I am the son of a carpenter. I was given my first hammer and hand saw before the age of ten. My Dad and I built a two-story, 1000 sq. ft. addition onto our house during the summer of my 12th year. These early experiences helped set a direction for me towards a career in the construction industry. I interned and co-oped with a land surveyor, a construction manager and a general contractor. My undergraduate and graduate work at The University of Cincinnati specialized in structures and their design. I started my structural design career with Lantz Jones Nebraska in December of 1981.I worked with the senior partners and developed my skills as a design engineer, a project engineer and then as a project manager. I have been a registered Professional Engineer since 1984. I have been a principal with the firm since 1998. The company changed its name to Shelley Metz Baumann Hawk in 2005 and we became SMBH, Inc. in 2013.
Listed skills include Structural Engineering, Concrete, Steel Design, Submittals, and 17 others.