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Hello,This is me!

Venkat Ramana "Reddy"

I am proficient in AUTO CAD, Microstation and Civil 3D I am good at Analytical Thinking I am a quick learner and have good work ethic I have excellent Leadership Skills I am very determined towards my work Photography is my passion

About me

Hello

I'mVenkat Ramana "Reddy"


I am currently looking for an Fulltime position in Civil Engineering starting from August 2018

Hey there! I hope everything is going well for you. Thanks for your interest in knowing more about me. I am currently working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for CADD Lab (CE432), here I teach AUTO CAD, Civil 3D, and Basics of Rivet for Undergraduates. I am pursuing my Masters in Structural Engineering at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. I'm an aspiring P.E.
Right from the senior year during my Bachelor's, I wanted to pursue my career in Structural Engineering as I found my passion in Structural Analysis and Design which is the key motivation to pursue Masters at SIUC. I wanted to explore the structural engineering procedures before going for Master’s, to better my understanding of concepts. So, during my Bachelor’s, I worked as a Structural Engineering Intern-Design where I used to check the structural design drawing details and I learned the reaction loads in structural systems of G+19 residential RCC buildings. Later under the supervision senior engineers, I was involved in the drafting of design drawings using AutoCAD. I'm so glad to have worked with the wonderful team.
I always love to take-up new challenges and accomplish them, which is one of the best ways I believe in to rise higher in my career. Thank you for your time and please feel free to contact me. I wish good luck in your future endeavors.

experience

Entry Level Structural Engineer

Veenstra & Kimm, Inc.

Nov 2018 - Present

Job Duties:

Structural Design of Bridges, Culverts and Retaining walls
Inspection of Structures and Roadway projects
Civil Design of Roadways, Strom Sewers and Civil Sites
Prepareation of Bridge Condition Reports for Structure Replacement/Rehabilitation projects
Preparation of Project Reports for Federally Funded Bridge and roadway projects
Preparation of Plans and specifications for bridge and roadway projects
Analysis of Bridges using AASHTO WARE and RISA

Projects:
F.A.I Route 72 over 6th Street / I-55 Bus Sec., Sangamon County, IL. Responsible for the design of four span steel beam bridge supported by semi integral abutments, analyzing the beams using LFD, helped in designing structural steel details, bearing details, and producing plan sheets on MicroStation
F.A.P Route 379 (IL Route 167) over North Ditch, Knox County, IL. Responsible for designing the double barrel reinforced concrete box culvert.
Price Street over Illinois Michigan Canal, Grundy County, IL. Responsible for developing plan and elevation drawings for the concrete bridge railing and parapet railing and drafting the superstructure plan sheets using MicroStation.
Bridge Manual Drafting Assistance, Bridge Office, Springfield, IL. Responsible for drawing parapet base sheets by using MicroStation.
F.A.I Route 57 over Pond Creek, Franklin County, IL. Responsible for checking all the final design sheets and helped with computing Summary of Quantities.
F.A.I Route 24 over IL 116, Tazewell County, IL. Responsible for the design of crash wall for a three span steel beam bridge, helped in designing structural steel details,Quantity Calculations, and producing plan sheets on MicroStation

Design Intern with Bridge and Hydraulics

Illinois Department of Transportation

May 2018 - Aug 2018

Performed engineering tasks for highway-related bridge design, analysing and organizing project documents for bidding, bridge construction and maintenance projects under the supervision of a Professional Engineer.

Handled a day labor project (Inside IDOT) worth of half million, designed a box culvert across the creek on route IL14 in microstation by using Illinois standard specifications for road and bridge construction

Drafted the design plans, layouts and provided the detailing about the existing reinforcement for the contractors in microstation

Learned to design coffer dam, box culvert, single and double span bridge using Illinois design standards from Bridge and Hydraulics Engineer, PE

Assisted my boss with the project worth of 1 million dollars in getting the elevations at various points on the bridge using the leveling instrument (Theodolite) and also assisted in drafting the plans and detailing

Ensured that projects are designed and completed in accordance with plans, specifications, and special provisions in a timely manner

Project's Lead

Leadership Development Program

July 2017 - Oct 2017

• Media Team: Expanded LDP’s social media (i.e. Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin) by establishing new ideas with the help of my Team , which helped in marketing the Leadership Development Program to the Community Colleges in Illinois state
• SIU Home Coming Blood Drive: Led a team of 20 volunteers to organize the Blood Drive for Home Coming, developed new ideas for attracting the blood donars and inspired them why should they donate blood. Teamwork, planning, communication skills and the lessons learnt in LDP were utilized effectively
• Science Center Project: Utilised my drafting skills in designing a cage on AutoCAD for Iguana at Science Center,Carbondale
• Dr Spector's 2nd Biannual Pancake Breakfast: Planned and executed the event perfectly for math students, Raised funds from Waiterio, USG and also from Chancellors Office. Used mobile applications (i.e. TRELLO and WAITERIO) for Planning and Executing the event

Graduate Research Assistant

Southern Illinois University

May 2017 - Aug 2018

Did a Research on comparison of ductility, stiffness and strength for Welded Flange plate connections with different Cover Plate and different W sections for beams
Designed the connections using FEMA 350- Recommended Seismic Design Criteria for New Steel Moment - Frame Buildings and all the drawings were drawn in Auto CAD
Utilised AutoCAD Drawings and Modelled the connections in a Finite Element Modelling Software called NISA and ran the models, this paper will be published by the end of September 2018
Investigated the structural behavior of the beams in NISA and also broke the structure in to finite elements in NISA so as to find the location of plastic hinge for different W Sections

