
Timeline
About me
Sr. Design Manager
Education

Universidad de costa rica
2002 - 2007Licentiate degree (5 years programme) civil engineeringActivities and Societies: Water Polo Team, Swimming Team Thesis: “Proposal of a methodology for the use of the Displacement Coefficient Method of FEMA-356 and FEMA-440 with the 2002 Costa Rican Seismic Code”.

Istituto universitario di studi superiori, pavia
2009 - 2010Master of science (ms) rose school - earthquake engineeringActivities and Societies: MEEES Programme 6 months at University of Patras, Greece Thesis: "Seismic Design of Frame-Wall Structures with Hybrid Rocking Joints,". Supervisors: Prof. Stefano Pampanin and Prof. Timothy Sullivan.

Istituto universitario di studi superiori, pavia
2011 - 2014Doctor of philosophy (ph.d.) rose school - earthquake engineering and engineering seismologyActivities and Societies: ROSE School Thesis: “Displacement-Based Design of Steel Moment Resisting Frames accounting for Joint Typology”, (to be defended in December 2014)
Experience

Fsa ingeniería y arquitectura s.a.
Jan 2007 - Aug 2009Project engineerStructural Design, Structural Analysis and Project Management in different projects in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Aruba, Panamá and Trinidad and Tobago as a Junior Structural Engineer supervised by Principal Engineers. Projects as industrial warehouses, high-rise residential building, hospitals and supermarkets.

Universidad de costa rica
Mar 2007 - Jul 2007Teaching assistantCourse: Design of Concrete Structures 1 (IC-0801) Helping students and correcting homework, projects and short exams.

Universidad interamericana de costa rica
May 2009 - Jul 2009Adjunct instructorLecturing the course of Solids Mechanics 2.

Eucentre
Jan 2011 - Aug 2015Researcher- Collaborating in the seismic assessment of bridges in Italy for a National Project, developing fragility curves and other tools allowing in-situ rapid damage assessment and gauging retrofit techniques utilising advanced devices and materials (viscous dampers, isolators, shape memory alloy, fibre reinforced polymers) for the implementation in national retrofit guidelines. - Collaboration in the DiSTEEL Project (European Project for the Performance-Based Seismic Design of Steel Structures) for the European Commission of Coal and Steel; assisting with coordination tasks between beneficiaries, preparation and coordination of annual and mid-terms reports for the Commission, control of submission of deliverables and dissemination through open workshop.- Preparation of Performance-Based Design Guidelines for the design of steel MRFs in Europe. Show less
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Englekirk structural engineers / englekirk institutional (mbe)
Oct 2015 - Feb 2019Associate.webp)
Amazon web services (aws)
Feb 2019 - nowSenior DC Structural Engineer at AWS
Sr. Design Manager
Feb 2022 - nowSr. Structural Engineer
Feb 2019 - Aug 2023
Licenses & Certifications
- View certificate

Professional engineer (california)
Ca board for professional engineers, land surveyors, ca board for professional engineers, land surveyors - View certificate

Ingeniero civil
Colegio federado de ingenieros y de arquitectos de costa ricaDec 2008
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Ricardo Roldán Abellán, PhD PEGraduate Research Fellowship IUSS Pavia Sep 2011
- Awarded to Ricardo Roldán Abellán, PhD PEErasmus Mundus Consortium Scholarschip European Commission - Eramus Mundus programme Jul 2009
Volunteer Experience
Mentor
Issued by ACE Mentor Program on Aug 2016
Associated with Ricardo Roldán Abellán, PhD PE
Languages
- spSpanish
- enEnglish
- itItalian
- geGerman
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