Professional Involvement

• A lead role in documenting and improving Alberta Transportation’s current project management methodology.

• Responsible for maintaining and updating engineering and construction standards, guidelines, and manuals for Alberta Transportation.

• Analyze and evaluate the KPIs of the current project management practices and recommend the improvement.

• Review, analyze, and consolidate information (schematic design, building envelope, site services, building condition assessment ) from the school jurisdiction's Three Year Capital Plans.

• Identify all the technical information required to support the proposed project.

• Review annual IMR plans and expenditure reports in conjunction with Facility Condition Assessments in a timely manner.

• Complete capital planning assessment requirements and analysis of data.

• Using knowledge of school building design and construction, review the schematic design, and report the extent to which it is aligned with the recommended scope in relation to the School Capital Manual.

• Support the Capital Planning Management Team in the delivery of the program operations.

• Assess the engineering design to plan and schedule the fabrication operation of steel bridge girders.

• Prepare the quantity takeoff and relevant bidding/contract documents of bridge girder projects.

• Maintain lesion with the vendors and sub-contractors for asking quotes and answering RFI.

• Configured a simulation-based decision support tool based on workflow analysis for resource allocation.

• Research team member; who developed a schedule optimizer (an addon for Microsoft Project) to prepare a project master schedule.

• Work process (construction) analysis and modeling for transportation infrastructure construction projects.

• Overseeing the road construction inspector’s responsibilities and work procedure.

• Review consultant design drawings and reports for determining the key performance indicator (KPI) to select the best construction methods to meet the City of Edmonton's design specifications and standard.

• Standardized the frequency of quality assurance & control procedures for road construction projects.

• Provide technical support to department staffs (construction inspector & surveyor’s supervisor and coordinator) on improving technology and methods.

• Involved in pavement design and design supervision of different capital projects (buildings and bridges).

• Performed quality tests on different civil construction materials (concrete, asphalt, structural steel, etc.).

• Conducted research in lightweight concrete, concrete mix design, and quality control for pavement.

Industry Partner: Lafarge Precast and Eagle Builders

(Project sponsored by: Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute - CPCI)

• Planning the manufacturing process of precast structural products

• Generating a computing solution for operation optimization

• Generating planning decision support analytics from the workflow operation simulation

Industry Partner: EPCOR

• Developed decision support analytics for engineering operations.

• Process optimization for resource allocation and job schedule handling.

Industry Partner: Supreme Steel 

• Identified and structured the basic workflow of a steel bridge girder fabrication shop.

• Prepared a decision support tool using based on workflow analysis and simulation for resource allocation and scheduling.

Industry Partner: Almita Piling Inc.

• Decision support tool to estimate the bidding price for pile construction projects:

• Proposed an analytical technique to select appropriate crew setup for helical pile construction projects based on the geotechnical report and engineering design.

• Developed an integrated spreadsheet program to quantify the final bid price.

Academic Research: Research experience in construction process analysis, cost estimation, scheduling:

• Proposed simulation enabled construction project cost estimation technique integrating engineering design, material takeoff, and workflow model

• Developed a systematic approach to quantify the uncertainty in final project cost: A comparative study of Uniformat and Masterformat and using Uniformat as a guide to for construction cost estimating; applied simulation for preparing the final budget.

• Adapted the process of work break down to optimizing the earthmoving work: work packaging; automation of earthmoving machinery; construction process simulation and productivity analysis.  

Courses

• CIV E 607: Work Improvement Studies (Winter 2017, Winter 2018)

• CIV E 601: Construction Management (Fall 2017)

• CIV E 406: Construction Estimating, Planning, and Control (Fall 2017)

• CIV E 270: Strength of Materials Laboratory Session (Fall 2016, Winter 2017)

Major Responsibilities

• Trained undergrad and graduate class to use estimation tools (i.e., Uniformat, Masterformat) for project quantity takeoffs.

• Trained to use Revit and Civil3D for quantity takeoff for residential building and earthmoving projects.

• Trained students on how to test/investigate structural properties of civil engineering materials (steel, wood,

• concrete).

• Lectured in course seminars and helped to prepare class lecture materials.

Lecturer - Structural Engineering (Jan 2015 - Dec 2015)

• Taught undergraduate students several structural engineering courses.

• Involved in structural designing and design checking of high rise concrete buildings.

• In charge of quality control lab facility for different civil construction materials (Concrete, steel, asphalt).

• Engaged in lightweight concrete research, concrete mix design, and quality control.

Consultant Engineer | Consultancy Research & Testing Service (CRTS) (Jan 2015 - Dec 2015)

• Involved in pavement design and design supervision of different capital projects (buildings and bridges).

• Performed quality tests on different civil construction materials (concrete, asphalt, structural steel, etc.).

• Conducted research in lightweight concrete, concrete mix design, and quality control for pavement.

• Reviewer, ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering 

• Reviewer, ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE)

• Reviewer, CSCE Annual Conference

• Reviewer, ASCE Construction Research Congress (CIC) 

• Certification, Respect in the Workplace, Government of Alberta, October 2020. Link

• Certification, SAS Visual Analytics Advanced, SAS Institute Inc., May 2020. Link

• Certification, SAS Visual Analytics Basics, SAS Institute Inc., May 2020. Link

• Certification, Project Management Foundation 1, MITACS, May 2020. 

• Certification, Insights of ArcGIS, Esri Canada, February 2020. Link

• Certification, Indigenous Introductory Training, Government of Alberta Canada, August 2019.

• Certification, Road Builders Safety Training System (RSTS), Alberta Construction Safety Association, March 2018.

• Certification, Student Group Treasurer Training, University of Alberta Student Group Service, October 2016.

• Certification, Construction Safety Training System (CSTS 09), Alberta Construction Safety Association, September 2016.

• Certification, Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), Alberta Construction Safety Association, September 2016.

• Participant, A Workshop on Mathematical Modeling with MATLAB & Embedded System and Robotics; Organized by Mathworks & University of Alberta, 4 May 2016.

• Participant, A Workshop on Self Assessment and Quality Assurance in Higher Education, DUET, Bangladesh; Organized by Self Assessment Committee (SAC), Department of Civil Engineering, DUET, 14 October 2015.

• Speaker, A Seminar on Scope of Higher Study in Civil Engineering Fields & Role of IELTS, DUET, Bangladesh; Organized by DUET Green Practice Society, (DGPS),16 September 2015.[ presentation slides ]