Caelen Ball, MSRE, PMP, PE

Experience

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  SEAOC

  Apr 2010 - Jun 2011

  Cal Poly SEAOC Student Chapter President

  ● Arranged weekly speakers from the structural engineering industry to give technical presentations to the club (120+ members)● Set the year’s agenda and worked with the SEAOC Board to execute it on budget

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  Seattle Tunnel Partners Joint Venture

  Jun 2011 - Sept 2011

  Pre-construction Intern

  ● Assisted in reviewing and analyzing request for proposals (RFPs) for the procurement team.

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  Seattle Tunnel Partners Joint Venture

  Dec 2011 - Dec 2011

  Pre-construction Intern

  ● Assisted Project Engineers in writing and negotiating change orders between STP-JV, WSDOT (client) and HNTB (designer) that totaled more than $8 million.● Assisted in reviewing and analyzing request for proposals (RFPs) for the procurement team.

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  Seattle Tunnel Partners Joint Venture

  Mar 2012 - Mar 2013

  Construction Engineer

  ● Managed construction and material submittals for Port of Seattle Terminal 46 mitigation projects that were in preparation for the TBM arrival.● Maintained red-lines, as-built and RFIs for construction packages throughout the SR 99 Tunnel project. ● Prepared quantity take-offs and RFIs for the north and south operations buildings. ● Field engineer for documenting the mass concrete pours in the TBM launch pit.● 4 months of experience in field inspection.

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  City of Mercer Island

  Jul 2013 - Mar 2016

  Building Plans Examiner

  ● I performed structural QC review of multi-story residences and commercial buildings for structural soundness, life safety and code compliance.

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  City of Seattle

  Mar 2016 - now

  - Longest tenure of in-house project principals for implementation and integration of SDCI’s pivot to complete, cloud-based plan review. - Over 3 years of collaboration with SDCI’s Division Execs, technical leaders, and lines of business to ensure alignment between business strategy planning/objectives and existing/future technology solutions. Principal designer of the nature and scope of the Bluebeam Project’s direction for significant policies and strategies related to SDCI’s business technology evolution. Constantly strategizing to mitigate potential impacts and proactively assisting with planning to ensure continuity and excellence of operations. Endeavors to always delight the customer.- Actively provides leadership, focus and direction to cross-functional, departmental teams to achieve SDCI objectives related to the City's priority programs and services. The Bluebeam Project’s cross-divisional (land use, engineering services, inspections) and cross-departmental (SPU, SDOT, Parks, SFD) impacts were identified early on so relationship development was prioritized and implemented during the pilot.- Understands SDCI across its five divisions, their unique processes, policies, comms, and internal/external dynamics to the highest degree.- Championed knowledge of leading technology industry standards and practices for SDCI’s client’s benefit. Uniquely positioned for recognizing production/schedule enhancements due to previous experience with agile document manager systems and project management software. - Selected to present SDCI’s business transformation centered around Bluebeam at XCON 2022 (Bluebeam National Conference in San Diego). - Increased month over month approval of permits within three cycles within the first three months of operations and increased the two-week rolling average of daily issuance of consolidated summary reports by 20% in the first three months. Show less

  • Electronic Plan Review Product Manager

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Structural Plans Engineer

    Apr 2018 - now

  • Strategic Advisor - Bluebeam Project

    Mar 2020 - Apr 2022

  • Building Plans Examiner

    Mar 2016 - Apr 2018