View Profile: smearcase

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About smearcase

• Location PA
• Experience US Navy Seabee 4 yrs. Schooled as and rated as Petty Officer 2 -Construction Electrician. Training and Experience in Power distribution, interior wiring, and communications. Planner and estimator in engineering division of USN Construction Battalion. Awarded Navy Achievement Medal. Military training at Great Lakes, IL, Davisville RI,, Port Hueneme, CA, Camp LeJeune, NC, and others.
  Highway Engineer, Construction Division, State Highway Department 35 years.
  Liaison with Highway Department Legal Division for construction claims, lawsuits against Dept., and other legal issues related to interstate highway and state highway construction. Testifying in court as representative of state highway dept.
  Past certification in highway engineering technology including structural concrete, hot mix asphalt, soils, foundations, environmental protection, highway drainage, and associated activities.
  Initially served for 7 years as Construction Inspector, and highway/bridge Project Engineer. Overseeing construction contractors and managing construction inspection and inspectors. Then about 25 years in supervision of inspectors and overseeing contracts d contractors.
  Traffic Engineering experience in construction and construction maintenance of traffic in construction zones, and safety of workers in construction of all types.
  Consulting Engineer for 7 years (out of the 35 years of total highway engineering experience noted above).
  5 yrs (out of total 35 yrs in hwy engin.) as utilities coordinator reviewing and approving utility relocations necessitated by highway construction. 5 yrs (of total 35yrs) as assistant chief of 400 employee construction inspection division, supervising hiring, discipline and statewide transfer of state inspection employees, including manpower estimates and management, and personnel actions of all types.
  Traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia a part of a missions group for 3 weeks, to perform construction as a humanitarian effort.
  Interested and well-read in History such as WW II, VietNam War, Russian Czars, Peter the Great, Nicholas, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler.
  Married 40 yrs. Lost a 33 yr old only son in an alcohol related accident less than 2 yrs ago-Sept. 2010. Dr Bill after one of my posts where I stated that I was not an expert said that I was in fact an expert in the subject of the ramifications of substance abuse and driving. I think I can help many others realize the impact of alcoholism and what the REAL human costs are.
  I am also self-schooled on the liabilities we incur in our daily actions, and the value of planning in our lives.
  I do not shoot from the hip. I base my answers on fact, mathematics, precedent, and much experience.
  I feel that I am an expert on the subjects of concrete, hot mix asphalt, storm water drainage, soils and soil characteristics, troubleshooting electrical problems, road and bridge engineering, traffic control, managing employees, liability concerns, alcohol abuse, WW II, some recent Russian history, and to a certain degree, ethics and morals.