Christopher Houlihan, Pg, Qsd Email & Phone Number

Petaluma, CA, US

Novato, California, US

CA-licensed Professional Geologist. Write work plans, feasibility studies, remedial action plans and site-specific Health and Safety plans; prepare cost estimates, budgets and proposals; UST Cleanup Fund budget change orders; conduct Phase II ESAs including permitting, subcontractor oversight, subsurface investigations, soil logging, and well installations.

Wrote cost estimates, budgets and proposals; developed and wrote work plans; conducted and wrote Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs); conducted Phase II ESAs including permitting, subcontractor oversight, subsurface investigations, soil logging, monitoring well installations and destructions, and report writing; managed mitigative excavation.

Kentfield, CA, US

Set up and cleanup for student geology labs; answered student questions and provided assistance during lab exercises; cut rocks using slab saw and made rock thin sections for microscope work; curated the college’s rock sample, topographic & geologic map collections and geologic library; maintained lab equipment.

Contract position for the U.S. Navy at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA. Installed soil vapor wells; logged soil borings and took soil and grab groundwater samples using a direct push rig; collected excavation sidewall soil samples; quality assurance/quality control, chains of custody, sample logs, daily reports.

Prepared quarterly ground water monitoring reports and wrote well installation reports; created report figures using AutoCAD; prepared report tables using Microsoft Excel and converted older Word Perfect tables to Excel format; budgeting, permitting, field work set-up, and interfacing with regulatory agencies; conducted lithologic logging of boreholes.

Site assessments including UST investigations, monitoring, closure, and subsurface soil and ground water investigations; prepared quarterly ground water monitoring reports and wrote work plans, closure requests, well installation reports, and subsurface investigation reports; prepared subsurface cross-sections, contaminant contour maps, groundwater contour.

US

Bs, Geology

Ba, English

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