Jason Frank Hocheder, P.E.
Cell: (707) 849-6406
Fax: 866-241-8073
Website: http://jasonhocheder.com
Experience:
July 2004 – Present- Jason Hocheder, PE
Owner
- Similar to Lescure Engineers and Summit Engineering below.
November 2003 – January 2005 – Lescure Engineers, Santa Rosa, CA
Project Manager
· Manage numerous projects for private residential on-site septic systems.
· Conduct and prepare topographic surveys and topographic maps.
- Designed and permitted retaining walls.
· Also performed the tasks as described below while employed at Summit Engineering, Inc.
May 2003 – November 2003 – Techqua USA, Glen Ellen, CA
Senior Engineer
- Sales and marketing of Techqua wastewater pretreatment unit.
- Installation and technical support for Techqua units.
- Coordinator between Techqua USA and Techqua Holdings (New Zealand).
- Manage and design project for sanitary sewer replacement with the City of Santa Rosa.
- Complied permitting binder for Napa and Sonoma County.
- Lead designer for site and septic for a 200,000/year case winery facility.
- Prepared NOI’s, SWPPP’s and ROWD’s.
- Analyzed software for detention pond and storm water design.
- Present information to peers from skill development courses.
- Review plans, reports and title documents for subdivisions and private properties.
- Generated hydrologic and septic reports and analysis.
- Lead projects through many phases of design including; permitting, plan check, design/review, construction assistance and construction inspection.
March 2002 – May 2003 – Summit Engineering Inc., Santa Rosa, CA
Staff Engineer
January 2002 – March 2002 – Spencer Engineering and Construction Management, Inc., McKinleyville, CA
Project Engineer
- Conducted a feasibility study for the rehabilitation of various railroad trestles.
- Classified soil types and prepared field logs for stability analysis.
- Member of a team to design a water distribution system for the HOOPA Indian Tribe.
- Determined and presented methods of septic disposal for the HOOPA Tribe.
- Performed boundary surveys, topographic surveys and construction staking.
- Designed and analyzed storm drainage systems.
February 2000-May 2001 – Martinez, Wright & Mendez, Inc., Austin, TX
Project Engineer
- Designed detention, filtration and sedimentation systems.
- Designed and analyzed storm drainage systems by FAA and other requirements.
- Performed foundation and retaining wall structural calculations.
- Created river models for determining flow characteristics using HEC-RAS.
- Prepared traffic control plans and details per the TX DOT and AASHTO standards.
- Prepared plans, specifications, and estimates per various standards.
- Researched right-of-way boundaries for proposed road and highway improvements.
- Determined hot-mix asphalt and concrete pavement section thickness.
- Construction inspector for the installation of a 66-inch water line for the City of Austin.
Construction Inspection
Summer 1999 – Burro Creek Salmon Hatchery, Skagway, Alaska
- Refurbished a hydroelectric system.
- Restored a landing craft.
Fall 1998 – Senior Design Project, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
- Mapped recreational use trails with GPS.
- Linked digital images and digital video to position data using Arc View.
August 1995 – May 1999 – Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Student Research Technician
- Member of Team to design, build, and test Rollover Protective Structures (ROPS) on pre-ROPS tractors.
- Initiated research for the use of Tilapia in a self-regenerative food production system.
- Member of a team to design, build, and compete in the National 1/4 Scale Tractor Pull.
Education
- February 2011- Waste water and Energy Workshop presenter by Gallo, Inc.
- November, 2010- Sustainable practices for the Landscape Professional training by Russian River-Friendly Lnadscape
- Jan 2010 – present- member of Sonoma County PRMD Greywater working Group
- October 2008- Construction NPDES Regs, SWPPP preparation and BMP’s Training by Hosain Kazemi by Russian River Alliance?
- March 2004- Erosion and Sediment Control Workshop by John Towns and Associates and North American Green.
- March 2004 – On-site Basics by James Converse of University of Wisconsin at Madison.
- March 2004 – ‘ASAE Tenth National Symposium on Individual and Small Community Systems in Sacramento, CA.
- October 2003 – Passed Seismic Design Principles Professional Engineering Examinations. Obtained Professional Engineers License in Civil Engineering.
- August 2003 – ‘Water and Wastewater Management for Wineries’ by Trent Cave, Director of Napa County Environmental Management at University of California- Davis.
- May 2003 – Exhibitor at the International Wine and Grape Symposium in Reno, NV.
- April 2003 – Passed Engineering Survey and Civil Engineering Professional Engineering Examinations.
- April 2003 – ‘Review of Seismic Principles’ by Chris Tocas at University of San Francisco.
- April 2003 – ‘Review of Survey Principles’ at University of San Francisco.
- March 2003 – Intro to updated Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP) by California Storm water Quality Association (CASQA) in Sacramento, CA.
- March 2003 – ‘Understanding Soils for Onsite Sewage Treatment Systems’ by California Wastewater Training and Research Center at California State University – Chico.
- November 2002 – ‘At Grade and Subsurface Drip Dispersal Systems’ by California Wastewater Training and Research Center at California State University in Santa Rosa, CA
- November 11-12, 2002 – ‘Storm Sewer Design and Modeling’ featuring Storm CAD by Hasted Methods in San Francisco, CA.
- June 2002 – ‘Design of Forest and Ranch Roads’ by William E. Weaver, Ph.D. in Napa County, CA.
- February 2000 – Attended tree identification class at the University of Texas at Austin.
- April 2000 – Attended seminar on lime stabilization in San Antonio, TX.
- Spring 1998 – Obtained Engineer in Training Certificate (EIT) at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO.
- Fall 1998- Fall 1994 – Obtained B.S. Agriculture and Bioresource Engineering from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO.
- Spring 1997 – Attended Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Computer Skills
AutoCAD, Storm CAD, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, ACT, HEC-RAS, WMS, TR-20, KYPIPE, Hydra flow by Intellisolve, VMS by Red Hen, Arc/Info, Arc View and GPSLog.