Cara Christine Tobin

CARA C. TOBIN, PE

Civil Engineer

EDUCATION

PhD in Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Fulbright Fellowship

01/2007-present

Master's in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Recipient

06/2001

Bachelor's in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow

06/1999

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, MINERVE2011

• Research on Predicting floods and managing hydropower in the Swiss Alps. Project includes improving knowledge of hydrological processes and conducting uncertainty analysis.

10/2007 - present

Asian Development Bank / World Bank, Baku, Azerbaijan

• Environmental engineering specialist in charge of reviewing environmental aspects of water supply and wastewater discharge designs. Environmental Assessments Performed and managed the local environmental, social and resettlement specialists.

02/2009 - 07/2009

Asian Development Bank / World Bank, Yerevan, Armenia

• Environmental engineering specialist for the assessment of water supply designs. Performed Environmental Assessments and Resettlement due diligence.

01/2008 - 04/2008

Temple University, Department of Civil Engineering, Philadelphia, USA

• Adjunct Professor for Environmental Engineering,

Introduction to the Environment and Environmental Engineering

10/2005-06/2006

CH2M HILL, Environmental Engineering Consultancy, Philadelphia, USA

• Project leader for river discharge ammonia toxicity study

• Engineer in charge of over $ 100,000 in WWTP design upgrades

10/2004-06/2006

MWH Ltd., Environmental Engineering Consultancy, Christchurch, NZ and Brisbane, AU

• Lead engineer for major hydraulic components of a $ 150 million wastewater and desalination project

• Head shape for a dozen water and groundwater projects

02/2003-09/2004

Kennedy / Jenks Consultants, Civil Engineering Consultancy, San Francisco, USA

• Environmental engineer in charge of Drinking Water Source Assessments and water quality sampling programs

08/2001-01/2003

Stanford Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab, USA

• Developer of a 3D computer model simulating turbulent mixing at lateral boundaries due to steepening and breaking of internal waves

08/2000-06/2001

Georgia Instititute of Technology, Civil Engineering Labs, USA

• Analyzed influence of copper sorption rates on particle flocculation kinetics

• Developed PIV experiments in turbulent hydraulic flume

06/1998-06/2000

AFFILIATIONS and SPECIALIZATIONS

• Professional Civil Engineer (PE072050), ASCE, AGU, Fulbright Alumnus

• Experienced with ArcGIS, Matlab, R Statistical Analysis, MapInfo, MODFLOW, H2OMap, AutoCAD, Idrisi, Unix / Lenox, Fortran, NetCDF, Visual Basic

• Fluent in Anglais and Français. Proficient in Spanish