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Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

Waterloo, Ontario

Waterloo, On

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Designed reinforced concrete foundations for 80 and 100 meter hub height wind turbine generators and created structural drawings on AutoCAD • Assisted in numerous five-year dam safety inspections including gate inspecting, preparing reports, and observing a dive inspection• Developed models on RISA-3D, evaluated the need for repairs, and prepared summary reports for hydraulic structures such as radial dam spillway gates and a penstock headgate using Mathcad and Microsoft Excel • Designed and performed structural analysis on concrete structures such as reinforced concrete retaining walls and gate wells • Worked on design team for a structural steel switchgear platform of a maintenance building using RISA-3D software

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Teamed with engineers in final design of a 5-span superstructure replacement including calculations such as slab and deck elevations, rebar, cost estimates, jacking effects on abutments, dead load cambers, and friction check of fixed pier using Microsoft Excel• Developed structural drawings of design build bridges using MicroStation • Revised roadway cross sections using MicroStation as well as determined earthwork quantities• Prepared final design of bridge including drainage and guiderail calculations and quantities, erosion and sediment pollution control plans, and pavement quantities• Implemented a plan to organized, review, and improve metro procedures for the MTA

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Structural Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Civil Engineering, 3.65