Matthew Pruchnik, Pe Email & Phone Number

Polson, Montana

•Team member & key contributor for a utility company start-up that will acquire & operate an existing 208 MW hydroelectric power plant including a 205 feet high concrete arch dam. This is the first time in United States history that a tribal nation will own & operate a major hydro facility.•Establish all work orders for Dam Safety & the Chief Dam Safety Engineer related to Kerr Dam. •Develop & periodically update the Owners Dam Safety Program (ODSP).•Create, prepare, and/or update Public Safety Plans.•Perform and/or review & approve annual updates to the Emergency Action Plan (EAP).•Conduct and/or ensure EAP orientation seminars, drills, tabletops, & functional or full-scale exercises, are completed per 18 CFR Subpart C, §12.20 through §12.24 and the FERC Chapter 6 Engineering Guidelines.•Create, prepare and/or write the Dam Safety Surveillance Monitoring Plan (DSSMP) & Dam Safety Surveillance Monitoring Report (DSSMR) per 18 CFR §12.41 & the FERC Chapters 14, 9, & 6 Section 6-3.2.2 part IV Engineering Guidelines.•Conduct unannounced & periodic inspections in addition to selection & management of Part12D Independent Consultant inspectors. •Receive direct correspondence from O&M, Engineering personnel, and/or consultants related to dam safety issues, if necessary.•Provide independent, knowledgeable, review & approval of proposed dam modifications and/or intrusive field investigations.•Establish written qualification standards for personnel reading the monitoring instruments.•Identify relevant training materials & conduct necessary dam safety training of EKI staff, including but not limited to dam safety awareness & regulatory compliance, recognition of dam safety deficiencies, inspection & monitoring techniques, review of PFMA's and EAP's. •Periodically meet with Executive & Senior Management & report, Dam Safety concerns, if any.•Identify as the single point of contact for non-emergency communication between the owner & the FERC.

Polson, Montana

•Chair safety committee and manage initiatives according to risk.•Developed plant safety manual and revise safety procedures.•Train staff members in safety procedures, regulations and emergency evacuation.•Maintain a stock of common Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), such as hard hats, eye protection, ear plugs, and reflective vests, for use by visitors and authorized entrants to the site.•Perform root cause analysis for work related incidents and accident investigations and implement corrective actions.•Enforce safety regulations at all levels of organization and safety policies site-wide.•Perform safety surveys to support PPE requirements.•Maintain a list of hazardous chemicals on site and their material Safety Data Sheets (SDS).•Develop corporate safety goals and objectives.•Maintain OSHA's Form 300 to log work-related injuries and illnesses occurring on site. Post and maintain the Form 300A on the site Safety Bulletin Board.•Provide regulatory interpretations and advice about compliance with safety and health laws,codes, regulations and standards.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

•Developed policies, procedures, and guidelines for the Dam Safety program, ensuring compliance and revisions as appropriate.•Provided technical review and oversight of dam safety activities, including inspections, instrumentation, design projects, engineering evaluations for seismic, hydraulics & hydrology, structural and stability to ensure compliance with FERC Engineering Guidelines for the Evaluation of Hydropower Projects.•Planed, conducted, and documented compliance assessments of TVA dams.•Trained and preformed drills as the Facility Operation Manager for Dam Safety emergency response team.

San Dimas, Ca

•Managed the technical contract for the FERC Part12D Inspection for 11 high hazard dams. Reviewed & negotiated the Consultant's Safety Inspection Report's (CSIR) findings.•Interpreted Federal Guidelines for, instituted a program to, & established a process that maintained & updated the Supporting Technical Information Documents (STID) for 22 high hazard dams.•Reviewed hydraulics & hydrology studies for PMF & IDF for high hazard dams.•Developed Station/Division Orders that identify tasks to be performed during inspection as well as checklists to identify site conditions that could lead to potential failures or the early development of Potential Failure Modes.•Trained & developed 2 engineering technicians to compile & track the surveillance & monitoring data.•Interpreted State regulations for & developed a reporting format that fulfilled the Dam Performance reporting requirements of the California Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD) that would not conflict with the FERC's restriction on the transmission of Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII).•Responsible for all Dam Safety Engineering Surveillance & Monitoring reports & correspondence between the utility & both the FERC and the California DSOD for 18 hydroelectric dams (concrete gravity, concrete single-arch, concrete multi-arch, earthen embankment, & rock fill).•Review & analyze monthly surveillance & monitoring data, & annually prepare performance reports for submittal to the FERC for 18 high hazard dams.•Lead DSE for annual FERC & DSOD inspections. Planned, conducted, documented & assessed compliance of instrumentation, monitoring, & repair requirements of Owner’s Dam Safety Surveillance & Monitoring Program.• Investigated, identified & proved the failure location and cause of a sand boil at the toe of an embankment dam.•Restored two abandoned single arch concrete dam storm water retention basins in a mountainous terrain which protected potable water pumping station and a resort community.

