Jakob Stanford

About Jakob Stanford

Jakob has extensive experience in structural design and analysis, automation tool development, and the broader field of civil engineering in US and Europe. Author of “Structural Analysis Made Easy” and \"PASSED! The Ultimate California Civil Engineering Surveying Test Preparation\".

Experience

1. Structural Engineer

   Arup

   Dec 2019 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Maintain a good working relationship with clients, collaborators, and vendors • Automate, optimize, and create structural and seismic engineering computation workflows using Grasshopper, Python and C# • Remarkably enhance the process, speed, and reliability of engineering tasks on structures made of steel, concrete, and timber by creating digital engineering tools • Design and analyze building and non-building structures in steel, reinforced concrete and timber • Carry out detailing of steel connections, reinforced concrete and heavy timber • Nonlinear time-history analysis of base-isolated structures • Performance based seismic design • Apply data analysis for post-processing structural analysis results Notable projects: • California Science Center, Los Angeles • US 181 Harbor Bridge Replacement, Texas • Guggenheim Abu-Dhabi Museum of Contemporary Art, Abu-Dhabi • Scripps Mercury Replacement Hospital, San Diego

Education

• Technische Universität Graz

  Master of Science - MS, Civil Engineering, Graduated with honors cum laude

  2012 — 2014

• Technische Universität Graz

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering, Environment and Construction Management

  2008 — 2012