United Nations Office for Project
Services UNOPS / United
Nations Office of the Iraq Program
Sulaymani, Iraq 2003
Field Coordinator
Project
UNOPS Urban Water and Sanitation
Program, a $350 million program for the rehabilitation of the urban
water and sanitation sectors in the cities of Duhok, Erbil, and
Sulaymani, Iraq. Work performed included assessment and engineering
design of water distribution networks, sewerage networks, water
treatment and sewage treatment plants, and institutional
strengthening and capacity building. Technical assessments and
design were carried out by international consulting companies and
the World Health Organization under the management and supervision
of UNOPS. As well, a large public works maintenance facility was
established and equipped, a leak detection training program
conducted, and a number of smaller projects to effect urgent repairs
to the water supply infrastructure were undertaken by local
contractors.
Responsibilities
Responsible for the management of the Urban Water and Sanitation
Program in Sulaymani Iraq. This included supervision and technical
direction of international consultancies, local construction
contracts, and implementation of institutional strengthening and
capacity building initiatives.
United Nations Centre for Human
Settlements UN Habitat / United
Nations Office of the Iraq Program
Erbil, Iraq
1999 - 2000
Deputy Chief Technical Adviser / Officer in
Charge
Project
The UNCHS Resettlement in Northern Iraq Program, a USD 1.2 billion
program to resettle displaced persons and other vulnerable
populations who were affected by war and internal conflict. Works
comprised over 2500 projects involving the design, tendering,
contracting, construction or rehabilitation of settlements, housing,
schools, health centres, public administration facilities, and
infrastructure including roads, bridges, sewer, water, and storm
water drainage systems. These works have also required international
procurement of USD 75 million of construction equipment and
materials and production facilities. The program support unit is
composed of four offices and three warehouses, with 290 national
technical staff and 9 international staff, altogether supervising
500 construction contractors employing about 20 000 people.
Responsibilities
Responsible for the day to day supervision of program planning and
implementation units as well as international consultancies. Act as
Officer in Charge in the absence of the Chief Technical Adviser.
- Development of program policy, establishment of
program planning and monitoring unit, development of capacity
building programs.
- Streamlining contracts administration and
design units.
- Development of proposals and terms of reference
for and supervision of international consultancies. These included
population and beneficiary surveys, study to assess the state of
the construction sector in northern Iraq, and proposals for major
urban infrastructure upgrading projects.
- Establishment and technical supervision of
systems administration, information management, and media
divisions.
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements UN
Habitat
Islamabad, Pakistan Jan 99 - Mar 99
Consultant
Mission to provide technical assistance
in urban environmental sector to the Rebuilding Urban Communities in Afghanistan program.
DANIDA
/ Ramboll, Denmark
Vientiane, Lao
PDR 1998
Consultant
Formulation of proposal for pilot
community based environmental improvement project in Lao PDR. This
Danish International Development Agency project aimed to achieve small
scale infrastructure / environmental improvements in provincial towns
through capacity building in municipal technical departments and
strengthening community participation processes.
Member of mission to identify needs in capacity building and
institutional strengthening in Environmental and Natural Resources
Management at the national level in Lao PDR.
Adviser for baseline study on the urban environmental sector in
Vientiane.
United Nations Centre for Human
Settlements UN Habitat
Vientiane, Lao
PDR 1995 to 1997
Chief Technical Adviser
Project
The Sihom
Rehabilitation Project, a USD 3.5 million project to rehabilitate a 52
hectare site in downtown Vientiane. The site is home to more than 9000
people. Civil works comprised landfilling and rechannelization of
canals, construction and rehabilitation of roads, culverts, water
distribution, and storm water drainage systems, as well as
construction of a school. Noteworthy community development initiatives
included establishment of a savings and credit scheme, and an
environmental program to address sanitation, solid waste management,
drainage and access issues at the community level. Development of
methodologies for implementation, institution building, training, and
community involvement were important aspects of this pilot project.
Responsibilities
Overall responsibility for UNCHS projects in Lao PDR, project
engineering, and UNCHS representative for Lao PDR.
- Management and administration of Project
offices, comprising 35 national and UN staff, contracts
administration, and supervision of an international construction
contractor and local subcontractors with a peak combined workforce
of 200 persons.
- Preparation of proposals, budgets, funding
requests, terms of reference, organization of training, workshops,
study tours, and public awareness programs.
- Direction and technical supervision of a
community development program. The program established a member
run savings and credit scheme, initiated the involvement of the
residents in civil works construction and in community self help
programs, performed socio economic surveys, and encouraged and
strengthened community participation in the project.
- Establishment, direction, and technical
supervision of a community based Environmental Program which
involved public health and sanitation, solid waste management, and
drainage improvements, financed with credit disbursed by the
projects Environmental Improvement Fund.
- Direction and technical supervision of a
municipal finance component to develop project cost recovery
mechanisms at the municipal level. Development of land titles and
land registry.
- Development of proposals for follow up projects
to establish a pilot Community Based Technical Support Office and
to institutionalize the community volunteer process initiated
during the project.
United Nations Centre for Human
Settlements UN Habitat
Vientiane, Lao PDR 1993 to 1995
Project Engineer
Project
The Sihom Rehabilitation Project.
Responsibilities
Overall responsibility for management of the technical components of
the Project.
- Contracts administration and supervision of USD
2.5 million civil works construction involving two main
contractors and two subcontractors.
- Preparation of contracts, tender documents,
authorization of progress payments, preparation of reports,
schedules, engineering estimates and budgets, field design.
- Direction of site office and design office,
approval of engineering designs.
- Liaison with government departments and
agencies, and utility companies.
- Evaluation of proposed sanitation component of
project, recommendations for implementation of proposed small bore
sanitary sewer system, and development of alternative community
based sanitation systems.
- Work closely with community development teams
and the community development specialist to address the needs and
issues of concern of the population, in particular the setting up
of the Community Development Cell and a community based savings
and credit scheme, and the relocation of 30 families to a
resettlement area within the project site.
- Training of national and international
contractor staff.
LANDPLAN GROUP Inc an environmental / municipal engineering
consulting firm
Vancouver, BC, Canada 1991 to
1992
Project Manager
Projects
Provision of
project management, environmental / municipal engineering design, and
construction services for a variety of residential and commercial
construction projects in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia,
Canada.
Responsibilities
- Project management, liaison with government
agencies, clients, and affected residents, coordination with
utility companies.
- Preparation of project documents for
government approval, preparation of specifications, tender and
contract documents, capital cost recovery, bid evaluations, site
inspection, engineering estimates and budgets.
- Design of road, water, and sewer services,
sedimentation ponds, siltation control and other environmental
works, hydraulic structures.
Totten Sims Hubicki Associates
Ltd a major
environmental engineering firm with offices across Ontario, Canada
Whitby, Ontario, Canada 1989 to 1990
Project Engineer
Projects
Environmental engineering projects such as solid waste management,
engineered solid waste landfill sites, water and sewer systems, and
sewer rehabilitation. Typical projects included solid waste landfill
design, siting, establishment, and closure, groundwater monitoring,
solid waste recycling, source reduction programs; design of a $4
million hazardous waste transfer station; needs studies and
rehabilitation programs for sanitary sewer and water systems.
Responsibilities
Prepare engineered solid waste landfill
establishment, expansion, and closure plans and follow through
government approval.
Design and conduct solid waste landfill
monitoring programs.
Design and conduct solid waste management
programs including municipal waste collection, recycling,
composting, source reduction, hazardous waste, and public
awareness components.
Prepare tender documents, evaluate municipal
water and sewer bylaws and rate structures, propose capital cost
recovery, prepare reports and proposals, engineering estimates and
budgets, supervise preparation of drawings.
Prepare routine engineering designs for
sanitary sewer, storm sewer, and water supply systems.
Conduct sewer rehabilitation studies.
Government of Thailand, Rural Initiatives
Department
Uttaradit, Thailand 1987 to 1988
Water Resources Engineer
Projects
Rural water supply and irrigation works.
Responsibilities
Prepare designs for water supply systems, small
dams, weirs, and canals in response to community needs. Conduct on the job training in coordination,
scheduling, supervision and monitoring of construction and
rehabilitation activities, surveying and setting out.
Brikon Masonry a
major construction contractor with offices in Quebec and Ontario,
Canada
Hull, Quebec, Canada 1985 to 1987
Project Engineer
Projects
Subcontractor
for $15 million in construction contracts for a new National
Gallery of Canada and Canadian
Museum of Civilization.
Responsibilities
Contracts coordination and administration,
supervision and monitoring of construction, scheduling, quality
control and inspection, quantity and cost estimates, field design.
Golder
Associates a major environmental /
geotechnical engineering consulting company with offices around the
world
St John's, Newfoundland, Canada 1983
Engineering Technician
Projects
Typical
projects included - geotechnical field investigations for St John's
airport expansion, water and sewer systems, roads, buildings and
shore structures.
Responsibilities
Supervision of geotechnical field surveys, geotechnical
drilling, including power auger borings and core drilling of
bedrock, test pit programmes, field and laboratory testing of soils,
concrete and asphalt, and preparation of geotechnical reports.
Department of Mines and Energy, Government of
Newfoundland and Labrador
St John's, Newfoundland, Canada 1982 to 1983
Engineering Technician
Responsibilities
- Evaluation of mini-hydro, wind, and solar
energy projects for technical and economic feasibility,
evaluation of building designs for energy performance.
- Research studies of solar radiation in
Newfoundland and Labrador, solar heating design, efficiency of
wood burning appliances. Design of wood chip fuel handling
facility.
Nordco Limited a
company engaged in cold oceans engineering research and development
St John's, Newfoundland, Canada 1978 to 1982
Engineering Technician
Typical Projects
A number of environmental impact assessment related projects
including:
Establishment
of
environmental
and oceanographic monitoring stations.
Establishment
and
operation
of radar stations for tracking icebergs in the Canadian Arctic.
Feasibility
study
of
winter ship navigation in Lake Melville, Labrador.
Sea ice
trials of Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker Franklin.
Iceberg
towing and observation programme for oil drilling vessels.
Responsibilities
- Establishment and supervision of field camps
and shipborne environmental and oceanographic observation
programmes, principal meteorological officer, radiotelephone
operator, training and supervision of field personnel in
meteorological, ice, and environmental observation, scientific
equipment operation and data collection. Development
of computer model to simulate icebreaker performance.
- Data collection and analysis, and operation
of oceanographic instrumentation and scientific or research
equipment.
Remotec a company
engaged in remote sensing research and development
St John's, Newfoundland, Canada 1980
Engineering Technician
Project
Evaluation of ship based sea ice detection techniques in the
Canadian Arctic.
Responsibilities
Operation of radars, sonars, infra red cameras, night vision
devices, oceanographic instrumentation, meteorological and ice
observation, data collection and analysis.
MacLaren Atlantic
an environmental engineering consulting company with
offices in Eastern Canada
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 1977
Engineering Technician
Project
Conduct baseline studies of environmental, climate, and biological
conditions for environmental impact assessment of activities in the
Canadian Arctic.
Responsibilities
Preparation of reports on environmental and climate conditions in
the Davis Strait, conduct field ice study program, principal
meteorological officer, radiotelephone operator, satellite
navigator, operation of radar and sonar equipment, oceanographic
and meteorological instrumentation, and biological observer.
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