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Title: GeoDesign, Inc.


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GeoDesign, Inc.
2
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

3
Services
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Environmental Consulting
  • Geological Consulting
  • Hydrogeological Consulting
  • Pavement Design

4
Environmental Consulting
  • Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)
  • Phase II ESAs
  • Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Studies
    (RI/FS)
  • Sediment sampling
  • Industrial environmental compliance
  • Methane remediation

5
Hydrogeological Consulting
  • Water supply well testing and analysis
  • Wellhead protection
  • Groundwater resource studies

6
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

7
Structure
  • Monday Meetings
  • Mentor
  • Interaction with Drafting
  • Minimum Interaction with Geotech Group

8
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

9
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.

10
Courses
  • ENGR 372
  • Excel
  • Statistics

11
Final Impression
  • Loved the people enjoyed the work but it was
    still work
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