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Management Team
Management Empl.
Jian Gao P.E., PH-D.-Chief Structural Engineer
Dr. Jian Gao has twenty years of experience in the fields of structural engineering and engineering mechanics. He has gained ten years of experience within the universities and national laboratories specializing in structural design, advanced structural analysis, advanced engineering composite material testing, composite structure testing and modeling. For the past ten years, he has been involved in offshore and aerospace structural design and analysis, structural design review and verifications with classification societies including engineering design and consulting companies. His offshore experience encompasses both conceptual and detailed design for deepwater jackets and compliant towers and advance structural analysis of offshore structures including, time domain dynamic, fatigue, seismic and nonlinear considerations.
Representative projects include:
- Engineering Manager, Bongkot 4A transportation and floatover installation project, 19,500 MT deck, responsible for all T&I engineering activities.
- Project Manager South Nemba Auxiliary platform jacket design (386 ft) – concept, FEED and detail design.
- Project Manager, CNOOC/POC PY5-1 (360 ft) and PY4-2 (314 ft) platform structural re-analysis.
- Lead Structural Engineer, CNOOC/PY30-1 deepwater (200m) jacket design including jacket configuration, FEED, detail design, and construction support.
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, The University of New Mexico
- M.S., Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University
