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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.
• 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