Project Manager Engineering

Manish Kumar

No. ***, Triad Apartments, **** Millersport HWY, Buffalo, NY 14221

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Website: www.manishkumar.org

EDUCATION

June 2014 STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING New York, USA

Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

June 2012 STRUCTURAL AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING (GPA: 3.93/4) New York, USA

Master of Science, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

May 2008 CIVIL ENGINEERING (GPA 8.1/10) Kanpur, IN

Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Dean s fellowship for outstanding academic performance by University at Buffalo in 2012

Rank 4 among all the 95 students enrolled as Masters students in the civil engineering department at University at Buffalo

Rank 1 of civil engineering department in 4th Semester during my Bachelors degree and graduated as 6th rank in a class of 60

Recipient of Merit-Cum-Means scholarship by IIT Kanpur

Recipient of Jharkhand State Police Department scholarship for higher education

Rank 2 of the School from a class of 300 students in All India Secondary School Examination( Class X)

In AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination) secured a rank (1006) within 0.25% among more than 420,000

students, also securing 36th rank in the state

Secured a rank(2241) within 1.28% of total 175,225 students appearing for IIT Entrance Exam

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Oct 08 Sep 09 RIO TINTO EXPANSION PROJECTS Western Australia, AU

FULL TIME Graduate Civil Engineer Department: Project Engineering

Worked as graduate project engineer with Expansion Projects division of Rio Tinto Iron ore to manage civil

and construction projects on a mine site

Managed projects ranging from $25,000 to $450,000 within budget and ahead of schedule

Coordinated feasibility, startup, design, specification, procurement, and construction of 5 projects

Served as the Deputy Safety Representative and Deputy fire warden of the Project Engineering Department

INTERNSHIPS

May 07 Jul 07 CENTER FOR OFF-SHORE FOUNDATION SYSTEMS (COFS) Western Australia, AU

Intern Advisor: Dr. Mark Cassidy, University of Western Australia

Worked as an intern to discuss the behaviour the suction caisson installation in the case of layered soil

considering different cases of seepage of water in installation process

Studied the behavior of installation of foundations of offshore structures

Assisted scientists working on project with theoretical analysis and experimental validation

Learned important civil engineering aspects of off-shore structures and familiarized with advances and

challenges of the field

May 06 Jun 06 NATIONAL INFORMATION CENTER FOR EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING (NICEE) Kanpur, IN

Intern Advisor: Dr. Durgesh C. Rai, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

Did Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of the shake table to be installed in Lab with the help of software SAP and

Staad.Pro and explained feasibility of installation with the help of stress profile

Worked on a project converting a one way crane of certain load capacity to a two way crane having certain

load capacity and presented final report on the serviceability of the parent structure

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Jan 09 Jun 09 CRANE SHELTER PROJECT AT TOM PRICE MINE SITE Western Australia, AU

Company: Rio Tinto Role: Project Manager Budget: $200,000

Project Manager of the job to build a shelter for large mining cranes and equipments

An innovative and cost efficient solution of Dome Shelter was designed and implemented

Project was completed safely well within budget($192,000) and time

Mar 09 Aug 09 CAPACITY INCREASE OF RECLAIM DAM AT TOM PRICE MINE SITE Western Australia, AU

Company: Rio Tinto Role: Project Manager Budget: $440,000

To fulfill the increasing demand of Tom Price process plant, the existing reclaim dam was needed to be

dredged to increase the capacity

Looked after initiation, feasibility, engineering design and scope of work for the project. The budget of the

project was $400,000 and it was yet to be finished

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Design of an isolation system of a 3 span skewed concrete girder bridge using elastomeric and lead rubber bearings.

Seismic retrofitting of a six story steel frame building using viscous and friction dampers and base isolation

Seismic performance assessment of an existing 3 span skewed steel girder bridge in New Madrid seismic zone

Dynamic analysis of suspension bridges

Problem of soft-storey in structures during earthquakes

Seismic design recommendations for drawing hall building of IIT Kanpur

Behavior of Thin Walled Stiffened Plates under In-Plane Axial Loads

Installation behavior of offshore suction caissons in layered soil

Note: Details regarding projects can be found at www.manishkumar.org/research.htm

SKILL SUMMARY

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SKILLS

Seismic Assessment of Structures, Linear and Non-Linear Dynamic Analysis, Pushover Analysis, Ductile Design, Passive

Control, Energy Dissipation Devices, Seismic Isolation, AASHTO LRFD, International Building Codes

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating System: Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux

Civil Engineering Tools: AutoCAD, Staad.Pro, CSI SAP2000, Microstation, MapInfo, Matlab

Project Management Tools: MS Project, PMS, SAP, Cost Management System

CERTIFIED TRAININGS

Project Management (Engineers Education Australia, Perth, Australia)

Safety Representative Training (CGU, Perth, Australia)

Basic Incident Investigation (InterSafe, Perth, Australia)

Web Design (MIT Connect India200)

RESEARCH CENTER MEMBERSHIPS

Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

National Information Center for Earthquake Engineering(NICEE), India

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

Advance Structural Analysis Advance Mechanics of Solids

Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Engineering II

Passive Structural Control Aseismic Base Isolation

Advance Steel Design Advance Concrete Design

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