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Currently, I am the U.S. Construction Engineer for PCL Construction Services, Inc. My responsibilities include: designing formwork and false work for the construction of concrete buildings, assisting construction projects with scheduling, using AutoCAO to create site layout drawings and to create lift drawings for the concrete formwork and using AutoCAO to create 4D modeling schedules of the projects that we are competing for or of projects that we are building. Perhaps the most exciting part of my career occurred when I was visiting one of our jobsites with a great deal of rock excavation. The superintendent let rile push the button on one of the blasts for the excavation. It was very cool too see how much power can explode at the touch of a button! Although this experience was very 'powerful', it is very exciting and fulfilling to see projects that you have helped designed or helped to coordinate, be built. I have taken my daughter on tours of some of the jobsites that I have worked on and she wants to become an engineer like me, 'to make sure that the buildings stay up. I have been with the same company since I graduated from college. I c tended and graduated from Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, Arizona. I took a long time deciding what I wanted to do. In fact, I changed majors 5 times and I have way too many credits! At the beginning of my college career, I had an engineering advisor tell me that I would end up in Home Ec. within a year or two. At the time, I allowed that comment to affect how I performed in my engineering classes. It wasn't until after I had two children that I rediscovered engineering and the fact that I really did want to become an engineer. While it took me a long time to decide what I wanted to become, I did however end up a stronger I person. When I started with PCL, I worked in the heavy civil estimating
department. For one year, I learned how to read plans, calculate
quantities and volumes and how to develop construction plans. After
the first year, I was the field engineer on a justice facility.
This experience allowed me to work in the field with the subcontractors
and with the carpenters to ensure that the construction documents
and plans were followed as we constructed the facility. I then began
my current position, where I have remained for the past four years.
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