Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy (C.E.); Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, U.S.A., August, 1988.
• Master of Science - Structural Mechanics option; Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, U.S.A., January, 1981.
• Dipl. Eng. (Bachelor of Science with thesis) - Structural Engineering option; Civil Engineering Faculty, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, January, 1971.

English: excellent reading, writing and speaking. Spanish: excellent reading, writing and speaking. French and Russian: basic knowledge. Yugoslav: mother tongue.

• 1971 to 1995 employed by Energoproject Co., Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Position: Chief Engineer-Specialist, Project Manager.

• International Committee of Large Dams (ICOLD).
• American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE).
• Yugoslavian Committee of Large Dams (JDVB).

• Professional Licence in Civil Engineering (design and construction). License No. 155/G, 1981, issued by the State Committee of Yugoslavia.

• Design, structural analysis and earthquake response analysis of: dams with appurtenant structures, power houses, bridges, high rise buildings,water treatment plants e.t.c.
• Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, foundation engineering, finite element modeling of structures, seismic wave propagation and computer aided design.
• Development of the computer programs in FORTRAN and in C languages for analysis, design and information systems.
• Application of various computer programs design, analysis and project management.

Professional Experience:
 

From September, 1990 to October, 1994:

Author of the non-linear analysis of contraction joints behavior under self weight, thermal and reservoir loads for the Talavacchia 77 m high arch dam in Italy.Consulting services for the preliminary design and analysis of the Panamericana 130 m long and 21 m wide bridge over the Piura river in Peru. Three bridge alternatives, founded on piles, were studied: 4x32.5 m precast, pre/ poststressed girders with continuous cast-in-place deck slab; 2x40 m + 50 m continuous cast-in-place, prestressed concrete box girders and 2x65 m steel box girders.

Project manager and participant in design of the Information System for monitoring of the Bajina Basta dam: Bajina Basta 90 m high hollow gravity dam; Lipovica 20 m high and Spajici 24 m high arch dams; Lazici 59 m high and Kruscica 32 m high earth fill dams and hydrotechnical tunnel 7956 m long. The system includes about 3000 time histories of the instrument records and over 70 digitized drawings. The computer program is written in C and it uses the relational data base ORACLE for storing and retrieving measurements.

Chief structural engineer and participant in design of the Final and Detailed Design for the Tichi Haf 90 m high arch dam in Algeria. Special structural provision is applied at the weak right abutment to improve support conditions. The dam is under construction.

Participant in finding a solution for the foundation on a swelling material of the Trecephanou potable water treatment plant in Cyprus. Chief structural engineer and participant in design of the Final and Detailed Design of the G. Milanovac waste water treatment plant with capacity of 600 l/sec, in Yugoslavia.

Chief structural engineer, construction superviser and participant in design of the Final and Detailed Design of the Gorina potable water treatment plant with capacity of 840 l/sec, in Yugoslavia.

Chief structural engineer and participant in redesign of the appurtenant concrete structures for the Final and Detailed Design of the Alavian 76 m high fill dam during its construction on the Soufichay River in Iran.

Chief engineer for the Final Design of the seismic, strong motion instrumentation of the Bajina Basta consisting of three concrete and two earth fill dams. Responsible dam engineer for the Feasibility Study of the Binational Puyango-Tumbes Project in Ecuador and Peru. The project consisted of : Marcabeli 193 m high concrete dam and Cazaderos 138 m high concrete dam with power plant and appurtenant structures.

Chief structural engineer and participant in design and the Final Design for the shaping, static and earthquake response analysis of the Ostour 160 m high arch dam located on the Ghezel-Ouzan River in a strong, active seismic area in Iran.

Chief structural engineer of the Planning-Report for the concrete and steel structures of the Mandava 80 m high fill dam on the Zub River in Iraq.

Chief structural engineer and participant in preparation of the Final and Detailed Design for the concrete and steel structures, including the under ground power plant of 6x265 MW, during construction of the Bekhme 235m high fill dam on the Zub River in Iraq.

Responsible engineer and participant in design of the stilling basin final structural design for the Buk Bjela 120 m high arch dam in Yugoslavia. The hydrodynamic pressures are applied as a spatial and time variable load.

• Doctoral studies at University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Defended dissertation with title: "Earthquake Response of Arch Dams to Nonuniform Canyon Motion", July 1988. The dissertation is considered as a pioneering work in the related field.
• Development of the finite element computer programs for automatic static and dynamic analysis of dams.
• Development of the computer program for seismic waves propagation across a canyon of arbitrary shape.
• Development of the mathematical model and computer program for transient pressures in hydrotechnical tunnels during strong earthquakes.
• Teaching assistant for the advanced courses during eight semesters of the doctoral studies: Earthquake Engineering Foundation Engineering, Finite Element Method, Structural Dynamics, Engineering Analysis, e.t.c.. 

