Specializing
in planning and engineering services, duties include all phases of site planning
and engineering for residential, commercial development and public development
including grading, earthwork, drainage and utilities; duties have included
analysis of soils, roadway or embankment material, bulkhead and marina design,
dredging plans, stormwater management design, sanitary design, pump stations,
utilities, transportation, traffic and all other facets of site development
work; also responsible for planning services and obtaining permits for site
development projects, Water Quality Management Plans, Waste Water Management
Plans and NJPDES permits, responsibilities have included appearance as an expert
on behalf of clientele to discuss reports and designs before numerous planning
and regulatory authorities.
Duties
include overseeing entire office and professional operation.Daily activities include client contact, administrative operations and
office policy decisions, direct supervision of all planning and engineering
design, facility management and capital reinvestment.Direct staff of five people and coordinate subcontractors and sub
consultants.
Duties
also include preparation of reports and documents, and attendance at all
planning and zoning board meetings and meetings of governing bodies, including
performance of Municipal, Planning Board and Zoning Board consultant work.
Technical
responsibilities include master planning and design of all site improvements,
including roadways, parking lots, grading, drainage, stormwater quantity and
stormwater analysis, soil erosion plans, traffic control and traffic analysis,
roadway improvements, bulkheads, earthwork, soils investigations, utility design
including water, sanitary sewers, pump stations, Municipal Wastewater Management
Plans, NPDES permits, hydrogeologic investigations, on site sewage disposal
systems, lighting plans.
Mr. Dixon has appeared as expert witness in many court cases involving various
development issues.
Projects
have included residential site plans and subdivisions from 2 to 4,000 units;
commercial site plans from 1,500 square feet to over 1,000,000 square feet;
Casino Hotels(site work), Golf
Courses; Marinas. Public projects have included planning, engineering and
transportation engineering services for municipalities and county agencies.
Prior to the formation of Dixon Associates, Mr. Dixon worked for the
private sector consulting industry as a project engineer in charge of planning
and zoning board reviews and site plan and subdivision designs for private
clients, including several casino developments in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Thereafter, he was a Project Manager in charge of Roads for the Allegheny County
Department of Engineering and Construction in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then the
ninth largest county in the US where he was in charge of managing multiple
Federal Aid Highway projects, road opening and detour permits and annual road
reconstruction programs involving over 400 miles of County roads in the Greater
Pittsburgh Area.
Mr. Dixon has over thirty-five years of experience managing roadway and
infrastructure projects, traffic and transportation issues as well as land use
planning and design.