1975/Professional Land Surveyor/Celifomis
<br />Certificate/Public Service Administration/Santa Ana College
<br />Ruel del Castillo has 41 years of experience managing both field and office operations for all phases of surveying and
<br />mapping services. He has managed 30 "on-call" contracts directly for, or in support of, many federal, stare and local
<br />agencies including the counties of Los Angeles and Orange, the U.S. Forest Service, various U.S. Army Corps of
<br />Engineer Districts, the U.S. Navy Southwest Division and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
<br />Ruel possesses a "hands on" working knowledge of various land surveying services including boundary surveys and
<br />analysis, GPS surveys, topographic surveys, utility location surveys, large-scale aerial and geodetic control, and
<br />monitoring quantities. For example, while working directly for the County of Orange, he was responsible for all
<br />boundary surveys, first order /second order vertical and horizontal control surveys, photogrammetric mapping, control
<br />surveys and centerline surveys. Ruel worked on all the projects in the City'of Santa Ana, and listed below are some
<br />additional projects:
<br />? 81165/1.5 Freeway Interchange in Santa Ana and Tustin for Caltrans District 12 - Prepared record of survey
<br />for static OPS control. Researched and analyzed adjoining maps and centerline ties in various cities and
<br />agencies for right of way determination, surveyed existing monumentation, monumented new right-ofway
<br />lines, and prepared metric Record of Survey.
<br />? SR-57/SR-91 Freeway Interchange in Orange County for OCTA - Work consisted of cross-sections: across
<br />both sides of each freeway; along all eight connector ramps; along all on off ramps at Orangethorpe Avenue
<br />and at State College Boulevard; and on State College Boulevard, Orangethorpe Avenue, Miraloma Avenue
<br />and Sunkist Avenue. Also prepared detailed topographic surveys of existing sound walls and proposed sound
<br />wall locations, existing overpass bridges and existing utilities. Right-of-way base mapping was also prepared for
<br />this project.
<br />4.2 Tatsumi and Partners, Inc.
<br />Tatsumi and Partners is a landscape architectural and planning firm providing design and consulting services to public
<br />sector clients throughout the western U.S. since 1981. The firm is built on a team of individuals recognized as leaders
<br />in their respective fields but sharing a common characteristic attention to the clients and their needs. The firm's work
<br />includes planning, design, construction documents, construction administration and plan checking for cities, counties,
<br />state agencies, and transportation authorities. URS and Tatsumi and Partners have worked together many times over
<br />the past decade and provide a seamless working relationship.
<br />Tatsumi and Partners is certified as a minority-owned, disadvantaged business enterprise (MBE/DBE/SBE) by
<br />Caltrans, the State of California Unified Certification Program, the City of Los Angeles, OCTA, the County of Los
<br />Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and numerous other agencies.
<br />American Society of Landscape Architects/California
<br />BS/Landscape Architecture/California State University, Pomona
<br />David Tatsumi served as Project Manager for several projects involving street or highway enhancements for the City of
<br />Santa Ana, City of La Habra, City of Glendale, the Alameda Corridor East Authority, OCTA and Caltrans. In this
<br />capacity, he coordinated the overall work for the projects, monitored progress, coordinated all design work, oversaw
<br />quality assurance and served as the primary liaison between the firm, the client and Caltrans or city personnel. During
<br />the course of these projects, he has modified the firm's standard quality assurance system to meet the specific needs of
<br />each client and Caltrans. This system, called QCOP (Quality Control Operations and Procedures) was developed by
<br />David and monitors the landscape architectural components of the PS&E packages as well as the CARD standards.
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