John Brown, PE Anounced as Houston Area Geotechnical Engineering Manager
RABA KISTNER CONSULTANTS ANNOUNCES THE HIRE OF JOHN BROWN, PE AS GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING MANAGER (Houston)
The Houston office of RABA KISTNER, Inc. has announced that John Brown, PE has joined RABA KISTNER Consultants as a Geotechnical Engineering Manager. Mr. Brown is responsible for scope development, contracting, financial management and implementation for the majority of geotechnical engineering projects performed out of the Houston Office.
Since 1994, Mr. Brown has performed and managed numerous geotechnical investigations for commercial, industrial, transportation (road and railway), utility pipeline, public works, educational, retail, and petrochemical, land development, and residential clients. His primary focus has been to build long-term client relationships by meeting or exceeding project deadlines, emphasizing communication throughout all phases of geotechnical investigations, and working with clients as their needs change throughout the life of a project.
Mr. Brown’s project experience includes site reconnaissance and design phase geotechnical investigations, geologic inventory reports for bridge and roadway replacements, building distress investigations, and geotechnical construction inspection services. His design experience includes shallow footings, iterative mat foundation design, drilled footings (straight-sided and belled), deep foundations (driven and cast-in-place), tank ring-wall foundations, dispersive soils, highly expansive soils, design of railway sections, raised earthen levees, large cut slopes, sheet-piling, bulkheads, rigid and flexible buried piping, open-cut excavations, trenchless technologies, and pavement design.
Mr. Brown received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Houston in 1991 and his B.S. in Geology from Sul Ross State University in 1983. He has his Professional Engineering (PE) License from both Texas and Louisiana.