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Southern Illinois University

Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Developed drafting skills for the undergraduate students by teaching them CAD Lab (AutoCAD, Rivet, and Civil 3D)
Explained AutoCAD and Civil 3D to the students, assigned projects, managed class schedule, and evaluated exams
Presented detailed procedure in the form of handouts on each lesson of civil 3D i.e. grading, volume cut and fills, surfacing, creating corridors in Civil 3D
Included a new project as a part of my course to design a duplex building on autocad, so as to get the work exposure to students

IT Technical Assistant

Information Technology, Law School, SIUC

May 2017 - August 2017

Assisted the faculty, staff, and students to troubleshoot and resolve a variety of technical issues as well as assisting in the development of new and existing IT service offerings.
Helped in solving the tickets upon requests
Developed the technical documentation, monitored, and maintained the inventory records for the IT shop equipment in Microsoft Access.
I have also worked with A/V equipment, projectors, Deployment of OS in Windows and MAC

principal Designer

American Society for Civil Engineers, SIUC

Jan 2017 - August 2017

Steel Bridge: Part of the design team that builds steel bridge every year for the ASCE Competition..
Designed the bridge, drafted plan and section views of the bridge using AutoCAD
Gained hands on experience while working with heavy equipment for cutting and welding the steel
Presented and competed out bridge with different schools at SIUC in a national wide competition 2018 held by ASCE-AISC Mid-Continent Conference and stood 2nd place in the regionals and entered nationals
Touch of Nature Bridge: Part of the team that has designed and constructed a real-time wooden bridge at touch of nature campus so as to cross a creek.
I have helped the team in designing the bridge on autocad and gave all designs to the Project Implementation Team

Co-op Project Lead

ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

Feb 2016 - July 2016

Lead a firm team of 4 engineers for the Design and Modelling of "RW-7 Watershed" watershed using SWAT on QGIS software in collaboration with ICRISAT (The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics)
Provided efficient solutions to exceed the expectations of our client (ICRISAT), while establishing a strong relationship between life of watershed and the environment surround it.
Coordinated project activities, constantly monitored overall progress and compliance with the schedule
Provided and assured effective communication between team members, and instructor’s representative
Evaluated the team and individual team members, held weekly meetings to discuss progress and assign tasks, recorded meeting minutes and measured time (hours) for payment (virtual pay)
Exported DEM files by utilizing QGIS and finished modeling the RW-7 watershed at ICRISAT during my Co-Op.
Recommended conservative practices (i.e. Check Dam) for conserving green cover and to maintain it for better yield

Civil Engineering Intern- Design

Cybercity Builders and Developers Pvt Ltd

May 2014 - July 2014

Developed and drafted plans for 19 storey high-rise residential project using AutoCAD
Shadowed a site engineer and assisted in documentation of reports and spreadsheets

Undergraduate Research Assistant

GRIET, Hyderabad, India

Aug 2015 - Feb 2016

Conducted experimental investigation on sustainable replacement of concrete and published in ELK Asia Pacific Journals.
Presented research work at “International Conference on Smart Sustainable Cities

Education

Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois

Master of Science (Thesis) ,Class of 2019

GPA: 4.0

Gokaraju Rangraju Institute of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor of Technology,Class of 2016

GPA: 3.23

Narayana Junior College, Hyderabad, India

HIgh School,Class of 2012

GPA: 4.0

Punctual

15

PROJECTS

30

COURSES

TEAM WORK

COURSES

CE599 - Thesis on RBS Connections

Master of Science, SIUC

CE448 - Seismic Design of Structures

Master of Science, SIUC

CE447 - Structural Design of Highway Bridges

Master of Science, SIUC

CE446 - Prestressed Concrete Design

Master of Science, SIUC

CE525 - Foundations for Dynamic Loads

Master of Science, SIUC

CE542 - Non Linear Structural Analysis

Master of Science, SIUC

CE540 - Structural Dynamics

Master of Science, SIUC

CE545 - Advanced Steel Design (AISE 2017)

Master of Science, SIUC

CE558 - Reliability in Engineering Applications

Master of Science, SIUC

CE432 - Computer Aided Design and Drawing

Master of Science, SIUC

GR15A3004 - ADVANCED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

GR15A3007 - DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

GR15A3161 - TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

GR15A3002 - DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

GR15A2003 - BUILDING MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION PLANNING

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

GR15A2006 - SURVEYING

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

GR15A2012 - STRENGTH OF MATERIALS

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

Elective - remoting sensinG and gis

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

Elective- FINITE ELEMENT METHODSs

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

Elective - CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY and PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

Elective - ESTIMATION AND COSTING

Bachelors of Science, GRIET, India

ACHIEVEMENTS

Received an accolade of 2000 US Dollars for the report on Asphalt under the guidance of Dr. Sanjeev Kumar (Chair in Dept of Civil anf Environmental Engineering, SIUC) and Mr. Karthik Ganapavarapu (Assistant Processor at Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia)

Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association

Scholarship Recipient for 2017-2018

Qualified for ATR (Additional Tuition Rate) for Masters at SIUC which is the same as the in-state tuition fee because of my quantitative reasoning score in GRE is 166 out of 170 (91 percentile)

Graduate School, SIUC

Alternate Tuition Rate and Graduate Scholarship Program

Won Second Prize in getting the donars for The Blood Drive for Home Coming on behalf of Leadership Development Program

American RedCross

Coordinator of the Blood Drive

Won second prize for the presentation on "water and sustainable development" at GRIET on the occasion of United Nations World Water Day

Center for Water Resources Engineering and Management(CREAM) - GRIET

Merit Certification

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