Education & Registration:

M.S.
Structural Engineering
Middle East Technical University (Turkey)

B.S.
Civil Engineering
Middle East Technical University (Turkey)

Registered Professional Civil Engineer in the State of California

Registered Professional Structural Engineer in the State of California

Professional Affiliations:

American Institute of Steel Construction

American Concrete Institute

International Conference of Building Officials

Structural Engineers Association of Southern California

Partner & Principal
Reiss Brown Ekmekji Inc.

Current Responsibilities:

• Director of AMERICEC
• Structural Engineering Manager
• Senior Structural/Seismic Consultant

Specialized Professional Expertise:

• Over 30 years of experience in consulting on various projects in the U.S. and abroad focusing on structural design and considerations for seismic forces
• Technical experience includes structural design and detailing of new commercial and residential projects as well as the retrofit of existing complex tilt up and reinforced masonry buildings
• Expertise in consulting with architectural and engineering consulting firms on large office buildings and major environmental projects
• Extensive experience in the design and execution of concrete high rise apartment buildings and heavy concrete two story industrial buildings

Representative Project Experience:

• 25 years of structural engineering design and consulting in California
• Hands on design and detailed drawings of several multi-story low rise office buildings
• Several parochial and public school design and consulting
• Three major housing and base lodges for ski centers in heavy snow Mammoth California
• Design and consulting for the renovation, strengthening, and major addition to two churches in the Los Angeles area
• University of California Los Angeles, earthquake hazard response team
• Dozens of 3 and 4-story senior citizen housing complexes
• Design and detail drawings for 1st floor Home Depot and 2nd floor Food-4-Less and Rite Aid complex in downtown Los Angeles
• Hands on design and detail drawings and senior consulting for several projects in Saudi during the last decade: MSO office building, for Saudi Aramco. Jubail Water Tanks, for the Royal Saudi Commission. Consulting on the seismic separations and joints for the new Interior Ministry building in Jeddah.