Jomâa Ben-Hassine
San Diego, California, USA

Project Engineer with over 15 years of multi-national experience in geotechnical & structural engineering

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Degrees & Certifications

• Professional Engineer registered in South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.  Ongoing applications for registration in California, Illinois, and New York. 
• Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, March 1988. Thesis title: “Finite Element Applications in the Analysis of Nonlinear Problems in Geomechanics.”
• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with Honors, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, March 1985.
• Tunisian Baccalaureate, Section: Math-Sciences, Distinction: Honors, Lycee Mixte de La Chebba, Mahdia, Tunisia, June 1981.

Work Experience

• October 2007 - Present: Manager, Civil Design Engineering, Renewable Energy Systems Americas, Inc., Austin, TX, USA: Responsible for civil engineering design at a leading wind energy developer.
  
• September 2006 - October 2007: Global Civil Engineering Director, Garrad Hassan America, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA: Responsible for civil engineering due diligence work in wind farm projects in the US and around the world. 
• April 2005 - September 2006: Structural Group Leader, Giffels, Inc., Southfield, MI, USA: lead engineer on high rise building projects. One such projects is the Motor City Casino complex which included a an 18 storey staggered truss hotel.  Giffels is part of the Ingenium Group, a leading consortium of facilities and real estate development and management firms. 
• September 2002 –April 2005: Project Engineer, ARCADIS, Southfield, Michigan, USA Design of industrial buildings, structures and their foundations. Projects included auto-manufacturing plants with multiple crane runways and deep pits. Analysis and design of telecommunication structures and their foundations.
• February 2001 – September 2002: Project Engineer, ARCADIS, Tampa, Florida, USA Analysis and design of telecommunication structures and their foundations. Design of tower and foundation modifications to improve load-carrying capacity. Geotechnical explorations and report preparation. Analysis and design of foundations (shallow and deep), retaining structures and other structures.
• June 1997 – Dec. 2000: Project Engineer, ARCADIS Bouw/Infra, The Hague, The Netherlands: Site representation of the international engineering firm ARCADIS Bouw/Infra at the Olympic Stadium project, Olympic City 7 November 1987, Radès, Tunisia. Tasks include coordination of all submittals to the client, preparation of geotechnical studies, deep foundation design and coordination of shop drawing review for all project disciplines. All submittals and work coordination relied heavily on modern information technology (most engineering work and all drawings were prepared in The Netherlands and sent by Internet for submittal to the client in Tunisia).
• May 1995 - May 1997: Geotechnical/Structural Engineer, Piedmont Olsen Hensley, Greenville, SC, USA: Foundation design of telecommunication towers (latticed, guyed, and monopoles), structural analysis of existing telecommunication towers.
• May 1993 - May 1995: Geotechnical/Structural Engineer, Piedmont Olsen Hensley, Chattanooga, TN, USA: Geotechnical and geo-environmental investigations; flexible and rigid pavement analysis and design; landfill monitoring programs; groundwater monitoring; dam analysis, design and monitoring, seepage analysis.
• August 1991 - May 1993: Adjunct Professor - Soil Mechanics & Materials Testing, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Knoxville, TN, USA: Taught introductory soil mechanics and construction materials. Course included teaching laboratory testing of soils, concrete and asphalt concrete.
• January - May 1991: Adjunct Professor - Foundation Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA: Taught senior level soil mechanics and foundation engineering.
• January 1990 - August 1991: Research Technician, University of Tennessee, Department of Civil Engineering, Knoxville, TN, USA: The initial phase of the research project consisted of field measurement of soil-structure interaction effects during a planned subsidence event to assess subsidence-induced structural damage. The second phase consisted of finite element modeling of the test structures to reproduce the same effects caused by mining subsidence. The third phase consisted of using the numerical finite element technique to study additional parameters which were not considered in the experimental phase.
• March 1985 - August 1991: Graduate Research Assistant, University of Tennessee, Department of Civil Engineering, Knoxville, TN, USA: Finite Element analysis of structural damage due to mining-induced subsidence
• June 1985 - September 1985: Engineer-in-Training, Société Tunisienne de l'Informatique et de l'Organisation (SOTINFOR), Tunis, Tunisia: Development of two structural analysis computer programs on an IBM PC/XT: one for trusses and the other for frames.
  

