Career Summary:
Structural engineer with over 11 years of experience in areas of industrial, telecommunications, commercial, retail and institutional projects, providing design, management, and field observation. Worked with a major unionized corporation, architects, contractors and fabricators, maintaining excellent dialogue at all levels. Previously employed by a medium-sized A/E consulting firm, an equipment manufacturer, and a small building-cladding (exterior building skin) consulting firm.
Professional Experience:
Wheaton and Sprague Engineering, Inc., Stow OH, 2006 – 2009
Project Manager, Panel Segment Leader 2008 – 2009
+ Managed building-cladding projects, both curtain wall and panel, for variety of clients.
+ Drove Panel Engineering segment, including client development, to understand and satisfy client engineering needs, wrote proposals, reviewed specifications and shop drawings, created engineering estimates, planned schedules, completed project calculations, supervised staff engineers, and finalized project closeout.
+ Developed partnership with major aluminum composite panel fabricator to offer engineering to contractors when placing material orders on the fabricator’s website.
+ Managed engineering and drafting for window system project on a 60-story hotel/residence with a foreign manufacturer. Collaborated with clients and architects to achieve design intent and adhere to building codes.
+ Trained staff engineers to complete technical project tasks.
Project Engineer 2006 – 2008
+ Completed building-cladding project calculations and documentation, and built tools to shorten project length.
+ Followed building codes and specifications to develop structural calculations for aluminum curtainwall frames and panels, provided instructions to client and project documentation.
+ Prepared computer worksheets, using MathCAD software, to streamline repetitive technical calculations. In some cases, reduced hour-long, handwritten anchor calculation to 15-minute, short input, automated routine.
+ Proficient with AutoCAD, STAAD and RISA-3D structural analysis software, Cosential management software, and MS Office programs such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Project.
Engineered Endeavors, Inc., Mentor OH, 2005 – 2006
Project Engineer/Project Manager
+ Telecommunications structure design and lead draftsmen to prepare construction documents and fabrication drawings.
+ Designed steel celltower structures and foundations for monopoles, flagpoles and disguised structures.
+ Completed finite element analysis of steel spool structure for antenna enclosures to minimize materials.
HWH Architects Engineers Planners, Inc., Cleveland OH, 1998 – 2005
Project Engineer / Field Observation
+ Engineered industrial projects, including design, shop and fabrication drawing preparation, and coordination of disciplines.
+ Embedded with automaker’s facility management for design and installation of 5 die test cells during a four-year period. Optimized cell design, equipment layout, structural steel and concrete design, utility coordination and support structure, developed specifications and bidding documents, and acted as liaison for the foreign stamping equipment supplier.
+ Contract Plant Structural Engineer in Facility Department of automaker. Provided quick solutions for union workforce to make repairs, participated on safety committee, and summer shutdown project management.
+ Field observation for site preparation and equipment installation of die test cell project for automaker. Managed safety and document control personnel, provided design drawing interpretation and scheduling of concrete and steel testing. Contractor filed only one RFI during eight months of work.
Education and Licensure:
+ Bachelor of Architectural Engineering – Structural Design Emphasis, Pennsylvania State University
+ Master of Business Administration, Cleveland State University
+ Professional Engineer – licensed in State of Ohio
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