BCD Expands Gulf Coast Operations

tonyyoung@bcdgeo.com        

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc., Project Geotechnical Engineer, March 2002 - Present
Mississippi Valley Division, Corps of Engineers, Chief Geotechnical & Materials Branch,           January 1994 - January 2002
Mississippi Valley Division, Corps of Engineers, Geotechnical Engineer, May 1971 – January    1994
Memphis District, Corps of Engineers, Geotechnical Engineer, May 1968 – May 1971

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Background…Mr. Young has been actively engaged in the practice of geotechnical engineering for the past 34 years.  His advanced education includes a Masters degree in geotechnical engineering from Mississippi State University.  He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Mississippi.   Prior to joining Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc., in March of 2002, he served approximately 31 years as a geotechnical engineer in the Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) (formerly Lower Mississippi Valley Division), and served as Chief of the Geotechnical & Materials Engineering Branch from 1994 until his retirement in January of 2002.  Early in his career, he was employed as a geotechnical engineer in the Memphis District, C.O.E.  During his tenure in the MVD, he was generally responsible for technical review and quality assurance for flood control, navigation, environmental and related projects including dams, locks, levees, floodgates, pumping stations, floodwalls, retaining walls, channels, dredge disposal areas, bank stabilization, seepage control, dewatering systems, slurry trench cutoffs, and major maintenance and rehabilitation.  In addition, he was responsible for directing the MVD Dam Safety and Inspection of Completed Works Programs.  Mr. Young was also responsible for developing and implementing criteria and general policy related to the design of flood control and navigation projects within the MVD.
In addition to the above described duties and responsibilities, Mr. Young served as:

• a presenter and session moderator at national C.O.E. Geotechnical conferences;
• a presenter and moderator at numerous joint MVD and Districts Dam Safety Committee Meetings;
• an instructor in C.O.E. Dam Safety course at Engineering Research and Development Center/Waterways Experiment Station;
• a committee member for updating C.O.E. levee design manual and levee guide specifications ;
• a C.O.E. committee member for National Interagency Committee on Dam Safety to update training aids for Dam Safety Seepage Module;
• and as a field review group member for the C.O.E. Innovative Flood Protection Research and Development Program

Featured Project Experience

During his career within the Mississippi Valley Division, Mr. Young served as the principal geotechnical reviewer of more than a 1,000 flood control and navigation project designs including several hundred plans and specifications.  The projects included several earth dams and concrete navigation locks and dams.  The following tabulation provides examples of the design and/or plans and specifications that were reviewed:

• Valley Park, MO Flood Protection (levees, drainage structures, and pump station)
• St. Peters, MO levee project
• Comite River channel and structures
• LA State Penitentiary Levee
• Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Levees and Floodwalls
• Sicily Island Levee
• Batupan Bogue Levee
• Abiaca Creek Levee
• Grand Forks, ND, Levee Project
• Nutwood, IL, Levee and Pumping Station
• Consolidated North Levee, MO
• Alton-Gale Levee Slide Repairs
• Devil’s Lake, ND, Dam/Levee
• Eastern Arkansas- Grand Prairie Project
• Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock Replacement
• St. John’s Pumping Station
• Bayou Rapides Drainage Structure & Pumping Station
• Mooring Bayou Culvert Replacement
• Alligator-Catfish Bayou Control Structure
• Harris Ditch Culvert