Santiago Baez Melo

Experience

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  GOLDSMITH & ASSOCIATES

  Jul 2003 - Sept 2003

  Intern

  As an intern, I worked with the surveying team giving on-field support.

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  ENW Structural Engineering

  Jun 2005 - Mar 2007

  Staff Engineer

  As a staff engineer, I worked under the supervision of a senior engineer. My responsibilities included to deliver structural engineering designs for small size projects or part of medium and big size projects. Projects included residential and commercial buildings of different materials as wood, steel and concrete.

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  RFA Srtuctural Engineers

  Mar 2007 - Oct 2008

  Project Engineer

  My responsibilities were to deliver structural designs for construction projects of commercial and residential buildings, including new buildings, remodels and retrofits. As a project engineer I was in direct and constant communication with clients an contractors, to ensure all the clients needs were met.

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  Consorcio Tu Casa - CCQ

  Jan 2011 - Feb 2011

  Resident Engineer

  Managing construction process following a Project Quality Plan. Coordinate with all engineerings, arquitect and material suppliers for the success of the project. Proyecto Amaru is a $7M project, 220 living units (duplexes and apartments) and 40 business spaces.

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  ADC ENGINEERING

  Mar 2011 - Aug 2012

  Quality Engineer

  This position gave me the oportunity to multi-task different type of activities overviewing all the areas involved in the construction of the New Quito International Airport. As part of the Project Manager team, my responsabilities were supervising the EPC quality control, managing part of the non-EPC works, and leading the Project Acceptance team.

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  Odebrecht

  Sept 2012 - Feb 2015

  RP Quality Assurance

  Odebrecht was granted the Phase One of the construction of the oil refainary, Refinería del Pacifico. Phase One involves earthworks on 1,530 Ha, involving a earth movement of about 24,000,000 m3. As the RP of the Quality Management System, my responsability is to manage the functioning of all the processes in the Organization and their interacton. The Quality Mangement System in the Project is based on ISO 9001.

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  EKR Iberoamericana

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Construction Superintendent

  On site construction management, planning and construction control. The principal challenge in this project was the short time frame we had for completion, which demanded to create a very active work environment under safe conditions keeping up the quality standards.

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  ECOEXCELENCIA

  Sept 2015 - now

  Project Manager

  My responsibilities include organize a team work to plan, to program, to control and to deliver projects being executed by the company. Since this is a new company with high standards and big projections , the final goal is to create a project management culture inside the company, so all the projects that are to come will work under an standardized system.

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  Consorcio Linea 1 (Odebrecht-Acciona)

  Mar 2016 - now

  Quality Responsible

  Project scope includes the construction of a 22.5 km subway tunnel, 14 stations, emergency exits and equipment installation. It is also included the replacement of public services, earth works alongside the tunnel, paving of existent and new roads, and construction of minor structures. QAQC responsible for the construction of one station and all the civil work necessary around it.

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  Engineers Northwest Inc., P.S.

  Jul 2017 - now

  Project Engineer