RAM KONANUR

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging career for a suitable position/opening with a progressive organization utilizing my skills, knowledge and experience in Engineering Design Applications, Analysis, proposals, project cost estimates and regulatory code (IBC, UBC & CBC) practices in a demanding role that allows for advancement in Civil Engineering Career opportunity and growth.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A self-motivated and resourceful professional with hands on experience between Design, Development & Field to a total of 25 years (12+years of Design, Analysis, Reports & Field, 10+Research & Development and 3+ years in teaching at Graduate level) Experience in Civil/Geo-Technical Engineering and related field and research. Managed projects of high complexity, including identifying, maintaining, and/or adjusting the scope and/or resources, & overseeing the formal planning, tracking, proposal for the projects and reporting of project performance. Performed with only moderate supervision and worked independently or as an individual contributor on cross functional teams. Demonstrated leadership skills in the areas of: training; provided direction to cross functional employee teams responsible for the resolution of issues or technical problems; and conflict resolution. Collaborated effectively with clients, peers, project professionals/personnel, contractors and at all levels of management enterprise-wide to develop solutions, troubleshooting and solve problems. Motivated self and others to set and achieve high performance standards. An adaptable team builder and team player with expertise at managerial level in:

Proposal & Planning Design & AnalysisField and Construction
Preliminary Reconnaissance Detailed Geotechnical InvestigationAnalysis & Report

EDUCATION

1989-95-Ph.D., Geotechnical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
1984-86-M.S., Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, KREC-Karnataka regional engineering college, Surathkal, Mangalore University, India.
1978-83-B.S., Civil Engineering, BVB College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli, Karnatak University, India.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Converse Consultants Monrovia, CA:Job Title: Engineer2003 Current
Leighton and Associates- Irvine CA:Job Title: Engineer 2001-2003


Converse Consultants:2003-Current

Independently conduct, lead, direct and/or participate as a team member on complex design and analysis of structure, perform field activities, like reconnaissance of the area, preliminary report, detailed geotechnical investigation and final geotechnical report, training co workers in the field and in office reports, helping peers to get information regarding cost estimates etc. Performed oral presentations and explained complex technical concepts in simple terms to both technical and non-technical personnel. Evaluated technical reports from both internal organizations and external sources. Always customer focused, to appropriately identify and respond to clients business needs, facilitate the presentation of recommendations, and guide discussions toward the attainment of mutually acceptable goals and outcomes. Demonstrated the ability to accurately analyze information, make strategic decisions/ recommendations, and guide others decision making by identifying the anticipated benefits, consequences, and impacts of alternatives.

Project Accomplishments:

Representative Commercial Projects:

Coordinate and administer project management at Converse Professional Group, collaborate with clients, corporate officers, and other managers to ensure solutions to project findings were implemented accurately and timely. Interface and/or collaborate with clients, and senior management to develop recommendations/solutions, Design and facilitate action plan between proposal stages to final reports.

Project Engineer: UCLA-OHRP-Santa Monica Main Hospital & UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, UCLA-LSRB, (Life Sciences Replacement Building Project-one below and four above), Design & installation of 450-CIDH (Cast-In-Drilled Hole) piles and its foundation design requirements, Grading recommendations etc. Santa Barbara Airport: Soil Exploration, Geotechnical Report and Design recommendations for the Design of Piles (Driven and Cast-In-Drilled-Hole) for the Goleta Airport. EMBASSY SUITES IN GLENDALE, Supervised the drilling and installation of 112 shoring beams up to 80 feet deep and 350 tiebacks with varying depths of 60-95 feet at an angle ranging from 15-25 degrees and subsequent structural backfill operations and its reports. Huntington Memorial Hospital-West Tower Replacement, Pasadena, Apartment Complex at Wilshire & Vermont, Wilshire Vermont Development LLC. Los Angeles, Caltech Parking Structure, Caltech. Pasadena etc.

REPRESENTATIVE CITY PROJECTS:

Geotechnical Design analysis and its Reports for: Valley Bomb Squad Facility, Granada Hills, City of Los Angeles, 25-Acre Residential Development In Lancaster, Beazer Homes, Soil exploration/Drilling, seismic, liquefaction analysis and report preparation for Northern Inyo Hospital, Bishop, CA for expansion of hospital building and its Parking Lot, California. La Crescenta Library Building and its Parking Lot, City of La Crescenta, Azusa water filtration plant includes backhoe sampling and logging. California.

Hospitals: Soil Exploration/Geo-Technical Investigation, Design of footings/foundations and Reports for: Lompoc Hospital, Arcadia Methodist Hospital, Huntington Memorial Hospital.

Representative School Projects: Geo-technical Investigation and Grading Reports for following school projects: Burbank High School, John Muir High School, Edgewood Middle School, Coronado High School for LA Unified School District, West Covina Unified School District, Pasadena Unified School District, Pomona Unified School District and Burbank Unfied School District.

