Dharme Rathnayake

Biography

Dharme Rathnayake has more than 35 years of experience as a senior project manager/principal civil engineer, including facility civil infrastructure, security/sustainability, and environmental management projects; material and debris management planning projects, waterfront improvement projects including sediment management within west coast and other states within US. These projects focused on project planning, environmental review/mitigation, security assessments per Department of Homeland Security (DHS), security designs to meet US Coast Guard, FEMA grant management, and oversight of implementation of design-bid-build or design-build projects.

Dr. Rathnayake has a proven record of project formulation, initial budgeting, permitting, cost estimation, bid document preparation (30/60/90/AFC), bid review, contract management and stakeholder presentations with respect to many capital improvement projects including port and waterfront projects. He is well experienced in federal, state, and local regulations including the Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), hazardous material management including local county/city requirements.