Dillon Booker, G.I.T.

Managed geotechnical project development from inception to completion including proposals/budgeting, field exploration, laboratory testing, and reporting.

• Managed various geotechnical projects including popular restaurant chains, apartment buildings, warehouse buildings, building expansions, pavement designs and settlement investigations.
• Helped with karst investigations and field mapping of features along with proposing Electrical Resistivity Imaging for subsurface mapping.
• Helped support field work operations involving Indiana and Kentucky Department of Transportation roadway and bridge expansions by logging subsurface lithology.
• Familiar with common engineering calculations and considerations for structures such as settlement and ultimate bearing capacity; along with deep foundations versus shallow foundations.
• Scheduled and supported subcontractors for execution of field exploration activities.
• Maintained good communication with client through project lifecycle to ensure a quality report and deliverables.

• Worked on same contract site and under same position formerly held by Tetra Tech.
• Worked in the waste management division of CEC performing operation and maintenance, landfill gas management, and environmental monitoring to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations.

Operation and maintenance technician for landfill operations.

• Ensured regulatory compliance by adhering to state and federal environmental laws during fieldwork and reporting activities relating to emissions and landfill operations.
• Maintained and troubleshot landfill liquid and gas collection systems such as QED pneumatic pumps, landfill flare blowers, wellfield compressors; along with compressed air lines, leachate lines, and vacuum lines supplying the wellfield.
• Performed wellfield tuning to optimize gas quantity and composition then reporting daily observations to client.
• Worked with client on weekly meetings to help inform them of landfill issues and discuss overall landfill health.
• Reviewed engineering plans and diagrams to determine best control measures relating to isolation of collection systems.
• On-call for various subsurface oxidation events (SSO)