MARIA CAMILA ARENAS D.

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San Francisco, CA 9 4132 aceayd@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIE NCE

ZIGURAT INGENIERÍA SAS

Bidding and Planning Engineer Bogotá, Colombia Jan 2010 to April 2012

Preparation of the estimates for in -house design projects, including roads, bridges, c ivil work i mprovement

projects for competitive bidding. Lead a team of three engineers responsible for complete proje ct tendering and

documentation.

• Directed 6+ engineering projects . Full responsibility for project scheduling, quality, cost, constructability and

c ontrol .

• Estimated project costs and resources .

D&A PROYECTOS E INGENIERÍA

Bidding and Planning Engineer Jan 2008 to Dec 2009

• Coordinated the bidding processes

• Conducted site visits

• Hired the necessary staff for the projects

• Negotiated with consulting engineering firms for engineering fees, project schedule, quality control,

c onstructability and engineering services

EDUCATION

Master of Science - Structural and Eart hquake Engineering

San Francisco State University Spring 2014

Bachelor of Civil Engineering

Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá Colombia (ABET Accredited) Spring 2012

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

6 Storey Steel Building as per A SCE 2010 specs

• Design using Moment Resistant Frame (MRF) and Eccentrically Braced Frame (EBF)

• Programmed calculations for design of gravity beams, columns, collector, checking diaphragm capacity, lateral

bracing, reduced beam section (RBS) connection usi ng Excel a nd SAP 2000.

• Learned about concepts related to capacity based design

ACADEMIC / RESEARCH INTERESTS

Reliability-based evaluation of design code provisions for circular concrete -filled steel columns:

Developed a code in Matlab for calculatin g r eliability i ndex of 10 million c oncrete filled steel c olumns using Monte

Carlo stimulation and FORM.

Compared the r eliability i ndex's form the study for four different codes national building codes of United States,

Canada, Brazil and the EUROCODE.

MARIA CAMILA ARENAS D.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

• MS Office

• Matlab, MATHCAD

• ETABS,SAP 2000

• AUTOCAD Civil, REVIT Level 1 Autodesk Certificate

• VISSIM

PUBLICATIONS

M.C Arenas De la Hoz (2012). “Statistics of steel construction in Bogota ”, Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá,

Col ombia. June 2012.

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