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<v ->Alright, my name is Kessann Grant.</v>

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And I currently work for the Port Authority

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of New York and New Jersey.

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My current position is the Manager of Design,

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and that entails me managing engineering projects

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within design division.

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So we're actually doing engineering design

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for construction projects.

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

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owns a

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variety of transportation infrastructure.

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So we have airports, ports, tunnels,

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bridges, the path train.

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And I work at the World Trade Center,

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which is also part of the Port Authority.

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So the engineering department is tasked

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with doing design work to maintain these infrastructures.

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So whether that's asset replacement or repair,

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keep it in operation.

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So design is tasked with actually preparing

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engineering drawings with an engineering solution

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to a problem, whether that be we need to do a replacement,

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we need to do an upgrade, we need to do a repair.

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So I am tasked with managing the project

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as it goes through design phase to completion.

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Because I'm not actually doing the

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technical design work,

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my role entails a lot of coordination between disciplines.

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So it takes a team of roughly eight to 10 people

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to get a typical project done.

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You'll have a variety of different disciplines.

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So you'll have your electrical, your mechanical,

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your architectural, civil.

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But then you'll also have your construction manager,

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your estimator, your contracts person.

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And we're all tasked with doing a portion of the project

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so that we could put together one final package

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that will go out to a contractor.

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So my job is to coordinate all that,

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to make sure that everybody's meeting the objectives,

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we collectively are meeting our milestones,

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problem solving,

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and that could be technical problem solving

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or people problem solving,

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'cause people are just not getting along.

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And communication with the client.