CURRICULUM VITAE

First Name: Anusha V Gullapalli
Present: Bangalore, India Mobile: +91-9731127828 Email: gvlanusha@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE
I would like to offer my expertise in a Senior Structural Engineer position with roles in the field of Civil-Structural Engineering. I am a resourceful engineer, with practical technical abilities and diverse experience detailed below.

CAREER OVERVIEW
- NCEES, Professional Engineering Services, Maryland Board, USA Fundamentals of Engineering, FE certification completed. Registration number: 41374 https://www.ncees.org
- Cumulative 8.5 years of full-time Concrete, Oil and Gas, Mineral Processing industry work experience as Project Engineer – Structural and full-time paid research ship
- Additional 1.5 years teaching Analysis fundamentals, Steel Structures, surveying
- Worked as software programmer for 2 years with TATA group of companies
- Structural analysis and FEM analysis, design of Concrete and steel structures
- Proficient in International Design codes-EN, ACI 318, AISC, IBC, AASHTO codes, ASD and LFRD methodology

EDUCATION
Master of Science in Civil/Structural Engineering
Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA Aug 2007-Aug 2009
Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India Aug 2001- April 2005

COMPUTER SKILLS
Software (s/w): Staad Pro, AutoCAD, SACS, GeniE, SAP2000, Navisworks, MS Office

WORK EXPERIENCE
Project Engineer Outotec - Sidvin, Bangalore, India Feb 2016 - Present
Area of work: Mineral and Metal processing plants, Very Heavy equipment, Foundations
- Leading a team of designers (8 members) for efficient and timely output
- Issuing foundation loading, anchor bolt and base plate details
- Wind and Seismic analysis and design of mineral processing facilities using Staad.Pro
- Detailed joint (welded and bolted) analysis and design as per, international codes (Euro codes, AISC and ASCE)
- Developed in-house standardized MS Excel spread sheets for joint design like Moment and shear connections, monorail, base plates, local stiffening and detailed deflection checks
- Pipe/cable tray support analysis, standardization and design
- Training and Mentoring graduate engineers
- Client and Interdisciplinary coordination for conflict resolution
- Received client appreciation for proactive clarification of unspecified design terms, in-time delivery and alternative design, in lieu of layout changes and clash resolution with piping, mechanical, maintenance and electrical cable tray systems
- Optimized utilization of sections ensuring minimum weight at EPC level
- Coordinating with other engineers, ensuring optimized sections (procurement minimum)
- Going beyond software outputs, to judge safety of structures based on type and amount of load transfer- by shear or bearing, to judge the appropriateness of member layout

Duration Project Details, Software used (s/w)
Feb 2017-Present Adiyaman Copper Concentrate Plant, Adiyaman, Turkey s/w: Staad.Pro
Structural Analysis of Stockpile and Gable roof industrial structures with heavy cranes
In high wind and seismic zones as per Eurocode.
Mar 2017- Dec 2017 Metmex Jarosite Precipitation Plant -Torreon, Mexico s/w: Staad.Pro
Structural Analysis with joint detailing, Project Management, Estimating, Scheduling
Aug 2016-Mar 2017 NCIC Sulphuric Acid Plant, NORACID– Ain-Sokhna, Egypt s/w: Staad. Pro
Structural Analysis with joint detailing, inter-disciplinary team coordination
Dec 2016-Jan 2017 Sunrise Hull -Outotec Energy Products, USA, Project Location -UK s/w: Staad. Pro
Structural Analysis with detail analysis, Pipe Support standardization, analysis
Apr 2016 -Aug 2016 Al-Taweelah, EGA, UAE s/w: Staad. Pro
Structural Analysis with detail analysis, Pipe Support standardization, analysis
Apr 2015-Jan 2016 Foster wheeler and Dynamac - Detail Drawing, Weld Maps AutoCAD
Drawing checking, weld map checking
Nov 2015- Dec 2015 ADMA-OPCO, UAE -Jacketed Platform, Ummululu, SARB and UZ-750
Pipe Support Analysis, Joint analysis with spreadsheets s/w: Staad. Pro
Apr 2014-Dec 2014 Modec and TOYO, Brazil - FPSO-MV27 s/w: SACS
Pipe support team Lead-Structures, SACS analysis, preparing spreadsheets, training new engineers, coordinating with other departments
Feb 2014- Mar 2014 Petrobras, Brazil, FPSOs- Cidade de Marica and Cidade de Saquerema
GeniE software analysis, Calculation reports s/w: GeniE
Jun 2013 -Jan 2014 GDF-SUEZ, CYGNUS Field
Module of a Jacketed Platform-MEG Regeneration Unit s/w: Staad Pro
Apr 2013 -Jun 2013 STONES, Shell, USA, FPSO Topside s/w: Staad. Pro
Pipe Support Analysis, Calculation report

