Folder 0025

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

1 ..

Alfonso.R,_~aa~z

PII (718) 595.5049 (Work)_ PII

EXPERIENCE: NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (28 years)

Bureau of Wastewater Treatment

Deputy Director, Facilities Operations: 1991 - Present

Chief administrative engineer of a major DEP program involving all operations and maintenance activities including process monitoring and control of treatment process for the City's fourteen (14) wastewater treatment facilities, eight (8) dewatering facilities, five (5) process control laboratories and three (3) microbiology laboratories. Staff is 1200 allocation composed primarily of skilled trades but includes managerial, technical and professional staff as well as administrative management personnel . Personnel services and OTPS budgets are $ 60 million and $ 48 million annually.

Accomplishments:

• Manage on a day-to-day basis the operations and maintenance of one of the world's largest wastewater treatment. systems.

• Initiated and directed Bureau "Assessment" to compare Bureau practices to those in private wastewater treatment industry.

• Initiated and directed "Re-engineering Study" for analysis of the Bureau's management and organizational structure and activities.

• Initiated Maintenance Benchmarking Project and directed implementation of findings.

• Initiated development of RFP for next generation Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to handle all Bureau maintenance activities.

• Initiated consolidation of Collections Facilities Operations crew quarters to improve deployment of field staff from centralized facilities.

• Initiated PM/CM and resource utilization tracking program for Collections Facilities Operations.

• Successfully negotiated allocation of duties and responsibilities between various Local 3, I.B.E.W. staff within the Bureau.

NYC-WTC 000138135