Cath Mercado, Design Engineer

Cath Mercado

Design Engineer

Hard Precast Building Systems

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
Experience
5 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 5 Months

Design Engineer at Hard Precast Building Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2021

• Prepares concept drawing proposal with reinforcement details of precast structures that is required during tender stage for quotation purposes.
• Provide support and assistance to the structural engineers in updating comments and changes in their calculations using Etabs.
• Provided technical engineering support and project management for design, engineering and development of precast products.
• Used ETABS, Prokon, Concise and Revit to meet design specifications for functional prototype.
• Prepares precast fabrication drawing and As Built Models and Drawings using Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD.
• Monitors the daily accomplishments and daily fabrication drawing issuance for every project using Microsoft Power BI.
• Provide support and assistance as well to IT department by monitoring and keeping proper data in the system related to design department.
• Issuing, updating and coordinating to concerned QC Engineers for the responses of the Internal and External Non-Conformance Report.
• Control and monitoring the records of NCR files along with its Log for management reports presentation.
• Performing document controller work such as preparing letters, issuance of fabrication drawings, submission of drawings and technical submittals to client if needed.

Qualiy Control Administrator at Hard Precast Building Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2019 to August 2021

• Provide assistance to the quality team for client and internal reports.
• Administration of internal auditing schedules, reports and notification.
• Coordination with Clients and production team for the daily production work.
• Monitor and update calibration register for all test equipment, and arrange recalibration as required.
• Evaluated quality problems and performed assessments to identify and resolve issues.
• Receiving materials delivered to factory and make sure that the material passed the quality standard.
• Prepare Work Inspection Requests prior to cast element and coordinate it to clients.
• Data Entry

Junior Site Engineer (Intern) at Total Safe Development Construction Inc.
  • Philippines - Bulacan
  • June 2017 to July 2017

Assist the Project Engineer on daily supervision of site works.
• Inspection of rebar installation and formworks alignment before concrete
pouring.
• Monitoring of concrete pouring process. Checking if the concrete dimension is
correctly done.
• Update of daily accomplishments of the workers in site.
• Makes inspection request for the Project Manager inspection.
• Estimates the needed concrete volume for concrete pouring.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Bulacan State University
  • June 2018

Graduated with 1.43 GWA (91-93%) 1.0 being the highest grade.

Specialties & Skills

Concept Design Preparation
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DATA ENTRY
ENGINEERING
MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
MICROSOFT WORKS
QUALITY

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Languages

English
Expert
Tagalog
Native Speaker

Memberships

Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers, UAE International Chapter
  • Regular Member
  • January 2023

Training and Certifications

Philippines Licensed Civil Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2018
NRMCA:Concrete Field Technician” (Training)
Training Institute:
Grey Matters
Date Attended:
February 2020
Duration:
16 hours
Response Spectrum Analysis Procedure per NSCP 2015 (using STAAD.Pro) CONNECT Edition (Training)
Training Institute:
XSTRUCTURES BIM And DESIGN INSTITUTE
Date Attended:
June 2023
Duration:
2 hours
Deep Foundations: Piling Works including Enabling works and Quality Control Construction Methodology (Training)
Training Institute:
Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers, UAE International Chapter
Date Attended:
January 2023
Duration:
4 hours
Reinforced-Concrete and Post-Tensioned Flat Slab Design (using RAM Concept) CONNECT Edition (Training)
Training Institute:
XSTRUCTURES BIM And DESIGN INSTITUTE
Date Attended:
May 2022
Duration:
2 hours
Autodesk- Revit Architecture Fundamentals (Training)
Training Institute:
XSTRUCTURES BIM And DESIGN INSTITUTE
Date Attended:
April 2022
Duration:
16 hours
Autodesk- Revit Structures Fundamentals for Civil Engineers and Structural Engineers (Training)
Training Institute:
XSTRUCTURES BIM And DESIGN INSTITUTE
Date Attended:
April 2022
Duration:
16 hours
Structural Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures using CSI ETABS & RCDC (Training)
Training Institute:
XStructures Engineering Consultants
Date Attended:
July 2020
Duration:
16 hours
Structural Analysis and Design [STAAD.PRO] Including RCDC | Connect Edition (Training)
Training Institute:
NCDSI: Nicodemus Construct-Design & Scheduling Institute
Date Attended:
July 2020
Duration:
16 hours
Concrete Mix Design (Training)
Training Institute:
Grey Matters
Date Attended:
June 2019
Duration:
7 hours
NRMCA Certified Concrete Field Technician (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2020
Valid Until:
February 2023