NAAGA SIVA DANDU, EIT

Professional Summary

Highly motivated civil engineer with Masters Degree in Civil engineering from University of Houston and with drafting, land development, Structural and project management experience.

Proficiency in Site planning and Design of grading, Hydraulic and Hydrologic evaluation, Structural Analysis coupled with design and detailing in concrete and steel structures.

Self starter, full of initiative and enthusiasm to learn project engineering, and zeal to engineer projects from practicality and ease of execution perspective.

With good communications and interpersonal skills, Siva’s objective is to effectively utilize his engineering and technical skills to fast-track his career in civil engineering industry.

Education

University of Houston, MS in Civil Engineering 08/2014-05/2016

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, BTech. in Civil Engineering 10/2010-07/2014

Experience

Graduate Assistant (Center for Academic Support and Assessment) 01/2015-05/2015

Smoothened the process of student enrolment, check in and check out during assessment tests.

Spearhead of the team responsible for various tasks that includes test scheduling and evaluation.

Interacted face to face and also through mails effectively with hundreds of students regarding the enrolment details, summarizing the regulations of test centre etc.

Design Intern and Project Engineer (RK Constructions Ltd.) 05/2013-05/2014

Lead student design team and developed construction plans, Structural design and cost estimates for a 50,000 sqft commercial building worth $500,000.

Pioneered the team that successfully delivered Site Planning and grading, Water distribution and Storm sewer collection systems as a land development engineer.

Prepared Budget & Resources Planning, Cost Proposal, and Quality Control Plan for execution of the above project using Primavera P6.

Demonstrated team-work and relationship with construction team members and client personnel

Attended regular client meetings, achieved 75% of milestones ahead of time and rest on time.

Prepared Site layouts and grading plans, Drainage networks using Auto CAD Civil 3D.

Teaching Assistant (CVSR College of Engineering) 01/2013-04/2013

Trained and guided students in learning Auto CAD basics as a part of course work.

Introduced the real time models into curriculum and thus steered the students in completing floor plans, sections, erection drawings of D block in the campus under the guidance of professor.

Achieved a growth of 5% in the final aggregate of results.

Certifications

FE/EIT

Software Skills

Auto CAD, Civil 3D, Revit, Microstation, Geo Pak, InRoads, Solidworks, Arc GIS

Primavera P6, STAAD Pro, Mat Lab, Mastan 2, E tabs, ANSYS Workbench

MS Office, MS Access, VBA, C, C++

Technical Skills

Land development, Hydraulics and Hydrologic evaluation, Site Planning and Design of grading, Pre-stressed concrete design, Advanced Steel Design, Water and Sanitary Sewer Design.

Structural Dynamics and Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Matrix Analysis of structures.

Drafting, Technical Report Writing, Design detailing, Site Inspection, Structural Forensics, Site Inspection, Construction Technology and Project Management, Surveying.

Construction codes: IS, ACI, AISC, IBC

Memberships and Conferences

Member of AISC, ASCE, ASIE

Attended Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2015 in Houston

Academic Projects and Accomplishments

Rural Road Development and Design Tools: Total Station, Auto CAD Civil 3D

Lead the team that designed a low volume pavement which stretches for almost 1 mile, ensuring the long term demands (10 years) of growing traffic and emerging infra in accordance with IRC 37:2001.

Surveying of the road length is done using Total Station and transformed the coordinates to model the road in Auto CAD Civil 3D

Performed traffic volume study through static analysis and by interviewing to bring out the best possible results and created a trend in traffic flow for the next decade from past data to quantify the loads.

The pavement is designed for the obtained loads and it comprises a Sub base of 315mm, Road base of 250mm and bituminous layer of 25mm SDBC+70mm DBM.

Structural Analysis of a 2-D Frame idealized model Tools: STAAD Pro, Etabs, Mastan, SAP2000

A comprehensive structural analysis under earthquake (lateral) loading maneuvered by various software tools like SAP2000 V15, ETABS, STAAD Pro V8i and MASTAN to suggest a best way to counter lateral loading (earthquake loading in this case)

Marked the contrasts in outcomes upon inclusion of shear wall and vertical bracing for a 2-D bare frame.

It is concluded that the frame with the shear wall is having the least values of point deflections and story drifts.

Light Weight Concrete

Fly Ash, a by-product of thermal power production, is used for the achieving a mix design of light weight concrete.

It is accomplished by replacing fine aggregate of M35 grade by weight using simple replacement method following IS 456:2000 standards.

The samples exhibited strengths varying between 75 95% of actual strength making it economically viable by slashing the concrete production cost by 10-20% and increasing workability of the product.

Extra Curricular Activities

Captain of college level soccer team for 2012-2014 period

Co-organizer for various medical and blood donation camps

Publicity and funds coordinator for AAGAMA, a national level annual tech fest, at CVSR College of Engineering for years 2013 and 2014

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