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CHAD COLTER, P.E. / PROJECT EXPERIENCE

More than a project list.
Practical utility experience.

Highways, urban arterials and passenger rail. Electric, water, wastewater, gas and telecommunications. Engineering work connected to owner coordination and the records behind each decision.

These are Chad Colter’s individual professional contributions, including work in prior roles at CSJ Engineering Associates and The Rios Group. Those are separate firms; this portfolio does not represent their contracts as contracts awarded to CSJ US LLC.

15+Texas transportation and infrastructure assignments in Chad’s résumé
10+Texas projects involving telecommunications work
One connected approachUtility engineering · owner coordination · project documentation

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS

What the work involved.

Project-specific roles, technical contributions and work products from Chad’s documented experience. Quantities are attached to their respective assignments.

01

Design-build interstate

I-35 Northeast Expansion

San Antonio · I-35 NEX · 2019–2022

Bring utility records, owner standards and a developing highway design into one technical review.

CHAD’S ROLEUtility engineering & coordination

  • Analyzed 1,231 utility facilities, verifying ownership, location, records and as-builts.
  • Designed 26,000+ linear feet of preliminary overhead and underground electric relocation in MicroStation under TxDOT utility rules and owner standards.
  • Coordinated electric and telecommunications records, conflicts, owner actions and protect-in-place evaluations as roadway, bridge and drainage designs developed.
WORK PRODUCTS & INTERFACESRecords and as-built review · preliminary electric relocation designs · conflict and owner-action coordination
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02

Highway design & relocation

Segment 2E / SH 183

Dallas–Fort Worth · Historical principal experience

Integrate utility relocation design with a changing transportation corridor.

CHAD’S ROLEUtility coordinator

  • Compared supplied SUE and owner records with proposed bridge, drainage, pavement, illumination, signage and traffic-control designs.
  • Developed and updated existing and proposed utility design files in MicroStation, with owner criteria and evolving design information.
  • Prepared utility tracking and owner-contact controls; supported adjustment designs, exhibits and coordination with owner-managed design consultants.
WORK PRODUCTS & INTERFACESEUTI / PUTI design files · utility tracking report · owner matrix · adjustment exhibits
03

Multi-utility agreements & closeout

NTE IH 35W 3C

Fort Worth · North Tarrant Express · Historical principal experience

Connect engineering reviews, owner inputs and the records required for utility closeout.

CHAD’S ROLEUtility coordinator

  • Prepared Abbreviated Utility Agreement (AUA) packages and coordinated utility closeout for 20+ owners across electric, water, wastewater, gas and telecommunications.
  • Reviewed adjustment plans, estimates, right-of-way maps and as-built records for TxDOT submission.
  • Assembled supporting transmittals, owner certifications and property-interest documentation as part of the historical agreement process.
WORK PRODUCTS & INTERFACESAUA packages · adjustment-plan review · ROW and as-built review · closeout documentation
04

Direct-connector utility review

FM 369 SB to US 281 SB

Wichita Falls · CSJ 0249-01-050 · 2024

Turn a utility inventory into a documented, design-specific construction-awareness review.

CHAD’S ROLEProject engineer / utility coordinator

  • Documented conflict analysis for 26 utility entries, with owner contact and existing-record verification.
  • Supported the 100% utility DGN, conflict matrix and contact list; provided Bluebeam QC and utility exhibit updates.
  • Authored the July 24, 2024 utility memorandum. It reported no conflicts for the reviewed design and identified six facilities for construction awareness.
WORK PRODUCTS & INTERFACES100% utility DGN support · conflict matrix · schematic exhibit · authored utility memorandum

The 26 entries describe the reviewed inventory—not 26 resolved conflicts. The memorandum is a design-specific finding, not a claim about final construction or agency acceptance.

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05

Utility engineering & owner coordination

SH 185 / FM 616

Victoria County · CSJs 0432-02-101 / 0497-05-044 · 2024

Keep owner requirements, technical reviews and open decisions connected across two roadway assignments.

