Project Design, Project Management

RESPONSIBILITIES

Ken serves as a Vice President of LBR Inc. He is also LBR's Engineer-In-Charge of design projects, studies and reports, and a Project Manager. Ken is responsible for design, design supervision and coordination for all aspects of airport improvement projects.

EXPERIENCE

Ken came to LBR from Grossman and Keith Engineers in Oklahoma City, where he was responsible for detailed design of roadway and highway bridge projects, as well as site grading, drainage and structural design for commercial and institutional facilities. He has also developed and stamped structural calculations for small wind turbine towers. His special skills include proficiency in Microstation, STAAD, and Microsoft Office Products. Ken has experience with StormCad, Culvert Design and HECRAS Software by Haestad Methods.

At Wyle Laboratories, El Segundo, California, he was responsible for project engineering and structural design of high performance test equipment, such as large centrifuges, rocket sleds and mechanical vibration systems. Other significant projects included a water tunnel at NUSC, Newport, Rhode Island, and thrust stands at AEDC, Tullahoma, Tennessee and Edwards Air Force Base, California. He designed test equipment foundations and test facility structural modifications. Ken also served two years in an on-site test support engineering role at Edwards Air Force Base. During this time his duties included department management and proposal development. He also developed and participated in market and design review presentations. He used MS Project scheduling software.

At the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, he performed structural design and analysis for spacecraft structures and components. He also supported structural design methods development. During this time Ken became proficient in structural finite element methods.

At the Ralph M. Parsons Company, Pasadena, California, he provided structural design analysis for aerospace ground facilities, nuclear fuels processing plans and petrochemical/refinery installations.

Ken served in the U. S. Air Force as Branch Manager for design and construction under the Base Civil Engineer at Kunson Air Base, in Korea. He also served as a Civil Engineering research engineer for underground missile launch facilities at the USAF Minuteman Program Office.