ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL, CIVIL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

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1 ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL, CIVIL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 2014 NOMINATION AND EVALUATION FORM VITA Date: Name Charles (Tom) Blaine Residence Address P.O. Box 267 Jarales, NM Phone (505) City and State Zip: Jarales, NM Date of Birth Place of Birth Moscow, Idaho EDUCATION University Degree Year NMSU BS Ag Engr 1978 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Current Employer: New Mexico Environment Department Business Address: P.O. Box 5469 City and State: Zip: Santa Fe, NM Position Title Director, Environmental Health Division Phone (505) Fax Description of Duties/Responsibilities: As the Division Director of the Environmental Health Division, I am responsible for the operations within the Hazardous Waste Bureau (HWB), Construction Programs Bureau (CPB), Drinking Water Bureau (DWB) and the Environmental Health Bureau (EHB). The operating budget of this Division of $23 million supports approximately 250 full time positions and a number of contracts. The HWB's mission is to provide regulatory oversight and technical guidance to New Mexico hazardous waste generators and treatment, storage, and disposal facilities as required by the New Mexico Hazardous Waste Act and regulations. New Mexicans will then be assured that hazardous waste is managed, and contaminated sites are cleaned up, in a manner that is safe and protective of human health and the environment. HWB also ensures abandoned hazardous substances are handled on an emergency basis, and lessens the resulting hazards that may present endangerment to humans. Some of the major projects of the Bureau include; Kirtland bulk fuel release, elimination of radioactive waste from Las Alamos Labs facilities, Management of Sandia Mixed Waste Landfill and oversight of the WIPP facility.

2 The CPB s mission is to assist communities to develop sustainable and secure water, wastewater and solid waste infrastructure. In 2012 the Bureau was responsible for funding over $22 Million is water, wastewater, and solid waste projects throughout New Mexico. The Construction Programs Bureau staff oversees water, wastewater, and solid waste projects funded through a variety of sources in communities throughout New Mexico. CPB strives to ensure that projects are sustainable, managed on a timely basis, environmentally sound, of high quality, and free of waste, fraud, and abuse. The mission of the DWB is to preserve, protect, and improve New Mexico's drinking water quality for present and future generations. A primary function of the Bureau is to uphold the state drinking water regulations and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and providing technical assistance, system oversight and community outreach. The bureau is responsible to maintain public information availability dealing with water quality and possible health risks on a web-based information system. The EHB has the responsibility to protect public health through the administration of three core programs; Food program, Pool program and the Liquid Waste program. The Food program protects employees, consumers and the general public from adverse health and safety conditions in public food establishments and food processing establishments throughout New Mexico. The Pool program ensures that the owners and operators of public swimming pools, spas, baths and other bathing attractions maintain them in a safe and health responsible manner. The Liquid Waste program protects public health, safety and water quality by ensuring that onsite disposal of household sewage is done safely and properly. Previous Employment Location(s) Date Summary of Duties/Responsibilities Blaine Engineering Owner ( ) As a consultant, I advised construction companies in Business Development, Estimating practices, Project Development and Project Management for a verity of construction projects. Business Development Process included creating new contracting opportunities throughout the state. I developed relationships with clients and developed innovative contracting approaches such as Construction Management at Risk (CMR) and modified Design Build. I assisted construction companies in developing estimating processes, documentation procedures and cost measures to ensure improve profitability of projects. After successfully bidding a project hand-off procedures were developed to transition the project to the field construction phase. I developed a project scheduling, cost tracking and quality control systems templates to be used in all projects. Project size ranged from $150k to $2.5m. I developed an equipment tracking system to ensure that equipment was at the correct job site at the scheduled time and billed to the correct project. Tracking system also included detailed reports for equipment usage, maintenance, and repairs. Preventative maintenance on the equipment resulted in reduced down time for repairs and increased profits.

3 As project manager, I was responsible for the coordination and scheduling of all work, keeping detailed records, daily reports and approval of pay applications from contractors. In addition to contract management, I was responsible for developing and submitting pay applications to public agencies for work completed on their projects. New Mexico Department of Transportation - ITS Engineer ( ) As the Statewide Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Engineer, I was responsible for the development of the program for the construction of projects for the statewide ITS program. The program required selection of engineering consultants for project design, development of specifications and developing bidding documents. Because this was a new Bureau in the state, processes were developed under my direction for operations of the program and field devices. This included the development of standard policies and procedures for the Transportation Management Center (TMC), a Traffic Management Center operations policies and procedures manual and ITS field equipment operations, reliability documenting and testing and maintenance procedures. To make certain that federal reporting requirements were met, the operating procedures were written to ensure that data reporting requirements to Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) were accurate and timely. Compliance with reporting to the FHWA was a requirement of continued support of the program from their Agency. City of Albuquerque - Senior Civil Engineer ( ) As Senior Civil Engineer, I was responsible for program coordination for all design projects within the Department of Municipal Development. The annual budget for all of the projects was in excess of $40 million. These responsibilities included, developing project scoping reports, identifying project design elements, identifying funding source, coordinating a team to select a design consultant, working with the design consultant to develop a set of Plans, Specifications and Estimates (PS&E) for the project. The types of projects included: Water/sewer line design and relocations; Storm Drainage Improvements; Intersection and Road Improvements. Met with City Project Managers to ensure that coordination of construction projects was being followed for progress meeting, scheduling project phasing, making field modifications in the design plans, preparing pay requests, reviewing shop drawings and preparing necessary field change orders. Smith Engineering - Civil Engineering Dept. Manager ( ) As Senior Civil Engineer, I managed the Civil Engineering Department made up of engineers, engineering technicians, designers and Geographical Information System (GIS) staff. This required scheduling workloads of the staff and the coordination of all projects to ensure that projects were completed on time and within budget. As the

4 Department Manager, I was responsible for the preparation of responses to RFP s and marketing engineering services to municipal, county and state governmental agencies. In addition, I had Project Management responsibilities for larger projects within the department involving the design of municipal water and wastewater systems, drainage improvement projects, transportation improvement projects and residential and commercial land development projects. Bernalillo County Public Works - Traffic Engineering Section Manager ( ) As the Traffic Engineering Section Manager, I developed the plans and specifications for road construction projects. Oversee construction of projects, approving change orders and field changes. I developed an automated sign inventory system through the integration of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). This was the first system developed that used these technologies to automate a sign inspection and verification activity. I wrote and presented a paper on this system at the ITE International Conference and was awarded Best Paper Honors. Served as Chairman of the ITS subcommittee established at the MRCOG. The subcommittee worked to established agreements between member agencies to include ITS features in typical road construction projects. The member agencies formed an agreement to incorporate ITS projects across political boundaries. I was responsible for the budgeting for all operations in the Traffic Engineering Section (1.2 million dollar budget). Blaine Engineering Owner ( ) Blaine Engineering provided general civil engineering services focused in the area of: Water Distribution systems Groundwater Remediation Groundwater Hydrology Site Development Surface Water Hydrology Roadway Design Significant Projects Include: Sole source contract with Department of Energy to assist in the benchmarking of calculations and model verification of groundwater model used at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP). As a team member, we developed a flow model that simulated three phase flow of water, vapor and the salt creep. Studies and reports were prepared for Department of Energy using finite difference and finite element models. Design of water distribution system for a private water company with over 500 customers. The distribution system included over 300 miles of underground water distribution lines ranging from 4 inch to 24 inch diameter. This included the design and

5 oversight of construction of 1 million gallon water storage tanks. In addition, I was responsible for the design and specifications for 2,000 gallon per minute booster pump stations. Design of the liquid waste system for major developments ranging in size from 50 to 500 customers. The liquid waste systems included the design of waste water collection lines for a gravity flow sewer systems and wastewater lift stations and pump stations. Design plans and specifications for residential and commercial land developments ranging in size from 25 acres to 500 acres. This required the design of all roadways within the development, water and wastewater systems, fire protection systems, drainage infrastructure (storm drains, channels retention and detention ponds). Develop and run computer models for groundwater flow simulations, surface water flow, pressure flow in pipe lines, gravity flow in closed pipe line systems New Mexico State Engineer Office - Water Resource Specialist II ( ) My experience with the Office of the State Engineer includes: Water Rights Administration Adjudication of Water Rights Water Rights Licenses Pre 1907 Water Rights Studies Surface Water Transfers Delayed Effects on Surface Water Groundwater Transfers Well Drawdown Modeling Water Right Transfers Dam Safety Program Hydrographic Surveys Professional Organizations and Awards ITE Western Division - Best Annual Paper Award 2002 Transportation Research Board Best Project Award 2007 Professional Registrations and States New Mexico Professional Engineer #8185