Other Miscellaneous Projects:

Preliminary Geotechnical Investigation & Reports involving, field exploration and Report for a business plaza, Towne Center at the City of Diamond Bar, City of Monterey Park, for the possibility of building the access road on a hill slope, Chino Pipeline project, City of Chino, 2-storey building in the City of Victorville, Seismic, liquefaction analysis and report for Arcadia Methodist Hospital, City of Arcadia, underground tanks and buildings at the Universal Studios, Universal City, Sams Club Shopping Center and parking lot in the City of North Hollywood, California, a total of 54 soil exploratory borings at various locations in and around the site location, Parking lot and proposed new building for the Valley Bomb Squad Facility, Granada Hills, California MTA station in Los Angeles, Caltech, Pasadena, Palmdale, Lancaster, Pomona, Long Beach, Camarillo, Oxnard, Corona, Wal-Mart Shopping Center in Baldwin Park, Target Shopping Center in Mira Loma, Hughes High School in Mission Hills, California etc. Wal-Mart Center Shopping in Baldwin Park and Target Shopping Center in Mira Loma included around 100 soil exploratory borings at various locations in and around the site location and lot many other projects in around southern and northern California.

Leighton and Associates: 2001-2003

Major Representative Projects:

Commercial:
Offshore Structures, Carnival Cruises Terminal within Long Beach Harbor, Long Beach, CA: Engineer- Supervised the Indicator Pile Driving Program for offshore structures comprising of a proposed new Carnival Cruises terminal within the harbor. As an engineer during the driving of production piles for the offshore terminal, supervised the driving of 2300 Plumb and Batter concrete octagonal piles from a floating barge for various off shore structures like Vehicular Traffic Bridge, Pier, Mooring and Breasting Dolphins. A total of 288 octagonal concrete piles (In the Ocean) and 8 hollow steel batter and shaft piles were driven in this project. Further, supervised CIDH pile installation work for the Bus and Walkway Canopy.
Park at Harbor View at Long Beach, CA: Engineer- Supervised pile-driving work for this development project, which consisted of a number of high-rise buildings for commercial and residential use, multi-level parking structures, recreational facilities, and other related improvements. The project had about 2500 pre-cast, pre-stressed concrete piles of different capacities.
Bridge Construction; IUDA Grade Separator at the City of Industry, CA: Engineer- Supervised pile-driving operations for construction of a bridge. The project used approximately 180 steel piles of 25 and 30 feet lengths.
Shoring: soldier pile installation at city of Fullerton, CA: Supervised shoring for multi-storied apartment complex, and was responsible for the installation of 180 steel piles, 30 feet in length and 35-inches in diameter. Maintained detailed records of the above information, prepared daily and weekly status reports for the client and project manager, and compiled the final report at the end of the work.
Geo-Technical Investigation, grading report and its Slope Stability Analysis for the Ortega Freeway, Crystal Cove Development and for Pepperdine University using GSTBL software, 7.4 Version.
Independent Consulting and Post Doctoral Research: 1995-2000 Geo-Technical Consultants for the international oil companies like schlumberger limited, British petroleum (BP), Indian Oil Company (IOC), Shell and Burma oil companies for their field geotechnical investigations and writing complete and factual test reports etc. Reports include identifying, maintaining, and/or adjusting the scope and/or resources, & overseeing the formal planning, tracking, and reporting project performance. Performing reconnaissance survey of the subject site, critical review and assessment of the problems involved, analyzing the facts, suggesting remedies, creating and evaluating technical reports. Proposal, cost estimates, design and analysis to clients, troubleshooting and report. Performed detailed field investigation, subsequently conducted laboratory tests to perform data design & analysis leading to the final reports.
Post Doctoral Research: Data analysis using Soil Cement Fly ash mixtures, interactions and determining its relative shear strength parameters values using tri-axial, consolidation, settlement analysis, seismic parameters, centrifuge soil samples using liquid nitrogen at -300 degree centigrade which helps in analyzing soil-fly ash-cement interactions, without disturbing initial soil structure using centrifuge data and analysis and developing relative centrifuge modeling, atomic adsorption spectrophotometer and its relative final geotechnical reports.

Teaching: 1986-1989: Taught for Undergraduate, Graduate and for Masters degree students regarding design criteria and acceptance tests, critiquing the performance of the test, evaluating the test results, setup and evaluating test papers. Teaching/training graduate students in Strength of Materials, Concrete technology, fluid mechanics and machinery design, Survey, Soil mechanics, Foundation Engineering, Static, Dynamic, Seismic, performing laboratory tests, field applications and related case histories.

MEMBERSHIP & CERTIFICATIONS
Associate Member since 2001, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Associate Member since 1995, Institution of Civil Engineers, India
Member IGS (Indian Geo-Technical Society), since 1995-Present.
Certified Pile Driving Deputy Inspector since 2001-Current, City of Long Beach, California.
Member International Geotechnical Society of Civil Engineers (MIGS) since 1995.
Nuke Gauge Certified Operator & ARSO Certified Since 2003-Current.
Professional Engineering P.E., (Eligible to Register & is expected to complete in 2010)

APPLICATION SOFTWARES

Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98 and 2000, 2007 XP, DOS, UNIX and Windows NT, LAN, WAN.
Applications: Windows 2000, Windows XP and related programs - Word, Power Point, Excel, Access, Microsoft Project.
Engineering/Geotechnical Softwares/Programs GSTABL 7.1, 7.4, GINT, FRISKSP, LIQUEFY 2; LIQUEFY PRO, EQFAULT, EQSEARCH, SNAIL, UBCSEIS, GSLOPE, APILE, LPILE, EZFRISK, SETCALC.


References: Provided upon Request.