1. SAHANA MURALIDHARAN, EIT, LEED GA, CMIT
503 Cherry Street ♦ College Station, Texas TX 77840 ♦ +1-9799850970 ♦ sahananitt@gmail.com
Seeking Full Time opportunity in the field of civil engineering and construction management. Proficient in most facets of
construction with extensive knowledge in scheduling, estimating, planning and risk management.
EDUCATION
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Aug 14-Dec 15
MS in Civil Engineering, Specialization: Construction Management, GPA: 4.0/4.0
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India Jul 09-Aug 13
B.Tech in Civil Engineering, CGPA: 8.66/10
TECHNICAL SKILLS
 Primavera
 MS Project
 Tilos 8.0
 AutoCAD
 Autodesk Revit
 MS Office
 Navisworks
 ArcGIS 10.2
 StaadPro
EXPERIENCE
Austin Bridge & Road, Irving, Texas (Intern) May 15-Aug 15
 Updated schedule for the on-going projects every month using Primavera 6.2.
 Created a user guide explaining step by step process of developing a schedule in Tilos 8.0.
 Gained insight of traffic switching, beam lifting process, quantity take-offs during site visit to SH 34 project in
Kaufman county, Dallas
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (Teaching Assistant) Jan 15-May 15
 Conducted the lab session for an undergraduate course, Civil Engineering Measurement.
 Trained students to use total station and auto level instruments.
TATA Consulting Engineers Ltd, India (E0 Engineer) Jan 14-May 14
 Rendered a 3D model using Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools for a model project.
 Understood the contracting strategies and pre cast construction during the visit to various construction sites.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (Intern) May 12-July 12
 Project Title: Assessment of seismic vulnerability of building typologies in India
 Survey for finding the diverse building typologies in Zone III regions of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
Southern Railways, Chennai, India (In-plant training) Nov 11
 Designed a steel girder bridge of 3 spans for an existing railway project and developed an automated system in
Microsoft excel for the same.
Larsen and Toubro Ltd, ECC Division, Chennai, India (In-plant training) May 11
 Worked in construction of ITC Grand Chola, a 7-Star Hotel and MIOT Hospital extension.
 Gained insight about design of foundations, interiors and quantity take-offs.
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Decommissioning of nuclear power plants Jan 15-May 15
 Extensive study of the finances involved in decommissioning process.
 Proposed an innovative method for prediction of trends in cash flows over the period of decommissioning.
Co-generation power plant construction Jan 15-May 15
 Performed project planning and execution from the contractor’s perspective.
 Prepared cost estimates, baseline and accelerated schedules and analyzed risks using @RISK software.
Evaluating the roads of Texas: Using GIS to determine causation in roadway failure Aug 14-Dec 14
 Explored the possibility of using GIS as a predictive tool for road condition.
 Major Environmental and Anthropogenic factors were evaluated against the existing roadwaycondition.
Manual pavement management system: A study on Texas A&M University roads Aug 14-Dec 14
 Conducted manual inspection surveys for on-campus pavements in accordance to ASTM D-643307
 Performance of the roadways using PCI deteriorationmodel and a five year M&R plan wasdevelop.
Comparison of static and dynamic condensation methods of structural analysis Jan 13-May 13
 Analyzed a 30-story building with mass and stiffness irregularities by Eigen Value problem,static and
dynamic condensation methods in MATLAB.

2. CERTIFICATION
 Engineer in Training (EIT)-National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
 Construction Manager in Training (CMIT)-Construction Management Association of America
 LEED Green Associate-Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI)
LEADERSHIP & ACTIVITIES
 Grader for the Undergraduate course Civil Engineering Measurement at Texas A&M University.
 Hospitality chair of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Student Chapter, Texas A&M University.
 Was a member of dance troupe of NIT-Trichy and secured in the top three in many dance competitions.
 Performed about 125 abacus demonstrations in Gulf Countries, Sri Lanka & India and was appreciated by Dr.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former president of India and Mr. Ram Mohan Rao, former Governor of Tamil Nadu.
 Won Championship in National Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Competition 4 times during the year 2001-2004.