senior structural engineer

Senior Structural Engineer

SKM Sinclair Knight Merz, Auckland, New Zealand

San Jacinto Binary Plant, Nicaragua
Lead structural engineer for the bid project for the binary plant.
Responsible for the structural analysis and design of the support foundation for the equipment of the binary plant, pipeline support steel stanchions, their support pads and piles.

Olkaria III Geothermal Plant, Kenya
San Jacinto Geothermal Plant, Nicaragua
Oserian Geothermal Plant, Kenya
Philippines Geothermal Plant, TIWI-MGES, Philippine
Responsible for the structural analysis and design of the support foundation for the equipment of the power generation plant, pipeline support steel stanchions, their support pads and piles.
Responsible for the dynamic check for the turbine generator foundation under cyclic loading including finite element computer modelling, dynamic analysis and design.
Developed special program to analyse and design pipeline supports to design actions generated and extracted directly from AutoPipe Mechanical Software. This work has been developed to each project separately taking into consideration the geotechnical properties, material availability in the local market and the regional codes of practice.

Maghnaghat Combined Cycle Power Plant, AES Ltd, Maghnaghat, Bangladesh.
Peer reviewer for the structural design of a new 450 MW combined cycle power plant to be constructed at Meghanaghat, Bangladesh by Hyundai Engineering Company. Review included steam turbine raft foundation on piles, steel framed steam turbine building. Peer review was carried out from Auckland, with files transferred electronically from Seoul, Korea.

Master of Engineering (Structural), 1997
University of Auckland,
New Zealand

GIPENZ, Institute of Professional Engineers NZ
Strand7 Certificates for Linear, nonlinear and dynamic analysis
Member of the Engineering Union, Iraq