Katherine Chen Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

Current: Steel base build teamPast: Concrete base build team; MEP & Conveyance support design for Intel chip plant in Israel

New York, New York, United States

• Designed three warehouses totaling nearly 1 million sq. ft. while coordinating with architects and civil engineers• Led several renovation projects in midtown Manhattan while effectively communicating with the client and contractor• Performed façade inspection and wrote repair report for historic data center building in Philadelphia• Helped design and facilitate communication with general contractor for high-rise building in downtown Manhattan for complete façade replacement and interior renovation• Managed and delegated work to junior engineers and interns, guiding them with prompting questions• Assisted project managers in design documentation, submittal review, answering RFIs, and tracking project deadlines

Greater New York City Area

• Designed sign supports for lateral loads at a large shopping center in Rochdale, Queens• Coordinated masonry and wood system for detached structure of a senior home in Pennsylvania• Completed a torsional analysis of satellite fit-out on roof of the Entercom Headquarters in Pennsylvania• Designed rooftop dunnage system for new MEP equipment in midtown Manhattan• Designed moving partition fit-out for WeWork in midtown Manhattan• Assisted with schematic design and model of a new construction 4-story wood and steel building in Montvale, NJ

New Brunswick, Nj

• Helping the Analytical Physics 1A/1B (750:123/750:124) courses• Grading assignments and quizzes• Explaining classical mechanics concepts during student recitations• Working with the Teaching Assistant to create lesson plans and review packets

Greater New York City Area

• Sized beams with different loads, used RAM SBeam to check sections, and drew cross area details in AutoCAD for an office building in downtown Brooklyn requiring a slab infill and rooftop chiller• Surveyed job site, measured steel columns to find load capacity, and modeled dunnage system in SketchUp for a 14-story office building requiring large sprinkler water tanks in midtown Manhattan• Measured Z shape purlins and custom girders on site to determine snow load capacity, and designed WT reinforcements for a large warehouse in Newark, NJ with hundreds of incoming and outgoing shipments• Helped design cross brace framing for wind resistance study and assembled structural conditions report to investigate spider cracks and anomalies between topping slabs for an Amgen warehouse in Kentucky• Designed angle kickbacks to support rooftop antenna equipment for a 50-story building in the Financial District, NYC

Greater New York City Area

• Assisted with Building Façade Safety Program (NYC Local Law 11/98) inspections for a Chase bank in Manhattan and 7-story residential buildings in Elmhurst• Assembled FISP 8th Cycle inspection reports and appendices for DOB filing• Plotted resultant facade conditions and violations on AutoCAD• Coordinated with project managers and general contractors to verify field notes and quantity takeoffs for the CityLights Building in Long Island City

Greater New York City Area

• Created column and beam schedules for 6-story medical office/hotel complex in Brooklyn with two level cellar parking• Drafted shear and core wall diagrams for 9-story residential building in Elmhurst, featuring 138 apartment units and multiple roof terraces• Designed rebar ties and stirrups and made bill of material spreadsheets• Documented job site visits and took notes during client meetings

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Civil Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Taekwondo, ASCE Concrete Canoe

Master Of Science - Ms, Structural Engineering

Activities and Societies: Taekwondo, Open Rib Steel Orthotropic Deck Research