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Cleveland, Ohi

King Of Prussia, Pa

Provides high-level structural engineering services to an array of clients. Project types include college & university, primary & secondary schools, cultural buildings, art installations, structured landscapes, commercial, parking, industrial, historic preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation and strengthening.

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md

• Leading a new and original experimental testing program to investigate theoretical structural optimization models. Partnering with leading industry experts to transform the theoretical into the practical.• Combining methods of the structural art using classical mechanics and graphical statics along with modern topology methods to arrive at optimal and useful solutions.• Finalizing structural optimization research results for publication in the Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization Journal with a corresponding presentations at MIT and Johns Hopkins.

Havre De Grace, Md

• Performing high-level structural engineering design and analysis for non-standard field problems.• Utilizing IBC and AASHTO for a variety of structures with all types of building materials.• Special emphasis on geo-structural engineering, temporary structures, repairs, and connections.

West Point, Ny

• Taught five ABET accredited civil engineering design and analysis courses. Personally prepared and delivered approximately 150 interactive and hands-on technical presentations for classes.• Completely revised the introductory reinforced concrete design course to follow the stages of a building design. Formulated, directed, and taught the senior capstone design course which was a key and necessary component to maintain a nationally recognized ABET accredited undergraduate civil engineering program.• Supervised the academic advising of over 200 civil engineering students on course work and career applications of their studies. Personally advised twenty engineering students.

Chicago, Il

• Secured private donors to fully-fund a proposed $500,000 seismic research program.• Led a team of ten graduate engineer students to complete the seismic research program. Mentored engineering students to develop a good sense of non-linear behavior of reinforced concrete structures. • Published seismic research work in the prestigious ACI Structural Journal that led to recommended changes to current code provisions.

Tallil Air Base, Iraq

• Built and supervised a multi-discipline/multi-cultural team of twenty engineering professionals. Managed and personally approved the design of hundreds of millions of construction projects throughout Iraq. • Led engineering team in an original effort to produce many standardized designs used extensively throughout Iraq, greatly expediting delivery time which saved significant design and construction cost.• Acted as the lead structural engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq and provided personalized structural and civil engineering technical expertise on multiple projects.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Structural Engineering

Master Of Science (M.S.), Structural Engineering