COMMUNICATION SKILLS:• Exceptional technical writing ability through years of preparing technical structural engineering observation reports, repair recommendation letters and certification reports.• Coordinate project requirements with architects, owners and contractors while maintaining design budgets and schedules.• Develop and maintain professional relationships with owners, contractors, architects and local building authorities.• Resolve conflicts between builders and local building authorities by coordinating meetings and acting as mediator.• Use active listening skills to prepare highly accurate and detailed drawings to meet the specific situational needs of each client.MANAGEMENT:• Prepare engineering design budget estimates and contracts for professional services.• Train, oversee and motivate junior staff in their career progression towards becoming project engineers.• Maintain positive working relationships with clients to a degree that will not only ensure repeat business, but promote “word of mouth” advertizing.• Accountable for all aspects of quality control and quality assurance for a $7 million/year pre cast, pre-stressed concrete bridge girder plant; assisted with estimating, purchasing and crew supervision.• Coordinate with city and county officials to effectively resolve residential grading and individual sewage disposal system (ISDS) issuesATTENTION TO DETAIL:• Ability to track and maintain awareness of hundreds of separate structural elements within a single project to ensure each element not only performs its function, but does not interfere with the function of subsequent elements. (Was the sole designer for a $2.1M custom home exceeding 7,000 finished square feet in Evergreen, CO that passed Jefferson County Building Department review without a single comment)• Maintaining the above with consideration towards cost and ease of construction.