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Jason Franco

Porter,TX

Summary

Results-driven professional with extensive experience in roadway construction, specializing in project management and construction inspection. Demonstrated ability to ensure compliance with specifications and budgets while leading high-priority projects to successful completion. Expertise in conflict resolution and team coordination, enhancing quality assurance processes across multiple initiatives.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Public Infrastructure Inspector Supervisor

City of Houston Public Works
Houston, TX
03.2024 - Current
  • Supervise multiple City of Houston employees and the consultant inspector's daily activities. Check daily reports and pay items for accuracy on multiple construction projects overseen by Construction.
  • Assign and ensure coverage for all projects overseen by Street Rehab, CDSF, and Interagency programs.
  • Monitor overtime usage to help maintain the annual budget.
  • Read and explain complex drawings and plan sets to employees for their assigned projects. Provide training for employees on specifications and drawings for roadway and infrastructure construction.
  • Perform evaluations on assigned inspectors' performance, and recommend disciplinary action based on administration policy: Positive Correction Action Plan 3-7.
  • Implement policies and procedures from the Construction Department and the City of Houston.
  • Partner and coordinate with multiple departments, contractors, engineers, and external agencies to achieve project goals and deadlines. Attend progress meetings with contractors and external agencies for schedules, conflicts, and deadlines for high-priority and complex projects.
  • Assist management with creating and revising SOPs and documentation manuals.
  • Attend conferences and training seminars for innovative ways and products to use for roadway and infrastructure construction. Perform interviews for potential candidates.
  • Respond to complaints or inquiries from citizens, council members, and the mayor's office.

Senior Inspector

City of Houston Public Works
Houston, TX
08.2021 - 03.2024
  • Assigned as Senior Inspector over Street Rehab projects, CDSF projects, Sidewalk Program projects, and Interagency projects.
  • Supervise the inspector's daily activities and time sheets, including time-off requests, to ensure coverage of job sites.
  • Approve or deny inspectors' daily reports, and verify the accuracy of pay item calculations for the monthly pay estimate.
  • Meet with the contractor weekly about the project schedule, discuss conflicts, and time restraints for each project.
  • Conduct site visits for change order requests on work not in the original scope. Conduct site visits for future projects based on citizen and council member requests, and establish the scope of work and project limits.
  • Keep track of project total costs daily, as items are being paid, to ensure the project stays within budget. Keep track of the testing budget for each project.
  • Respond to concerns from citizens about projects.
  • Create a punch list and conduct a final walk-through to give the contractor substantial completion once all work is verified as complete and paid. Assist project managers with project closeout.

Inspector

City of Houston Public Works
Houston, TX
01.2021 - 08.2021
  • Inspection of projects for Street Rehab program, Sidewalk program, and CDSF program.
  • Write daily reports and pay for work completed by contractors daily. Inspect contractors' work daily to ensure they are following contract plans and city drawings/specifications.
  • Inspect the removal of concrete, asphalt, and base material. Inspection of subgrade preparation. Inspect the placement of stabilized base/subgrade. Inspection of forms, rebar, and placement of fresh concrete for roadway panels, curb and gutter, sidewalk, and driveways. Inspect the placement of pre-cast drop inlets, reinforced concrete boxes, and reinforced concrete pipes. Check alignment and elevations for accuracy based on the plans. Inspection of hot mix asphalt paving to ensure that the temperature, mat thickness, edge of oil limit, lane line joints, and daily quantities are correct. Inspect grade work for drainage ditches and slope percentages. Inspection of pipe repairs for storm and sanitary sewer lines. Inspection of water line placement, wet connections and water taps into main lines.
  • Observe the testing of fresh concrete, hot mix asphalt, and stabilized base.
  • Observed dye tests for leaks in storm and sanitary sewer lines.

