Expert Profile
I am a professional structural engineer with 13 years of experience. I have designed and evaluated structures throughout the US & the world. I have designed projects that were reviewed by tough California plan review agencies such as DSA, OSHPD, City of San Francisco & County of Santa Clara. I am licensed in California (Active) & Texas (Inactive). I have designed airports, hospitals, water tanks, high rise buildings, seismic retrofits, schools, retaining walls, MSE walls, bridges, and equipment anchorage. I have also performed value engineering for major government projects. I have designed with reinforced concrete, post-tensioned concrete, steel, aluminum, wood, light gage steel, masonry, and limestone.
Unemployed After Raising Life Safety Issues To Authorities. Documentation Available Upon Request.
3 years as an Engineer for a Design-Build Company in New York
9 years as a Structural Engineer for various California consulting firms, working as a Design & Project Engineer
2 years as a Structural Engineer Plan Reviewer & Value Engineer for a major Texas city
BS & MEng in Civil Engineering, Clarkson University
California Licensed Civil & Structural Engineer
Texas Licensed Civil & Structural Engineer (Inactive)
Structural designer of water storage tanks, office buildings, bridges, retaining walls, high rise condos, public schools (CA), hospitals (CA), equipment anchorage (CA), MSE walls, hydraulic structures, mixed-use buildings, and airports.
Selected design experience includes: New Doha International Airport, Bellevue (CA) HS, Livingston (CA) HS, Harmony Elementary School (CA), San Ramon (CA) Regional Medical Center Emergency Room Expansion, equipment anchorage at several Kaiser Permanente Hospitals (CA), Napa Valley Ritz Carlton (proposed-CA), Boy Scout restroom building at Shaver Lake (CA), Stanford Tower House retrofit, Bay Street Emeryville, KNTV-TV building evaluation, IBM San Jose building facilities PML evaluation, Bowater Newsprint-Calhoun TN, Donohue Paper-Sheldon TX, Papiers Masson Ltee Masson PQ, Pine Falls Paper MB.
Municipal plan review and value engineering experience includes: Waterloo Park at Waller Creek, EMS 33 building, Pilot Knob Pump Station and detention ponds, Fort Branch Reaches 6 & 7 MSE walls and bridges, African American Center, South Walnut Creek Trail Walls & Bridges and South Congress and South 1st Light Rail Vehicle bridge studies.
Experience with reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, wood, steel, masonry, aluminum, titanium, light-gage steel, and Sure-board walls.
Building lateral system types include: steel ordinary moment frame, steel special moment frame, reinforced concrete shear wall, reinforced concrete moment frame, CMU shear wall, plywood shear wall, steel ordinary concentric braced frames, steel special concentric brace frames, steel eccentric braced frames, and cantilever columns.
Software experience with the following:
PC Software: WordPerfect Office 12.0, AutoCAD LT 2004, Microstation, Microsoft Office, ANSYS 5.1
Building Software: RAMSteel, SAP2000, SAFE & ETABS Structural Analysis Programs, PTSLAB, Enercalc, RetainPro 9.0
Bridge Software: BDS Bridge Design, PGSuper, PSTRS14, Rspbr2 Bridge Design, QConBridge
Code experience with AASHTO LRFD, AASHTO Pedestrian, ACI 318, ACI 350, ACI 530, AISC Steel, AISC Seismic, Texas Dam regulations, NDS Wood, 2009 IBC, ASCE 7-05, 2007 California Buillding Code Hospital Amendments, NCMA, NBC Canada, FEMA 356, ASCE *****, Caltrans BDS and Caltrans SDC.