Asst.
Secretary Raul C. Asis
Profile
Born
in 1952,
Assistant Secretary Raul C. Asis
started to show his innate intelligence as a consistent honor
student from pre-school to the tertiary level.
He
finished his Civil Engineering degree as a scholar from the Mapua
Institute of Technology in 1974 and his Masters degree in Business
Administration from the De La Salle University with the thesis, “The
Cordon Pricing Scheme for Metro Manila (A transportation economics
approach to the solution of the Metropolitan Manila traffic
congestion problem)”.
He
successfully passed the licensure exams for civil engineers in 1974,
Civil Service Professional Examination in 1985, and Career Executive
Service Officer (CESO) rank III in 1999.
In 1975,
he continued to outshine his peers in the government service when
he started as Research Assistant at the Planning and Project
Development Office (PPDO) of the Department of Public Works and
Highways (DPWH), Central Office; and with his outstanding
performance as one of the initiators and implementors of the
Department’s Information Technology program more than twenty years
ago, he was promoted to various executive positions until his
appointment in 1996 as Director IV of the Bureau of Research and
Standards.
Assistant Secretary Asis' significant accomplishments include his
assistance in the preparation of the Philippine Development Plans,
CY 1978-2000, Transportation Sector, in 1977; conceptualization,
development and implementation of a computer-based infrastructure
capital outlays and expenditures control system in 1979-82;
formulation of the DPWH Strategic Plan and the preparation of
guidelines for sectoral programming and operational planning from
1987-1990; organization and training of the DPWH Quality Assurance
Units and implementation of the DPWH Quality Assurance Program; has
assumed the lead role streamlining of the Project Monitoring System
of the then Ministry of Public Works and in the revision of the
Project Management Information System in 1978; conceptualization,
design and implementation of the accreditation scheme for DPWH
project engineers and inspectors, from 1996 to 1998; and, has
pioneered in the conceptualization of a computer-based Construction
Cost Information System; and ,
computer-based Roadway Information System.
Assistant Secretary Asis’ has not only acted as resource speaker in
various fora, but because of his crusade in producing effective
builders of this nation, he joined the academe as a professor in
the School of Civil Engineering, Mapua Institute of Technology since
1974 and as Assistant Professional Lecturer in Engineering at the
Graduate School of De La Salle University from 1997 to the present.
Although
an educator, he has not ceased to learn and has attended various
trainings and seminars such as:
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Project Management and Design;
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Regional Industrial Development Executive Course;
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Management by Objectives and Results Evaluation;
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Basic Photogrammetry and Photo Interpretation;
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Project Management Course;
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Computerized System of Project Management;
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- EDP
Fundamentals Course;
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Fundamentals of EDP Programming;
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Construction Management;
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Integrated Civil Engineering Systems: Coordinate Geometry, Road
Analysis and Design;
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Integrated Civil Engineering Systems: Limiting Equilibrium
Analysis in Soil Embankments and Settlement-Oriented Problems;
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Microcomputers in Waterworks;
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Strengthening the Engineering Information System;
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- Work
Improvement Team Facilitators’ Course;
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Computer-Aided Project Management;
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- Team
Building;
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- Test
Construction;
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Environmental Impact Assessment;
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Sustainable Development/Phil. Agenda 21;
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Flexible Pavement Design;
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Rigid Pavement Design.
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In
addition, he has attended the Automated Management Information
Systems (World Bank grant) in Texas, USA; Steel Utilization
Technology in Tokyo, Japan; and, Operation of Research Institutes (JICA
grant) in Tsukuba City and Tokyo Japan.
As a
young achiever, he is already a recipient of various awards and
citations such Plaque of Appreciation from various chapter of the
Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE) as resource speaker
in various Continuing Professional Education (CPE) seminars; Plaque
of Recognition and Merit from the MIT CE-EnSE Alumni Association in
recognition as Founding Director; Award of Recognition from Mapua
Institute of Technology for 25-year service as faculty member;
Outstanding Alumnus from San Sebastian College-Recoletos; and, The
Outstanding Mapuan (TOM) Award in Government Service, year 2000,
from the Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT) and the National
Association of Mapua Alumni (NAMA).
He has
co-authored the technical paper on “Cracking and Seating of Portland
Cement Concrete Pavements (Conference Paper Presentation) CAST 2000
“Conference & Exposition on Concrete Art, Science and Technology
last May, 2000.
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