cpfortun

12/19/2014
San Francisco, CA

Position Desired

Structural Engineering
Anywhere in the U.S.
No

Resume

Objective: To obtain an entry-level position or an internship in a challenging and innovative engineering firm

Education

2010 – 2012
Master of Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Field: Structural engineering
Advisor: Juan Carlos de la Llera
Graduate with honors

2005 – 2009
Bachelor in Structural Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Awards: ‘Matrícula de Honor’, Fall 2005.
Half scholarship for a year, granted for academic excellence.


Experience

Aug. 2013 – Present
Fellow, CAPSS Earthquake Safety Implementation Program, San Francisco, CA

Feb. 2013 – Jun. 2013
Consultant, CIGIDEN – National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disasters Management, Santiago, Chile
• Computational platform development to generate synthetic ground motions.

Jul. 2010 – Dec. 2012
M.Sc research, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
• Computation of synthetic broadband seismograms consistent with coseismic displacements measured by InSAR, to improve the characterization of seismic demand for long period structures.
• Wording of an article that is being currently reviewed by the USGS before journal submission.

Jan. 2011 – Feb. 2011
Intern, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
• Develop a deformation map of the Earth's surface due to the 2010, Chile earthquake, using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR).


Leadership/Community service activities

2009 – 2011
Teaching assistant at Structural Engineering Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
• Courses: Engineering Challenges, Reinforced Concrete Design, Structural Analysis II, Structural Dynamics.

2006 – 2009
Teaching assistant at Faculty of Mathematics, P. Universidad Católica de Chile
• Courses: Introduction to Calculus, Calculus I and II, Calcul...

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