Résumé

Project Engineer, Tipping Mar + Associates, Berkeley, CA, 2006-2014.

Partner, Tipping Structural Engineers, Berkeley, CA, 2014- . The firm's web site summarized his contributions in 2017: "Mike has been crucial to the design of many of Tipping's award-winning projects: the San Francisco Public Utilities Headquarters, the Rene Cazenave Apartments, the Carquinez Senior Apartments, 680 Folsom Street, and UC Berkeley’s Hearst Greek Theatre, among others. He also performed the seismic evaluation of the Washington Monument after Virginia’s 5.8 Mineral Earthquake in 2011. Most notably, Mike was the primary force responsible for the analytical framework and execution of FEMA P-807: Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofit of Weak-Story Multiunit Wood-Frame Structures. The intent behind this FEMA-driven project was to create a method of evaluation and retrofit technically robust enough to predict seismic performance, while also being usable by engineers who may have limited experience in performance-based design and nonlinear response history analysis. Moreover, Mike conceptualized and created the Weak-Story Tool, a software program that accompanies the guidelines. It allows the user to combine shear-wall backbone curves and calculates quantities needed for the evaluation. The CAD-like graphical interface gives users access to the analytical results and helps to protect against errors in input and bookkeeping." (See Tipping Structural Engineers, "Meet Tipping Structural Engineers," accessed 04/04/2017.)

College

B.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA. M.S., Structural Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA.