Technical Expert
Responsibilities included serving as one of the District's senior technical experts on groundwater hydrology, ASR wells, water resources planning, dredging, confined disposal areas, geotechnical engineering and subsurface structures such as coffer dams and hydraulic barrier walls. Completed projects involved water resources, hazardous waste, geotechnical design, coastal engineering, port improvements, and environmental restoration. As a Technical Expert, Dr. Brown was also required to provide recommendations where existing guidance is not adequate or literature is incomplete. Completed work has included the preparation of many technical reports relating to a variety of projects. Dr. Brown worked on numerous port development projects including Tampa Harbor deepening, Alafia River improvements for Cargill, Jax Port, and Cape Canaveral Trident submarine base. In support of the Everglades Restoration, he was responsible for a project budget in excess of $5,000,000 annually. Dr. Brown was the team leader for the Everglades Restoration ASR program covering five separate projects and numerous team members from many different technical disciplines. Additional adhoc responsibilities included serving on national technical committees, public speaking, and mentoring more junior employees. Mentoring subjects have included numerous projects and geo-environmental engineering issues involving geostatistics, soil remediation, groundwater contaminant transport, settlement, bearing capacity, slope stability, dewatering, shear strength, cyclic loading, soft soils, contaminated sediment dredging, geotextiles, embankment toe drains, embankment construction, compaction, groundwater modeling, injection wells, relief wells and seepage.
