Senior Engineering Technician
NCE is an engineering, planning and environmental services firm headquartered in Reno and operating since 1990, working predominantly for public-sector clients — cities, counties, transportation departments and airport authorities — across Nevada and California.
Kevin performs comprehensive pavement condition surveys to MTC StreetSaver®, ASTM PAVER™, ASTM D5340 and ASTM D6433 methodologies for roadway, airport and transportation networks, working at production rates of roughly 50 to 60 pavement samples a day without loss of data quality or consistency.
He is the primary field specialist for ground-penetrating radar, pavement coring and high-speed inertial profiling, and independently manages a data collection effort end to end — equipment preparation and calibration, field collection, QA/QC, data processing, pavement management system updates and reporting. GPR investigations establish pavement thickness and subsurface characteristics, often in dense urban corridors where traffic, access and operational constraints have to be planned around. Coring and subsurface investigation means operating heavy coring equipment, excavating aggregate base and collecting 50-pound subgrade and moisture samples for laboratory analysis. Falling weight deflectometer testing establishes structural capacity, deflection response and layer stiffness on highways, local roads and airport runways.
He executes FHWA Long-Term Pavement Performance field data collection across the United States, supporting evaluations of more than 500 roadway sections for 26 highway agencies. On the airport side he performs evaluations to FAA and ASTM requirements, including ACN/PCN evaluations and support for pavement design analyses. He also diagnoses and resolves the hydraulic, electrical, sensor, calibration and software faults that would otherwise stop a field crew, and trains personnel on GPR operation, collection methods, field protocols and quality-control practice.
