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Education Saint Mary's College 1998: Trunk sewer installation for the City of Antioch BA Degree, 1963 Alpha Mu Gamma, National Language Honor Society   University of California Hastings College of the Law LLB, 1966   Professional Memberships California State Bar Association General Engineering Contractor Engineering and Utility Contractors Association, Honorary Lifetime Member Forensic Expert Witness Association The Dispute Review Board Foundation   Professional Experience 1953 to 1966 - Worked in my family's construction company every summer and school break.   1967 to 1970 - General Law Practice 1967 to 1968 - Associate with the law firm of Ash & Carotta 1968 to 1969 - Sole Practitioner 1969 to 1970 - Partner in Kinder & Jardin with William G. Kinder 1970 to 1999 - Started Manuel C. Jardin, Inc. Specialized in underground pipeline installation/replacement and trenchless rehabilitation work almost exclusively in the public sector. Performed emergency repair work for various public agencies. Specific Types of Construction Projects: Underground pipe installation Pipelines requiring extensive dewatering systems including deep wells, well points, sumps, etc. Pipelines requiring various shoring systems including sheet piles and walers; soldier-beam and either wood planks or steel plates; slide-rail system; trench shields; conventional hydraulic shores. Trunk and interceptor sewers requiring extensive and prolonged bypass pumping systems. Projects involving bored and jacked pipe. Cofferdams for the construction of outfall structures. Concrete structures for both sanitary and storm sewer systems. Pump stations together with their wet well and other appurtenances. Cathodic protection systems in conjunction with pipeline installation. Large stoppel valves on pressure pipelines. Minor mechanical retrofit work on treatment plants and pump stations. Liners in holding ponds. Rehabilitated collector and trunk sewers using the trenchless slip-line method. Replaced collector and trunk sewers using the trenchless pipebursting method. Excavation in all types of soil conditions ranging from bay mud and sand to clay and hard rock. Extensive experience locating and protecting underground utilities, including tracing, hand exploration and vacuum excavation. Extensive experience using the California Underground Service Alert requirements, also known as the "One Call" system. Extensive experience installing Asbestos Cement (AC) pipe, also known as "Transite" pipe. This pipe was installed in water, sanitary and storm drain projects. The installations required cutting the AC pipe using the "wet cut" method. 1973 to 1999 - Member, Engineering and Utility Contractors Association 1992: 12" sewer replacement in ROW for the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District 1973 to 1976, Board of Directors Vice President Chairman, Labor Committee Chairman, Specification Committee 1985 to 1988, Board of Directors Secretary-Treasurer Member, Executive Board Member, Specification Committee 1999 to Present Expert witness in construction related cases. Consultant Advising, preparing and presenting construction claims. Preparing total bid packages on underground projects. Advising public agencies and private design firms on construction feasibility for various underground projects Advising/consulting contractors concerning ongoing projects. Arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau Dispute Review Boards Owner          Project SRCSD          Bradshaw Interceptor Sewer & Tunnel CCCSD          Pleasant Hill Relief Sewer & Tunnel CCCSD          Dougherty Valley Tunnel & Trunk Sewer SRCSD          Upper Northwest Interceptor Project SRCSD          Lower Northwest Interceptor Project, West Sac Force Main SRCSD          Lower Northwest Interceptor Project, Natomas Force Main SFPUC          Crossover - Isolation Valves at Hayward Fault Crossing SFPUC          Bay Pipeline # 5 - West Bay Reaches SFPUC          Bay Pipeline # 5 - East Bay Reaches SFPUC          San Joaquin Pipeline - Western Segment SFPUC          Crystal Springs Pipeline SFPUC          San Joaquin Pipeline - Eastern Segment Dispute Resolution Advisor Owner          Project SFPUC          Baden & San Pedro Valve Lot Improvements   Languages 1998: 21" VCP sewer installation for the City of Antioch Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish Read and Write in Spanish   References Furnished upon request Resume Date: October 2012