Mina Daneshpour Email & Phone Number

United States

New Jersey, United States

As the field team leader carry out geotechnical site investigation, coordinate project requirements in the field, oversee daily activities and field team members, implement health and safety requirements, procedures, and inspections, correct observed deficiencies, perform site visits for site reconnaissance and marking test boring locations, CPT and SPT drilling monitoring and observations, soil sampling and description, logging samples, preparing subsurface exploration field log reports. In the office assist in geotechnical reporting including technical interpretation, laboratory test reports and analyses, subsurface exploration logs, profiles, and diagrams. Other tasks include assisting in preparation of concept design sketches, drawings, and report, as well as document control, and preparation of proposal documents when needed.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Carried out soil, aggregate, and concrete tests in accordance with ASTM, AASHTO, CSA standards and the project specifications, such as Unconfined Compression, Proctor Compaction, California Bearing Ratio, Particle Size Analysis, Atterberg Limits, Moisture Content, Permeability, and Concrete Cylinder Compression. Performed visual soil description and classification based on USCS, data entry, calculations, and plotting graphs, prepared and submitted testing reports to project managers, maintained and managed project lab data and files in document control and electronic management system. Conducted maintenance and calibration of laboratory and field-testing equipment in accordance with the standards, as well as daily laboratory inspection to ensure compliance with health and safety codes and standards, reported any health and safety issues to the manager. Actively attended meetings with managers, accurately completed multiple tasks and time sensitive tests by planning and teamwork, collaboratively communicated with lab, field, and office staff to deliver the reports in a timely manner.

Tehran, Iran

Performed project coordination and document control, tracked progress of project, and prepared project invoices in accordance with consultant contract agreements, assisted in preparing technical documents and proposal applications including scope of work, project budget and schedule, assessed project compliance with the company policies and procedure, coordinated field and laboratory work, effectively communicated with clients on a regular basis, attended meetings with clients and assisted managers with raised issues. Also, assisted in preparation of geotechnical and geological investigation reports based on findings of site investigation and test results.

Tehran, Iran

Scheduled daily workload, assigned laboratory staff to carry out tests, kept track of testing procedures, prepared testing reports in a timely manner and submitted them to project managers and relevant parties. Managed certifications and budgets, reviewed and approved laboratory expenses, maintained all records, accreditation, and licenses in the document control system, supervised equipment maintenance and calibration. Carried out chemical tests for soil and water including determination of pH, Resistivity, Cations and Anions, Electrical Conductivity, Total Dissolved Solid, Organic Materials content analysis.

Certificate, Information Access And Protection Of Privacy

Activities and Societies: * OIPC’s privacy workshops, Privacy Impact Assessments, Breach Response and Reporting, University of Alberta.

Open Study, Civil Engineering

Soil Mechanics, Geology and Site Investigation

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Bsc., Geology/Earth Science

Activities and Societies: * Professional Geoscientist applicant No. 227804 with APEGA, in progress * Member of the Society of Iranian.

Master Of Science - Msc., Geophysics, Master Of Science

Activities and Societies: Member of Iranian Geophysical SocietyGeoelectric, Seismology, Gravimetry, and Geomagnetic