My name is Mikael Gartner, a licensed engineer with over 20 years of experience as an infrastructure technical advisor specializing in structural engineering, disaster recovery and reconstruction, seismic engineering and retrofits, project management, demolition and debris management, procurement advisory, building codes, quality control / design reviews, and urban search and rescue. I have specific donor experience with EU, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, USAID, MCC and UN funded projects in Africa, Asia, Pacific, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Latin America regions. My 19 years of structural design experience, project management roles, and National/International emergency disaster response experience entails a wide variety of achievements which are recognized by awards in structural engineering and Urban Search and Rescue. As a consulting seismic engineer I have been responsible for the design, retrofit/strengthening, and construction of numerous large schools/hospitals/governement/commercial buildings, perfmorming seismic investigations, design reviews, peer reviews, earthquake repair programs, shoring designs, construction management and other engineering efforts. As a USAR engineer I have been responsible for the safety of USAR team members and contributed to the extraction of deeply entombed victims. My emergency response experience with UN WFP, FEMA, USAID, UN OFDA/INSARAG, and NZ Fire Service to disasters such as the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, 2014/2015 Ebola Epidemic, 2007 Peru earthquake, 2007 Hurricanes Gustav/Ike, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, the 2011 New Zealand Earthquake, the 2011 Japanese Tsunamis, and 2019 Hurricane Dorian proves my ability to work under pressure and in culturally diverse environments. I have shown flexibility, leadership, initiative, dependability during these deployments. I have knowledge of more than 50 building codes around the world.
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