Professional Experience

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Industry Experience

Staff Engineer

Current

Bridge Diagnostics Inc. (March 2025 - Present)
Performed section loss analysis and estimation for bridge rating. Rated multi-span Truss-Beam-Girder bridge for Virginia DOT. Served as a rating engineers team member on the structural rating and evaluation of the 44-span truss–beam–girder Robert O. Norris Jr. Bridge located in Virginia.

Bridge/Structural Engineering Intern

Completed

RS&H, Denver (June 2023 - December 2024)
Bridge load ratings for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), design of bridges and bridge components, quantity take-off of multi-span prestressed concrete bridges.

Project Engineer

Completed

Ethiopian Roads Administration, Addis Ababa (January 2018 - February 2020)
Contract administration of road maintenance projects, supervising routine road maintenance of major highways and structures, land-slide protection of the Abbay (Nile) river gorge road.

Junior Highway Design Engineer

Completed

Engineering Corporation of Oromia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (October 2016 - December 2018)
Developed preliminary design of access road to the proposed Weyib River Dam, collaborated with other engineers to develop design of slab bridge.

Academic Experience

Research Assistant

Current

University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO (May 2023 - present)
Working on National Science Foundation project focusing on the study of Living Building Materials for structural applications, exploring innovative biological materials for construction.

Teaching Assistant

Completed

University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO (August 2022 - May 2023)
Assisted in teaching undergraduate and graduate structural engineering courses including Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Statistics, and Design of Steel courses. Mentored students in advanced structural analysis and design.