Christopher Catherman Email & Phone Number

Harrisburg, Pa

• Coordinates subsurface exploration programs and drilling activities including specifications for proposed test borings (soil sampling and rock coring), test pit investigations, infiltration testing, and other types of sampling. • Prepares, develops, and administers subsurface boring, sampling, and testing contract (SBSTC) documents following Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation (PennDOT), and Pennsylvania Turnpike design manuals;• Conducts field reconnaissance of project sites for geologic conditions, site accessibility and existing conditions of pavement, bridges, culverts, and other pertinent features;• Conducts subsurface investigations via soil borings, rock corings, auger probes, excavated test pits, and double-ring infiltration testing;• Responsible for preparation and writing of geotechnical engineering reports (including PGER, RSGER, etc.) for wide range of highway improvements. Reports include related plates, figures, maps, site plans, boring logs, profiles, test pits, infiltration logs, and lab results, along with a review of published geologic literature;• Attend Pre-Bid meetings for various types of projects in the government and private sectors that include highways, bridges, culverts, and public infrastructure improvements.

Central Pennsylvania -Mechanicsburg, Pa

• Provide project management of several projects at a given time by overseeing and reviewing the quality of various daily field reports and correspondences sent to clients for projects within EEI’s Inspection Services Division;• Responsible for writing geotechnical investigation reports, preliminary, supplemental, and full reports for wide range of projects; including related plates, figures, maps, site plans, boring logs, profiles, test pits, infiltration logs, and lab results, along with recommendations and conclusions within EEI's Geotechnical Investigation Division;• Write bid proposals and unit cost estimates for potential new projects within Geotechnical Investigation and Inspection Divisions;• Conduct subsurface investigations via excavated test pits, soil borings, auger probes, rock corings, percolation and infiltration testing, soil bearing capacity testing, and other means;• Conduct thorough geotechnical investigations and provide recommendations to clients regarding the repair of various types of subsurface soil cavities and sinkhole features using standard excavating techniques, compaction & pressure grouting programs, and/or inverted rock filter methods;• Provide overall construction quality assurance and geotechnical consulting by inspecting, testing and documenting various construction aspects of commercial and residential development projects for clients in the private and government sectors;• Conduct laboratory analysis of the physical properties of soil and aggregate materials for engineering purposes. Laboratory soils and aggregate testing include: particle size distribution analysis, liquid limit & plasticity index determination, proctor analysis, natural moisture, and soil and aggregate classification as per ASTM codes, USCS, and standards and PennDOT Specifications;

Corporate Headquarters, Old Town, Maine

• Assisted Mapping Conversion team by contributing to several GIS operations to the NSTAR Electric South Landbase Conversion project using ESRI’s ArcGIS software package and various source materials for assisting the identification of customer addresses, utility easements, and street right-of-ways (ROWs);• Interpreted and converted information from cadastral maps, existing customer data, GDT data, and digital orthophotographs to the landbase GIS geodatabase;• Procedures performed include: address annotation, generation and editing of street centerlines and street edge corrections, attributing road widths and names, creation of missing building footprints, parcel corrections, identified ROWs and easements, importing of coverages, and backing up of data to geodatabases.

Orono, Maine

• Planned and taught 2 laboratory sessions for undergraduate introductory environmental geology course;• Responsible for designing weekly environmental geology lab lessons, quizzes, and tests;• Responsible for assigning lab grades based on quiz/test scores, performance, and participation of each student;• Responsible for assisting professor in environmental geology classes with lecture, presentations, and providing lecture in the absence of the professor.

Orono, Maine

• Fabricated and installed PVC groundwater monitoring wells (piezometers);• Measured and recorded water table elevations via electronic sensor probe;• Ensured data integrity and quality of hydrologic field measurements with previous logged values via spreadsheet software;• Calibrated water quality meters and collected groundwater samples for water chemistry analysis of various water quality parameters;• Installed data loggers, transducers, and a small meteorological station for data collection;• Created various theme maps and performed water table kriging analysis using GIS;• Modeled groundwater flow using the USGS MODFLOW 3-D computer modeling software.

World Headquarters, Reston, Virginia

• Provided administrative and management support to committees in the Professional and Technical Activities Division of ASCE, by acting as an intermediary liaison between the Society and committee members comprised of professional and educational civil engineers;• Ensured ASCE society bylaws and procedures were adhered to, as well as, provided procedural assistance to society members and various committees;• Provided digital graphic support, created, edited, enhanced, and manipulated graphic images and illustrations for technical staff and committee presentations;• Maintained budgets, files and activity of, and provided support to, seventy-five assigned ASCE technical committees.

Headquarters, Geologic Division, Reston, Va

• Created, produced, enhanced, and manipulated computer generated visualization products, used for professional publications, journals, posters, web pages, fact sheets, and open-file reports;• Manipulated digital and non-digital sources into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) databases and various desktop graphic programs as necessary to achieve final visualization product;• Selected, purchased, installed, and configured desktop computer hardware and software for team scientists;• Gathered field samples, data via spectra analysis of various vegetation, and geologic formations using remote sensing equipment at the Nevada Test Site (NTS);• Contributed graphics and animated sequences for a professional journal publication by team scientist on a significant rockslide at Yosemite National Park.

Northcentral Regional Office, Williamsport Pa

• Conducted sewage system malfunction surveys for the Bureau of Water Management which involved: planning surveys, notifying public officials of survey, and reconnaissance, locating direct discharges and malfunctions to surface, identified aesthetic and other problems, sampling stream and drinking water sources, performed mapping of identified impacts and sources, analyzing data, and reporting results to the department and municipality studied;• Designed, implemented, analyzed, and reported on chlorine residual manipulation experiment of a single residence sewage system with various chlorine mediums;• Identified areas of karst geology for sewage planning and protection of Pennsylvania’s special protected watersheds per regulations;• Compiled an extensive set of 7.5” topographic quadrangles identifying high quality and exceptional value watersheds that are protected under Pennsylvania state water quality standards.

Some Graduate Course Work, Hydrogeology

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Environmental Science

Paramedic Certification, Paramedic (Emt-P)

Associated certifications: ACLS, BLS, EMT, BTLS, HAZMAT. PA Dept. of Health -Paramedic (EMT-P) Certification ID# 049073, 1990, No Expiration