Kanagaratnam Rameshkumar (MSI)

(M.Sc, B.Sc, Registered Licensed Surveyor)

No:191, Ukkulankulam, Vavuniya, Srilanka.                                                    

Tel. 94 – 24-2224264, Mobile: 94-773385213

E-mail. [email protected]

Career objective:

To make a successful contribution using the strong educational and technical background gained through 15 years multi-national and multi-environmental experiences in the field of surveying industry with exposure to advanced software and technologies.

Personal Information:

• NID No. : 782950126 V (Passport No: N 1149202)

• Date of Birth                      : 21 October 1978

• Place of Birth                     : Jaffna, Srilanka

• Nationality                         : Srilankan

• Drivers Licence             : Srilankan Heavy vehicle licence

• Marital Status : Married

• Health Alignments : Normal

Academic qualifications:

• Master of Science in Geo-Informatics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2008 (GPA-3.87)

Core subjects are Surveying and Spatial measurement, GPS, Advanced GIS and applications, Advanced Remote Sensing and Applications, Spatial statistics, Spatial Modeling and Analysis, Advanced Digital Image Processing, Spatial Data Infrastructure.

• Sc. Surveying Sciences. (Second Class Upper Division, Gold Medal in Geodesy), Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2004.

Core subjects are Large Scale Surveying, Geodesy, Cartography, Photogrammetry, Hydrographic surveying, Adjustment computations, Electronic Surveying, Cadastre, Remote sensing, Land law, Land valuation, Land administration, Cadastral Surveying,  .

Professional qualifications:

• Registered Surveyor, Sri Lanka Land Survey Council(Reg.No:20072066)
• Registered Licensed Surveyor (190019)

• Member of The Surveyor’s Institute of Sri Lanka.
• Assessed for standing as a Professional Surveyor by the Institution of Surveyors Australia (Surveyor ASCO 2123-13)
•  Live Member of Geo-Informatics society of Srilanka 2004 onwards.
• Affiliate member of Institution of Civil engineering Surveyors, United Kingdom

Carrier Summary

Since March 2016         China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co.Ltd.        Extension of sourthern express way project Section 3

Surveyor (Consultant Party)

General:

Project : Extension of sourthern expressway project section 3 from Watiya to Andarawewa

Total length :15km (56+000-71+000)

Employer: Road development Authority of Srilanka.

Engineer: China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co.Ltd.

Contractor: China state construction Engineering Corporation Ltd.

Responsibilities:

• Discuss with contractors and subcontractors regarding the accuracy of work and the procedure need to be followed in each and every construction activities and formulate methodology for the checks to ensure the zero defects in setting out.
• Make sure the control point establishment and define values (N, E, Z) as per Srilankan nationl grid and mean sea level datum specified in Srilankan survey department technical specification.
• Periodically check benchmark level values and submitted documents for observations, calculations and take appropriate action accordingly.
• Positional coordinates for Control points (Northing and Easting) regularly checked and confirmed. Submitted observation sheets and calculations checked in regular basis.
• All the vertical and horizontal checks for structures and roadway layers are based on volume 3 technical specification of Road Development Authority civil work contract No: RDA/RNIP/HH/01
• Check the Initial stage setting out of designed centre line and conduct original ground survey for every 20m interval for design cross section.
• Check the Setting out and level in all stage for pile locations, culverts, Under passes, Interchanges and Bridges
• Elevation markings in all stage of work to control level.
• Stock pile volume calculations, Embankment filling calculations for progress monitoring.
• Conduct initial survey to determine culvert sizes and slope.
• Conduct survey for monitor work progress in regular basis.
• Record keeping for payments.

Dec 2015 -Feb2016       Sierra Construction (pvt) Company        Nuwaraelliya,Srilanka

Senior Surveyor

General:

Road Development Authority under the ministry of highways has initiated project called Integrated Road Investment Programme (iRoad) to improve the transport connectivity between rural communities. In this horizon, in Nuwaraelliya NE-03 package consist 65km to be reconstructed. 

Responsibilities:

• Organise and supervise four site surveyors throughout the project.
• Coordinate with project team to improve the progress according to the programme.
• Organise GPS control point establishment and observation to all scattered roads.
• Monitor the control point establishment and level transfer from Survey department fundamental Bench marks along the project area.
• Control point TS traversing and adjustment calculation to finalise horizontal control.
• Topographical survey and submission for design purposes.
• Setting out design centreline and cross section survey as per design requirement.
• Setting out level control pegs along the construction area
• Record keeping for claims and approvals.

June 2014- November 2015     China Harbour Engineering Company        Colombo,Srilanka

Chief Surveyor at CHEC and Surveyor for Licensed Surveyor,s Projects

General:

Nagananda International Institute for Buddhist Studies Project consist of ten buildings which has maximum of eight floors containing Forty Six thousand squaremeters in all.

Responsibilities:

• Benchmark level value observations, calculations check in periodic manner.
• Positional coordinates (Northing and Easting) observation sheets and calculations checked in regular basis.
• Initial stage setting out to designed grids.
• Setting out of pile locations, column footings, columns, walls lift locations and all necessary features in building.
• Elevation markings in all stage of work to control level.
• Coordinate with structural and architectural designers and the Project Management Team.
• Record keeping for claims and approvals.

