Brandon Duong, EIT, ENV SP

Experience

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  CALIFORNIA GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION, UCLA Student Chapter

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

  1) Oversee and assist officer board in carrying out their responsibilities including event planning and logistics. 2) Coordinate with other UCLA civil engineering clubs (including ITE at UCLA and ASCE at UCLA) to mitigate scheduling conflicts. 3) Coordinate and collaborate with the officer board to host the annual UCLA Geo-Expo conference. 1) Communicate with company representatives to organize both field and office trips.2) Work on logistics regarding transportation to the site and office visits, the provision of equipment and proper PPE for attendees to project visits, and communications with students interested in entering the geotechnical engineering field.3) Build greater connections between the UCLA geotechnical engineering students and company representatives.

  • President

    Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Field Trip Coordinator

    Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
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  Institute of Transportation Engineers, UCLA Student Chapter

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

  1) Organize and lead the completion of the Bikeshare data collection project for ITE Southern California Section and Riverside/San Bernardino ITE.2) Lead and present for the traffic analysis project with the ASCE/ITE Transportation Project for the Pacific Southwest Conference (PSWC).3) Lead discussions and instruction on basic transportation concepts to participating members so as to prepare for the aforementioned projects.4) Conduct a site visit to aid in the completion of the Transportation Project. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Project Director

    Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
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  ASCE at UCLA

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

  1) Coordinate with local schools to develop an interactive structural and earthquake engineering curriculum for their middle school students.2) Coordinate with over 50 UCLA students, industry members, and UCLA academia to volunteer at the quarterly Finale Day, where middle school students get the opportunity to test their seismically-designed K'Nex structures on a shake table.3) Lead fundraising efforts to provide free food for every middle school student on the Finale Days to combat food insecurity amongst the students. Show less 1) Lead discussions and activities that promote the learning of basic structural and earthquake engineering and physics concepts to middle school students.2) Work with Civil Engineering professors and working professionals to adjudicate the student presentations and provide feedback to the participating students.3) Focus on logistics regarding transportation to and from UCLA for participating schools, reservations of venues at UCLA to hold the competition, and communications between the organizing crew andvolunteers.4) Organize fundraisers to allow for schools to visit, tour, and present at UCLA.5) Reach out to over 900 local middle school students over the course of one school year (2017-2018).6) Oversee over 100 student volunteers from UCLA over the course of three finale days (2017-2018). Show less

  • Seismic Outreach: Project Manager

    Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Seismic Outreach: Project Director

    Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
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  W-Trans

  Jun 2018 - Sept 2018

  Engineering Intern

  1) Responsible for contributing to the development of proposals and reports through analysis of topics including, but not limitedto, sight distance, collision analysis, trip generation, and alternative modes of travel.2) Analyze the traffic impacts of existing, plus project, and future conditions on traffic networks through the use of programslike Synchro and Vistro.3) Perform vehicular circulation analysis for site access conditions and internal circulation conditions using AutoTURN andAutoCAD. Show less

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  HNTB

  Aug 2019 - now

  • Engineer III

    Sept 2024 - now

  • Engineer II

    Apr 2022 - Sept 2024

  • Engineer

    Aug 2019 - Apr 2022