2010-4-12 ASCE Civil Timesascesuncoast.weebly.com/uploads/6/6/1/8/6618257/...Crist, Stephanie Day, Arthur L Delaney, Douglas A Dell, Leroy Dear ASCE Suncoast Branch ... Stephen C Ravazzoli,

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Civil Times

SunCoast Branch News Volume 3 No. 10

April 2010

Adams, Frederick D Brady, Scott T Brown, Roy A Buttice, Jeffrey S Collins, Patrick S Crist, Stephanie Day, Arthur L Delaney, Douglas A Dell, Leroy

Dear ASCE Suncoast BranchMembers, I would like to take this opportunity toremind you of the importance ourannual golf tournament fundraiser hason the overall success of ourorganization. The Suncoast Branch contributes annually to causes such asstudent scholarships, the Toothpick Bridge, Math ACES, and more, andall of these contributions are raisedthrough our annual golf tournament. I urge you to talk with your employersabout supporting the ASCE golftournament, through sponsorship,participation, or volunteering. The one and only message that I have for

President’s Message from Eric Rose, P.E.

In This Issue: President's Message PG 1

Happy Birthdays PG 1

April speaker intro PG 2

Conferences PG 2

Sub Committees PG 2

2010 Branch Awards PG 3

Sponsor’s Spot PG 3

West Point Bridge PG 4

2010 Golf tournament PG 5

Golf Sponsorship Form Pg 6

Career Corner PG 8

Help on ASCE dues PG 8

FWEA Lunch Meeting PG 8

FL Section Directors PG 9

P.E. Renewal Notice PG 9

Sponsor’s Spot PG 9

Sponsor’s Page PG 10

April Meeting PG 11

you this month is to remind you that the annual golf tournament is only a month away and the success of our organization depends on a successful event. Please find the information for participating in the golf tournament in the newsletter and do what you can to support our organization. If you are interested in volunteering at the tournament then please contact Sonya Fronckowiak for details. Thanks for your continued support,

Mark your Calendars!! Special Events:

ASCE Suncoast Annual Charity

Golf Tournament is on May 14, 2010 at the Bobcat Trail golf club , Registration starts at 12:30 p.m.

The Civil Times would like to wish the following SunCoast Members a Happy Birthday!

Donoghue, Richard G Erickson, Ronald R Haas, Dale Hendrickson, Candace O Jensen, Kurt W Karleskint, Julie L King, Aaron M Kokomoor, Karl W Leins, Douglas S

Mac Eachern, Stephen C Ravazzoli, Keith A Rhodes, Michael J Ross, Curtis G Sankah, Kwamena Saraniero, Joh T Tuomy, Blake A Winkler, Thomas F


http://branches.asce.org/suncoast/

AASSCCEE UUPPCCOOMMIINNGG CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEESS

Go to www.ASCE.org/conferences for more information.

May 3-5 May 12-15 May 16-20 July 15-17

2010 Offshore Technology Conference 2010 Structures Congress World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2010 ASCE FL section annual Conference

Houston, Texas Orlando Providence, Rhode Island Fort Lauderdale

SUNCOAST BRANCH SUB-COMMITTEES

Please join a

Sub-committee today! 1) Scholarship Committee: Please contact Tim Foushee [email protected] for more information 2) Outreach Program Committee: Please contact Paula R. Wiggins at [email protected] for more information 3) Toothpick Bridge Committee: Please contact Chris Sharek at [email protected] for more information 4) West Point Bridge Committee Please contact Paula Wiggins at [email protected] for more information 5) Florida Section Science and Engineering Fair Committee Please contact Adnan Javed at [email protected] for more information

April speaker and topic introduction



2010 Branch Award Nominations Being Accepted

AND PROJECT OF THE YEAR

SEND NOMINATIONS TO ANY BRANCH OFFICER BY May 31, 2010

Please take a minute to reward hard work. Recognizing your valuable employees, customers, or important projects is a great way to showcase great individual or team efforts. Every firm or government office has someone who goes above and beyond; please take a moment to deliver kudos where deserved by filling out a registration form and submitting your nomination to any branch officer. For more information, please contact Amjid Hussain at [email protected].

