Key Personnel
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Gino L. Parlanti, P.E.
Principal-in-Charge
Mr. Gino Parlanti is the President and Contract Executive of MEGA Engineering and Land Surveying, P.C. (MEGA). He has over thirty five (35) years (29 years with the
City of New York) of design, management and oversight experience involving infrastructure projects of all types. Currently as President of MEGA, Mr. Parlanti's responsibilities include the management
and supervision of staff in the preparation and implementation of the company's on-going projects; interfacing and coordinating with clients and other interested parties to identify and resolve
issues, and monitoring work progress to ensure the highest level of engineering performance and professionalism.
Frederick Pokorny, P.E., P.L.S.
Director of Survey
Mr. Pokorny before joining MEGA Engineering, was a principal in his own firm which provided complete engineering and surveying services for the public and private sectors, including municipal
engineering, major and minor subdivisions, site plans, septic and sanitary sewer designs, topographic and boundary surveys ranging in size from small residential to large 1,000 acre tracts of land.
For MEGA Engineering, Mr. Pokorny supervised and directed all survey –related aspects involved in the establishment of the navigational clearances for the East River Bridges (Manhattan, Brooklyn,
Queensboro, and Williamsburg). Mr. Pokorny developed the procedures and methology including equipment specifications on this challenging project. This included utilization of sophisticated global
positioning systems, free climbing techniques for obtaining observations on all cables during night time periods to minimize effects of temperature variations, impacts on traffic and interference
with facility personnel. In addition, simultaneous corresponding structural locations at deck level were performed utilizing sophisticated electronic precise robotic total stations electronic digital
scanning (bar code) Levels.
Napthali Songsong
Party Chief / Certified Survey Technician-I
Mr. Songsong as a Party Chief, is responsible for traversing and leveling for the purpose of establishing permanent horizontal and vertical control monuments; topographic surveys for road
improvements; locating existing R.O.W. and cross sections, drainage and sewer stake-out, calculate and stake out curbs and easements, calculation of stake data for curbs and building foundations,
calculation of “Cut Sheets” for contractors. Also, Mr. Songsong is responsible for detailed structural surveys, topographic surveys, hydrographic surveys and photogrametric control surveys, boundary
and site development surveys, construction layout instituting full electronic total station surveying capabilities including electronic data collectors.
Victoria Songsong, P.L.S.
Engineer/Licensed Surveyor
Ms. Songsong is a Certified Survey Technician – level III (CST) with over fifteen (15) years of civil engineering and surveying experience. She will be responsible for the downloading, analyzing and
layering of points using AutoCADD. Review sketches, drawings, plans, specs and other data related to the project. Monitor progress to ensure conformance to engineering plans, specs and safety
standards. She has extensive drafting skills with C&G, AutoCAD (LLD) and Softdesk Design Software. Ms. Songsong joins the crew in conducting various boundary and topographic surveys to ensure
accuracy when executing 2-D/3-D AutoCad drawings. She is detail-oriented, deadline-driven and makes certain that project drawings are accurate and submitted on time.
Michel Michael, P.E.
Resident Engineer
Mr. Michael is a civil engineer and brings to MEGA Engineering over 27 years of experience covering both design and on-site construction supervision. His work responsibilities comprise multiple
aspects of building structural design through on-site implementation and construction as well as more recently serving as field engineer, office engineer or resident engineer on various City
infrastructure projects. He has thus acquired a comprehensive knowledge of DDC and other agency procedures, protocols and requirements in his various assigned positions over the past 4
years.
Jose Antonio Panganiban
Engineer II, Resident Engineer
Mr. Panganiban has over sixteen (16) years experience in civil works (i.e. design, supervision and construction), mainly in highway engineering, wastewater and water distribution system, concrete
structures, bridges, etc. both in the Philippines and abroad particularly in Qatar, Saudi Arabia where he was the Project Manager in the Construction of Doha West Sewage Treatment Works/Tertiary
Treatment Plant in Doha, Qatar. In the Philippines, he worked as the Project Manager/Engineer of the following projects: U. S. Embassy Chancery Building Renovation Project; U.S. Embassy Housing
Security Improvement Project; Clark Air Base NCO Housing Project; Malacanang Firing Range Project; Far East Bank Escolta Branch Project; Philippine airlines In Flight Center Project; Construction of
Subic International Airport Terminal funded by the World Bank and management of various road projects under contract with the Department of Public Works and Highways. Representative projects at MEGA
Engineering include: Bleecker Street Station, Metro North Harlem – Harlem Lines, Harlem River North WTP.