Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc.


In The News

Cooley and Williams Named Principals of Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc.
Cooley and Fleming Presented Commander’s Award
Burns Cooley Dennis Receives Engineering Award of Excellence


BCD Expands Gulf Coast Operations


Staff

 

Marcos Rodrigues, E.I.  

Geotechnical Engineer

EDUCATION

  • University of Mississippi, B.S., 2006 – Civil Engineer


REGISTRATION

  • Engineer Intern:  Mississippi

AFFILIATIONS

 
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

 
Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc., Staff Geotechnical Engineer, May 2006 - Present
University of Mississippi, Teaching Assistant, Aug 2005 – May 2006
Brazilian Army, Lieutenant Commander Engineer, Jan 2000 – Aug 2002
ESA Engineering and Systems, Inc., Intern Aug 97 – Dec 98

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
 
Background.  Mr. Rodrigues has been engaged in the field of geotechnical engineering for about a year.  Mr. Rodrigues’ professional work history includes field testing, and Pile driving analyzer. Teaching assistant at the University of Mississippi. Staff engineer with Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc. Performed dynamic pile testing on railroad and highway bridge projects throughout Mississippi.  Computed pile capacities using CAPWAP which is a computer wave matching program used to calculate the pile capacity of a PDA data record from a particular hammer blow. Other engineering experiences include Airport and new developments design and layout and management of survey crew.

Responsibilities.  Mr. Rodrigues’ engineering experience includes roads, airfields, and supervising and coordinating subsurface, special instrumentation studies, geotechnical data evaluations and design, preparation of geotechnical reports and specifications, and foundation and earthwork testing and inspection, roads, airfields, and commercial and residential developments.

Laboratory Testing. Mr. Rodrigues has experience in performing laboratory soil testing including Atterberg limits, sieve analysis, compaction tests, California Bearing Raito tests, triaxial and unconfined compression tests, and consolidation and swell tests.