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SUMMARY               A civil engineer with over 5 years of professional experience in various civil engineering projects including building, road, hydropower and wastewater management projects. The positions held include civil engineer (as a member of design and planning team plus site supervisor), project engineer (as a team leader of engineering section), and technical manager (a managerial position). The works experienced are as follows:

o       Monitor, coordinate and plan different stages of construction activities in the projects.

o       Prepare progress reports, method statements, bidding documents and other official documents.

o       Estimate quantity & cost for various civil construction works.

o       Interpret drawings, plans and specifications.

o       Prepare minor details of construction works at site.

o       Quality control of materials and workmanship as per contract specification.

o       Represent the employer in project meetings with the clients and engineers on technical matters.

EMPLOYMENT RECORDS          

Jan’ 01 – Sept’ 01  

TECHNICAL MANAGER / UNDERGROUND ENGINEERING SERVICES, BANGKOK , THAILAND

o       Project: Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project, SC-31 River Crossing

o       Client: Pollution Control Department, Thailand

o       Engineer: AMS (WS Atkins International, MACRO Consultant, Sinclair Knight Merz)

o       Works: construction of manholes, CSO's, drainage pipes installation by Horizontal Directional Drilling Method, installation of concrete and steel pipes by pipe jacking methods

                                    Sept’ 99 – Dec’ 00

PROJECT ENGINEER / INTERNATIONAL BLASTER CO. LTD., BANGKOK , THAILAND

o       Project: Nam Man and Nam San Mini Hydropower Station

o       Client: Provincial Electricity Authority , Thailand

o       Engineer: Balfour Beatty Projects & Engineering Limited, UK

o       Works: construction of access roads, access bridges, cofferdams, concrete weir, intake structures and desander, headrace/tailrace culverts, upstream/downstream portals, partially shotcrete lined headrace tunnel, surge shaft, steel pressure pipe line, power station, office, powerhouse and staff quarters

                                    July’ 96 – Aug’ 97

CIVIL ENGINEER / BUILDING DESIGN ASSOCIATES PVT. LTD., LALITPUR , NEPAL

o       Project: Nepal Primary School Building Project

o       Client: Town Development Board, Kathmandu , Nepal

o       Works: construction of school buildings and facilities  

                                    July’ 94 – June’ 96

CIVIL ENGINEER / VALLEY VIEW CONSULT PVT. LTD., KATHMANDU , NEPAL

o       Project: Laboratory and Staff Quarter Buildings

o       Client: Cotton Development Board, Nepalgunj , Nepal

o       Works: construction of office buildings, laboratory buildings and staff quarters

EDUCATION                       

HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, JAPAN (Expected completion - 2004)

Doctoral Candidate, Traffic & Transportation Systems

Concentration: Traffic Flow Theory, Operation & Control of Traffic

Dissertation Topic: Evaluation of Microscopic Traffic Flow Models

                                    ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY , THAILAND (1999)

Master of Engineering, Civil Engineering

Specialization: Transportation Engineering

Dissertation Topic: Chaos Theory in Traffic Flow Dynamics

                                    TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY , NEPAL (1994)

Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering

COMPUTER SKILLS         

General            Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Internet

Software’s        Traffic/transportation: ITRAF, TSIS, NETSIM

Statistical analysis: Excel, KyPlot, SPSS

Others: AutoCAD, Photoshop, Surfer, Grapher, Sure Track (project planning), Precision Estimating (estimating/costing), IS Speed (GPS data processing), FrontPage (web design)

Programming    Basic, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, VBA, Visual Net

AFFILIATIONS       

Institute of Transportation Engineer, USA          - Associate Member

Transportation Research Board, USA                - Student Member

Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Japan                - Student Member

Nepal Engineers' Association, Nepal                     - General Member

HONORS / AWARDS

o       Recipient of Japanese Government Scholarship for PhD study in Traffic and Transportation Systems at Hokkaido University, Japan (2001-2004)

o       Recipient of Scholarship under Post-graduate Technological Studies Programme to join Transportation Research Group at Southampton University, UK as a visiting research fellow sponsored by European Union (1998)

o       Recipient of a full-term scholarship “Austrian Government Scholarship” to study M. Eng. at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (1997-1999)

SELECTED PUBLISHED WORKS

o       Ranjitkar, P., Nakatsuji, T., Asano, M., "Performance Evaluation of Microscopic Traffic Flow Models using Test Track Data" 83^rd TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. , 2004. (Preprint CD ROM).

o       Ranjitkar, P., Nakatsuji, T., "Performance Evaluation of Microscopic Traffic Flow Models using RTK GPS Data" Proceedings of 9th International Student Seminar on Transport Research Symposium (ISSOT), Bangkok , 2003.

o       Ranjitkar, P., Nakatsuji, T., Azuta, Y., Gurusinghe, G.S., "Stability Analysis based on Instantaneous Driving Behavior using Car Following Data" 82^nd TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 2003. (Preprint CD ROM, TRR in Press).

o       Ranjitkar, P., Nakatsuji, T., Gurusinghe, G.S., Azuta, Y., "Car-Following Experiments Using RTK GPS and Stability Characteristics of Followers in Platoon" Proceedings of 7^th AATT Conference, Boston , 2002.

o       Ranjitkar, P., Nakatsuji, T., Azuta, Y., Asano, M., "Stability Analysis based on Driving Performance Factors using RTK GPS Car Following Data", Proceedings of 1st ITS Japan Conference, Tokyo, 2002.

o       Gurusinghe, G.S., Nakatsuji, T., Azuta, Y., Ranjitkar, P., Tanaboriboon, Y. Multiple Car Following Data Using Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System, Transportation Research Record No. 1802, TRB 2002, pp. 166-180.

* References will be furnished upon request.