Father: Theodore Locke Herrick(37)
Mother: Barbara (Butt) Herrick
I have been married 32 years (split five ways),
| Norma Jean (Coffin) | 13 years |
| Jacquelyn Ann (Brown) | 6 months |
| Patricia A | 8 years |
| Denise (Loiselle) | 7 years |
| Pamela Anne (Metz) | 3 years |
but only had one daughter:
Us five boys in 1964 on our horses. Mine on the left is Beauregard!
Born in Bangor, Maine, I grew up in Maine (Old Town, Newport, Island Falls, Fort Kent, Gardiner, Presque Isle, Orono, Old Town, Brewer, etc.) and went to the University of Maine (Orono) achieving my bachelors degree in Civil Engineering in 1972. I became a Professional Engineer in July of 1976 and a Professional Surveyor in July of 1979. I operated my own Engineering firm (Herrick and Assoc.) from 1975 through 1979. I was the City Engineer for Tarpon Springs, Florida; City Engineer for Dunedin, Florida; and Manager of Engineering Construction in St. Petersburg, Florida. I am registered as an engineer in eight states. I have designed and monitored the construction of many subdivisions, mobile home parks, condominiums, roads, utilities, sewerage and water treatment plants, buildings, bridges and all sorts of civil engineering works.
Hobbies: Computers and Sailing. I have four networked computers. I have sailed the west coast of Florida from St. Petersburg to the Dry Tortugas and also sailed to Havana, Cuba on my own a 45 foot Hunter sailboat! Currently (end of 2010) I am retired, single and have no sailboat, though I have a 21 foot powerboat, a kayak, a rowboat, and a 2005 Harley Ultra Classic Super Glide motorcycle! I have been on 15 cruises, all over the Caribbean, and have traveled to France, Germany, Greece, Aruba, Abacos, Mexico, Canada, Hawaii, and plan on going to Alaska and England in 2011 and 2012.
| 3/30/1972 | Lanbanque
Engineering
Pasco, County, Florida |
Designer/Junior Engineer, I designed the master sewer, water, paving, drainage, and plat calculations for a 10 square mile project. I then prepared detailed plans for a 300-acre portion of the subdivision and detailed plans for 100-acre condominium project around a new 18 hole golf course. The detailed plans I prepared included the design of pipe sizes and slopes for all drainage basins, sewer line size and slopes, and designed the water main sizes. I designed the golf course irrigation system (including two 75 horsepower pump intakes from a large retention pond) and laid out the course in the field. In addition I prepared the plans and monitored the construction of a 4-lane bridge over the Anclote River. I was the inspector for the construction of the bridge: counting the blows for the pile driving - up to inspecting the final coating. | ||||||
| 8/20/1973 | Lloveras, Baur
and Stephens
Clearwater, Florida |
Engineer; Lloveras, Baur and Stevens; I was employed as an engineer to design sewer, water, drainage and paving projects for subdivisions, mobile homes, and other housing and commercial complexes. I was responsible to work with the clients and the municipalities and to do the calculations and plan preparation. The detailed plans I prepared included the design of pipe sizes and slopes for all drainage areas, detention pond sizing, sewer lines size and slopes, and the water main sizes. I was the first person to have completed a full City of Clearwater Impact Study. I traveled to Tallahassee to work with the Florida Department of Environmental regulation and invented the idea of retaining the runoff from a one inch rainfall as a water quality solution. This solution has been effect ever since and has been adopted by several states! | ||||||
| 8/16/1976 | Deltona Corp
Miami, Florida |
Permitting Engineer; Deltona Corporation; employed as an engineer to get State permits for eight large projects (City of Deltona, Spring Hill, etc.). In addition I prepared the complete detailed plans including the design of pipe sizes and slopes for all drainage areas, detention pond sizing, sewer lines size and slopes, and the water main sizes for a development on an peninsula in Rotunda. I traveled weekly to the projects to collect the data necessary for all permitting and dredging. I did a backwater drainage analysis for the 3000 acre Deltona drainage basin and found that many existing pipes were undersized, and were sloped in the wrong direction. | ||||||
| 1/1/1977 | Herrick &
Associates
Palm Harbor, Florida |
Owner, engineer and surveyor; Herrick & Associates; I owned and operated my own engineering and surveying firm designing sewage treatment plants, sewer, water, drainage and paving systems for commercial and residential projects. I worked with a company who was constructing sewage treatment plants. They hired me to do all of the design of the treatment plants, including aeration basins, settling basins, sludge handling and percolation pond design. I also obtained the permits for the treatment systems. The detailed plans I prepared for residential and commercial included the design of pipe sizes and slopes for all drainage basin culverts, detention pond sizing, sewer lines size and slopes, and the water main sizes. I was subpoenaed and testified in court when one of my clients exceeded his property lines and removed dirt from his neighbor. | ||||||
| 5/1/1980 | Reynolds Smith
& Hills
Tampa, Florida |
Engineer; Reynolds Smith & Hills; designed sewer, water, drainage and paving projects for US Home. The company had a contract to do the engineering plans for the Southeast Region and hired me to aid the staff in creating final design drawings. The detailed plans I prepared included the design of pipe sizes and slopes for all drainage area culverts, detention pond sizing, sewer lines size and slopes, and the water main sizes. We created plans for many housing projects and obtained the permits for them. | ||||||
| 9/1/1981 | City of Tarpon
Springs,
Florida |
City Engineer, City of Tarpon Springs; as City Engineer, I designed sewer, water , paving, and drainage projects all over the city as needed. The detailed plans I prepared included the design of pipe sizes and slopes for all drainage area culverts, detention pond sizing, sewer lines size and slopes, and the water main sizes. We created plans for many housing projects, sidewalk projects, and drainage projects and obtained the permits for them. I obtained a $1.5 million grant to replace the sewer treatment plant and hired the Engineering firm to do the final design plans. I designed and implemented a plan to remove the old wells from service and replace them with county water service. I then had the water towers removed (one of which was about to collapse). | ||||||
| 4/1/1982 | Lloveras, Baur
and Stephens
Pasco, County, Florida |
Manager of the Pasco office. | ||||||
| 4/1/1983 | City of
Dunedin,
Florida |
City Engineer, City of Dunedin; as City Engineer, I designed sewer, water , paving, and drainage projects all over the city as needed. | ||||||
| 8/1/1985 | Greiner
Engineering, Inc.
