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PROFILE:
Self-motivated, good analytical and mathematical skills, excellent ability to coordinate with different trades of engineering. Ability to take challenges, develop new concepts for competitive structural design. Effective team player, strong leadership qualities, problem solving, decision-making and good management skills, result oriented engineer with excellent track record of achieving targets on time in engineering projects with more than 15 years experience in construction industry and all facets of structural design.
Areas of Expertise lie in:
* Analysis, design, layout, detailing and construction supervision of steel, cold-formed metal, wood, reinforced masonry & reinforced concrete structures for industrial, commercial, residential and highway projects.
* Design of pipe racks, steel buildings and exchanger/vessel structures.
* Design of piles, pile caps, mats, isolated and combined foundations.
* Seismic Retrofit of building Structures & Bridges
* Review of fabrication drawings, concrete mix designs and connection designs.
* Review and reply the contractor's RFI's.
* Developing finite element models
* Design of Misc. highway & drainage structures
* Using a range of structural analysis and design software.
KEY BUILDING PROJECTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
Industrial Projects:
* Analysis and design of steel pipe racks for Attock refinery project in Pakistan.
* Design of substation buildings and analyzer sheds in PARCO refinery Pakistan.
* Analysis and design of urea granulation plant in FJFC fertilizer complex Pakistan
* Cement mill, Raw material and drying mill in Bestwat cement plant Pakistan.
* Analysis and design of conveyor supports for new GM Assembly Plant in Mexico.
* Sludge tank for New United Motors in California, (USA).
* RC Ramp and other plant extension/modification for GM Powertrain Plant Ypsilanti, MI (USA).
* Design of N. Royalton Pumping Station for City of Cleveland, Ohio (USA).
* Design of Extension/modification of City of Warren Water Treatment Plant Warren, MI (USA).
* Restoration/modification to Ford Motors Utility Tunnel Dearborn, MI (USA).
* Wayne State University Clean-room Project Detroit, MI (USA).
* Combine Support Maintenance shop Lansing, MI (USA).
* Design of Walls Ice Cream factory Lahore, Pakistan.
Residential & Commercial Buildings Projects:
* Analysis, design and construction supervision of new Midfield Terminal Building,
Detroit Metro Airport Project (Approx. cost US$2.1 billions).
* PILZ Automotive North American Headquarter Building Canton, MI (USA).
* 12 Oaks Mall Food Courts Novi, MI (USA).
* Main Place Commercial Bldg. Royal Oaks, MI (USA).
* Daimler Chrysler Financial Services Office Building, Auburn Hills, MI (USA).
* Siemen's North American Headquarter Building Auburn Hills, MI (USA).
* City of Troy Fire/Police headquarter Building, Troy, MI (USA).
* Design of Ypsilanti Fire Station, Ypsilanti, MI (USA).
* Wayne State University North residential Hall, Detroit, MI (USA).
* Siemen's North American Headquarter Building Auburn Hills, MI (USA).
* Plumbrook Senior Housing, Sterling Heights, MI (USA).
* Wilcox condominium project, Plymouth, MI (USA).
* Bank One branch buildings in Grand Rapids, Orion Twp., Fenton Twp., Washington
Twp. & Bloomfield Twp., MI (USA).
* Wyoming Ave. Catholic Church, Detroit, MI (USA).
* Oakland Christian Church, Oakland, MI (USA).
* Design of Khalifa Stadium Doha, Qatar
* Currently working as a project manager/lead engineer on Erickson's Sedgebrook senior housing campus - Lincolnshire, IL (Approx. US$3.0 billions project)
Heath care Facility Projects:
* Jackson County Medical Care Facility Jackson, MI (USA).
* New block addition to existing SJMM medical complex, Macomb county, MI (USA).
KEY HIGHWAY PROJECTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
* Developed standard design of girders, ranging from 15m to 45m as per WPHCP/AASHTO
& military loadings and designed as per AASHTO-1996 recommendations. Developed spreadsheet for designing pre-stressed I girder. The standard bridge design
* Developed standard designs of bridge deck slab, approach slab and expansion joints.
* Developed a standard design procedure for carrying out calculation for all bridge elements.
* Developed design spread sheet for closed abutment and wing wall.
* Designed underpasses, culverts, Irish Crossings and more than 60 bridges with Post-tensioned I- girders.
* Developed standard drawings for pre-molded expansion joint along with site installation procedures.
* Designed and developed substructure elements of bridges to suit topography and site conditions.
* Design of Camel crossing (RCC box culvert) on a Highway in United Arab Emirates using BS 5400 (British Specifications) and submitting design in SI system of units for approval.
* Developed standards drawings for different combinations of masonry slab culvert, box culvert and pipe culvert using self-generated and CRSI box culvert worksheets.
* Developed computer programs/ worksheets for design of cantilever retaining walls, stone masonry retaining walls and counter-forts retaining walls/abutments.
* Developed computer program for design of Pre-stressed Electric Poles.
* Inspection of damaged highway structures due natural disasters and assessment of old highway structures.
* Construction supervision of different city and farm to market road projects.
* Involved in design of highway structures for Torey Road Bridge Fenton & New Burgh
Bridge, Wayne - Michigan (USA), Karachi - Kakar Freeway, Pindi Bhantian – Faisalabad section of M-2 Freeway, Khasab Coastal Road in U.A.E, Dual Carriage way for Okara – Lahore section of N-5 and other major road projects in Pakistan.
Other key concrete structures achievements:
* Design and construction supervision of concrete buildings of almost all forms of constructions such as cylindrical shells, domes, minarets, waffle slabs, flat slabs, beams-slab, one way and two way slabs, over ground and underground tanks of various sizes, etc.
* Member of developer's team for SDL - 1 (Structural Designer's Library-1) - a comprehensive software developed to perform different tasks commonly required for
Structural Design of Concrete Buildings.
EDUCATION
* B.Sc., Civil Engineering, July 1987.
University of Eng. & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. (Taxila Campus)
* M.S., Structural Engineering, May 1991.
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
STAAD-Pro, RAMSTEEL, ENERCALC, SAP2000, RISA 2D& 3D, ADOSS, GEARS 2003, ETABS, AutoCAD 2004, Lotus 123, MS Excel, MS Word, Visual C++, MS Excess Database Management, Novell NetWare 4.1, etc.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., W. Bloomfield, MI (USA)
Senior Structural Engineer June2000 – To date
CICO Consulting Architects Engineers, Doha (Qatar)
Structural Engineer Feb. 2002 – May 2002
Sigma Associates, Inc., Detroit, MI (USA)
Structural Engineer April 98 – June 2000
DMR Engineers, Inc., Novi, MI (USA)
Structural Engineer September 97 - April 98
National Engineering Services of Pakistan (Pvt.) LTD (NESPAK), Lahore, Pakistan.
Senior Structural Engineer (Highway Div.) December 92 – August 97
Naveed Anwar & Associate, Lahore, Pakistan.
Structural Engineer November 87 – December 89
PERSONAL
* Professional Engineer (P.E.) - Michigan State (U.S.A)
* Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) – Alberta (Canada)
* Canadian Citizen, Married 42 years old.
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