Planning Service
About the
Director
Director Melvin Navarro
easily passed through a needle’s hole in entering the government
service so to speak since he easily obtained a permanent Senior
Civil Engineer position at the then Bureau of Construction in 1982.
Before his starting his career at the DPWH, he was a College
Instructor of the University of Northern Philippines in 1980. He
became the Project Manager of the Zambales District Engineering
Office (DEO) in 1993, appointed as OIC-Assistant District Engineer
of the Olongapo City Sub-DEO in 1994 and as District Engineer of
Bataan 2nd DEO in 1998.
He served the Internal Audit Service as Director III from July 2004
to August 2007. He was designated in September 2007 as one of the
two Assistant Regional Directors of DPWH Regional Office I after his
one-month stint as ARD of the National Capital Region. Then in June
2008, he was named Officer-In-Charge of the Planning Service.
Director Navarro has numerous trainings and seminars in his
credential. These include Internal Audit Best Practices given by the
Department of National Defense; National Internal Security Program
by the National Police Commission, NISP Convergence Workshop by the
Office of the President; and Fighting Corruption and Ensuring
Transparency in the APEC Region by the Office of the Ombudsman and
the Department of Foreign Affairs. He has also attended two
international trainings – Environmental Impact on Infra Development
and Management Labor Intensive Projects sponsored by the Japan
International Cooperation Agency and Technical Cooperation among
Developing Countries, respectively.
Director Navarro’s commendable service was recognized by various
agencies and institutions like the 7th ID Philippine
Army’s Certificate of Appreciation in 2001, Rotary Club of Balanga’s
Community Service Award in 2002, Rotary Club of Olongapo’s
Meritorious Service Award in 1998, and as Presidential Awardee,
Youth in Infra Development awarded by President Fidel Ramos in
1994.
Director Navarro passed his civil engineering licensure examination
in 1980 right after graduating from the National University in the
same year. He earned 33 units in Master in Public Management from
the Virgen delos Remegios College in 1998. He obtained his degree in
Master in National Security Administration from the National Defense
College of the Philippines in 2003.
He was born on April 24,
1958 in San Juan, Ilocos Sur. He is married to Dr. Mercy Jalipa, a
physician and they are blessed with three children.
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