Objective
To seek a challenging and growth oriented full time position
as a civil engineer
Education
- MS in Civil Engineering,
- BE in Civil Engineering,
- Qualified EIT professional with over 7 months of solid hands on experience in
energy industry
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1.5 years experience in watershed &
groundwater modeling, water and air quality assessment
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Proficient
in GIS, hydrologic and hydraulic as well as dispersion and risk modeling using
EPA
and US Army Corp of Engineers models
- Good
grasp of regulatory, permitting and compliance issues such as Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and FEMA
- Excellent interpersonal and technical
writing skills
Civil Engineer, LeTourneau Inc.
- Assist in design, planning and
oversight of Jack up oil rig construction
- Responsible for carrying out field
survey for suitable locations of cranes for lifting purposes
- Responsible
for reviewing geo-technical reports for site preparation and maintaining river
levels data for
- Assist in preparing monthly progress
report and other documentation for Project Manager
- Assist in addressing environmental
and safety issues within the construction yard
Academic Work Experience
Research Assistant,
Department of Civil Engineering,
A
- Developed
and validated a working watershed model using BASINS and AERMOD model
for
- Studied the impact of land use changes on water quality using SWAT
and QUAL2E models
- Carried out
an independent study on HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS models
- Assisted in
preparing proposal for “Lucas County All Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan” in
accordance with the
regulations of the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2K), FEMA, the
State of Ohio Emergency Management Agency (OEMA) and
Related Projects
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Masters Thesis
entitled “Development of a Watershed Model for
- Groundwater Modeling of Base Borden
site by Groundwater Modeling System (GMS)
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Determining
Surface Runoff and Discharge Locations integrating SCS Curve Number Runoff
Method for
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Undergraduate
project on “Design of Pile Foundations” using Simplistic approach
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Final year
undergraduate project “Assessment of Human Exposure to Respirable
Particulates in
Computer Skills
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Software
Packages: AUTOCAD 2002,MS Access, Project 2000, Frontpage
2000, MS Office
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Environmental
Models: BASINS 3.0, SWAT, PLOAD, HSPF, QUAL2E, AERMOD, GMS
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GIS packages: ArcView GIS 3.2, ArcGIS 8.3,
ARC/INFO
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Languages
& Operating Systems: C, HTML, Windows NT, 2000 and UNIX
Publication/Presentation
- M.
Benedict, M. Palmer, R. Parab, J.
Gottgens, and K. Czajkowski, 2003, Linking water quality and satellite-derived
land use data in the
- Student poster
and paper by R. Parab, A. Heydinger, A. Kumar, and M.
A. Abraham, 2002 “A Pilot Study to Estimate Application of Atrazine
on Areas near Auglaize River using AERMOD/BASINS”, Ohio Air Pollution Research
Symposium, paper no. OS -02-26.
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Rahul Parab, Michael Palmer, Dong-Shik Kim
and Ashok Kumar, 2003, Simulation of atrazine discharge in the Auglaize watershed using
satellite-generated images, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and
Toxicology, in print
Relevant Coursework
Graduate level: Geographic Information Systems, Groundwater
Modeling, Dispersion and Risk Modeling, GIS Applications, Industrial
Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality.
Undergraduate level: Environmental Engineering, Irrigation
Engineering, Applied Hydraulics, Advanced Foundation Engineering, Soil
Dynamics, Transportation Engineering, Construction and Planning Management.
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Member of
American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE)
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Member of
American Geophysical