This curriculum vitae outlines the career experiences of Wen-Kai Chen, a structural engineer from Taiwan. It details his educational background and over 30 years of experience working on infrastructure projects in Taiwan and China. Key roles included design manager, project manager, and chief supervision engineer on projects such as bridges, tunnels, rail lines, and buildings. Chen demonstrated strong leadership, coordination, and technical skills to complete complex projects on schedule and within budget.

1. Curriculum Vitae of
Wen-Kai Chen
Name: Wen-Kai Chen, 陳文凱
Gender and ethnic: Male, Chinese
Date of Birth: 1st
May 1960
Nationality: Taiwan, Republic of China
Language: Chinese, English
Academic Qualifications:
1. Registered Professional Structural Engineer, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1991.
2. Master Degree of Civil Engineering, National Cheng-Kong University, Taiwan 1987.
3. Bachelor Degree of Science in Civil Engineering, National Chung-Hsin University,
Taiwan 1982.
Work Experience:
General Description:
I started my professional career with from a master degree of Civil Engineering. Beginning
as a junior structural design engineer, I kept growing up to senior structural design engineer,
project manager and Chief Supervision Engineer. During this completed professional
career life, I have also involved in some construction projects that have riched my
experience and enabled me to combine the construction with design in a more integrated
way, thus improving my performance. My
outstanding
performance
in
the
recent
project
has
earned
me
3
official
commendation
letters
from
the
client.
A roughly category is made in my current career life for 3 important periods:
1. 1987
–
1997:
these
10
years
saw
me
growing
from
a
junior
engineer
to
a
senior
engineer.
Various
design
projects,
including
bridges,
elevated
roads,
elevated
MRT
stations,
and
some
high-­‐rise
buildings,
acquainted
myself
with
the
detailed
structural
analysis
and
design
and
important
design
specifications,
such
as
AASHTO,
ACI,
CALTRAN
and
UBC…etc.
2. 1997
－
2006:
Most
of
these
10
years,
I
worked
as
manager
of
many
civil
engineering
projects.
The
particular
experience
as
manager
of
Construction
Department
of
Evergreen
Construction
Company
and
the
design
manager
of
the
Taiwan
High
Speed
Rail
Project
C295
and
C215.
I
learned
the
skills
of
the
construction
planning,
construction
schedule
control
and
complicated
interface
issues
management,
thus
to
enable
me
better
integrating
the
construction
and
design
as
a
whole,
preventing
most
of
the
inconsistent
in
between
and
better
improve
the
efficiency
and
cost
saving.
3. 2006
–
present:
I
have
been
working
as
Project
Manager
and
Chief
Supervision
Engineer.
These
experiences
enable
me
of
skills
to
set
up
organization
and
run
it
smoothly
and
efficiently.
Especially,
as
Chief
Supervision
Engineer
in
Mainland
China
in
the
recent
4.5
years,
I
have
shown
my
talent
of
teaming
up
all
the
engineers
from
different
countries
as
a
whole
and
the
team
has
been
praised
by
client
through
official
commendation
letters
for
3
times.
For some major project experiences and responsibilities descriptions, please refer to the
following list:
Detail Description:
1. Aug. 2010 ~ Present: Worked for T.Y.Lin International, Taiwan Branch, as the Chief

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Wen-Kai Chen
Supervision Engineer of Hefu High Speed Rail, Anhui section, Supervision Package
6, Huangshan, Anhui province, People’s Republic of China.
Performance:
This project includes the High Speed Rail
aligned infrastructure bridge, tunnel and the
subgrade and 2 stations, total length 54km with
350km/h double tracks. The bridges
constructed by full span precast and erection
method. The tunnels excavated by different
ways, including center diagram method, bench
cut method and full-face excavation method
according to the surrounding rock conditions.
The rail system used the CRT I slab bi-block
sleeper ballastless track.
The supervision package 6 was executed by a join venture of T.Y.Lin International company and
XinYaTai supervision company(新亞太監理公司). As Chief Supervision Engineer, one of my
major works is to organize all the supervision engineers who come from different countries with
different engineering experiences thus to enable the supervision team efficiently carry out the
quality and safety supervision. I have shown my talent of communication and coordination,
making a balanced and harmonious international team, praised by the client many times as the best
foreign supervision team in the whole project. Further, my job involves many parties including the
client, the local partner, the contractor, the designer and the state departments, I quickly got myself
used to the local culture and rules, accepted by all parties as a professional engineer and skillful
manager.
Experience and responsibilities:
1. Construction quality and safety supervision.
2. Construction schedule control.
3. Supervision planning.
4. Design and Construction technical consulting and advice.
5. Payment application review and approval.
2. Mar. 2008 ~ Aug. 2010: Worked for T.Y.Lin International, Taiwan Branch, as the

