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Mazen Kassar, PE
<br />Task Manager— Electrical & Controls
<br />Mr. Kassar has more than 27 years of experience in electrical
<br />engineering and industry standards that include electrical engineering
<br />staff management, project management, construction management and
<br />supervision, water and wastewater treatment, petro-chemical design, and
<br />environmental soil and groundwater treatment. His background includes
<br />designing medium and low voltage power distribution, designing
<br />instrumentation, control systems and SCADA systems for a wide variety
<br />of projects, and the installation of electrical systems for remediation
<br />projects, including soil vapor extraction systems, and groundwater pump -
<br />and -treat systems.
<br />EXPERIENCE
<br />Well No. 32, City of Santa Ana, Santa Ana, CA. Electrical Engineer for
<br />the design of the Well 32 rehabilitation project. The project involved the
<br />rehabilitation of the well facility. The underground well would be scraped,
<br />cleaned and modified to be within an above ground CMU block control
<br />building (housing mechanical and electrical rooms). The electrical
<br />components include providing power and control to the well and for
<br />production of the on -site generation sodium hypochlorite facility. In
<br />addition, a new fiber optic line would connect the well to John Garthe
<br />Reservoir approximately 3,500 feet away. The alignment will be in the
<br />same trench as the 12-inch discharge pipe to the reservoir.
<br />Education:
<br />B.S., Electrical Engineering,
<br />California State University, Long
<br />Beach, 1990
<br />Registrations/Certifications:
<br />Professional Electrical Engineer,
<br />California, No. 15809, 1998
<br />General Construction, Class B
<br />California, No. 777845, 2008
<br />Contractor - C-10 Electrical,
<br />California Class C — Specialty,
<br />No. 777845, 2000
<br />ETAP Electrical Power
<br />Modeling, 2010
<br />Professional Affiliations:
<br />Institute of Electrical and
<br />Electronics Engineers
<br />Office Location:
<br />Irvine, CA
<br />Years of Experience:
<br />27
<br />Years with Tetra Tech:
<br />10
<br />Long Beach 8 Valve Improvement Project Electrical Power System
<br />Upgrade, Long Beach Water Department, Long Beach, CA. Tetra Tech provided full -service Construction
<br />Management Services for the Long Beach Water Department during construction for Long Beach Valve 8
<br />Improvement Project. Work involved connection to the MWD pipeline at the Long Beach Valve 8 project sites,
<br />just east of the intersection of Wardlow Road and Cherry Avenue, complete with pipeline replacements and
<br />electrical and instrumentation upgrades. Mr. Kassar provided electrical and SCADA assistance during startup of
<br />the facility.
<br />Santa Ana River Interceptor Relocation Project, Orange County Flood Control District, Santa Ana, CA.
<br />Provided preliminary and final electrical design services for relocation of 19,500 If segment of 54-inch trunk
<br />interceptor, 6,000 If of 15- and 18-inch sewer mains, flow metering station, and the decommissioning of the
<br />existing trunk interceptor segment. The project included the installation of two separate siphons below the Santa
<br />Ana River using micro -tunneling construction method while complying with multiple environmental and
<br />permitting constraints.
<br />Maxine Lift Station Bypass Connection Project, City of Santa Ana, Santa Ana, CA. The purpose of the
<br />Maxine Lift Station Bypass Connection Project was to install a connection on the existing force main that would
<br />allow the City to bypass sewer flows around the existing lift station utilizing a portable pump from the existing
<br />wet well to the force main. Managed the electrical power system studies which included load flow, short circuit,
<br />and arc flash calculations.
<br />Crooke Reservoir Electrical Upgrade, City of Santa Ana, Santa Ana, CA. Electrical Engineer for the design
<br />of the replacement of the existing motor control panels and switchboards for Crooke Reservoir pump station,
<br />Well 27 and Well 28.
<br />Pyrite Canyon Treatment Facility, State of California, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Glen
<br />Avon, CA. Performed 30 percent and 60 percent design of electrical power and distribution system for the new
<br />treatment facility. The design included sizing solar system to feed the new plant; sizing power equipment like
<br />inverts, step up and step down transformers; overhead and underground distribution, switchboard, MCC and
<br />cable trays; performing load flow and short circuit studies using ETAP power modeling software.
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