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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name ,Project Manager/Designer/ Construction ObservationCandidate's Name , P.E.; Street Address ; CELL PHONE: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEMr. Jacobs has experience in a variety of areas and ran EDS as owner since 2005.His work included structural/civil design of over 200 bridges and construction observation of bridges, roadways, pipelines, subdivisions, and dams. He has done bridge design, required periodic bridge and dam inspections/reports; forensic/insurance investigations; expert witness testimony; design of projects to comply with the Federal Disability Act; evaluation of Buckeye Pipeline for the Illinois Attorney General; and truck weight checks for the Illinois Bureau of Weights and Measures.PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND 2017 -2023Most recently Mr. Jacobs was a field engineer 2022 through 2023 for Quigg Engineering. Previously he was an investigator, Professional Engineer, working for Keystone Experts and Engineers. He investigated about 20 claims across Illinois for a variety of alleged damages, evaluated the damages and recommended repairs or payment from his field investigations which included photos and a written report. Mr. Jacobs has worked for Francis Engineering in Paris, Illinois as the Engineer of Record and also worked as Resident Engineer for Greene & Bradford Engineers on a force main project and an IDOT roadway project for the town of Taylorville, IL. in 2017 thru 2019.2014 -2016While employed with Infrastructure Engineering, Mr. Jacobs was the assistant to the IDOT resident engineer, Ed Schenck, on a bridge replacement project in East Peoria, IL on Rte. 116 providing oversight and training of young engineers. This was followed by two years as full-time construction field representative on construction of two railroad bridges for the Carpenter Street Railroad Relocation Project in Springfield, IL.2010 -2014Mr. Jacobs was the field/full time site engineer for many projects while employed for Patrick Meyer and Assoc. Eng. Inc. including street asphalt overlay projects in Bartonville, IL, a Safe Streets project and new water tower in North Pekin, IL, and final design of a culvert extension project in East Peoria.2005 -2010Mr. Jacobs started his own firm, Engineering Design Solutions, Inc. (EDS) when the Illinois Attorney General called on Mr. Jacobs to inspect and report on all facilities of Buckeye Pipeline after they experienced a contaminating spill and pipeline rupture in 2005. As owner of EDS Mr. Jacobs servedCandidate's Name ,as manager of the soils lab at Reynolds Drilling and authored about 20 soils reports with soil logs after evaluation and lab testing of materials.1996 -2004While employed by Zurheide -Herrmann in 1996, Mr. Jacobs acted as full-time field (resident) engineer on a project which extended a municipal water tine from Champaign to Seymour, Illinois a distance of about 20 miles including boring and jacking under existing roadways and construction of a valve vault/pump station.While employed at Randolph & Assoc. Eng. Inc. (1998-2004) Mr. Jacobs was a project manager and worked on bridge and roadway projects in Cumberland and Peoria Counties and the State of Illinois while developing and overseeing 15 miles of roadway maintenance and site drainage for Historic Springdale cemetery.1992 -1996From 1992 thru 1996 Mr. Jacobs was a Project Manager at WVP Corporation and was instrumental in developing reinforced earth retaining walls for the Chateau Avenue Bridge Project in St. Louis which resulted in significant savings in design time and construction cost. He was also the designer of many bridges for Macon County and the State of Illinois including an innovative award-winning post-tensioned timber bridge in Edgar County.1985 -1992While employed at Daily & Associates from 1985 thru 1992 Mr. Jacobs designed all five major highway bridges for Rte. 155 in Morton, IL including steel box girder, plate girder, and composite wide-flange beam superstructures, substructures, and foundations. He was involved in subdivision design.While employed by Daily and Associates he also inspected and designed repair projects at numerous dam structures in Illinois including dams in Mattoon, Charleston, Centralia, and Decatur and numerous dams owned by the Northern Illinois Water Corporation. Mr. Jacobs designed projects for the Illinois Capital development Board as required by the Citizens with Disabilities Act at the U of l, State Parks, and other state-owned facilities.Mr. Jacobs acted as a construction observer on the Tennessee-Tombigbee River project in Mississippi doing pile blow counts and observing construction of numerous railroad structures and acted as resident engineer on the ICGRR project in New Athens, IL where he observed channel excavation in an Illinois River tributary and truss bolt tightening in the main span railway bridge truss.Candidate's Name ,1978 -1985While employed at Clark Dietz Engineers, lnc. from 1978 thru 1985 Mr. Jacobs designed numerous bridges for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad; Edgar, Champaign, and Kankakee counties; and the State of Illinois.Mr. Jacobs authored over 50 insurance investigations through his career and appeared as an expert witness to offer testimony in court to support his findings.1975 -1978Mr. Jacobs designed over 50 bridges and structures while employed by the Illinois Department of Transportation. Mr. Jacobs designed superstructures, foundations and substructures for nearly all bridges types including reinforced concrete decks, concrete box culverts, pre-stressed box beams, pre-stressed I beams, wide-flange beams, plate girders on projects throughout the State of Illinois.1974Mr. Jacobs also surveyed the mainline tracks of the P&PU Railway in Creve Coeur-Peoria, East Peoria-Pekin.In summary Mr. Jacobs has hands on experience in a variety of areas. This includes evaluating soil borings, surveying, writing over 100 forensic/soils/hydraulic reports, sizing structures and geometrics for preliminary design (type, size & location development), and final structural/civil design (generating construction plans and specifications). Mr. Jacobs has years of experience in construction observation, providing innovative and cost saving designs and studies including an award-winning bridge design and being commissioned by the State of Illinois Attorney General to do an investigation.EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 1975 INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: 44 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH VARIOUS FIRMS AS NOTEDSPECIALIZATION: Construction Resident Engineer; Bridge Design and Inspection, Team Leader/Program Manager; Dam InspectorCERTIFICATIONS/TRAININGDocumentation of Contract Quantities since 2016 (active)Illinois P.E. License 062.038461 (active)Missouri P.E. License 028185 (inactive)ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: CERTIFIED IN THE DOCUMENTATION OF CONTRACT QUANTITIES (2019) ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: TEAM LEADER FOR BRIDGE INSPECTION (inactive) ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: PROGRAM MANAGER FOR BRIDGE INSPECTION (Inactive)Candidate's Name ,PREQUALIFIED FOR CIVIL WORK BY ILLINOIS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT BOARDCERTIFIED AS SOILS LAB MANAGER FOR REYNOLDS DRILLINGRAILROAD WORKER PROTECTION CERTIFICATION 14-1598CERTIFIED TO ACT AS ILLINOIS COUNTY ENGINEER BY STATE OF ILLINOISREFERENCES:James Garrison, P.E.; Illinois Department of Transportation District 9; 2801 West Murphysboro Road; Carbondale, IL 62903; PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEPATRICK N. MEYER, P.E., M.B.A.; PATRICK MEYER & ASSOC.; 15109 BITTERSWEET CT; BRIMFIELD, IL 61517 PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEJEFF TARAREK, S.E., P.E.; HANSON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES; 1525 S. 6TH STREET; SPRINGFIELD, IL 62703 PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE. |
