OBJECTIVE A position as a Senior Structural Engineer, Structural Project Manager or Associate using my education, experience & problem-solving skills.
SUMMARY Sixteen years of proven experience and increasing responsibility in the design, evaluation and review of buildings, bridges, and various structures.
• Mentored engineers in design and plan review of structures.
• Maintained projects at or below budget & saved construction costs and time.
• Managed design projects from conception to construction.
• Selected efficient and evaluated lateral and gravity structural systems for bridges and new and existing buildings, including podium structures, schools and hospitals.
Material types include structural steel, reinforced concrete, post-tensioned concrete, prestressed concrete, reinforced masonry, wood, and light-gage steel.
Lateral system types include special reinforced CMU shear wall, reinforced concrete special shear wall, reinforced concrete special moment frames, structural steel ordinary moment frames, structural steel special moment frames (SMF), structural steel ordinary braced frames, steel buckling restrained brace frames (BRBF), structural steel special braced frames, dual system moment frame & shear wall, dampers, dual system steel BRBF & SMF, fluid-viscous dampers, plywood and Sure-board shear walls.
PROFESSIONAL SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, FREELANCE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
EXPERIENCE 2012 – present
• Assisted pro bono in investigations of several structural engineering failures.
• Performed SB 1953 Structural Evaluation / HAZUS Input of CA hospitals.
• Designed and reviewed anchorages for various pieces of equipment.
• Responded to DSA plan review comments for California public schools.
• Designed various structures for proposed Silicon Valley BART Stations & associated tunnels using AASHTO LRFD with Caltrans Amendments, 2013 CBC & ACI 350-06.
• Performed structural engineering design & plan review of various structures for compliance with the CBC for various cities in Lake Tahoe region, Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area. Structural types include new residential, multi-family, & commercial buildings, mixed-use podium structures, car dealerships, mezzanines, building additions / seismic retrofits, fire restorations, glass facades, tenant improvements (“TI”) at retail centers and malls, vehicular and pedestrian bridges, mezzanines, storage racks, & residential additions.
• Performed plan review of various structures for compliance with fire-life safety and accessibility per the CBC for various cities in Los Angeles and Bay Area. Review types include tenant improvements, residential, and new buildings.
CITY OF AUSTIN (TX) PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Senior Structural Engineer (Engineer C), 2009 - 2011
• Performed plan reviews on private development projects within the City of Austin.
• Performed code review & value engineering for various city bridge & building projects.
• List of projects includes: City of Austin Urban Light Rail Bridge Study, Lady Bird Lake Trail Extension, Austin African American Cultural & Heritage Center, Waterloo Park at Waller Creek Inlet Station and Stream Restoration, & Walnut Creek Hike and Bike Trail.
PROFESSIONAL PANNU LARSEN McCARTNEY, INC., San Francisco, California
EXPERIENCE (formerly MIDDLEBROOK + LOUIE STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS)
(Continued) Project Engineer, 2004 - 2009
• Designed buildings such as condo towers, schools, hospitals, airports, and equipment anchorage.
• Designed tenant improvements for existing & new buildings, including schools & hospitals.
• Performed construction administrative services on various projects.
• List of projects includes: the historic Stanford Tower House Retrofit; the award-winning Salvation Army Railton Housing, San Francisco, CA; Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar; 100 Grand Avenue & 222 Broadway condo towers, Oakland, CA; San Ramon (CA) Regional Medical Center; and various Kaiser Permanente facilities.
• Selected DSA (California Public Schools) Project Specific Experience:
El Capitan High School, Merced, CA: Designed (9) one to two-story steel OCBF & OMF buildings, making many of them similar in layout and construction.
Berkeley Unified School District: Retrofitted an existing (3)-story concrete shear wall building per CBC Chapter 34 by adding concrete shear walls & pile caps.
BIGGS CARDOSA ASSOCIATES, San Jose, California
Staff Engineer, 2001 - 2004
• Designed, assessed and retrofitted buildings & bridges in seismically active California.
• List of projects includes the award-winning Azzurra condo tower, Palo Alto Caltrain Transit Center, Santa Clara County Courthouses, and Bay Street Emeryville.
STEBBINS ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Watertown, New York
Assistant Design Engineer, 1997 - 2000
• Designed pulp storage tanks and their accompanying accessories, covers & foundations.
COMPUTER Hardware: IBM, Apple
SKILLS
Operating Systems: Ubuntu, HTML 4.0, QBASIC, MS DOS 6.0, Windows XP, 7 & 8.1
PC Software: WordPerfect Office 12.0, AutoCAD LT 2004, Microstation,
Microsoft Office, ANSYS 5.1, Autodesk Revit
Building Software: PCAColumn, PCAMat, RAMSteel, SAP2000, SAFE & ETABS Structural Analysis Programs, PTSLAB, RISA 2D, RISA 3D, RISA Connection, RISA Floor, RISA Foundation, RISA Section, RISA Base, RISA Foot, Enercalc 6.0, RetainPro 10.0, CMD09, HILTI Profis, QuickAnchor, Simpson Anchor Selector, Forte, RedSpec
Plan Review Software: Eplans, Liberty, Tidemark, Accela
Bridge Software: BDS Bridge Design, PGSuper, PSTRS14, Rspbr2 Bridge Design, QConBridge
Mac Software: PowerCADD
EDUCATION CLARKSON UNIVERSITY, Potsdam, New York
Master of Engineering, Civil Engineering
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