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Joao A. Buffon Junior

Anaheim,CA

Summary

Skillful and hard-working professional with fluency in 3 languages who has an outstanding history of planning and designing. Dedicated to long-term success with training in Autocad, Microsoft Office, Gis, Synchro, Database, Revit.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Engineer

PBA Engineering
Irvine, CA
05.2022 - Current
  • Design framing and connections for wood, steel and concrete members
  • Provide construction details based on standard calculations
  • Coordinate with the architect in order to delivery the best project to the client
  • Completed accurate engineering calculations for weights, loads and other metrics using both manual and digital methods.
  • Use Enercalc, Risa and Excel to calculate structures members.
  • Researched zoning laws and building codes to verify conformance with regulatory agencies.
  • Shop drawings reviewer
  • Respond to plan check questions based on current standardization.
  • Gravity analysis
  • Lateral analysis.
  • Use Revit models to clarify possibles discrepancies between floor plans, structural plans, and elevations
  • Site Visits
  • Bluebeam redlines to help CAD drafters to set up projects as great as possible

Superior Construction Inc.

Construction Estimating Services
02.2020 - 04.2022
  • ESTIMATOR - Revise architectural and structural plans and use BLUEBEAM to take off the material list necessary for the projects ( ex. Posts, beams, headers, shear walls, hold down systems and walls).
  • LAYOUT DESIGNER - Take off all material from framing plans and, using AUTOCAD increase the construction process for foreman's
  • EXCEL PROGRAMER - create charts and spreadsheets to improve estimation and layout process.
  • Collaborated with management and fellow supervisors to organize operations and achieve demanding schedule targets.
  • Supervised material usage and contractor man-hours to keep projects in line with budgetary restrictions.

General Construction Worker

Coast Maintenance & Building
05.2019 - 10.2019
  • Painter

indoor cleaner and painter

  • Carpenter

building small frames and replacing drywall

  • Electrician assistant

simple electric repairs

  • Plumber assistant

Indoor, and outdoor repairs

Laboratory Assistant

Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul
03.2018 - 12.2018

Assistant in a big project to define a standardization about the use of lime to stabilize tropical soil and use them as grades or subgrade in Brazilians Highways

  • Collect and prepare material
  • Management of strength tests
  • Process results creating Excel functions
  • Use Minitab to probabilistic analysis

Production Manager

JA Buffon & Cia LTDA
11.2015 - 02.2018
  • Building layouts that permit labors better production
  • Cost estimator
  • Identify and solve problems cause issues bottlenecking production levels
  • Use excell to create programs that make it easier to see costs and investment
  • Invoices and general office paperwork

Assistant Civil Engineer

Matricial Engenharia (traffic Consulting Services)
04.2012 - 10.2015
  • Use AUTOCAD to create more than 30 traffic signals plans to neighborhoods, streets, malls, and airports
  • Management of traffic researches:

- Use GIS to define traffic control zone, routes and intersections to be evaluated

- Distribute and supervise labors

  • Use Synchro to define intersections capacity
  • Propound mitigation measures with Autocad Projects, descriptive Memorial and complete traffic study
  • Cost estimator

Education

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul/ Brazil
12.2018

Skills

  • FE/EIT
  • AutoCad Drafter -9 years
  • Bluebeam - 5 years
  • Enercalc - 3 years
  • Synchro experience -3 years
  • Revit - 1 year
  • GIS experience - 2 years
  • Languages (English,Spanish, Portuguese)
  • Team worker
  • Quick learner
  • Organization Skills
  • Math
  • Calculating cost factors
  • Budgeting

Timeline

Staff Engineer

PBA Engineering
05.2022 - Current

Superior Construction Inc.

Construction Estimating Services
02.2020 - 04.2022

General Construction Worker

Coast Maintenance & Building
05.2019 - 10.2019

Laboratory Assistant

Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul
03.2018 - 12.2018

Production Manager

JA Buffon & Cia LTDA
11.2015 - 02.2018

Assistant Civil Engineer

Matricial Engenharia (traffic Consulting Services)
04.2012 - 10.2015

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul
Joao A. Buffon Junior