Structural Engineer II Sidvin Core Tech, Bangalore, India Dec 2012 – Feb 2016
Area of work: Offshore Steel structures - of FPSO, jacketed platforms FEM and non-FEM

- Team lead for Special pipe support analysis for entire FPSO module, inter departmental conflict resolution and drawing issuance
- FPSO, jacketed platform analysis with FEM analysis of steel process deck level
- Wind and wave motion impact analysis
- Load-out, lifting, in-place, extreme operational, blast, green-water loads and transportation scenario analysis as per ABS, DNV standards and relevant material standards and codes
- Training entry level engineers and Checking drawings - fabrication, workshop and weld maps

Designer Stahl Sheaffer Engineering LLC, State College, PA, USA Jan 2011 – Sep 2012
Area of Work: Marcellus Shale Oil and Gas Industry, Transportation infrastructure

- Analysis, planning and design of transportation infrastructure for the Marcellus shale oil and gas industry based on field parametric study of road quality, defect types, damage extent
- Issue detailed reports on rehabilitation of roadways and roadway structures like bridges
- Detail plans using MicroStation, field inspection of bridges and roadway structures
Note: Overlaps with Engineer position at Stahl Shaeffer Engineering LLC for 6 months.

Paid Research and Teaching assistantship, Penn State University, USA. Aug 2007- Mar 2011
Thesis Advisor-Dr. Scanlon’s letter of employment letter attached from Aug 2007 – May 2010
• Concrete slab deflections, sustainable housing, fiber reinforced polymer effects on concrete
• Teaching surveying practical fundamentals to undergraduate students
• Teaching assistant to Structural analysis for undergraduate students
• polymer (FRP) behavior, Pennsylvania State University, Teaching Assistant- Surveying
• FEM analysis of structures, localized slab stress data
• Composite bridge analysis and design - Steel structure and concrete deck as part of advanced bridge design course
• Course grader-Surveying - University permission to work attached for May 2010-Mar 2011

Intern, Earthquake Engineering. Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India Aug 2006 – Oct 2006
(Completed on unpaid leave from TCS)
Worked on developing apps to predict and simulate earthquake wave propagation on world map, taking into consideration land masses as obstructions as a precursor study to eventually estimating effect of tsunami on surrounding country shorelines.

Systems Engineer NSE, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, India Aug 2005 – July 2007
Area of Work: Software Programming, for TCS, tata Consulting Services’ varied projects.

- Programming automated macros and apps for Tata consulting engineers. Concrete Foundations, Prestressed concrete bridge decks, post tensioned steel strengths. This helped reduce analysis time. Some elements that couldn’t be analyzed by software could be designed using the afore mentioned macros and their end forces and moments would be input into software for correct and comprehensive analysis. Assignment duration 1.3 years

- Programmed the pre-open of markets, where orders can be placed 15 min before commencement of trading. This went live on Oct 18, 2010. Back-end maintenance and Bug resolution, testing high transaction and crash scenarios. Assignment duration 5 months

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

‘Recommendations to ACI code concerning minimum thickness computations of two-way slabs’, ACI Recommendations, ACI 318, 2012, Penn state Libraries – Master’s Thesis
https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/10060

Scanlon, Gullapalli et.al., “Long-Time Multipliers for Estimating Time-Dependent Deformations of Concrete Members”, 3RD International Structural Specialty Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, June 6-9, 2012
http://toc.proceedings.com/17037webtoc.pdf page 1993
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290053579_Longtime_multipliers_for_estimating_time-dependent_deformations_of_concrete_members

Gullapalli et.al, “Sustained Loading and Temperature Response of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer-Concrete Bond”, Journal of Transportation Research Board, vol 2131/2009, pp 155-162
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3141/2131-15

‘FRP-Concrete behavior under High temperature, Creep and Sustained loading,’ paper accepted for publishing at 88th TRB conference Jan 09, Washington DC, on DVD

REFERENCES:
Amit Maitri, Senior Structural Engineer, Outotec-Sidvin, Bangalore matri.amit@gmail.com
Rod Stahl, Principal, Stahl Sheaffer Engineering LLC, State College, PA USA rstahl@sse-llc.com
Jeff Sheaffer, Principal, Stahl Sheaffer Engineering LLC, Selinsgrove, PA USA jsheaffer@sse-llc.com
Carina Brum, Head of Civil & Structural Steel Department, Citec Group, Germany carina.brum@gmail.com (Ex-Outotec Employee)
Vishal Kumar, Isgec-Foster Wheeler, New Delhi vishal.kumar@isgecfw.com (Ex-Sidvin)
Arun Charles, HR, Outotec-Sidvin, Bangalore arun.charles@sidvincoretech.com