Pierre Auza

June 2007 - University of California, Irvine

B.S. Civil Engineering (Summa Cum Laude)

Experience

January 2016 - Present, Member, ERD Engineering

• • Created and currently managing the ERD Engineering website.

  • Created and currently managing ERD Engineering's social media presence (Facebook, YouTube).

  • Maintaining bookkeeping and documentation (legal and administrative).

  • Managing intellectual property issues (patent applications, music licensing, et al).

January 2013 - Present, Research Assistant, Nakanishi Research & Consulting, LLC,

• Provided research support to proposals and projects under CASE LLC by organizing and annotating publications found in literature searches, and by ensuring adherence to requesting organization’s formatting guidelines.

  • Created an Excel toolkit of emergency training and exercise resources for maintenance & operations field personnel.

  • Drafted and deployed surveys in web-distributable SurveyGizmo format. Analyzed survey responses.

• Responsible for ensuring that reports conform to Transportation Research Board's style guide for formatting.

• Presented on study findings at various conferences for two Synthesis Reports of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (see Publications below).

June 2007 - May 2013, Graduate Student Researcher

• UC Irvine Campus-Wide Transportation Study. Designed stratified sampling methodology. Led the data analysis effort (e.g. weighting results by stratum). Reporting results in comprehensive report.

  • Assisted in writing UCTC proposal on post-earthquake emergency management of transportation systems in an environment with multiple interdependent infrastructure systems.

  • Used the DYNASMART mesoscopic simulator in a seismic risk assessment for a Southern CA road network. Study design modified from SRA frameworks previously developed by Dr. M. Shinozuka.

  • Trained in Aimsun (microscopic simulator) at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Sept. 2009.

September 2007 - December 2012,

Teaching Assistant, Senior Design Project Practicum (CEE181), UCI Department of Civil Engineering

• Program coordinator for the Senior Design Project Practicum (CEE181). Point of contact for 2 professors, 18+ groups of 4-8 students each, and 15+ industry professionals. Includes conflict resolution.

  • Developed extensive tutorial materials to supplement course guidelines. Currently developing manual for successors to deploy the materials over a two-quarter sequence and to manage program milestones.

  • Representative of CEE181 at curriculum development meetings. Enabled CEE181’s participation in showcase events for the UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering.

  • Gave tutorials on ABET documentation process for other TAs in my department.

July 2005 - June 2007, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Transportation

• Part of team to conduct a management study for the I-880 corridor.

  • Paramics microscopic traffic simulation used extensively. Trained in coding Paramics input files.

  • Wrote macros in Visual Basic for Applications to post-process Paramics output files.

November 2004 - January 2006, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Structures

• Part of team to develop optical fiber accelerometer using Moiré fringe grating.

  • Wrote C code for processing the accelerometer signal. Tested the code in a MATLAB environment.

  • Oversaw integration of my C code into a Visual C++ application.

Technical Skills

Transportation: TransCAD, DYNASMART, DYNUST, PARAMICS, AIMSUN.

Programming: Proficient in MATLAB & MS VBA. Past experience in C/C++, Visual Basic.

Other Software: AutoCAD, MS Office (including Visual Basic for Applications programming)

Languages: Written and spoken French and German. Basic Haitian Creole, Spanish, Vietnamese.

Professional Associations

• • The Standing Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection (ABR10) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB)

  • Toastmasters International, CC and CL

  • Institute of Transportation Engineers

  • Chi Epsilon

  • American Society of Civil Engineers

Publications

Nakanishi, Y. and P. Auza. (2015). Interactive Training for All-Hazards Emergency Planning, Preparation, and Response for Maintenance and Operations Field Personnel (NCHRP Synthesis 468). National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. Available: http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/172182.aspx

Nakanishi, Y. and P. Auza. (2015). FEMA and FHWA Emergency Relief Funds Reimbursements to DOTs (NCHRP Synthesis 472). National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. Available: http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/172458.aspx

Auza, P. and R. Jayakrishnan, M. Shinozuka. (2010) “Using Mesoscopic Traffic Simulation in a Seismic Risk Analysis (SRA) Framework Applied to a Downtown Los Angeles Network” (Paper 10-4007). The 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. Poster Accepted.