Asbuilt survey for longitudinal section and cross section of Roads and bunds.

Topographical survey for locating significant features.

Preparing plans by Auto Cad.

November    2011-June 2014             CECB                          Mannar, Srilanka

Surveyor (third party/ Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau )

General:

Rehabilitation and improvement of 67km length of  Navatkuli-Karative-Mannar Road (A032) under North Rehabilitation and reconstruction Projects of Srilanka with contract amount of LKR 6532.5 M. Engineering role of the whole length covered by CECB where Client is, Road Development Authority.

 Responsibilities:

Works in Roadway:

Centre line check for offset peg markings before excavation.

1) Subgrade Excavation:

Check the level if it is as per design, if not Asbuilt survey with EOP and TOE (should as per design) offsets.

2) Embankment 1 and Embankment 2 top levels checked every 20 m longitudinal intervals and suitable cross sectional intervals (2.5, 4.5 offsets commonly).

3) Sub base top levels checked 10m longitudinal intervals and suitable cross sectional intervals (0, 2.5, 4.5 offsets commonly).

4) ABC top level checked every 10 m longitudinal intervals and suitable cross sectional intervals (0, 2, 3.5 offsets commonly). Centre line again checked in this stage.

5) As built of Asphalt top level taken and compared with design level in every 10 m longitudinal intervals and suitable cross sectional intervals (0, 2, 3.2, and 3.5).

Culverts:

• Check location markings
• Check Drop wall excavation bottom level.
• Check base excavation bottom level.
• Check base top level/invert level
• Check deck top level

Special tasks:

• Benchmark level value observations, calculations check in periodic manner and approve.
• Positional coordinates (Northing and Easting) observation sheets and calculations checked in regular basis.
• Get work done for positional and elevation values of disturbed control points and benchmarks.  
• Stock pile volume calculations (whenever required)
• Check the staked pegs for Asphalt lay (whenever required).
• Check Initial cross-sectional survey for culvert design and pavement design.
• Maintain all observational records for supporting QS.
• Make regular arrangements for Instrument maintenance and calibration.

November 2010-November 2011

National water board project   &  Jaica road and bund works         Srilanka

Peraru dam construction plan across river is a big initiation for making reservoir at Puthukulam, Vavuniya.

Working as a Surveyor in preliminary surveys such as Engineering survey for defining contour for water capacity, full catchments boundary and topographical survey for the property valuation with national grid and Srilanlan datum.

Jaica reconstruction and rehabilitation projects for bunds and local roads.

Asbuilt survey for longitudinal section and cross section of Roads and bunds.

Topographical survey for locating significant features.

Preparing plans by Auto Cad.

June2009 – October 2010                  ABC Surveys                          Abu Dhabi, UAE

Surveyor Consultant

General:

The Yas Island is a very vast construction site consisting of various developments, bridges, Roads, Utilities and landscaping built by many contractors. Major role is cross checking the road setting out, curve ranging and road layer elevation such as formation, sub base, wetmix, asphalt of all new road network in this site.

Responsibilities:

• Checking control points in regular basis and issuing report to the management.
• Checking all stake out points for column location and verticality for the column formwork.
• Checking the location of manholes for underground pipe lines.
• Checking the invert level of manholes and slope of pipe line installation.
• Checking the marking for the road curve ranging and slope super elevation.
• Checking the elevation of kerb stone blinding, top, road formation level, wet mix level and asphalt levels for road.
• Monitoring the movement of high rise building in regular basis during the construction.
• Monitoring the slab settlement of high rise building in regular basis during the construction.
• As built survey and prepare final three dimensional plan for electricity tower line construction.
• As built survey and form digital terrain model for calculating volume for back fill materials.
• Perform TPS observation for the site new controls and adjust finally issuing coordinates for sub-contractors.
• Perform GPS RTK survey for topographical works with suitable coordinate system used on the location.
• Perform GPS Static observation for establish new controls and for topographical survey works by post processing.

April 2008-May 2009             ALDAR LaingO’Rourke                    Abu Dhabi, UAE

Land Surveyor (Control Team)

General:

The Al RAHA Beach Development is a 10km by 1km construction site consisting of various developments, bridges, Roads, Utilities and landscaping built by many contractors.

PMS Control Team

Responsibilities:

• Identify Safety risks experienced in the field and arrange preliminary field preparation with chief and educate safety measures to field assistants
• Maintain a filing and record keeping for site wide Instrument calibration (GPS, TPS, Auto Level and Laser Level) systematically.
• Stakeout lot boundaries for developments, bridges, Interchanges in the field.
• Stakeout designed road centre line, excavation boundaries, piling and soil test locations.
• Maintain a filing and record keeping for all field GPS staking outs to compare the design coordinates and actual measured location.
• Establish permanent control points for the local sites wherever needed.
• Perform GPS static observation, down load and process raw data to compute the coordinates of new control points.
• Higher order levelling from known control points to new controls to compute the local heights.
• Maintain a filing and record keeping for all site wide controls by referencing unique file index.
• Perform GPS static observation for earlier established controls for periodic checks and maintain coordinate comparison checks.
• Regular monthly subsidence monitoring to maintain control level network runs all over the site.
• Establish new subsidence and connect with level network wherever needed.
• Perform TPS observation for the site new controls and adjust, finally compare with GPS coordinates to compute the scale factor.
• Participate control tool box meeting to rectify old work, planning future work and discuss safety measures.
• Regular Topographical survey to update base map of the site.
• Perform Earth work, stock pile measurements, form DTM and calculate volume and prepare contour maps.

