JP GIROUD, INC.

With 40 years of experience in geotechnical engineering, including 32 years of experience with geosynthetics, I have decided to work as an independent consultant. I am no longer employed by GeoSyntec Consultants, the company I founded in 1983 with J.E. Fluet, and of which I was Chairman of the Board. I am very proud that, in seventeen years, GeoSyntec grew from two to more than three hundred employees. In January 2001, I retired from GeoSyntec with the title of Chairman Emeritus, and I certainly welcome any opportunity to work as a consultant for GeoSyntec, which I have already done since I retired from this company. However, I am now entirely free to work as a consultant for any type of client. This is why I created JP GIROUD, INC. in 2001.

	I am committed to devote this new phase of my career to technical work in the field of geosynthetics engineering. I believe that my experience in developing many of the design methods currently used for geosynthetics applications, designing hundreds of structures incorporating geosynthetics, and performing numerous forensic analyses can be useful to owners, contractors, designers, regulators, and geosynthetics manufacturers. Also, my experience in evaluating new geosynthetics and getting them accepted by designers and regulators may be useful to inventors and manufacturers of innovative geosynthetics.

I taught geotechnical engineering for more than a decade, at the beginning of my career and I taught more than fifty short courses on geosynthetics in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. This experience may be useful to organizations interested in training courses on geosynthetics.

I have been fortunate to work in many parts of the world, from Armenia to South Africa, from Poland to Saudi Arabia, from Spain to Brazil, etc. Furthermore, as President of the International Geosynthetics Society, I have chaired numerous international meetings and I have been involved in official functions in a variety of countries from India to Venezuela, from China to France, from Japan to the United Kingdom, etc. As a result of this international experience, I feel comfortable working everywhere in the world.

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Telephone: 1.561.737.1642 Fax: 1.561.733.2809 E-mail: jpg@jpgiroud.com

J.P. Giroud

April 2002