I design civic infrastructure and the automation behind it.

I’m a structural engineer at Associated Engineering in Vancouver. The work is civic infrastructure: water and wastewater structures, seismic design, and the analysis and drawings that go with them, on projects across Canada and the U.S.

I’ve been at this since 2016, first in Atlanta and since 2019 in Vancouver. That adds up to more than a hundred civic projects. I’m a P.Eng., registered with Engineers and Geoscientists BC.

The other half of the job is software. I build the tools I wished I had on the job, most of them in Python: an AutoFEM suite that has saved more than 200 engineering hours, ETABS diagnostics, free calculators, and the spellchecker for engineering drawings that took first place at InnovAEtion 2026, Associated Engineering’s company-wide innovation award.

This blog is where I write up what the codes say and what I do about it: NBCC and CSA clauses, design procedures, worked examples, and the automation around them. Writing it down is how I check my own thinking. If a post saves you an afternoon, it did its job.

Recognition

• 1st place, InnovAEtion 2026, Associated Engineering, for a spellchecker for engineering drawings
• 2nd place, Innovation Award, Associated Engineering, 2024 and 2025
• Chair, Python Technical Advisory Council
• Vice-Chair, Automation Service Unit
• Vice-Chair, Structural Discipline Interest Group
• Published in Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier)