlight videos were extracted from approximately 24 hours of new footage recorded each week.
• Equipment and software used included: Sony HDR AX2000, GoPro HD Hero, Final Cut Studio 6, and Adobe Creative Suite.

Berne, IN

• Formed and executed lesson plans, created worship orders, organized office documents, coordinated volunteers, and scheduled youth group activities.

Berne, IN

• Worked with customers to create the best experience possible for their visit. Tasks included running cash register, cleaning in the kitchen and dining area, working in the drive through, and making food.

Berne, IN

• Developed lesson plans, games, activity nights, and other events for the youth group. This led to teamwork opportunities in developing a citywide multi-youth group event.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Civil Engineering, 3.82, Suma Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: President and co-founder of LETU’s Habitat for Humanity club. Responsible for managing annual budget of $2000+.

Youth Ministry

Activities and Societies: Theatre (see volunteer activities), Concert Choir Tour, Chapel BandGPA: 3.935, Dean’s List four semesters.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Marching Band (Drum Major), Acapella Choir (Section Leader), Jazz Band (Lead Trumpet.