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Wen-Kai Chen
Project Manager of the TRA Metro Train – Kaohsiung Railway Underground
Program – East Section Detail Design, Taiwan, the Republic of China.
Performance:
The Kaohsiung railway underground
project is an existing railway
rerouting underground project. The
biggest challenge came from the
client, who required that the existing
railway operation have to be kept
normally during the construction.
Further more, the right of way was
tightly close to the existing railway
since it is in the urban area. On
design stage, the construction
method and construction time should
be considered carefully to prevent any construction equipment intruding the operation area and
prevent the noise interruption for the residents near by. Additionally, the rail-switching plan should
be set and combined with the construction plan and schedule to ensure the construction and
operation went on simultaneously and the train could be rerouting underground section by section.
Obviously, lots of complicated interface coordination needed to be addressed in this project,
including several government authorities, the railway operation control authorities, the civil
engineering contractors and the electricity and mechanical professional parties. As Project
Manager, I have successfully led the entire design team to resolve all these complicated interface
issues by good design alternatives and frequently communication with the authorities. And I also
succeeded in preventing most of the complaints of the residents by fully considering their
requirement. Besides what’s mentioned, the design of the 2 new stations were also praised by the
clients and the local artists, thus to enable the design works smooth, effective and cost saving.
Experience and Responsibilities:
1. Authorities interface coordination
2. Design organization mobilization and monitoring
3. Detail design schedule and quality control
4. Contract management
3. Mar. 2005 ~ Mar. 2008: Worked for T.Y.Lin International, Taiwan Branch, as the
Project Manager of the Taoyuan International Airport MRT Link DE02 Detail
Design, Taiwan, the Republic of China.
Performance:
This project is the metropolitan rapid transit system to connect Taipei city urban areas
and Taoyuan International Airport. DE02 package includes the elevated bridge length
about 20km, 4 elevated stations and a special bridge of 110m span across the existing

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Highway. The bridges were designed and constructed by Advancing Shoring method
just above the existing roads in the urban areas. And the stations were built just above
the existing roads as well.
Taiwan is one of the six strong seismic zones in the world; all the elevated structures
need to be designed to resist the ground acceleration 0.4g. Ductile design needs to be
carried out on all the elevated structures, thus no collapse is allowed in the strong
ground acceleration; and the damage structure should be repairable under medium
ground acceleration; no damage is allowed under small ground acceleration. Further
more, the stations shapes and function design should be more special considerations,
thus to incorporate the local view and culture since that was built just above the existing
roads.
Experience and Responsibilities
1. Authorities interface coordination
2. Design organization mobilization and monitoring
3. Detail design schedule and quality control
4. Contract management
4. Feb. 2002 ~ Oct. 2004: Worked for the Futsu-Obayashi Join Venture of the Taiwan
High Speed Rail C215 Project, as the Deputy Design Manager.
Performance:
The contractor of Taiwan High Speed Rail C215 is the Futsu-Obayashi Joint Venture.
This project includes 42km long aligned high-speed rail infrastructure, elevated bridges,
tunnels and subgrade from Taoyuan to Yangmei. Except the nonstandard bridges, all
the standard span of bridge was constructed by full span precast and erection method.
As the Deputy Design Manager, I major responsible for the bridge design. According to
the project requirement, the design was divided as three stage, which are (1) Definitive
Design Stage: after the “statement of no objection” was issued by the ICE (Independent
Checking Engineer), the foundations of bridges can be constructed (2) Medium Design
Stage: the piers can be constructed after CICE (Contractor’s Independent Checking
Engineer) certificated (3) Final Design Stage: the box girders or the superstructures can
only be constructed after the “statement of no objection” was issued by ICE.
Before I joined this contractor, most of the design drawings did not have the
certification of the CICE, thus, most of the site construction were carrying out without
the ICE’s “statement of no objection”. I have shown my talent of good coordination and
communication with the designer, the CICE and ICE, successfully accelerated the
design and the review schedule. All the bridge design lots got the CICE’s certificates
and ICE’s “statement of no objection” within relatively short period of time.
After the design stage completed, I also involved in the Shop Drawing and the As-built
Drawings submissions. Just the same as the design stage, I successfully set all the
submissions smoothly pass the review of the CICE and ICE.
Experience and Responsibilities
1. Design and Design Review coordination.
2. Design schedule control and acceleration.
3. Design Review schedule control and acceleration.
5. Apr. 2000 ~ Feb. 2002: Worked for the Evergreen-Italian Tai Join Venture of the
Taiwan High Speed Rail C295 Project, as the Design Manager.
Performance:

