GeoDesign, Inc.

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GeoDesign, Inc.
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Our Firm

• Founded in 1997

• Employee owned

• Over 60 full-time employees

• Offices in Portland and Vancouver

• 90 percent of our business comes from repeat
  clients and referrals

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Services

• Geotechnical Engineering

• Environmental Consulting

• Geological Consulting

• Hydrogeological Consulting

• Pavement Design

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Environmental Consulting

• Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)

• Phase II ESAs

• Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Studies
  (RI/FS)

• Sediment sampling

• Industrial environmental compliance

• Methane remediation

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Hydrogeological Consulting

• Water supply well testing and analysis

• Wellhead protection

• Groundwater resource studies

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Wages and Benefits

• 13.50 hr OT
• 40 hr plus per week
• Work what Ours I wanted (mostly)
• Paid Mileage
• Paid Vacation (didnt go towards OT)
• Company Parties!!!
• Company Cell Phone
• Dont Go Over on Text Messages
• 200 allowance for supplies
• Other Perks

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Structure

• Monday Meetings
• Mentor
• Interaction with Drafting
• Minimum Interaction with Geotech Group

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What I did

• Phase 1s
• Lots of Fill in the Blank
• Methane Monitoring (Durham old landfill)
• Late Night Monitoring
• Weekly Reports
• Smoke Testing
• North Macadam
• Working Saturdays isnt as Fun as you Think
• Water Well Sampling
• Nothing seems to go as planned
• Data Entry
• 4x Billing Multiplier

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What I learned

• All Work and No Play will make you go crazy!
• Remember, just because your in bed at 1100 on
  Thursday doesnt mean your friends are.
• You Earn Money Fast and You Lose it Fast.
• Learned how to interact with multiple people.
• If your slowing down progress you might make some
  people mad.
• Truck divers are a lot nicer than I thought.
• Get to know people. It helps a lot!!!
• Things change, stuff happens you have to just
  deal with it.

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Courses

• ENGR 372
• Excel
• Statistics

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Final Impression

• Loved the people enjoyed the work but it was
  still work