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Working in Land Development as a Grading and Layout Designer using Autodesk Civil 3D which concludes in presenting a proposed ground surface including :o Grading roads and preparing road profiles o Grading building pads, ponds and infiltration trencheso Retaining wallso Preparing and submitting site plans and details

Ain Ibil, Nabatiye, Lebanon

Structural design, consultancies and supervision of local houses and buildings.

Coordinating with management team to develop complete proposal packages after developing optimal designs for utility-scale solar photovoltaic power plants : o Design and develop site plans for solar panel installation by taking system concept ideas and translating them into fully detailed construction ready designso Perform accurate system sizing calculations and cable scheduleso Build conceptual 3-D renderings and detailed bills of materials based on system specifications using PVCASE software tool

Sin-El-Fil

Structural design of reinforced concrete industrial buildings and underground structures. The design involves each structure as a whole, using Robot Structural Analysis, Etabs and/or SCIA Engineer software in addition to self-developed excel tools to carry out the following:o Modeling of the buildings using the previously mentioned softwareo Design raft foundation and/or footings, columns, retaining walls, beams and slabs reinforced concrete designo Developing new excel sheets which help accelerate the design procedure

Lebanon

Structural design of wells and corridors :o The shoring design including the steel structure analysis and modeling o Raft foundation reinforced concrete design, in addition to retaining walls and top slabso Coordination with France office executive department to discuss any bottlenecks and the way forward.

Lebanon

o Design of post-tensioned slabs using RAM software.o Professional visits to several sites located in Beirut and Chouf and to the precast factory in Halat. The site visits consisted of :- Noting precast beams and post-tensioned concrete slabs - Acquainting with all the site technical elements, terminologies, drawings, documents and paper works - Supporting my superior engineers in preparing steel orders, shop drawings and drafting as-built drawings

Lebanon

My internship at DAR was to carry out the design and analysis of different structures : o A multi-span pre-stressed concrete bridge located in Saudi Arabia using CSIBridge.o A rectangular reinforced concrete water tank using SAFE, SAP and self-developed Excel Tools.

Master'S Degree, Transportation And Highway Engineering

Thesis entitled : "Study of the load effects on a bridge for a standard and a realistic load model"

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Vice President in the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE)Structures and Public Works Department.