DO YOU HAVE AN EXCEPTIONAL EMPLOYEE; CUSTOMER OR PROJECT

THAT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED?

IF SO, PLEASE SUBMIT

NOMINATION FORMS FOR

ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

YOUNG ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

GOVERNMENT ENGINEER

OF THE YEAR

RS&H CSRS&H CSIMPROVING YOUR WORLDIMPROVING YOUR WORLD



SunCoast

Branch West Pointe Bridge

2010 Sponsorship Opportunities!

Sponsorship opportunity available: Contact: Paula R. Wiggins P.E. ([email protected])or (941- 8610769) by April 26, 2010. Sponsorship available as follows: $1000: John Ringling Causeway Bridge Sponsor (Only 1 Available!) $500: Sunshine Skyway Bridge Sponsor $250: Longboat Key Pass Bridge Sponsor $100: Hobb Road Bridge Sponsor <$100: Arcadia Bridge More details and sponsorship form will be email separately.









2010 ASCE SunCoast Branch Charity Golf

Tournament

The tournament date is May 14th on Friday at the Bobcat Trail Golf Club registration starts at 12:30 p.m. Please spread the word to your friends and co-workers. See details on Page 5. Sponsorship opportunities. Contact: Sonya Fronckowiak, P.E. WilsonMiller, Inc. 6900 Professional Pkwy. E. Sarasota, Florida 34240 [email protected] (941) 907-6900) Quote of the month Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. Herbert Otto

Career Corner: Members seeking Job

Jeffrey D. Nagle

Licensed Landscape Architect and Licensed Professional Planner with 23-year career built on innovative management approach and state of the art design solutions utilizing multidisciplinary technical skills and coordination with Civil, Electrical, Geotechnical, Municipal and Structural Engineers, Professional Planners, Environmental Scientists and other Design Specialists. Resume available upon request. Contact at [email protected]

Christopher Sutton

A Landscape Architect with great CAD skills who graduated with honors and developed award winning senior design project for the Fruitville Road Corridor project downtown Sarasota FL in 2006. Skilled in AutoCAD, MS Office. Adobe Photoshop CS2, AdobeIllustrator CS2, and Adobe InDesign CS2, ArcGIS 9 and Google SketchUp. His email is [email protected].

Help available Have you let your membership lapse due to unemployment? If so, there is help available at the ASCE National Level! Based on your circumstance, you may qualify to waive your membership dues to allow you to continue your membership. Please contact membership services at www.asce.org.

Members Helping Members

Know of a member who is seeking employment? Ask them to send a paragraph “resume” and we will post it here or refer any job leads privately. Besides Ms. Knight, Mr. Nagle, Mr. White and Mr Sutton, we have 4 other members looking for prospects. Know of a job opportunity? You can help by just forwarding an opportunity to your branch officers to pass on to qualified colleagues looking for work. Don’t delete the next email from Monster, HotJobs, or Career Builder; pass a prospect to a worthy member!

Sundae Knight, PE, CEM

Professional Engineer and Certified Energy Manager with over 10 years experience in Transportation Planning, Traffic Operations, Road and Bridge Construction Management and Energy Engineering. Resume available by contacting [email protected]

Christopher White, EI Design engineer (EI) with four years of experience in water/wastewater infrastructure design and construction observation. Typical projects include large diameter pipelines, water and sewage pumping stations, drainage structures and wastewater treatment facilities. Resume available upon request. Contact Christopher at [email protected]



2009-2010 Florida Section

Board of Directors

President

Crystal Markley, P.E., US Army Corps of Engineers

President Elect

Peter Moore, P.E., Chen & Assoc.

