EXPERIENCE
(As of December 2004)
“Sam” U.
Shamsi, Ph.D., P.E., DEE
3000 N.
Trillium Dr., Pittsburgh PA 15001
Phone:
(724)-777-6909, E-mail: ushamsi@GISApplications.com
EXPERIENCE BY POSITIONS
|
Position
|
Company
|
Period
|
|
Director,
GIS & Information Management Technologies
|
ATS-Chester
Engineers, Pittsburgh
|
Nov 03
to present
|
|
Senior
Technical Manager
|
USFilter,
Pittsburgh, PA
|
May 97
to Oct. 2003
|
|
Project
Engineer to Technical Manager
|
Chester Engineers, Pittsburgh,
PA
|
May 88
to April 97
|
|
Adjunct
Assistant Professor
|
University of Pittsburgh
|
Sept.
96 to present
|
|
Grad.
Research Assistant
|
University of Pittsburgh
|
Sept.
85 to April 88
|
|
Lecturer
|
A.M. University,
Aligarh
|
Jan.
85 to April 85
|
EXPERIENCE BY PROJECTS
|
Area
|
No.
of Years
|
No.
of Projects
|
|
Watershed Stormwater Management
|
5
|
6
|
|
CSO/SSO Management
|
8
|
25
|
|
Sewer System Modeling and Studies
|
10
|
9
|
|
Water Distribution System Modeling
|
8
|
11
|
|
Water Resources Studies
|
8
|
5
|
|
Industrial Water Pollution Control
Projects
|
7
|
10
|
|
GIS and Remote Sensing
|
12
|
17
|
|
Design and Construction
|
8
|
6
|
|
Software Development
|
10
|
6
|
|
Field Measurements
|
8
|
13
|
|
Expert Testimony
|
1
|
1
|
|
Teaching and Research
|
6
|
4
|
|
Total
|
|
113
|
HIGHLIGHTS
- Preparation
and management of municipal and industrial water, wastewater, and
stormwater management studies
- University
teaching and research
- Hydrologic
& hydraulic (H&H) modeling of water, wastewater, and stormwater
systems using SWMM, XP-SWMM, Visual Hydro, Mike SWMM, PCSWMM, MTV, PSRM,
HEC-1, HEC-2, HEC-RAS, KYPIPES, CYBERNET, WATERWORKS, EPANET, and FAAST,
etc.
- GIS
and Remote Sensing applications using ArcView, ArcGIS, Spatial Analyst,
AutoCAD, ArcCAD, MapInfo
- Design
of water and sewer system infrastructure and hydraulic structures
- Software
development in Basic, Fortran, Pascal, C, and
AVENUE to supplement the capabilities of commercial software and to
support the specialized needs of projects.
SAMPLE PROJECTS
- Pittsburgh Interceptor
Project (1993-99): Pittsburgh’s Saw Mill Run
Basin was
experiencing basement flooding due to inadequate interceptor capacity and
stream pollution due to CSO discharges. My solution was construction of a
4-mile long parallel relief interceptor. The $40 million construction
project was designed to capture 85% of the wet-weather CSOs annually. The
innovative design also allowed future retrofitting of four 10 million
gallon CSO storage facilities. The preliminary design was completed in 6
months using a computer hydraulic model (XP-SWMM). The modeling study
started in 1994 and the construction was completed in 1999. So far so
good! Everything is working great. No basement flooding or manhole overflow
complaints have been received since the project completion.
- Huntington CSO Project
(1992-96): The City of Huntington, West Virginia, has a combined sewer
system with 23 permitted CSOs. Their NPDES permit requires them to monitor
each CSO event for cause, frequency, duration, quantity and quality of
flow. As a first alternative to comply with this requirement the
feasibility of monitoring all of the 23 CSO locations was studied. This
option required purchase, installation, monitoring, and maintenance of
flow monitors, water quality samplers, and rain gages for each CSO site.
This option was ruled out because of its excessive cost, estimated at over
a million dollars, and access and maintenance related problems. My
solution consisted of a combination of monitoring and modeling. In this
option, a representative subset of CSOs was monitored temporarily to
collect sufficient calibration data and develop a calibrated SWMM model
for each monitored CSO area. Calibrated model parameters would
subsequently be applied to the models of unmonitored CSO areas. CSO models
would eventually be used to predict quantity and quality of CSO discharges
from observed rainfall data. This option, which saved about 70% money to
the client, was also preferred by the EPA (Region V) and was selected for
implementation.
- Stormwater Management Plans
(1988-96): The Stormwater Management Act (Act 167) of Pennsylvania requires that stormwater
management plans be prepared for each of the 353 designated watersheds
covering the entire state. I worked on six stormwater management plans.
The largest project was for the 400 square mile Lake
Erie watershed, which consisted of approximately 2,000
subbasins. The plans were developed by employing innovative computer
modeling techniques based on GIS and DEM hydrology. This work was
published in many peer-reviewed technical publications.