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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Principal Engineer in the Catastrophe Engineering and Analytics group within the Property division of BHSI. Leading evaluation of risk from storm surge and other coastal hazards. Developing internal risk assessment tools and models related to coastal hazards. Responsible for development of and training in best practices related to assessing coastal/surge risks.

Senior Scientist in the Catastrophe Engineering and Analytics group within the Property division of BHSI. Leading evaluation of risk from storm surge and other coastal hazards. Developing internal risk assessment tools and models related to coastal hazards. Responsible for development of and training in best practices related to assessing coastal/surge risks.

Greater Boston Area

Scientist in the Catastrophe Engineering and Analytics group within the Property division of BHSI. Evaluating storm surge risk for accounts and insurable assets. Developing internal risk assessment tools and models for the evaluation of storm surge risk and other risks.

Developed a high resolution tide, storm surge and wind-wave model for coastal Alaska using the finite element ocean circulation model ADCIRC. This finite element model takes advantage of a high resolution grid to tie together the Bering Sea, Chuckchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, and Gulf of Alaska in one domain while providing a very high level of detail along the Alaskan coastline. Ice coverage has been implemented into the model as a modification of the wind drag coefficient in order to analyze the impact a climate change induced change in seasonal ice coverage could have on surge and flooding from powerful coastal storms. Investigated coupling the ADCIRC model to a Wavewatch III phase averaged wave model which incorporates wave-ice interactions, and building a framework to couple sea ice models, specifically ice drift information, to ADCIRC.Assisted in Caricoos/NOAA funded study comparing wave, surge and inundation models on steep sloped, reef fringed islands, specifically Puerto Rico and The U.S. Virigin Islands during Hurricanes Irma and Maria. This project evaluated the effectiveness of different atmospheric forcing products for computing surge and wave values for Hurricanes Irma and Maria and compared a coupled ADCIRC+SWAN model for the region with a couple SLOSH + parametric wave model.

Assisted in instruction of both and Introductory Computational Methods course for undergraduates and a graduate level Finite Elements in Engineering course. Also assisted in administration of the undergraduate Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory.Was responsible for creating and grading assignments and examinations and held numerous, well attended, office hours each week. In 2014 was the recipient of the Dondanville Family Award in Civil Engineering for Excellence inTeaching by a Graduate Student - "In recognition of the graduate student who hasbeen most effective working with undergraduate students in a teaching situation"

Intern in the legal department. Assisted on a suit against the Comission and researched low impact development and stormwater BMPs. Also observed engineering field work.

Intern in the legal department. Assisted on a suit against the Comission and researched low impact development and stormwater BMPs. Also observed engineering field work.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Civil And Environmental Engineering And Earth Sciences

Bs, Civil And Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Society Of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Engineers Without Borders

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