At this municipal water district just outside of Portland, Oregon, I provide 30,000 members of the public with potable water and wastewater engineering services. Primarily I manage large capital projects, leading public solicitations for consultants and contractors, and making sure their work gets completed to a high level of quality. I manage all the major…
Through two assignments at United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in China and Farmers Conservation Alliance (FCA) in Oregon, I provided engineering support to policy movements aimed at putting water infrastructure development on a sustainable track. At UNIDO I researched small hydropower development for nearly every country in the world and helped bring this information…
In the scarcely populated woods of Eastern Norway, I learned, hands-on, how to build while crafting a modern take of a traditional stave church unique to medieval Norway. Through the first year of construction while I was there, we formed the foundation and raised the 50-foot tall weatherproofed core of the church. Practical skills gained…
Read more Carpenter | Lia Gaard | Norway | Jun 2014 – Apr 2015
At a private small hydropower development firm, I co-managed the construction of two new run-of-the-river hydropower plants in Southern Norway, adding 3,100 kW of renewable capacity to the grid. In my central role, I coordinated all equipment supplier, consulting engineers, and contractors to bring the twin $8 million plants online. I reviewed and approved every…
Read more Hydropower Engineer | Clemens Kraft | Norway | Dec 2012 – Apr 2014
Teaching mathematics for two years across a major language barrier forced me to be conscious of how the technical concepts, equations, and graphs I presented were being perceived by students speaking limited English. I simplified the universal language of mathematics to its most elementary concepts, and varied the medium of my lessons between numerical process,…
Read more Math Teacher | U.S. Peace Corps | Malawi | Sep 2009 – Sep 2011
My first engineering position was at one of California’s largest hydraulic engineering design centers as part of a 20,000-person international consulting firm. Here I honed formal methods of civil engineering by co-designing some of California’s largest water works being built at the time. The 2,000 cfs (57 cms) fish-screened pump stations I helped design aid…
Read more Staff Engineer | CH2M HILL | California | Jul 2007 – Aug 2009
I earned my civil engineering degree from Oregon State University in Corvallis and graduated in 2007 with an ABET-accredited bachelors of science in civil engineering and a grade point average of 3.41 of 4.00. My strongest subjects were raw mathematics and those where applied mathematics were used to solve physical problems: physics, fluid mechanics, structural…
Read more B.Sc. Civil Engineering | Oregon State University | Oregon | Sep 2003 – Sep 2007
Haakon Ogbeide 