Languages

• English: excellent
• French: reading & writing: excellent; speech: fluent.
• Arabic: native tongue
  

Professional Affiliations

• Member of: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), since 1985 Wind Effects Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute, serving as webmaster (www.seiwec.net) in addition to other technical tasks
• Computer Applications Committee of the Geo-institute, serving as webmaster (www.gicac.org) besides other technical tasks American Institute of Steel Construction, since 2004.
• Professional Member, International Code Council (ICC)
• Association of Engineering Geologists (AEG), since 1989
• Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, Gamma Beta Phi honor societies
  

Computer and Networking Capabilities

• Communications Competent in modern telecommunications, information technology and data exchange techniques (e-mail, ftp, telnet), dynamic web design, on-line databases (HTML, SQL, PhP, MySQL, CSS, CGI, Perl, etc…), open source content management systems (CMS) such as Mambo Open Source, PostNuke and tikiwiki. Sample web pages include pagetunisie.com, doremail.com, etc...
• Drafting and Computer Aided-Design Civil Engineering computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) packages (competent in AutoCAD, trained on Bentley's Microstation TriForma and Bentley Structural).
• Technical Analysis Tools Working knowledge of numerous engineering analysis tools (major finite element and structural analysis programs such as ABAQUS, ANSYS, STAAD, STRUDL, RISA-2D, RISA-3D, RAM Structural System, RAM Advanse, S-Frame and others) and geotechnical engineering programs (Seepage, Stress analysis, slope stability, etc…)
• Related Technologies Conceptual familiarity with GIS packages and GPS systems Office Automation Working knowledge of major office automation packages (all Microsoft Office programs and other productivity tools).
• Business & Management Tools Familiar with major project management packages (MS Project, Primavera SureTrack, etc…) and business accounting packages (Quickbooks, etc..)

Publications

• Ben-Hassine, J., Booth, P. E. and Riggs, D. (1995). "Static and Seismic Stability of Residual Soils over a Bedrock Cavity." Fith Multidisciplinary Conference on the Engineering and Environmental Impact of Karst, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, April 1995.
• Fishman, K., Drumm, E. C., Ben-Hassine, J. and Ahmad, S. (1994). Influence of Interface/Joint Behavior in the Response of Structural Systems. Proceedings of the 8th Inter'l Conf. of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Morgantown, West Virginia, May 22-28, 1994.
• Ben-Hassine, J. (1991). "Finite Element Analysis of Subsidence-induced Structural Damage," The Tunisian Scientific Magazine, 4(2), 58-61.
• Drumm, E. C. and Ben-Hassine, J. (1990). "Computer Modeling for Damage Assessment of Surface Structures," Workshop on Mine Subsidence and Structures, 1990 National Symposium on Mining, May 1990, pp. 23-53.
• Drumm, E. C., Kane, W. F., Ketelle, R. H., Ben-Hassine, J. and Scarborough, J. A. (1990). Subsidence of Residual Soils in a Karst Terrain, Report# ORNL/TM-11525, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
• Scarborough, J.A., Ben-Hassine, J., Kane, W.F., Drumm, E.C., and Ketelle, R.H. (1989). "Surface Deformation of Residual Soil over Cavitose Bedrock, " Proc., 3rd Multi- disciplinary Conf. on Sinkholes, St. Petersburg Beach, FL, 2-4 Oct.'89,pp.143-9.
• Ben-Hassine, J. (1987). Finite Element Applications in the Analysis of Nonlinear Problems in Geomechanics, ME Thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
• Ketelle, R.H., Drumm, E.C., Ben-Hassine, J., and Manrod, W.E. (1987). "Soil Mechanics Analysis of Plastic Soil Deformation over a Bedrock Cavity, " Proc., 2nd Multi- Disciplinary Conf. on Sinkholes and the Environmental Impacts of Karst.
• Drumm, E. C., Ketelle, R. H., Manrod, W. E., and Ben-Hassine, J. (1987). "Analysis of Plastic Soil in Contact with Cavitose Bedrock," Proc., ASCE Specialty Conf. on Geotechnical Practice for Waste Disposal, Ann Arbor, MI, June'87, pp.418-431.

References

Available upon request.