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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Civil engineering
- Hydrology
- Surveying and cartography
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
- 2001-present: Civil engineer and water manager, NJS-Black and Veatch International, Tijuana, Baja California.
- 1990-2001: Technical director, Alberto Castro Garcia and Associates,
a consulting firm with offices in Tijuana, Baja California.
EDUCATION
- 1969: Graduate of the School of Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.
- 1998: Diplomate in Urban Design, Universidad Iberoamericana, Tijuana, Baja California.
- 2003: Diplomate in project management, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
- 2003: M.S. in Environmental Planning, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Facultad de Arquitectura, Mexicali, Baja California (in progress).
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Past vice-president of the Construction Industry Association in Tijuana
(1990);
past-president of the Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles de Tijuana (1991);
and past-director of the Norteastern Zone of the Federation of
Colegios de Ingenieros Civiles of Mexico (1991).
- Researcher, speaker, panelist, and writer,
and has taught at the university level.
He is an ad-honorem consultant for the Office of
Municipal Planning, in Tijuana. He is currently serving as
president of the
Council on Honor and Justice of the Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles of Tijuana.
- More than 30 years of experience in civil works design and
construction in Baja California, mostly in Tijuana, including
irrigation systems, roads, and urban development. In 1973, he was
resident engineer for the industrial city of Nueva Tijuana, in Otay Mesa.
- Consultant in the following specialties:
hydrology, urban hydrology, urban planning, mapping, geotechnical
engineering, forensic engineering, and cost engineering.
He has thorough knowledge and experience of past and present urban drainage
hydrology, design and construction in the city of Tijuana.
SELECTED PROJECTS IN HYDROLOGY
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Hydrologic studies for eighteen (18) urban basins in the Tijuana
river valley (1991).
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Hydrologic study of the Arroyo
Aguaje de la Tuna, Tijuana, 1800 ha (1993).
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Supervision of the construction of two debris basins in Arroyo Aguaje
de La Tuna, Tijuana (1994).
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Preliminary project, urban drainage works, Plan of Urban Reactivation,
Tijuana (1994).
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Design of urban drainage and flood mitigation works,
urban basin in development ``Villas de Baja California'' (1995).
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Design of urban drainage and flood mitigation works,
urban basin in development ``Porticos El Lago'' (1996).
- Design of river protection works in Cañon de Los Llanos, Baja California (2001).
- Consultant for the SCERP-funded Arroyo Alamar Hydroecology project (2002-2003).
- Consultant for the SCERP-funded Arroyo Alamar Sustainable Architecture project (2003-2004).
- Consultant for the SCERP-funded Arroyo Tecate Restoration project (2004-2005).
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