B J Burford (Civil Engineering)

Name:	Eur Ing BRIAN JASPER BURFORD, BSc(Civ.Eng.), CEng, MICE, MIHT
Company:	(Director of:) Jaspell Services Limited
Address:	2 Pilcox Hall Lane, Tendring, Clacton on Sea, Essex CO16 0DL, England
Telephone:	01255 830825
Fax:	01255 830825
Mobile:	07949 250403 or 07813 373704
E-mail:	burford@jaspell.co.uk
Webpage:	http://www.jaspell.co.uk/cvbjbengineering.htm
Position held:	Director, Jaspell Services Limited, Engineering and Language Consultancy
Position held:	Associate, Peter Holliday & Associates, Structural and Civil Engineering Consultants
Posts Sought:	Project Management, Design and Supervision for:- Highway Planning and Design; Transportation Infrastructure; Public Utilities; Riverine Construction; Multilingual Public Presentation of Projects
Terms Desired:	Contract or Consultancy, preferably Part-Time (3 or 4 days/week), but short full time considered in North East Essex or South Suffolk.
Nationality:	British
Year of Birth:	1946
Academic and Professional Qualifications:	Bachelor of Science Degree Honours (BSc Hons), (City University) Chartered Engineer Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE) Member of the Institution of Highways and Transportation (MIHT) European Engineer (Eur Ing.) School, College: 3 A Level GCEs, 12 O Level GCEs
Driving Licence:	Yes
Linguistic Abilities:	I give public talks in: English, Bengali, French, Hindi and Urdu. GCE passes include A-level: French, German. I can read and speak some: Nepali, Spanish, Italian, Chinese (Mandarin Pinyin) I can read slowly in: Arabic, Gujarati, Punjabi. Operating as a small business, JASPELL, I design and market multilingual word processing software for the above languages plus Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese (Mandarin Pinyin), and European languages. I also do a translation service for some of these languages, especially Bengali, and a typing service in them all.
Computer Skills:	AutoCAD 2006	Design, draw, and output
	AutoCAD Lite	Design, draw, and output
	MOSS	Non-interactive version - design, run, and output
	ARCADY, PICADY	Design, run, interpret and report
	COBA	Design, run, interpret and report
	Visual Basic Programming	8 years using VB6 and VB3 - design and programme own unique multilingual word processor using own and third party components, DLLs, and database controls
	Font Design - Fontographer	Conceive and design numerous Asian fonts
	Web pages design - FrontPage	Design of own website using FrontPage visual methods and some basic HTML source coding
	Word Processing, Graphics and Spreadsheets	Word, WordPerfect, Jaspell Jaldi, Excel, DOC, RTF, PDF, JPG, etc.
	Reports and documentation	Complete writing and production of large documents in printed form and as files with navigable hyperlinks
	Typing	Touch-typing in many languages (about 30 words per minute in English)
	Platforms	Windows 3.1, NT, 95, 98, ME, XP
	Hardware	Basic maintenance and upgrades
Key Experience:	Currently I operate Jaspell Services Limited. As an employee/locum thereof I do short-term contracts mainly on civil engineering design office assignments for large consultancy firms or working in local government highway, traffic, development control, and highway adoption departments. Generally, these services are arranged through agencies. My 34 years in civil engineering have ranged up to project management design and control including working with Government officials and the public in UK and Bangladesh. I have provided civil engineering instruction, training and translations in foreign languages. In the 1990s major projects for which I was responsible for design include the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge approach road and bridge end complex infrastructure design; Paksey Bridge Project highway design team leader in Bangladesh; Merthyr-Tydfil A470 Pentrebach to Cefn Coed design and project management. In the 1980s and 1970s I was a supervisor of construction of the East-West Interconnector on the River Jamuna in Bangladesh and of the Thames Barrier in London.
Brief Summary of Work History:	April 1999 on: Jaspell Services Limited Director and locum.	Current assignment: Principal Engineer at Mouchel Parkman, Chelmsford on Capital Projects, major highway schemes including taking A13/A130 Sadlers Farm Junction Improvement through Planning Application Recent short-term contracts covered highway design, contract administration, traffic engineering, highway adoption, and development control. These were at MLM at Ipswich, Colchester Borough Council, Ipswich Borough Council, FaberMaunsell at Witham, WS Atkins at Chelmsford, and PB Kennedy & Donkin Ltd at Hatfield, England.
	1988 to 1997: Rendel Palmer & Tritton (RPT) Senior Highway Engineer and Managing Engineer	Highway Design Team Leader to tender stage on Paksey Bridge and approach roads, Bangladesh. Project Manager in London Design Office on A470 Pentrebach to Cefn Coed Improvement, Wales for preliminary and detail trunk road design, assessment, exhibition, topographical survey, ground investigation, reports, documentation and administration.
	1988 to 1997: Rendel Palmer & Tritton (RPT) Roads Engineer in Bangladesh	Jamuna Bridge Project for multipurpose feasibility study and detail design to tender documentation stage.
	1983 to 1987: Rendel Palmer & Tritton (RPT) Highway Engineer	UK Design Office on design of road and bridge works, services and contract documentation for UK projects.
	1980 to 1983: Rendel Palmer & Tritton (RPT) Assistant Engineer's Representative in Bangladesh	Supervision of construction of Jamuna River Crossing; 100m deep caisson foundations for pylons.
	1972 to 1980:Rendel Palmer & Tritton (RPT) Engineer	Design Office for roads and bridges and airport works.
	1977 Rendel Palmer & Tritton (RPT) Site Engineer with E.R's staff	Thames Barrier, London
	1965 to 1972:British Diplomatic Service	London and 3 years in Calcutta Deputy High Commission.
Detailed Record of Experience:	Go to:- [Detailed Record of Experience]

Email:      burford@jaspell.co.uk
Web Page:   http://www.jaspell.co.uk/cvbjbengineering.htm
Address:   2 Pilcox Hall Lane, Tendring, Clacton on Sea, Essex CO16 0DL
Phone, Fax: 01255 830825
Mobile:     07949 250403

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