Biographie

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