Sr Uma

Earthquake Engineer with in-depth research and consultancy experience in seismic performance assessment of buildings and functional services; - Direct field experience in earthquake damage survey of buildings, services, components - Good experience in analytical modeling. - International reasearch collaboration in earthquake engineering; - Involvement in the development of relevant design standards of New Zealand; - Handling in-house client jobs on site-specific earthquake hazard study based on probabilistic seismic hazard analysis; - Direct experience in interacting with industries and clients and to obtain research grants for end-user driven projects; - Expertise in earthquake risk assessment and loss estimation of regional portfolios; - Leadership skills - Project management skills - Networking and communication skills - Seismic instrumentation of buildings and bridges (leading the project) - Academic with excellent teaching experience at bachelor and master level programmes, curriculum development, laboratory establishment, testing and consultancy experience. Specialties Earthquake risk assessment of building structure, building services Development of design guidelines on high-level storage steel pallet racks Experience with seismic design/assessment for international standards for structural designs Site-specific earthquake hazard study through probabilistic seismic hazard analysis Seismic instrumentation in buildings and bridges.