As a Project Manager at Gall Zeidler Consultants in Ashburn, Virginia, I lead project teams to ensure technical and financial success. I develop detailed project plans and schedules and effectively allocate resources to meet project goals. I also establish and manage project budgets, control costs, and provide accurate forecasts.

• Planned and Managed infrastructure projects, including renovating, repairing, and maintaining tunnels. • Led, coordinated, and managed field explorations, including work performed by subconsultants and subcontractors. • Prepared the cost estimation and scheduling for project design and construction. • Analyzed data and prepared standard design documents, such as technical specifications, in accordance with applicable design codes.• Reviewed the contractor design and technical submittals of projects involving general, architectural, civil, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical engineering systems.• Prepared and briefed technical reports to Senior Management, including CFO, COO, VP, GS15, and above. • Assessed the geotechnical issues related to tunnel rehabilitation and decommissioning, underground construction in rock and soft soil, deep foundations, slopes, retaining structures, and bridges. • Performed geotechnical and structural analysis and developed various solutions for temporary support in soil and rock for tunnels, shafts, cofferdams, and deep excavations. • Evaluated the legal claim regarding the change in rock condition and its impact on drilling time and cost. • Developed soil-structure interaction modeling using various numerical approaches. • Performed Seismic response analysis, liquefaction analysis, and ground deformation analysis. • Developed the geotechnical investigations plan, interpreted the data, and prepared the geotechnical baseline reports.

• Assessing the geotechnical issues related to tunnel rehabilitation and decommission, underground construction in rock and soft soil, deep foundation, slopes, retaining structures and bridges • Perform the engineering analysis and developing the variety of solutions to the geotechnical related problems in the field of tunneling, foundation, bridges. grouting and retaining structure• Develop the soil- structure interaction modeling using various numerical approach• Development of geotechnical investigations, interpretation of geotechnical data, structural analysis, design, evaluation and preparation of calculations and drawings• Preparation of geotechnical baseline reports and standard documents, such as technical specifications, in accordance with applicable design codes

As a Staff Geotechnical Engineer at ILF USA since January 2017, Ritika has been a part of 9 projects with focuses that varied from analyzing the field geotechnical data to the advanced modeling in the area of deep foundations, hydraulic analysis, underground construction, and grouting.

Research topic - Balancing rheology and filtration: A novel approach for suspension flow and sustainability in heterogeneous granular media• Experimentally determined the grout-ability of granular soil using various modified bentonite suspensions • A new filtration model is developed using Matlab to determine the filtration with accounting the effect of change in porosity and viscosity of grout as a function of rate of permeation and initial concentration of the grout.• Post grouting analysis have performed on the grouted sample by determining their permeability with increasing hydraulic gradient

Project topic – Mill Woods Double Barrel Replacement Project, EdmontonThick saturated soil lenses in the glacial till deposit led to collapse of ground above TBM location. Permeation grouting was considered for ground improvement. • Challenge was to determine the suitable grout to obtain desired penetration depth and strength• Rheological tests were done on cement and chemical grout to characterize the grouting material• Pressures was recorded while permeating grout through sand column to determine penetration depth and filtration• Unconfined compression tests were performed on grouted samples to determine strength

Demonstrated the geotechnical experiments (grain size analysis, Consistency limit tests, proctor test, vane shear test, Direct shear test, consolidation test, unconfined compression test, permeability test, undrained triaxial test) to the class of 15 students Assessed Lab reports and helped them in reporting data and results in well mannered format.

SardarSarovar (Narmada) Project is a multipurpose river valley project on the west flowing river Narmada in Gujarat state located along the west coast of India. The main canal is one of the largest lined canals in the India having the capacity of 1134 cumecs. As per IS 1893-part1 (2002), Kachchh region of Gujarat comes under seismic zone V. For this seismic zone, maximum peak ground acceleration PGA= amax = 0.36g, where g is acceleration due to gravity. Assisted Prof. Deepankar Choudhury and Prof.B.V.S. Viswanadham on Sardar Sarovar Canal construction project in pseudo static and dynamic analysis of different canal sections at different stages of construction using finite difference geotechnical software FLAC3D. Liquefaction susceptibility of canal sections has been determined analytically.

Research topic- Blast resistant analysis of tunnel beneath the soil slope using FLAC3DExplosions in the underground structure such as tunnels, pipelines can develop shock waves that travel through the subsurface and can cause significant damage to above ground structures. This project involves the analysis of failure of aboveground major geotechnical structure that is canal, because of blasting in pipeline passing beneath it. Numerical model has been prepared using FLAC3D (Finite difference based geotechnical software, Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua) to determine the design requirements like burial depth of tunnel, amount of reinforcement etc. for blast resistant tunnel. Liquefaction susceptibility analysis under blasting has also been done. Numerical model has been validated using the analytical solution and as well with field data.

Summer intern in Technical department of VSL India Pvt. Ltd., worked on designing of extradosed bridge for Delhi Metro Rail Corporation• Designed temporary stressing platform for performing longitudinal post tensioning for cable-stayed bridge• Used a 3D frame structure analytical tool ‘Statik’ to assess the load distribution in members and revise the design