CHAD’S ROLEUtility engineer / project coordinator

  • Served as the first point of contact for utility matters and led day-to-day owner coordination, information routing and adjustment-plan reviews.
  • Tracked agreement and reimbursement paths, permit routing and water/gas conflict follow-through.
  • Worked through records and potholing gaps, keeping information needs and review dependencies visible to the project team.
WORK PRODUCTS & INTERFACESOwner coordination · adjustment-plan reviews · agreement/permit tracking · water and gas interfaces
06

Rail utility coordination

DART TRE Double Track

Passenger-rail infrastructure · Historical principal experience

Apply the same integrated utility approach to passenger-rail infrastructure.

CHAD’S ROLEUtility coordination

  • Coordinated across electric, water, wastewater, gas and telecommunications utilities.
  • Brought multi-utility owner interfaces and technical coordination experience to the double-track assignment.
WORK PRODUCTS & INTERFACESMulti-utility coordination · rail infrastructure interfaces

BROADER ASSIGNMENT HISTORY

Additional Texas
project experience.

These assignments extend the portfolio across interstate, rural highway and urban roadway utility work.

NTE Segments 1 & 2

North Tarrant Express

Historical utility coordination experience, including telecommunications interfaces. Listed separately from the IH 35W 3C closeout assignment.

IH 14

Belton/Temple · interstate corridor

Utility coordination experience on the Belton/Temple corridor, including the records, owner interfaces and conflict-tracking workstream.

FM 1651

Tyler District · farm-to-market roadway

Served as a utility coordinator at the February 2024 kickoff, with plan review and utility-owner contact follow-through.

US 87

Texas highway corridor

Historical utility coordination experience, including telecommunications interfaces.

SH 180 / East Lancaster

Tarrant County urban arterial

Utility coordination experience, including telecommunications and roadway utility interfaces.

ENGINEERING + COORDINATION

The full technical picture.

Depth across utility types, production work and design interfaces helps connect individual tasks into a useful project deliverable.

01 / ENGINEERING & DESIGN

Plans, details and calculations.

Utility plans and profiles; preliminary overhead and underground electric relocation; pipe-stiffness and other engineering calculations; existing/proposed utility plans; civil/site integration; and traffic-control plan support.

02 / RECORDS & CONFLICTS

A defensible technical baseline.

Desktop review and integration of supplied SUE, survey, records, as-builts and owner data. Conflict matrices and exhibits, protect-in-place/relocate review, and interfaces with bridges, drainage, roadway, lighting, signage and right-of-way.

03 / OWNERS & AGREEMENTS

Follow-through across utility types.

Owner meetings and action controls; adjustment-plan review; AUA and utility agreement documentation; notice and permit tracking; owner requirements and relocation interfaces.

04 / PRODUCTION & HANDOFF

Useful records at each milestone.

Drafting, plan production, technical memoranda, construction-sequencing support, as-built review, comment closure and milestone QA/QC. Engineering deliverables are prepared within the assigned scope and applicable responsible-charge requirements.

Utility systems

Overhead and underground electric · water · wastewater/sanitary sewer · gas · septic · telecommunications

Production tools

MicroStation · AutoCAD · Bluebeam · ArcGIS/KMZ · Texas 811 coordination · Microsoft Office

TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPERIENCE

A core specialty within broader utility work.

Planning/design support, records and as-builts, supplied SUE integration, conflict tracking, relocation interfaces, plan production and QA/QC across 10+ Texas projects.

Historical utility-owner interfaces include AT&T, Charter/Spectrum, Level 3, MCI/MCImetro, FiberLight, Zayo, Frontier, Suddenlink/Altice and People’s Telephone.

Owner names describe Chad’s coordination experience; they are not client endorsements or representations of current contracts with CSJ US LLC.

Chad Colter, P.E.

PRINCIPAL / CSJ US LLC

Chad Colter, P.E.

Texas Civil P.E. No. 150684. B.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University, 2015. Former United States Marine Corps infantry officer with an honorable discharge.

Chad’s engineering career includes utility design and coordination roles with CSJ Engineering Associates and The Rios Group. He brings that individual experience to his work as principal of CSJ US LLC.

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LET’S DEFINE THE NEXT STEP

Have a utility scope
that needs an owner?

Tell Chad where the project stands, what’s unresolved and what needs to happen next.

A short project summary is enough. No confidential records needed.

DIRECT TO THE PRINCIPALChad Colter, P.E.chad@csj-us.com(512) 698-6058

Weatherford, Texas
Supporting Texas transportation
and infrastructure teams.