Engineering Technician 4

Nevada Department Of Transportation
Las Vegas, NV
04.2013 - 01.2021
  • Assigned as the Lead Inspector. My job duties included reading and implementing project plans, establishing project limits, transitioning areas, and ensuring the contractor is following state standards and specifications during the construction of roads, highways, and bridges.
  • Prior to starting a project, check construction plans for accuracy, and report any discrepancies to the Resident Engineer.
  • Document and track construction progress, and pay for quantities on the Daily Work Report (Mobile Inspector), and turn it in to the Resident Engineer.
  • Use field measurements and calculations to pay for items of work completed. Assist lower-level technicians with inspection duties, and how to pay for items being inspected. Assist the office with reviewing inspection reports for discrepancies in stations, pay items, and calculations for biweekly pay estimates. Update the as build plans with changes to stationing, offsets, and elevations, or any other changes made in the field. Assist the office with project closeout.
  • Attended NDOT training for Concrete Inspection and Asphalt Inspection.
  • Inspect the traffic control setup daily, ensuring that barrel spacing and signs are correct based on the TC plan phases. Inspect the job site daily for safety concerns, and notify the contractor of any potential risks.
  • Conduct biweekly SWPPP inspections for proper placement of BMPs, silt fences, waddles, and sandbags.
  • Inspect clear-grubbing, and dirt work operations for cut and fill areas within project limits. Inspect the placement of geogrid fabric prior to the placement of the roadway subgrade. Inspection of blasting operations for earthwork excavation for roadway widening, check slope percent after excavation based on stationing to verify that correct slopes were obtained. Inspection of Type 1B placement and grade work, ensure the contractor is placing material in lifts not to exceed specifications, check haul ticket quantities, report on the spreadsheet, and check for overweight trucks.
  • Inspect the placement of Hot Mix Asphalt Dense Grade and Open Grade mixes, and ensure that the temperature, mat thickness, edge of oil limit, lane line joints, daily yield, and quantities are correct per plans. Inspect the e-prime and tack coat application, and track and verify application rates on the spreadsheet prior to asphalt placement.
  • Check mill certs for all structural steel delivered to projects, and ensure the correct rebar size and grade are being used. Inspection of forms, rebar spacing, rebar size, and fresh concrete placement for the construction of major channel work for water drainage. Inspection of cast-in-place reinforced concrete box formwork, rebar spacing and size, placement of fresh concrete, and finish work. Inspection of the placement of precast reinforced concrete boxes, checking the elevation and alignment of the boxes being placed to the plans to ensure correct locations and elevations. Inspection of retaining walls, formwork, structural steel spacing and size, and placement of fresh concrete for soil retention of slopes.
  • Inspection of pile driving operations, count blows per foot, and report daily for footings of bridge columns.
  • Inspection of bridge deck repairs included sandblasting, chaining of the deck for concrete delamination, saw cutting, jackhammering delamination areas, and placing methacrylate resin and polymer patches prior to the overlay. Inspection of micro seal and polymer overlay of the bridge deck. Inspection of thin bonded overlays on asphalt and concrete surfaces. Inspection of drilled shaft excavation, placement of structural steel, and placement of fresh concrete.
  • Inspection of paint, stain application, and anti-graffiti clear coatings on all concrete structures after the cure period has been met according to landscaping plans.
  • Inspection of fence installation on bridge rail and open channels, and meet with a certified welder inspector daily to ensure all welds are correct per plans and specifications. Inspect guardrail installation, check mill certs upon delivery, and ensure proper bolts are being used and torqued according to manufacturer recommendations.
  • Inspection of signal/light pole excavation, placement of cages, placement of fresh concrete, wet set j-bolts, and erection of new poles. Inspect mast arm installation and bolt torque specifications. Inspect its excavation, installation of conduit, pull boxes, and controller cabinets, installation of various types of wire and sizes for traffic signals, lights, and ITS, and ensure all systems are working correctly before giving substantial completion. Keep track of and pay for the quantity of various wire used.
  • Inspection of MSE walls: check installation numbers of panels compared to plans prior to placement to ensure correct panel locations. Inspection of MSE backfill placement: ensure the contractor is placing material in lifts not to exceed specifications, check haul ticket quantities, and report on the spreadsheet.
  • Inspection of curb and gutter/sidewalk, median islands form work, structural steel spacing and size, check alignment, elevations, and placement of fresh concrete. Inspection of drop inlets, formwork, structure, steel spacing, and size. Inspection of CMP and RCP extensions and new construction and ensure the contractor is using proper shoring and safety equipment during pipe installation. Inspection of pipe lining and extensions. Inspection of concrete barrier rail placement using a slip form machine, checking structural steel, and placement of fresh concrete.
  • Inspection of change order and force account work.
  • Attend daily jobsite safety meetings prior to starting work. Conduct a meeting with subcontractors about wages to ensure they are being paid per the prevailing wage requirements set in the contract's special provisions.
  • Testing aggregate, fresh concrete, and asphalt materials. Use a nuclear density gauge for the testing of soils and asphalt. Submitting material for source acceptance and mix designs. Keeping track of testing and documentation for each contract. Keep an inventory of lab equipment. Field samples and tests of various size aggregates from the pit or quarry that the contractor will use as a source for Hot Mix Asphalt Dense Grade and Open Grade mix designs, backfill material, and base material for the roadway and concrete that will be used on the project. Test for gradation, plastic index, liquid limit, fracture face, and absorption. Field sample of hot mix asphalt from the mat behind the back of the paver. Split samples for testing of moisture, oil percent, rice, gradation, stability, and voids. Establish a rolling pattern. Document test results on proper forms, and submit them to the Resident Engineer. Keep track of the quantity placed to ensure that the testing frequency will be met. Field sample fresh concrete, and test for air, slump, temperature, unit weight, and make cylinders for compressive strength. Field sample PCCP for panels, and make beams for flexural strength, test, and perform breaks. Document test results on proper forms, and submit them to the Resident Engineer. Keep track of multiple testers to ensure documentation is recorded daily and accurately, as material is being placed.
  • Set up and use Total Station/GPS using RTK/Spyder networks. Use survey calculations to establish grade for subgrade/gravel grade. Survey for grade staking/subgrade hinge point, establish centerline, cross-sectioning, alignment, and elevation of curb and gutter/sidewalk, sign/utility locations, slope staking, drainage locations and elevations, establish construction work limits, limits of asphalt paving/edge of oil, and survey stockpiles for payment. Survey level loops for elevation of CBM's. Assist the supervisor with training lower-level technicians on how to calculate grade and use survey equipment.

Education

High School Diploma -

Mojave High School
Hesperia, CA
05-2005

Skills

  • Project management
  • Construction inspection
  • Plan interpretation
  • Policy implementation
  • Quality assurance
  • Conflict resolution
  • Team coordination
  • Problem solving
  • Budget management

Certification

  • (APWA) American Public Works Association
    Certified Public Infrastructure Inspector (CPII)
  • (NICET) National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies
    Highway Construction Inspection- 1
  • (NCCER) National Center for Construction Education and Research
    Heavy Equipment Operator 3

Timeline

Public Infrastructure Inspector Supervisor

City of Houston Public Works
03.2024 - Current

Senior Inspector

City of Houston Public Works
08.2021 - 03.2024

Inspector

City of Houston Public Works
01.2021 - 08.2021

Engineering Technician 4

Nevada Department Of Transportation
04.2013 - 01.2021

High School Diploma -

Mojave High School

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