Rowan Shields Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Canada Area

General Engineering & Project Delivery Skills• Bridge Rehabilitation• Construction Erection Engineering• Construction Inspection• Cost Estimating• Finite Element Modelling• Load Rating of Steel, Concrete & Timber Transportation structures• Overload Permit evaluation• Project Procurement• Timber coring• Timber boardwalks• Technical Writing• Vehicular & Pedestrian design & review• Visual Inspections of Steel, Concrete & Timber bridges.Iconic Projects:• Terwillegar Park Footbridge, AB: Project Engineer for the erection services of a 280 m long, three-span stress ribbon bridge (the longest in Canada.)• Walterdale Bridge, AB: Apart of the team that provided a construction schedule risk review of the 214 m Arch Bridge for the contractor following significant delays on project delivery.• Nipigon River Bridge Independent Technical Review, ON: Apart of the analyst team that completed a technical review of the Extradosed Cable Stay bridge following a bearing failure in 2016. The analyst involved conducting a global analysis of the bridge, as well as focused analysis of key components such as cable anchors, bearings, restrainers, floor beams and girders.• Athabasca Bridge, Suncor, Fort McMurray, AB: Project Engineer for the load rating evaluation of a privately owned, five-span, 391 m-long, steel plate girder bridge against contractor overload vehicles in addition to yearly visual inspections.• 102 Avenue Bridge over Groat Road, AB: Review engineer that carried out the stability analysis for the concrete deck pour after remedial repair works to girders.• Southwest Rapid Transitway, MB: Independent design review of various transportation structures• King Street Bridge, AB: Structural engineer for the rehabilitation of the existing bridge sub-structure for an existing 30.5 m pony truss located in Fort McMurray.

Melbourne, Australia

Structural Engineer for:• Western Treatment Plant upgrade (Victoria)• Engineering & Visual Inspections of Structures on the Somerton - Albury ARTC Rail Lines (Victoria & New South Wales)• Visual Inspections of Structures on the Coonamia to Whyalla ARTC Rail Lines (South Australia)• Wellington Overhead Line System Route Renewal (Wellington - New Zealand)• Williams Landing Station Development (Victoria)• Department of Transport and Main Roads (Queensland)• Southern Expressway Duplication (South Australia)• M80 Ring Road Upgrade (Victoria)• Regional Rail Link (Victoria)• South Morang Rail Extension (Victoria) • Springvale Road Rail Separation (Victoria)(Consult Australia - Silver Award of Highly Commended) – Site Engineer Secondment Carried out aswell. • Southern Improvement Alliance (Victoria – New South Wales)• 2008 & 2009 Australian Formula One Grand Prix (Victoria) –Project Engineer• Developing Auckland’s Rail Transport (DART) (Auckland – New Zealand)

The end of my 4th year of university I completed a 3 month vacation stint. In this period I assisted engineers with miscellaneous engineering tasks

At the end of 3rd year of my studies, I was a student vacation engineer for the East Link Project.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.) / Bachelor Science (Bsc), Civil Engineering, Physics & Mathematics, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Monash Civil Engineering Department: Level 3 & Level 4 Student Representative. Department of Engineering.

Education record