Franklin Stephens Email & Phone Number

Responsible for management, operations, and business development of Terrell branch office. Ensure growth and profitability of office. Manage, coach, and develop staff. Develop client relations. Scope, budget, and schedule office projects. Oversee all work taking place in and submitted by office.

Project manager and/or lead project engineer on civil projects including airport, highway, municipal street, industrial site developments, vacuum sewer collection system, and water infrastructure improvements. Responsible for all phases of project development from concept, study to completed design and construction administration. Develop opinions of cost, scopes, budgets, and schedules. Lead design teams. Coordinate with and manage sub-consultants. Track projects performance.

Project engineer/lead designer on airport, highway, street, utilities, and drainage projects. Prepare concept level opinions of project cost and establish engineering budgets and schedules. Lead teams in all levels of design phase including survey, geotechnical, study & report, and preliminary and final design. Responsible for construction phase services and project close-out.

Responsible for design and construction of variety of new location, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of roadways ranging from interstate to farm-market highways. Work experience also included numerous on-system and off-system bridges. Supervised local maintenance forces on special projects.

Project inspector on interstate 635 rehab project in Mesquite. Observed work for compliance with plans and specs for hot-mix overlay, roadway milling, seal coat treatments, concrete traffic barrier, metal beam guard fence, concrete culvert and safety end treatment installation, thermoplastic pavement markings and raised pavement markers.Project inspector on new location multi-lane urban collector in Seagoville. Observed work for compliance with plans and specs including reinforced concrete pavement, lime-treatment of subgrade, subgrade compaction and moisture control, storm sewer pipe and inlet installation.

Worked in coordination with Soil Conservation Service. Assisted engineers in field data collection and design plan work. Prepared contour drawings from collected data. Staked construction sites for terrace and pond construction. Performed field inspections of terrace and pond construction. Studied soil maps and assisted in site selection of farm ponds. Assessed reservoirs for dam stability and plant invasion, and prepared report with recommendations for actions.

Started as a track laborer building new rail spurs and reconstructing existing track at yard in Dallas. Worked on track tie gangs and rail replacement gangs all over Texas. Became equipment operator and worked on tie replacement gangs, rail replacement gangs, earthwork crews, and track maintenance gangs.

Bsce, Civil Engineering

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