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Louisville, Co, Us

Louisville, Co

Providing technical and management oversight of the Engineering Division at BDI which includes the Testing, Monitoring, Engineering, and On-Going Monitoring groups.

Louisville, Co

Boulder, Co

Boulder, Co

Watertown, Ma

Performing various roles in the structural design process for a wide variety of structures ranging from mixed use buildings in downtown Boston to athletic centers at local universities and private residences. Structural design including steel, concrete, masonry and wood. Shop drawing review and construction administration. Modeling/drafting of buildings in both AutoCAD and Revit. Calculation of building design using RAM, Risa3D, Enercalc, and TEDDS.

Medford, Ma

• Lead graduate researcher for bridge instrumentation for use in structural health monitoring• Main research activities focus on the use of frequency response functions for automated finite element model updating. The frequency response functions are obtained from experiments performed on real structures, specifically the Vernon Avenue over Ware River, Powdermill Pond Bridge.- This has involved writing a MATLAB code to take information from a SAP2000 finite element model to create the frequency response function of the model.- The difference between the measured FRF and analytical FRF is found and minimized by changing parameters in the finite element model until the difference is at a minimum and convergence criteria is met.• Other activities include planning and implementation of the instrumentation of a 150' 3-span bridge in rural MA for use in an NSF funded research. The instrumentation was accomplished prior to steel erection and during the remainder of the bridge construction. A data acquisition system is in place to serve the over 200 sensors which include strain gauges, temperature sensors, tiltmeters, accelerometers, and pressure plates.• Planning and implementation of three full scale bridge load tests performing both static and dynamic tests. Static tests involve using a fully loaded dump truck traveling at crawl speeds while the data is being acquired. This requires tracking the exact position of the truck with respect to the bridge coordinates for use in simulations when analyzing the data. The dynamic tests involve the use of an APS Dynamics shaker to excite the bridge while measurements are taken on a grid of sensitive Wilcoxon accelerometers brought to the bridge for this test.• Development of MATLAB processing code for the data acquired during the load tests for use by the research group.

Durham, Nh

• Continuation of monitoring project on FHWA IBRC Program bridge. The target bridge was the Rollinsford Bridge in Rollinsford, NH. The bridge is a one span, CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced polymer) concrete deck sitting on prestressed concrete girders instrumented with fiber optic strain sensors.• Creation of model for use in model updating• Planning and implementation of load test

Elmwood Park, Nj

• Computer aided drafting for survey and site/civil groups of large New York area firm• Part of drafting team on larger projects including Newark Downtown Core Redevelopment, Newark, NJ; Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; and Battery Park City, New York, NY• Maintained interpretation and analysis for monitoring data of retaining wall post-failure at Castle Village Apartment Complex, New York, NY

Denville, Nj

• Computer aided drafting on residential projects from small homes to large complexes, as well as small commercial building projects

Ph.D., Civil And Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Graduate Program Student Advisory Committee

M.S., Civil Engineering

B.S., Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Pi Mu Epsilon, ASCE, UNH ASCE Steel Bridge Design Team, Tutor at UNH Mathematics Center (MaC)

Civil Engineering

Study Abroad