QUALITY MANAGEMENT &

SOURCE INSPECTION SERVICES

ABOUT US

Who are we?
ZT Consulting Group is a Southern California based consulting engineering company that provides services to public transportation agencies. Consider us your partner, and as such we are always on call and always available for everything from simple brainstorming sessions to representing you during meetings with stakeholders.

The majority of our staff has served and completed numerous public projects within the State of California over the past decade. We understand the requirements, challenges, and objectives of public projects.

Our Certifications

ZTC staff have qualifications and certifications from various nationally recognized organizations.

OUR TEAM

Principal Engineer

Farzad Tasbihgoo, PhD, PE, CQA, CWI, PCI III

Farzad Tasbihgoo is a registered civil engineer with about two decades of work experience in structure construction and engineering design. He has a strong engineering design background with extensive experience in source inspection and quality assurance services.

Quality Assurance Lead Inspector

Andrew Soria, PCI III, ACI I, CWI, NACE 2

Andrew is an experienced precast concrete inspector with about 16 years of experience in mix design, concrete placing, sampling, testing, inspection, and quality control of precast concrete panels. He is Precast Concrete Institute Certified Quality Control Level III (PCI III), the highest precast inspection certification an inspector can achieve.

Structural Material Representative

Derick Hobbs, CQA, EIT, CQA, ACI I, PCI II

Derick is an experienced Assistant Quality Engineer (AQE) with over 4 years of experience. He has a degree in Civil Engineering and holds an E.I.T Certification with the State of California. Derick has developed knowledge of Caltrans Standard Specifications while working as an AQE.

Quality Assurance Technician

Richard Corona

Richard is an experienced source inspector with more than 20 years of experience working for Caltrans Material Testing Engineering Services (METS) in the Office of Structural Materials (OSM), Los Angeles branch. Richard is among few QA inspectors that started working for Caltrans METS/OSM.

Business Development

Ileen Robles

Ileen has extensive knowledge in business development. She prepares all of ZTC RFPs and participates in networking events. She oversees all the day to day functions of the office.

Quality Assurance Inspector

Paul Mortsolf, PCI II, ACI I, NACE 1

Paul is an experienced QA precast/prestress concrete inspector with about 14 years of precast/prestress production and inspection. He was the QCM at a major precast fabricator for about 10 years and has been working as a QA inspector for the past 4 years. He has extensive knowledge of Caltrans and NPCA Specification for concrete and precast/prestress fabrication.

SERVICES

ZT Consulting Group, Inc. (ZTC) is a consulting engineering company that specializes in Quality Assurance & Source Inspection (QA, QV, IQA, QMP, SIQMP, QAP and QAM), Forensic Engineering, and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). At ZTC we are a group of professional registered engineers and technicians with decades of experience in design, construction, and fabrication support services.