a portrait of a bald man with 
        a large red/brown beard and round glasses. 
        He is wearing overalls and a dark blue sweater, 
        and doing his best to smile in a professional sort of way.

Josef Taylor

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Cornerstone Building Brands
2023-Present

  • Maintained and improved legacy Fortran codebase critical to daily operations
  • Automated internal processes in Fortran and C#

Buro Happold
2011-2022

  • Developed services for a firm-wide, cross-discipline, and open-source object model and led development of several sub-projects:
    • Interop toolkits for SAP2000 and RAM, allowing FE model generation and result extraction.
    • Floor Design Dataset - 3.5k pre-designed floor systems for embodied carbon comparison across timber, steel, and RC flat plate systems.
    • Serialized reference engineering data (US localized material models, beam sizes, etc).
  • Delivered building projects from concept through construction.
  • Quinnipiac - CLT health and wellness building - 50k SF.
  • Expo 2020 Sustainability Pavilion - 120m dia. mushroom canopy.
  • Falcons Stadium - Record-breaking retractable roof.
  • Managed younger engineers as my projects grew in size and complexity.
  • Taught computational methods in formal training sessions as well as providing one-on-one coaching and mentoring.
  • Generated novel and practical solutions to structural problems in Art and Specialty Structures.

Benchmark
2009-2011


Quantum Sail Design Group
2006-2008



EDUCATION

Recurse Center
W1'22

I used my batch at Recurse to transform my skill set from a structural engineer specializing in software tooling to a software engineer specializing in the built environment.

University of Washington
2009

Master of Science in Civil Engineering

University of Washington
2008

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

SKILLS

Languages and Frameworks

  • C#/.net
  • Python/Django
  • Fortran
  • JS/React
  • Grasshopper
  • Dynamo

APIs

  • SAP2000
  • RAM
  • Revit

Project Delivery

  • Git
  • Agile programming
  • CI/CD