Pascagoula, Mississippi

• Prepared infrastructure evaluation & damage assessment servces that documented damaged municipal infrastructure for the Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Evaluated and recommended a scope of work with a budgetary cost estimate for in-kind replacement or hazard mitigation improvements to reduce or eliminate a repeat failure.• Identified and determined the method of failure to ensure that the damaged infrastructure was caused by the event.• Prepared damage descriptions that included the likely cause of failure that defended the approval or denial of claims.• Prepared $5,500,000 in Project Worksheets for hospitals, school buildings, gas distribution systems, roads, bridges, levees, sewer systems including lift stations, and numerous public infrastructure buildings with the following construction methods (unreinforced brick masonry, reinforced concrete, steel and reinforced concrete, steel moment frame, concrete moment frame, and steel frame).• Public Assistance Operations I (PA Ops I) and Public Assistance Operations II (PA Ops II) trained.• Prepared Project Worksheet (PW) using RS Means and Cost Estimating Format (CEF) with included Hazard Mitigation.

Huntington Beach, Ca

• Evaluated topographical site features beneath piping transmission infrastructure located adjacent to coastal waters. Identified existing site containment areas which correlated to possible failure scenarios. Determined existing site containment volumes, recommended improvements to ensure adequate containment capacity. Prepared a report of findings including site plan which were part of the updated Spill Prevention Contingency Containment plan.• Retrofitted 3 security doors for an offshore platform preventing access to the personnel & equipment on upper decks from terrorist threats below.• Standardization of surface piping configurations for production & water injection well heads.• Installation of surface piping for 2 production & 4 water injection wells.• Developed the projects & staffing schedules for a 48-hour annual facility shutdown that contained 76 jobs completed by a staff of 100 contractors.• Installation of 35,000 feet of cable tray providing infrastructure for chemical injection tubing, cathodic protection wiring, rod well control cable interface, future ESP & rod well up-sizes, and return to production wells. Replaced non-compliant, improperly shielded & grounded well cables.• Installation of sound reduction blankets. This project reduced noise impact to neighbors while not changing area classifications of process equipment, insuring compliance with city ordinance & continued operation within an upscale urban location.• Installation of hi/low pressure switch shut down devices to bring 24 rod wells into compliance per ASME B31.4 & California State Lands Commission Audit.• Demolition & removal of 350,000 linear feet of abandoned production, casing gas, fuel gas, & water pipelines located within environmentally sensitive wetlands & among several threatened &/or endangered plant, animal, & bird species. Pipelines ranges in size from 2’ to 12’ & were thoroughly flushed & cleaned preventing any spill to wetlands or habitat during the removal process.

Simi Valley, Ca

• Provided field engineering & inspections for the realignment of 1,244 linear feet of 20-inch diameter refined petroleum products pipeline & communications cable in Carson, CA. The construction scope of work included two 105 feet pipe bridges crossing drainage channels, reinforced concrete bridge abutments supported by pre-stressed concrete piles, relocation of existing valves & the installation of a new reinforced concrete valve vault.• Developed budgetary costs & scope of work for the proposed alignment of 2500 linear feet of 12-inch diameter pipeline & 2000 linear feet of parallel 16-inch and 24-inch diameter pipelines, including a directionally drilled crossing, in the Port of Los Angeles.• Preliminary engineered the reconfiguration of a 3000 linear foot section of pipeline ROW corridor for the relocation of 6 active lines, 2 idle lines, & the removal of 7 abandoned pipelines that ranged in size from 3 to 20-inches.• Prepared environmental permits for various pipeline realignment & repair projects in northern California which utilized the San Francisco Bay Area Joint Aquatic Resource Permit Application that met the requirement for 10 Federal & State permit applications.• Conducted an inspection program for the Long Beach Water Department that required evaluating 58 water mains attached to bridges that crossed open channel drains, streets or freeways. Prepared a findings report that included cost estimates for repair that was prioritized for city budgets. The report also included future re-inspection dates, required equipment, manpower & permits.

Various

• Provided infrastructure evaluation & damage assessment services for the FEMA on 4 disasters: Northridge Earthquake, Los Angeles CA; Hurricane Marilyn, St. Thomas US Virgin Islands; West Virginia; & Oregon Floods.• Identified and determined the method of failure to ensure that the damaged infrastructure was caused by the event.• Prepared damage descriptions that included the likely cause of failure that defended the approval or denial of claims.• Prepared $350,000,000 in Project Worksheets for hospitals, airports, shipping ports, roads, bridges, levees, and numerous public infrastructure buildings with the following construction methods (unreinforced brick masonry, reinforced concrete, steel and reinforced concrete, steel moment frame, concrete moment frame, and steel frame).• Member of the original Grant Acceleration Program (GAP) team that developed and used the Cost Estimating Format (CEF).• Prepared engineering assessment reports that evaluated infrastructure for earthquake, wind & water damage & estimated costs to restore &/or upgrade facilities to current applicable codes. Facilities included school classrooms, office & municipal buildings ranging from one to six stories in height. Methods of construction included timber & steel frames, reinforced concrete & unreinforced masonry.• Performed benefit cost analysis to determine if an earthquake damaged facility could receive funding to be upgraded to the current applicable building codes. Determined magnitude & extent of structural & non-structural damage, selected cost effective methods for increasing the lateral resisting capacity of various earthquake-damaged structures.• Public Assistance Operations I (PA Ops I) and Public Assistance Operations II (PA Ops II) trained.• Prepared Project Worksheet (PW) using RS Means and Cost Estimating Format (CEF) with included Hazard Mitigation.

Master Of Science (Ms), Civil (Structural) Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Civil Engineering