Secretary/Treasurer Dane Hanson, P.E., WilsonMiller Inc

VP District I

Eric Czerniejewski, P.E., Miller Legg

VP District II

Chad Luttrell, P.E. Graef Anhalt Schloemer &

Assoc.

VP District III Loreen Bobo, P.E., FL

Dept. of Transportation.

VP District IV Jason Haeseler, E.I., Jones

Edmunds & Assoc.

Past President Satya Sukumar Lory, P.E.,

PBS&J

F All Engineer Licenses Expire Feb. 28, 2011 All Florida Professional Engineers are required to have

completed eight (8) hours of continuing education prior to

renewing their license for the 2009-2011 biennium. You

can obtain all eight hours by attending any one of the

Florida Section’s "Doubleheader" seminars:

September 15 - Jacksonville

September 16 - Tampa

Please visit the website at www.fla-asce.org to register and tell others about this wonderful opportunity to earn all your PDH's.

Thank you for your sponsorship



Special thanks to our Winter Social sponsor



Where? Speaker Who Needs to Know? Dutch Heritage

3713 Bahia Vista Street Jerry Comellas, Jr., PE

Director Utilities RSVP:

Amjid Hussain, P.E. When?

11:45-12:00 Registration

Company: Cardino TBE

Sarasota County [email protected] Ph: (941) 861-0750

12:15 Speaker Topic of Discussion:

By: Noon Tuesday, April 16th

How Much? $15.00

Subsurface Utilities Engineering

Honored Guests ASCE Members

and Guests

Take I-75 South to Exit 207, Bee Ridge Road, and head west toward McIntosh Road. Turn Right onto McIntosh Road, head north to Bahia Vista Street. Turn Left onto Bahia Vista Street, and the Troyer's Dutch Heritage restaurant is at 3713 Bahia Vista Street, on the right after you cross the railroad tracks.

Please contact Amjid Hussain if there are any questions

regarding directions to Dutch Heritage

Directions to Troyer's Dutch Heritage

(3713 Bahia Vista Street)

ASCE Lunch Meeting: April 15, 2010 2009 – 2010 SunCoast Branch Executive Board President Eric Rose, P.E. Reynolds, Smith & Hills 1060 Knights Trail Road, Suite C Nokomis, FL 34275 Phone: 941-256-4869 / Fax: 941-485-3946 Vice-President Sonya Fronckowiak, P.E. WilsonMiller, Inc. 6900 Professional Pkwy. E. Sarasota, Florida 34240 [email protected] (941) 907-6900 Secretary Amjid Hussain P.E. Sarasota County 1001 Sarasota center Blvd. Sarasota, FL 34240 Ph: (941) 861-0750 Fax: (941) 861-0770 [email protected] Treasurer Chris Stratton, EI Frederick Derr Company 3801 North Orange Avenue Sarasota, Florida 34234 Phone: (941) 355-8575 Fax: (941) 351-8854 [email protected] Past President Adnan Javed, P.E. Sarasota County 1001 Sarasota Center Blvd. Sarasota, FL 34240 [email protected] (941) 861-0599 Webmaster D. Scott McKenna, P.E. WilsonMiller, Inc. 6900 Professional Pkwy. E. Sarasota, Florida 34240 [email protected] (941) 907-6900

SunCoast Branch c/o Amjid Hussain, P.E., M.ASCE Sarasota County Public Works 1001 Sarasota Center Blvd., Sarasota, FL 34240

THE SUNCOAST BRANCH NEWSLETTER IS NOW ONLY DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONICALLY. IF YOU KNOW OF A MEMBER WHO DOES NOT RECEIVE THE NEWSLETTER AND WOULD LIKE

TO, PLEASE HAVE THEM CONTACT THE BRANCH SECRETARY.

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2010-4-12 ASCE Civil Timesascesuncoast.weebly.com/uploads/6/6/1/8/6618257/...Crist, Stephanie Day, Arthur L Delaney, Douglas A Dell, Leroy Dear ASCE Suncoast Branch ... Stephen C Ravazzoli,