Arash Shamsian, P.E., Dbia, C.W.I. Email & Phone Number

Henry Hudson Brdige

HHM-403-The Work of this Contract includes the installation of a new maintenance staircaseand catwalk at the Henry Hudson Bridge. The Work is more fully described in theTechnical Specifications.

New York, United States

HH-36 Design-Build Services for Electrical Power Resiliency, Utility and Building improvements at the Henry Hudson Bridge. This $34.5 million Design Build project includes upgrade of both Dyckman and Kappock substations, the interior fit out of the HHB maintenance garage and basement, the reconstruction of the parking lot and installation of the new Air Handler Unit on the administration building.

Bronx, New York, United States

Miscellaneous Structural Rehabilitation and Repairs and Replacement of Overcoat Painting at the Henry Hudson Bridge ($45M)

Greater New York City Area

MTABT- Reconstruction of Upper and Lower Level Toll Plazas and Southbound Approach at the Henry Hudson Bridge and Lighting Replacement at Northbound/Southbound Henry Hudson Parkways. ($87M)

Greater New York City Area

PANYNJ – Performance of Expert Professional Construction Management Services on an “As-Needed” Basis for the George Washington Bridge Capital and Operating Construction Program.My responsibilities include: coordinating with the Facility, contractor and day/night inspectors; reviewing submittals and RFIs; reviewing welding procedures; calculating quantity take-offs; estimating and issuing change orders and directives for extra work; reviewing monthly CPM schedules, and forecasting monthly work in place dollar values and budgets for the year to ensure proper funds were allocated the project.

Greater New York City Area

Open Road Tolling at Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, amended to contract VN-80B.The ORT Program at the VNB is one of the largest among all MTA Bridge & Tunnel Facilities, agency-wide, including all necessary civil, structural, and electrical infrastructure, as well as demolition of all existing toll booths in order to implement ORT for the westbound Upper and Lower Levels along the Staten Island Approach.My responsibilities include: quality assurance and inspections for various ORT work such as, Installation of new drainage system, Installation of six (6) 24” diameter monotube overhead gantries, and the removal of all existing eighteen (18) Toll Booths and the associated concrete traffic islands, HVAC units and utilities through staged construction.Also I was responsible for leading the concrete inspection team for installation of new concrete barriers and concrete roadway slabs over the opening from the removed toll booth/islands as well as adjusting the super-elevation and alignment of the westbound roadways of the Staten Island Approach to accommodate for a high speed condition as a result of ORT. For this propose I developed the “Area Designation Plan” for sequencing concrete, and steel work.

Greater New York City Area

Replacement of the Upper Level Roadway Deck of the suspended spans of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.The $240M project involves replacement of Upper Level Deck at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. In this project, the following major tasks will be performed: the removal of the existing roadway concrete deck, barrier and lighting system to be replaced with a new steel orthotropic deck system, barrier and roadway lighting system.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:As Steel Construction Inspector/CWI my responsibilities include, quality assurance and inspections for different bridge operations such as removal of existing roadway concrete deck and finger joints, and installation of orthotropic deck, bolting the new deck to existing stringers, and replacing finger joints. Also, leading the welding inspection team for performing weld joint preparation and fit-up as well as conducting weld in progress inspection (SMAW, SAW, FCAW) before, during and after welding.The quality assurance inspections of the orthotropic deck installation required full-time visual inspections and documentation. Job-specific forms were created to track the joint fit-up, weld quality and adherence to welding specifications, distortion of base metals, and weld defect repairs required following 100% ultrasonic inspection.

New York

- NYCDOT Project: Rehabilitation of Henry Hudson Parkway Bridge over Amtrak, NY, NY.Working as Asst. Team Leader on in-depth Inspection for the purpose of rehabilitation of Henry Hudson Parkway Bridge over Amtrak. Inspected every structural member and bridge component to assess the condition if repair is needed. Inspected spans superstructure, under decks, and top of deck elements on both the lower and upper roadways. Inspected and documented with drawings all deck elements, completed spreadsheets, red flag reports, and report summaries for submission in final report.

- MNR Project: Rehabilitation of JS 51.00 Culvert, Highland Mills, NY.The work included removal of a portion of the outlet which had dislocated and settled and installation of new poured in place outlet structure. Cracks in the existing culvert were repaired by installing Carbon Fiber Reinforcement at the crack locations.Working as construction inspector, coordinating and supervising the progress of all construction activities on a daily basis. Preparing field reports on daily basis and submitting to Resident Engineer.Monitoring contractor’s work to ensure that it was completed in accordance to specifications in the contract and in the plan.

Iran

Designed and Supervised of $70M, Mellat-2 commercial and administrative complex. This project is a 32-story building with steel structure and concrete core.• Performed structural design to meet both strength and deflection limit states of current national and Iran building codes, including IBC (International Building Code), UBC (Uniform Building Code), ASCE, AISC ASD and LRFD (Steel), ACI 318 (Concrete) and ACI 530 (Masonry) codes• Developed and reviewed all design concepts and worked with six design engineers• Examined and inspected work progress, equipment and construction site to verify safety and ensure work conforms to specifications• Inspected fabrication and erection of structural steel• Attended all construction meetings & advised Office Manager of all construction details & issues• Prepared sketches, marked-up drawings and wrote specifications etc.

• Designed 56-story building-Tehran TowerAs a member of the Structural Engineering and Technical Board to perform an evaluation of a 56-story tall building using Nonlinear Dynamic Procedure (NDP) contained in FEMA-356. The building design relied entirely on three 180 meter spine shear walls constructed with a large amount of concrete and reinforcement per each square meter in a zone of high seismic area,. During this project we concluded that this was highly unusual and did not satisfy the current code requirements of Iran and the United States. For almost three years I trained and worked under the supervision of professional engineers and professors. I acquired knowledge on how to make resultant observations applicable in appropriate rehabilitation techniques to satisfy the buildings overall structural ductility by means of performing seismic retrofitting of more than 150 coupling panels.• Supervised, through coordinated team work with project managers and their respective management teams of various projects (roads, bridges and ports)

• Designed bridges in coastal oil refineries• Reviewed shop-drawings and attended daily meetings with other team members to coordinate the shop-drawing review process and resolve the fabrication issues• Quantity take-off of the bridge to calculate and estimate the self-weight of the bridge by panel points• Designed secondary offshore structures• Developed detailed design packages, structural reports, Site Operation Procedures and Site Technical Practices• Communicated and interacted in a multi – cultural and discipline company

Master'S Degree, Construction Management

Master Of Science (Ms), Civil Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Civil Engineering