Soma Bhadra Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, Us

Soma has built a very reputable professional services firm that provides engineering and management consulting to clients in the Water Sector, especially in Southern California. Our boutique services include: Traditional Engineering Design of Water and Wastewater Infrastructure, Management Consulting, Asset Management Programming, Operations and Maintenance Optimization and Planning, Standards Development for Water Agencies, Regulatory Compliance, Permits, Design-Build Services, Water and Energy Nexus Planning and Implementation, Technology and Data Utilization Programming at Water Agencies, Water and Wastewater Management Program Development, Water Efficiency Studies, Funding Applications, and Innovation Consulting. Her distinguished clients include: City of San Diego, City of Carlsbad/ Carlsbad Municipal Water District, City of Oceanside, Coachella Valley Water District, City of Twentynine Palms, City of Redlands, Encina Wastewater Authority, City of Escondido, City of Del Mar, City of Modesto, Olivenhain Municipal Water District, Valley Center Municipal Water District, Vallecitos Water District, Western Municipal Water District, Rancho California Water District, Irvine Ranch Water District, Rincon del Diablo Water District, Sweetwater Authority, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Stanislaus County, City of Fresno, City of Santa Clara Water and Sewer, University of California San Diego, San Diego County Water Authority, San Diego Airport Authority, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (29 Palms), and NAVFAC.PROTEUS Consulting is minority and women owned, small disadvantaged micro-business. www.consult-proteus.com

Encinitas, California, Us

Soma was the Water and Wastewater Practice Builder for the firm. She was responsible for client liaison and business development, and secured $750,000 treatment design work within the first eight months with the company. She trained four staff members in water and wastewater treatment design. Representative projects include: Encina Wastewater Authority Facility, Seeley MBR Project, Guadalupe Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade, Hi-Desert Medical Center Wastewater Treatment Plant, Lee Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant Composting Facility, Cuyama Wastewater Treatment Plant Disinfection, Coachella Wastewater Treatment Plant NPDES Permit, Del Mar Reservoir Rehabilitation, and, Los Ranchos Treatment Facility.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Soma was a valuable part of the W2WA Management Team and in charge of successful handover of AUD 320+ million design-build (EPC) program of works by managing the delivery and acceptance by the client of nine upgrade projects at two major wastewater treatment plants. She was assigned to target client satisfaction and ensure that each project was successfully closed out, and develop efficient business systems within the design-build team that will expedite the delivery of future projects and enable on-target or better cost performance.• Defined a consistent program-wide handover scope of works and deliverables by liaising actively with client to identify requirements. Updated the program-wide project delivery model, work breakdown structure, and schedules to incorporate handover deliverables.• Developed and implemented a robust defects and warranty management plan. • Directed and managed lessons learned to drive continual improvement via training, best practices, policies and procedures at design office and sites encompassing planning, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning. • Supervised all program-wide handover documentation to ensure consistent quality and on-time-within-budget delivery. • Led, organized and provided direction to multi-functional teams to ensure outstanding performance was achieved in data collection, presentation, and accuracy.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Soma led a multi-disciplinary team to deliver the design of an AUD 90+million sludge treatment facility upgrade in a design-build (EPC) framework. The scope of work included the planning, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning of the civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and I&C systems required for an upgrade from 31mgd to 40mgd (120Ml/d to 150Ml/d).• Managed off-shore teams (in Singapore, UK, Mumbai, and Kansas City) comprising of fourteen engineers and designers, and three on-site professionals to deliver the design of the EPC project within the target cost estimate. • Key results areas were safety in design; project planning, execution, and quality assurance; team development; scheduling tasks and man-hour projections; monitoring and forecasting project progress and budgets.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Soma managed all major and minor engineering issues (mechanical, civil, electrical, instrumentation) on-site at the extremely fast-track Bundamba Recycled Water Project, the largest recycled water scheme in Australia, where a 25mgd plant was planned, designed, built, and commissioned in a span of just two years. This project was a design-build (EPC) alliance, which required no barriers between the contractor (Thiess Pty. Ltd.) and the design team (Black & Veatch). With a grueling 90-hrs/week work schedule, Soma handled all site RFIs; directed rapid design and delivery of outstanding items through off-shore design teams spread in Mumbai, Singapore, Kansas City, China, and the UK on a round-the-clock execution schedule; issued site instructions to enable construction; identified nonconformance situations and followed through quality issues to resolution; assisted in procurement contract management to ensure timely delivery of all equipment; and supported all phases of commissioning.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

• Delivered the design of an USD 85 million wastewater collection and treatment project that involved installation of 81+miles of vacuum sewers, nine vacuum stations, 4,500gpm pump station, 10+miles of wastewater and reuse force main, and a 400,000gpd engineered satellite MBR facility. • Effectively managed a team of five engineers and three designers across five regional offices (Kansas City, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Gaithersburg). • Developed, planned, coordinated and directed the engineering work and studies for more than five smaller, but complex projects for domestic and international markets.• Strengthened business development effort by detailed and systematic market research, prospect identification, proposal development, client presentations, and winning interviews. This led to two new clients and five new project wins for the regional office.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Directed the design of eight groundwater wells in eight different cities, each well approximately 1,200ft deep and 2,500gpm capacity. (Project budget USD 18 million.) Involved in preparing the proposal, interview and winning the project; project coordination and client interaction with nine stakeholders on the project; wrote the preliminary design reports for all the eight wells; performed the quality audits of plans, specifications and cost estimates; and was in charge of all permit coordination.• Planned and designed more than seven water and wastewater treatment facilities including master planning, process engineering, calculations, equipment sizing and selection; design review; prepared of construction plans and bid document specifications.• Developed and evaluated plans/criteria and special analyses required in support of engineering effort. Maintained engineering records, lists and reports as required warranting compliance with the client's schedule, adherence to the budget, adherence to specification, and ensured engineering problems were monitored and resolved.• Worked with senior staff in business development efforts, including client contacts, market research, technical proposal preparation and interviews. • Prepared project status reports, scope of work, assisted in forecasting, and monitoring project schedules and budgets.

Fairport, New York, Us

• Conducted feasibility studies, prepared preliminary design reports, engineering reports, facilities plans, and cost-benefit options analyses.• Delivered successfully over twelve small to medium sized water and wastewater projects from beginning to end by planning, engineering design, permit coordination, preparation and issue of contract documents for construction, shop drawing review, onsite supervision, and site contract administration. • Led the company’s preparation of state and federal funding, environmental permit applications, and environmental impact statements.

Ms, Environmental Engineering

Be, Civil Engineering

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