Project Assignment

Value Engineering/Quality Control

Years Experience

NRV - 16

Other - 41

Education

B.S./1966/  Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University

Registrations

1972/Civil - California  ( c22466);  1982/Civil - Minnesota (c15410); 

1985/Civil - Rhode Island (c4822)

Professional Experience

Robert N. Valentine, Inc. (1986 to Present)

Redesigned numerous Caltrans' bridges (new and retrofitted) for California based contractor to facilitate

construction and/or reduce construction costs.  These projects included HOV Viaducts No. 1 & 2, Arroyo

Simi Br. & O.H., Southern Freeway Viaduct (North) seismic retrofit, and Southern Freeway Viaduct (R1

Line) seismic retrofit.  Performed the bridge design for design/build contracts with a major California

bridge contractor on the Miners Ravine Bridge and the La Cienega Outer Separation Structure.

With Charles Redfield designed the Caguanas River Bridge in Puerto Rico, the first curved incrementally

launched bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

Redesigned segmental bridges in Atlanta, Georgia for VSL Corporation.

Providing construction engineering for the following prestressed cantilever bridges:  Westmoreland Road

Bridge, in Texas, Bennett Bay Bridge in Idaho, and Jamestown Bridge Replacement over Narrangassett

Bay in Rhode Island.

Engineering Computer Corporation (1976 - 1986)

Project Manager for the following cast-in-place cantilever bridge designs, or construction engineering

projects:

Gastineau Channel Bridge, Juneau, Alaska (620' Main Span)

Plymouth Avenue Bridge, Minneapolis, Minn. (320' Main Span)

Broadway Avenue Bridge, Minneapolis, Minn. (280' Main Span)

Jamestown Bridge, Plymouth, Rhode Island (636' Main Span)

West Seattle Freeway, Seattle, Washington (650' Main Span)

Columbia River Bridge SR-182, Richland, WA (450' Main Span)

Columbia River Bridge, Umatilla, Washington (660' Main Span)

Lake Washington Approaches, Seattle, WA (262' Maximum Clear Span)

Piney Creek Bridge, West Virginia (350' Main Span)

Beaver Creek Bridge, West Virginia (240' Main Span)

Illinois River Bridge, Illinois (550' Main Span)

Project Manager for the following cast-in-place segmental concrete bridge designs, or construction

engineering projects:

Denny Creek Bridge, Seattle, Washington

Indiana Route 70, Indianapolis, Indiana

Project Manager for the Long Key Pipeline Failure analysis for the State of Florida.

Design Engineer on the following segmental concrete bridge designs:

Guri Tailrace, Venezuela (620' Main Span)

Colorado River Bridge,  CA(290' Main Span)

Feather River Bridge, CA(210' Main Span)

Wabash River Bridge, Indiana(180' Main Span)

Project Designer on the Dames Point steel cable stay alternative done for Mergentine Construction

Corporation.

Developed Bridge Design System (BDS), the main bridge design computer program used by the State of

California, and consultants.  This program is also licensed by several states and the Federal Highway

Administration.

Developed Segmental Time Dependent System (STDS) that is used for the time dependent analysis of

segmental prestressed bridges.

California Department of Transportation (1966 to 1976)

Project Designer for the Napa River Bridge, the first major cast-in-place cantilever bridge constructed

using lightweight concrete.