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Wen-Kai Chen
The contractor of Taiwan High Speed Rail C295 is the Evergreen-Italian Tai Joint
Venture. The structures of this project were high-speed rail elevated bridges of 27km in
length from Tainan to Tsoyin. Except the non-standard bridges, all the standard spans
of elevated bridge were constructed by 14 sets of advancing shoring devices.
The Taiwan High Speed Rail Project was a huge project, which was divided as 11
contractors for the aligned infrastructure. As the Design Manager, I am very proud to be
the first one to get the ICE’s “statement of no objection” out of the 11 contractors due
to the excellent design management and interface coordination.
Just as mentioned above, there are 14 sets of advancing shoring devices were use to
constructed the standard spans of elevated bridge. I successfully integrated the design
lots arrangement and the construction faces planning together; leading the designer of
the advancing shoring devices to design 2-span advancing shoring system of several
different types, including (1) 25m+25m (2) 25m+30m (3) 30m+30m. Each type was
used in adequate area and the pier location arrangement was set to better fit it. All these
integrations perfectly accelerated the construction and the design.
In this working period of time, I was also responsible for all the claims of the Design
Variation Order, including the design specification change and the design requirement
change. With good coordination with the Contract Manager and the good claim strategy,
the contractor successfully claimed for satisfied extra incomes.
Experience and Responsibilities
1. Design and Design Review coordination.
2. Design schedule control and acceleration.
3. Design Review schedule control and acceleration.
4. Major Temporary Works design management.
5. Variation Order claim and treatment.
6. Oct. 1997 ~ Apr. 2000: Worked for the Evergreen Construction Company as
Manager of the Engineering Department. In these period of time, Major involved
projects were (1) Taipei city Ambassador Hotel Smart Residential Building (2)
Taichung County Hou-li incinerator (3) Kaohsiung County Tselake Evergreen Hotel.
Performance:
After worked as a structural detail designer for 10 years, I joined the construction
company starting to learn the construction detail and the management, including the
contract negotiation, procurement, worker and technician mobilization, the client
coordination, complicated interface coordination, the schedule control and management.
In the project of Taichung County Hou-li incinerator, I successfully set a good plan and
achieved the extremely tight schedule; highly praised by the client.
Experience and Responsibilities
1. Contract Negotiation.
2. Construction plan and schedule.
3. Construction Department management.
4. Construction Mobilization.
7. Nov. 1988 ~ Oct. 1997: Worked for T.Y.Lin International, Taiwan Branch, as the
senior Structure Engineer. Major involved projects including (1) Sun Yet-Sen
Freeway Xizhi to Wugu Elevated Widening Program (2) Executive Yuan
Communication Bureau’s Public TV Station (3) Taipei City Middle Capacity Mucha
Line BR3, BR4 Stations (4) Taipei City MCT Elevated Bridge Structure Design (5)
Taiwan Provincial Housing and Development Bureau, Tibet (Sichang) Bridge (6)
Keelung Harbour VTC Control Tower.

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Wen-Kai Chen
Performance:
During this period of time, I have learned all the structural design skills including (1)
the design specification, ACI, AASHTO, CALTRAN, EUROCODE (2) the structural
analysis programs, SAP, ETABS (3) the seismic and ductile design.
Through lots of detail structural analysis and design, I was very familiar with the
structural behaviors during different loading conditions. And since each design project
need to satisfy the client’s requirement, I was familiar with how to coordinate with the
clients as well. Of course, every design should consider the project manpower saving,
thus to achieve the budged control; I was familiar with standardize the analysis, design
and the drawing procedure.
Experience and Responsibilities
1. Design specifications.
2. Analysis and design commercial software.
3. Design schedule control and management.
4. Interface coordination.
8. Jul. 1987 ~ Nov. 1988: Work for Sinotech Geotechnic Corperation as a junior civil
engineer. Major involved projects including (1) Metropolitan Area Soil and
Foundation Investigation (2) Hillside Development Geotechnical Boring and
Investigation.
Performance:
During this period of time, I have learned the geotechnical investigation skills including
(1) the site geotechnical investigation plan (2) the soil lab test result analysis (3) the
workmanship of the drilling, SPT, CPT (4) the foundation bearing capacity analysis,
including pile, spread footing, caisson, mat foundation (5) the geotechnical commercial
software (5) the slope stability analysis and design.
Experience and Responsibilities
1. Geotechnical investigation.
2. Geotechnical analysis.
3. Foundation bearing capacity analysis.
4. Slope stability analysis.
5. Soil lab test result analysis.