Drainage Engineering

I KNOW Roadway really well, but when I'm pulled from my Bentley "day job" to provide consulting services, it's for drainage "hot projects" or to consult with leadership teams to plan OpenRoads Drainage Implementations. I think I defensively answered...

I-5 Widening - Interchanges and Drainage

I-5 HOV Lane Widening Study Multiple Interchange Geometry and Drainage Preliminary Design CalTrans Staff Augmentation Contract (through CH2MHill) San Diego, CA 2006 Upon completion of the I-15 Managed Lanes Direct Access Ramp project, I moved into the...

Professional Experience

Parsons Corporation In November 2021, I accepted a position at Parsons Corporation as a Supervising Drainage Engineer. I specialize in working on large drainage projects using Bentley's OpenRoads Drainage platform. I help teams improve their...

Transforming the Industry

its early days, and helped drive its rollout and the rollout of the Hydraulics and Utilties tools (SUDA, then SU, now "Drainage and Utilities" in OpenRoads). Individually, I started Civil XLr8 because I recognized that InRoads training wasn't very...

Spring Creek Square - 1991

Dieter Engineering Services Spring Creek Square - Site and Drainage Engineering Orange Park, FL (outside Jacksonville) Google Maps 1990 - 1991 Thirty Acres. Two major anchors at a time. Many, many revisions. Site Layout. Drainage, Utilities. Previously...

Government Experience

for I-15 HOV Widening. I worked primarily on a highly-constrained and ever-changing Direct Access Ramp geometric and drainage design. My last six months at CalTrans was in the new District 11 Headquarters doing interchange widening studies for I-5...

2022 - Parsons

Mega Projects using all the new tools and techniques. Live multi-discipline collaboration. My Job Title is Supervising Drainage Engineer, but my primary responsibility is supporting projects using Bentley Civil software support. The complexity of the...

The Surprise Barrier to OpenRoads Drainage Acceptance

For years I was an evangelical about InRoads Storm&Sanitary. One barrier to acceptance was the drainage calcs. It took me six weeks in 1993 to confirm the math. It was my job specifically to Certify the software. Most hydraulic leads did not have the...

Drainage

Drainage Engineering

InRoads Drainage

OpenRoads Drainage

I-15 Managed Lanes Direct Access Ramp

equivalent of Design-Build. We worked in a temporary trailer near the construction. My primary role was geometric and drainage design for the North Direct Access Ramp (DAR) at Del Lago Blvd. As is all highly urbanized highway widening, geometry was...

San Diego Intro

the City of San Diego For a video of me talking through this page: https://youtu.be/BqSWr8K3jyI Pre-City #1 Site and Drainage Engineering. AutoDesk & DCA Civil Engineering Software. Leitz Sokkia SDR2. 1989-1992. First "Solo" Project My first job out of...

Project Delivery: Agile and Trustworthy

Best Practices. At my first job, I started with a shopping center layout and grading. My boss did the first pass of the drainage calcs on his custom spreadsheet (of course!). I saw what he was doing with it and just ran with it. He didn't have to...

Site Engineering

I started over thirty years ago in Site and Drainage Engineering. I've never strayed far from it, in spite of a lot of highway design. At Bentley, I provided training on the old manual InRoads grading methodolgoy (Generate Longitudinal Feature,...

2021 - Bentley Systems, Inc.

with Product Manager Jonathan Smith in England, developing Bentley's Training framework and courseware for OpenRoads Drainage and Utilities. Teaching at the Bentley Nordic Civil User Conference in November 2015 was a career highlight. A wonderful venue,...

Automating CalTrans D11 Drainage Deliverables

Back in 2009, the CalTrans District 11 Drainage Design and Deliverable Processes were essentially a Typing Pentagram: disparate "islands of automation" connected by typing: I was impressed with people in the trailer, but the CalTrans designers were...

A Visual History

driven to the airport a couple of times a week. My first big job, 30 acres, 1 designer (me). full site plans, grading & drainage. dozens of store footprint changes. all the changes and their ripples were performed manually, all the way through. On...

Expertise and Communication

Matter Expertise Your Communication Skills" My Subject Matter Expertise includes: Broad Engineering Experience (Site, Drainage, Highway) A Focus (compulsion) on Process derived from Responsibility for Results (entrepreneurialism & three-person 1st Job)...