Civil and Program Engineer

>> My name is Michelle Himoyki. I'm a program engineer with the city of Tallahassee. Civil engineer. Well, I have about a dozen years of design experience of engineering projects, site design, utilities, road design and as part of my job I review development plans. People want to come in, redevelop a property in the city, build a new property. I review design plans. Make sure they're compliant with the code. Issue permits. Respond to citizen requests for information. Deal with some tree issues, things like that. My working hours are 7:30 to 4:00 and I'm in a government position. I had about 12 years of consulting, private consulting work and those hours were much longer. A little more fast paced. Billable hours. Now I'm a city employee. It's a little bit different, there are different problems that you have to deal with the public, you have to deal with politicians. Typical day I would see what plans have come in for me to look at. There would be development plans. Reviewing the plans. Checking their drainage calculations. Checking to make sure -- it's a little bit of quality control too. To make sure they've done it correctly. Because I have a design background I'm able to understand what they're proposing. We're also trying to implement the vision of the planners. The city planners, the city of Tallahassee planners for what they want to see ultimately for their city. They want certain urban core, really walkable. Revitalize certain areas. So they have certain code requirements that they put in place that we would check for to see if it meets consistency with their goals for where they want a city to be in the future and in your future.