Blaine Bargmann

Summary

Worked as Survey Crew Chief for 6 years on various Sound Transit Light Rail Projects. Primary responsibility was Direct Fixed and Ballasted Rail Alignments. Secondary responsibility was staking MSE and Poured in Place Retaining Walls. Third responsibility was 4000+ miscellaneous survey requests of all project related types. Everything from Soldier Piles to Escalators. Spent 60% of time working on staking points and the other 40% doing Survey Calculations of all types.

Types of Projects

• Sound Transit Light Rail Projects

Technical Equipment

• AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Trimble Business Center
• Topcon Magnet
• Trimble SX-10 Total Station and Scanner
• Trimble S9 Total Station
• Leica TS16
• Trimble Dini Level with Bar Coded Rod
• Amberg Rail System - Job Design and Operation
• GEDO Rail System - System Operation
• Microsoft Suite - Converting Raw Data into Rail As-Built Reports

Summary

Bid and executed several City and School District Projects. Invested in Trimble GCS-900 automated grading technology. Created Project Surface Models for all projects with the goal of estimating and checking qualities and then using them to grade projects with the GCS-900 system.

Types of Projects

Owners included Renton School District, City of Woodinville, Emerald Ridge High School, City of Auburn and Lakewood High School

Technical Equipment

• AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Trimble Business Center1
• Trimble 1 Second Robotic Total Station
• Trimble GCS-900 System
• John Deere 650H LGP Dozer
• Topcon Dual Plane Lazer
• Topcon Pipe Lazer
• Various Heavy Equipment

Summary

Hired by SNAPin as Survey Manager and 5th member of Engineering Team. Helped design and test all SNAPin Customer Care Products. Spent 20% of time traveling to Customer Locations for Trials, Pilots and Releases. As a Technical PM, would support Sales and General PMs with Technical Details of product Design, Testing and Deployment. Helped Customers write Technical Defect Reports to modify the product to their liking. Instructed and Supported Test and Deployment professionals within the Carriers with regards to testing and deploying SNAPin Products. At the time of SNAPin's sale to NUANCE Communications, I was one of three Directors of Engineering. My focus as a Director was Test, QA, Automated Test Tool Development, Daily Builds and up to Level 4 Customer Support.

Types of Projects

• Full Product Deployment with Vodafone Portugal
• Full Product Deployment with T-Mobile US
• Pilot Deployment with Vodafone Spain and Ydillo
• Pilot Deployment with Orange UK
• Pilot Deployment with Amena Spain
• Trial Deployments with several other Carriers
• Beta Deployment with first Samsung Smartphone
• Beta Deployment with first Android Smartphone

Technical Equipment

• Java - Server Deployment
• Various Automated Server Test Tools
• C++ - Client Development
• SOAP Test and other related products
• Code and Decision Coverage Test Tools
• Various Defect Tracking Tools
• House made Unit Test Suite of 100,000+ Daily Regression Tests
• Various Critical Path Scheduling Tools
• 40+ Smart Devices both Released and In Development
• Certification Testing with Nokia Test Houses in Europe and US
• Microsoft's Windows Mobile Faraday Cage at Redmond Campus
• Plus Many More

Summary

Worked on early design and testing of Action Engine's client and server products. Wrote and performed black-box text cases. Worked on early embedded Smart Phone releases with HTC and Microsoft. Performed the following types of tests: BVT, Smoke, Regression, Functional, Localization, Database Query and Ad-Hoc.

Types of Projects

• Designed and Built Cloud Applications for Smartphones
• Designed and Built Travel Based Applications for Smartphones
• Clients were European Cellphone Carriers and Smartphone Manufacturers: O2-UK, Telstra-Australia, HTC, Nokia, Palm, Orange-UK, Microsoft SPV, and several more.

Types of Equipment

C++, Java, XML, Javascript, Microsoft SQL, Nokia Smartphones, Palm Smartphones, Blackberry Smartphones, HTC Smartphones and PDAs.

Summary

Worked on mostly private projects and provided Construction Staking, Grade Checking, CAD Design Services and 3D Home Design.

Types of Projects

• PAC-10 Stadium Lighting Projects
• Pin Pile Driving and Grade Beams
• House Foundation Layout
• Site Balancing Calculations
• Road Staking and Layout
• 3D Residential Home Designs

Technical Equipment

• Topcon APL1A Robotic Total Station
• Topcon Top Level Dual Plane Laser
• Autodesk LDD2
• Autodesk Architectural 8
• ArchiCAD

Summary

Bid, Managed and Executed Public Work Contracts ranging from $50,000 to $2,000,000. Performed Construction Staking, Grade Checking and CAD Design Work.

Types of Projects

• City and County Road Projects
• State, City and Public Utility Park Projects
• City and County Utility Projects

Technical Equipment

• Topcon APL1A - Robotic Total Station
• Autodesk v8 to LDD2 with Eagle Point
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Topcon Dual-Plan Lasers
• Topcon Pipe Lasers

Summary

Learned the Civil Construction Industry from the bottom level. Worked as Grade Checker, Survey Tech, Rod Man, Laborer, Pipe Layer, Water Truck Driver, On-Site Truck Driver and Operator of the following types of Heavy Equipment: Loaders, Dozers, Trenchers, Excavators, Pullers, Backhoes and Rollers.

Types of Projects

• City and County Storm Projects
• City and County Water Projects
• State Park Sewer Renovations
• City and County Road Projects
• Private Sub-Division Design and Build

Key Technical Equipment

• Single Plan Grade Lasers
• 30 second Transit
• Optical Level
• Linker Rod