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