•  Responsible engineer for the Final structural design and analysis of the Foca gravity dam including power plant on the Drina River in Yugoslavia.
• Consulting services in finite element modeling and responsible engineer in the Final and Detailed Design for various concrete structures for the Haditha 70 m high fill dam on the Euphrates River in Iraq. The dam was completed in 1987.
• Responsible engineer for the inspection of structural components and stability assessment of the Poechos Dam in Peru after El Nino rain fall in 1983. The system was operating under full capacity discharge for a longer period of time.
• Participation in monitoring and responsible engineer for the estimation of the vibration effects for the Bajina Basta pumped-storage power house in Yugoslavia. The vibrations are induced by two reversible units 2x315 MW operating under head of 600 m.
• Participated in design and the Final Design for the Sir 116 m high arch dam on the Ceyhan River in Turkey.
• Participated in design and the Final Design for the Duzkesme 80 m high arch dam and Berke hydro power plant with 150 MW of installed capacity in Turkey.
• Participated in design and the Detailed Design for the Lipovica 20 m high and Spajici 24 m high arch dams of the pumped-storage scheme Bajina Basta in Yugoslavia.
• Responsible engineer and participant in the finite element modeling of the various civil engineering structures. Modification and implementation of different computer programs: SAP-V, ADAP, FLUSH, NONSAP, EATSW, JTROCK, ETABS, SYNACC, EQRISK, etc.

• Master of Science studies at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The studies included nonlinear finite element modeling, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering and computer aided design.
• Author of the university report: "A Post earthquake Response Analysis of the Imperial County Services Building in El Centro, California, after the Imperial Valley Earthquake of 1979".

•  Responsible engineer of the structural analysis for the Final Design of the main spillway and of the mounting block (20x27 MW) of the Djerdap II 32 m high gravity dam on the Danube River in Yugoslavia.

• Participated on the site and in the Final and Detailed Design with full responsibility for the various concrete and steel structures during construction of the 13 km long Poechos fill dam with central part 50m high and with a deep diaphragm sealing the river section. The dam is located in high seismic region in Peru, requiring special design considerations.

• Participated at the site in the Final and Detailed Design and construction supervision of the Piva 220m high arch dam in Yugoslavia. The dam is completed and impounded in 1976, and since than is in operation.

• Participated in the structural analysis and design of the concrete high rise buildings and of the steel and concrete bridges.
• Author of the Energoproject report: "Method of Construction and Structural Analysis for Concrete and Steel Silos".

• Worked on Dipl. Ing. (B.Sc.) thesis at University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia under title: "Design and structural analysis of the exposition pavilion covered by double curved (hyperbolic paraboloid), concrete thin shell".

1. "Synthetic Accelerograms and Corresponding Response Spectra of Absolute Acceleration at Piva Arch Dam Site", XII Yugoslav Conference on Large Dams, Budva, Yu., 1982.
2. "A Post earthquake Response Analysis of the Imperial County Services Building in E1 Centro"; Civil Engineering Department, Unlversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A., Report No CE 84-02, 1984, with M.D. Trifunac and J.C. Anderson.
3. "A Design Analysis of the Imperial County Services Building", Proceedings of the Eight World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vol.V, San Francisco, 1984, U.S.A., with J.C. Anderson and M.D. Trifunac.
4. "Transient Pressures in Hydrotechnical Tunnels During Earthquakes"; Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 16, 523-539 ,1988, with M.D. Trifunac.
5. "Earthquake Response of Arch Dams to Nonuniform Canyon Motion"; Ph.D. dissertation, Civil Engineering Department , University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1988.
6. "Response of Arch Dams to Propagating Seismic Waves in Canyons", (in Serbo-Croatian), XIV Yugoslav Conference on Large Dams, Struga, Yugoslavia, 1989.
7. "Earthquake Response of an Arch Dam to Nonuniform Canyon Motion", Fourth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Palm Springs, U.S.A., 1990.
8. "Arch Dam Response to Nonuniform Canyon Motion Induced by an Earthquake", International Journal of Engineering, IUST, Vol. 1, No. la, pp 23-32, 1990.
9. "Some Effects of Nonuniform Canyon Motions on Earthquake Response of Arch Dams", Ninth European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Moscow, 1990.
10. "Earthquake Stresses in Arch Dams. I: Theory and Antiplane Excitation"; Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 117, No. 3, 532-552, 1991, with M.D. Trifunac.
11. Earthquake Stresses in Arch Dams. II: Excitation by SV-, P- and Rayleigh Waves"; Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 117, No. 3, 553-574, 1991, with M.D. Trifunac.
12.  "Static Analysis of Talvacchia Dam and Need for More Accurate Pentahedral Element"; ICOLD First Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams, Bergamo, Italy,1991.
13. "Linear Earthquake Response Analysis of Talvachia Dam", ICOLD Second Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams, Bergamo, Italy, 1992.
14. "Nonlinear Static Analysis of Contraction Joints Behavior of Talvacchia Arch Dam"; ICOLD Third Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams, Paris, France, 1994, with A. Bozovic, N. Grujovic and M. Kojic.