Tampa, Florida |
Manager of Land Development Group, Greiner Engineering; I designed sewer, water, paving and drainage projects such as malls (Brandon Town Center, Largo Mall), Interstates (I95 Park and ride), Hillsborough County drainage and paving projects, and FDOT drainage and paving projects (Sunshine skyway environmental). | ||||||
| 5/16/1989 | City of St.
Petersburg
Florida |
Manager Engineering Construction, City of St. Petersburg; Manager of staff inspecting civil engineering projects, designing work arounds when projects were held up, put together a testing lab, managed the GIS system and IT department. | ||||||
| 11/15/1996 | Chitester
Management Systems
Tampa, Florida |
Manager Civil Engineering Division; Chitester Management Systems, Inc.; as Manager of the Civil Engineering Division, I prepared schedules for construction of many projects including Building 7 of the World Trade Center. I researched the construction of a bridge and presented my findings in court as to the need for the Florida Department of Transportation to pay $400,000 to a contractor, and won the lawsuit for my client. I prepared cases for trial for as may as 100 projects as well. Of those approximately 10 went to court where I attended to explain my findings. I invented the genre of getting continuing education credits over the internet, I created REDVECTOR.com. | ||||||
| 5/20/2003 | Ash
Engineering
Tampa, Florida |
Head of the Civil Engineering Division; Ash Engineering; I designed sewer, water, paving and drainage projects such as State Parks, Fire Stations, and USF drainage projects. | ||||||
| 10/15/2004 | Keith Zayac
and Associates, Inc.
Safety Harbor, Florida |
Head of the Civil Engineering Division; Keith Zayac & Assoc.; I designed sewer, water, paving and drainage projects such as State Parks, Fire Stations, and private sewer, water, drainage and paving projects. Permitting of all projects was a large part of my tasks. | ||||||
| 8/29/2005
to 8/29/2010 |
PT&C
Forensic Consulting Services, PA 11 States: Georgia Alabama (two places, S and N) Louisiana (New Orleans and Statewide) Colorado, Denver Florida (many locations Statewide) So. Carolina (SRS) Tennessee (Oak Ridge) Washington State (Hanford) Texas (Statewide) Nevada (Nevada Test Site) Ohio (Nuclear waste) |
Senior Forensic Consultant; PT&C Forensic Consulting, PA; I have inspected and written engineering reports on 300 structures damaged by hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita. I have been analyzing the structures to determine if wind or water was the causal factor of the damage and ascribing the amount of damage caused by each. I also have worked in SRS, Oak Ridge, Hanford, Device Assembly Facility (Nevada), Ohio, and Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant working with costs and schedules and US Army Corps of Engineers. (see below) | ||||||
Working for Project Time & Cost:
| 1 | Katrina | 14.3 | months - Working on 300 investigations of damage to structures |
| 2 | SC Liquid Waste | 3.5 | months - Working on the DOE liquid nuclear waste: from evaporation, making concrete from the liquid, and making glass from the liquid. Liquid waste from the process of making nuclear weapons. |
| 3 | Colorado | 0.4 | months - Preparing a schedule. |
| 4 | Florida | 2.7 | months - Working on investigations from damage from hurricanes. |
| 5 | Colorado | 0.2 | months - More schedules. |
| 6 | SC BIC | 1.1 | months - Working with project costs and schedules for DOE regarding nuclear waste |
| 7 | Oak Ridge, TN | 1 | months - Working with schedule and cost of demolishing the leftover DOE U235 nuclear facilities from the 40's. |
| 8 | Hanford | 2 | months - Working with the schedule and cost of demolishing plutonium facilities and pollution. |
| 9 | SC | 6.2 | months - Working with updating the $4 billion cost for DOE regarding nuclear waste. |
| 10 | Texas | 8.5 | months - Working on investigations from damage from hurricanes. |
| 11 | Florida | 1.7 | months - Working on investigations from damage from hurricanes. |
| 12 | Vegas | 4 | months - Working with costs and schedules for the DOE Device Assembly Facility, the High Explosives Facility, High Velocity Facility, etc. |
| 13 | Ohio | 0.4 | months - Working with schedule and cost of demolishing the leftover DOE U235 nuclear facilities from the 40's. |
| 14 | Vegas | 0.9 | months - Working with costs and schedules for the DOE Device Assembly Facility, the High Explosives Facility, etc. |
| 15 | Bellefonte | 10 | months - Working for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) schedule and cost for finishing Unit 1 of the nuclear power plant. |
| 16 | New Orleans | 5 | months - Working for US Army Corps of Engineers dealing with the cost and schedule for the worlds largest pumping station. |