October 2005-march 2008     Srilanka Survey Department

Government Land Surveyor

Responsibilities:

• Cadastral survey for state land lots with boundary definition and tenement information to issue the grant.
• Topographical and as built survey for rural developments like schools and community centre.
• Rehabilitation and Resettlement blocking out survey for TSUNAMI victims.
• Blocking out survey and staking out lands on the field for land less public.
• As built survey for planning of road expansion and railway track design.
• Encroachment survey for road widening and railway reservation to estimate the compensation for affected land owners.
• Preliminary as built surveys for paddy fields to design the irrigation channel systems.
• Prepare the blocking out diagram for the list of allottee and hand over on the field by stake out.
• Title registration survey work for land Information System updating.
• Re demarcation of reservation for high ways, rail ways, reservoirs, channels and forest to control the public encroachments.
• Engineering Survey for upper catchment area demarcation due to the heightening of reservoir bund
• Redefine boundaries for settle local land disputes.
• Data collection for updating Srilankan topographical Base sheet.
• Perform all type of surveying in national grid coordinate system by reopening old primary traverse points.
• Prepare the quarter field sheets in Auto CAD and attach relevant tenement information with reference field notes.
• Investigate old sheets in main office record to find out the history of ownership to incorporate with new surveys.
• Participate monthly progress meeting to prepare the following month task and handing over the previous month achievements to superintendent of Survey.

July 2004 – October 2005      Danish Demining Group (INGO)                             Srilanka

GIS Officer

Responsibilities:

• Determine and map hazardous mine risk area so that to define the way of access and outer boundary demarcation with the help of military and rebels sketches.
• Establish permanent controls for each mine field and calculate the coordinates by long time GPS observation.
• Create new Geo-Database in Arc-Catalog (ESRI Arc Editor licensed software) with national coordinate system and connect with existing database for easy analysis.
• Down load all measured shape files and edit in Arc Map ESRI soft ware to prepare final product.
• Post Tsunami activities and mapping for the assessment of devastation and needs.
• Prepare the capacity building schedule for junior staff.
• Trained fresh junior staff to build up team and expand the activities.
• Participate monthly progress review meetings and produce final status with facts and figures.
• Upload edited shape files to the systems of Divisional Operations Manager for decision making by using GIS application soft ware in regular basis.

Equipments and Softwares Used:

• Leica TPS 1200 series and Leica TPS 800 series, Leica GPS 1200 Static Receivers and Smart Rovers, Leica GPRX 1230 Reference Station, Leica Rugby Levels, NA720 Automatic level, NA2 Automatic level and DNA Digital level, Leica Builder, Leica NA720 Automatic level, Leica disto meter
• Topcon theodolite, BOIF digital Theodolite, Topcon auto level
• Nikon total stations
• Trimble GPS Base and Rover sets and latest Trimble Total stations .
• AutoCAD, LISCAD, LGO, Terra model
• Sokkia Total Station set 300 and set 500 and Accessories, Sokkia Auto levels
• Excel, Word, Adobe Acrobat.
• ESRI Arc Editor, Arc GIS License version.
• ESRI Arc Catalog – For Building Geodatabase.
• ESRI Arc Map & Arc View – For Editing shape files.
• Arc Pad – For field measurements.
• TerraSync – Used for GPS Base setup.
• ActiveSync – Used for data transfer from hand held to Desktop.

Industrial training      TUDAWE BROTHERS (pvt.) LTD.                                    Srilanka

Construction Surveyor

Responsibilities:

• Grid line setting out and transfer horizontal and vertical controls to all floors.
• Setting out flat edge column out line, boundary wall and lift location for high rise luxury building.
• Vertical control marking in all columns and walls for form work.
• Check verticality for column and wall casings on pre concreting and post concreting.

Continuing Professional Developments:

• Participate CPD programmes conducted by land survey council and survey institute of srilanka continuously last three years. ( three per year)
• GPS Day - Geo-informatics Society of Srilanka (GISSL)
• Remote Sensing Day 2006- GISSL
• GIS for All 2007 Day - GISSL
• Imaging And Navigation from space – (GISSL)
• Second national symposium of GISSL
• Short course in GIS and GPS conducted by Institute of Surveying and Mapping
• Measurement using Total station with iPAQ conducted by Institute of Surveying and Mapping.
• Attend Laser Scanning and Latest Equipment Development seminar by ICES.
• Participate First Aid and Emergency Volunteer Course conducted by SL Red Cross
• Participate ArcGIS User Conference at Srilanka