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Champaign, Illinois, United States

Edwardsville, Illinois, United States

• Providing professional design services for transportation improvement projects for municipal agencies and IDOT.
• Designing roadway geometry and details, drainage, traffic control, pavement markings, and signing for transportation infrastructure.
• Interacting with client management teams, engineers in other technical disciplines, and public representatives.
• Coordinating design development and assisting with technical direction to other design staff.
• Coordinating with the design team to achieve quality deliverables within the established schedule and budget.
• Developing construction specifications, cost estimates, and technical reports.

Edwardsville, Illinois, United States

• Reviewed Schedule of Values and construction contract documents during Preconstruction phase of Richard T. Ubben Basketball Complex, a $40 million renovation project at UIUC.
• Assisted with RFPs and RFIs, enforced schedule, issued delay letters, and assessed claims for, 78,000 sq ft area, $35 M engineering laboratory facility at UIUC.
• Identified construction constraints, potential delay cause and schemed potential solutions for the team.
• Planned, scheduled and led building commissioning and closeout with sub-consultants for a $70 M university housing facility at UIUC.
• Delivered $70 M university housing facility closeout ahead of schedule saving client +$3M expense.
• Prepared a 10-yr infrastructure Master Plan budget estimate of UIS campus, helping client in capital planning.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Supervised & inspected on-site construction, traffic safety and assisted in tracking costs with bid price for I-294 Illinois Tollway.
• Performed weekly site inspections for QC/QA and managed the project punch list for a 57,500 sq. ft university engineering facility ($43 M Budget).
• Established the accountability of the contractors’ performed work leading to timely project closeout.
• Managed LEED V4 credits for design and construction, organized and spearheaded LEED monthly meetings for Henry Dale & Betsy Smith Football Performance Centre, UIUC ($81.4 M facility).
• Saved the company from liability by interjecting the performed work due to compromised safety issues.

Urbana-Champaign Area

• Premature Cracking Mechanisms for Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement (JPCP)Aim: Conducted multi-city study to evaluate design features and construction technique to prevent Premature Cracking
• Investigated drawings, standards and construction practices adopted for IDOT urban road construction
• Performed filed surveys, Identified distress & developed NDE investigation plan for urban roadway
• Created distress hypothesis from data reduction & analyzed test results
• Research and findings led to new reinforcements guidelines, IDOT - State Building Codes [2018] Final report to be published by Dec 2020.

New Delhi Area, India

Worked on the following areas in a team of Geotechnical and Structural Engineers: - Examined stability of Tunnel Portal face supports in the soft soil strata- Studied technical Specification of TBMs used under different strata conditions- Gathered Methodology for casting and designing of Launching Girder and in-situ Pier & Pier Cap - Developed Concrete.

Literature Reviewed: Response of Reinforced Concrete Column under Seismic Simulated Loading- Experiments under simulated earthquake loading were reported- Seismic response parameters were studied- Parameters influencing the seismic behavior of columns were analyzed- Performed lab tests to study the material properties of cement, concrete and aggregates.

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Master’S Degree, Civil Engineering, 3.5/4.0

Activities and Societies: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), American Concrete.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering, 9.1/10.0