As a passionate, creative, and honorable structural engineer, I work to make the world a better and safer place to live. I thoroughly enjoy the technical aspects of engineering and delight in solving the next complex puzzle. I take the ethical obligations of our profession seriously and carefully implement internal reviews of my department's work. I strive to be a life-long learner and enjoy attending conferences such as the Structures Congress.
I started my career at Parsons Brinckerhoff in Boston, spending the first three months on-site performing resident engineering work for the renovations of an airport terminal parking structure. The design and inspection of precast garages at airports big and small dominated the next six years of my life and elevated me from an individual contributor to deputy lead structural engineer. Occasionally I had the opportunity to design other types of structures, such as the stair/escalator/elevator towers for the pedestrian bridge extension at a rail station, and to explore conceptual design for large projects including air rights development over an existing highway. I completed my master's in engineering management from Tufts University and earned my first P.E. license; soon thereafter a construction accident that fatally injured an ironworker happened on one of my projects.
Though there was no fault in the engineering of the structure, I was devastated. There must be a way, I thought, to accelerate the construction schedule without compromising safety. I eventually discovered ConXtech and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to work on structures using their chassis-based modular steel framing system. ConXtech had found a way to enable rapid frame erection while improving the safety of the ironworkers by designing their systems and construction processes specifically for these purposes. I was promoted to Director of Structural Engineering, which has afforded me the opportunity to implement changes to our systems and to research new ways to deploy our technology. Since moving to California, I have learned much about seismic analysis and design, even experimenting with nonlinear analyses and working to develop nonlinear modeling parameters for our XL400 system.
I enjoy reading, playing board games, making music on my guitar, and going on walks with my family.