Sergio Alejandro Ayala Manga

FEED Proyecto Línea Base Calidad Combustible (LBCC) GRB – Ecopetrol (ECP) / Detailed Engineering – Ridgeline, Enbridge – Tennessee Plant
🔹 Led structural analysis & design for piperacks, platforms, and reactor buildings, optimizing materials & lowering the carbon footprint.
🔹 Applied advanced modeling, seismic analysis & load optimization for efficiency, safety & cost-effectiveness.
🔹 Developed procurement strategies, securing optimal pricing & structural integrity.
🔹 Engineered cable tray racks & industrial exhaust systems, ensuring precision & compliance.
🔹 Integrated BIM tools (Revit, SmartPlan, Navis) to enhance coordination, tracking & sustainability.
🔹 Secured contracts & provided strategic direction, delivering high-performance, code-compliant designs.

• Oversaw the construction of 15 new structural industrial facilities and pipeline bridge supports.

Port of Los Angeles, Berth 306 – Seismic Design & Structural Optimization
🔹 Led nonlinear seismic design, applying P-Y springs for enhanced structural resilience.
🔹 Conducted Nonlinear Time History (NLTH) analysis for superpile assembly under seismic loads.
🔹 Performed 2D pushover analysis, using Performance-Based Seismic Design (PBSD) for optimized safety.
🔹 Applied BIM tools (Revit, SmartPlan, Navis) to improve coordination & efficiency.
🔹 Secured contracts & provided strategic direction, delivering earthquake-resistant, code-compliant designs.

Refinery of Cartagena – Detailed Engineering, Reficar-Ecopetrol ODS-037/068

🔹 Designed high-performance foundations for Oil & Gas equipment, ensuring stability, efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

🔹 Engineered pipeline supports & steel base plates for advanced firefighting systems, enhancing safety and resilience.

🔹 Developed optimized skid foundations for heat exchangers, improving durability and cost efficiency.

🔹 Designed a high-accessibility offshore platform, applying nonlinear time history analysis for seismic, wave, and wind loading, ensuring structural integrity under extreme conditions.

🔹 Optimized processes using BIM tools to streamline workflows and improve project coordination.

🔹 Led procurement strategies and secured contracts, delivering sustainable, cost-effective, and code-compliant solutions.

🔹 Participated in design reviews within team-based structural planning committees.

Bridge & Structural Design – Accesos Norte Bogotá

🔹 Designed and optimized vehicular bridges, including I811 box girder (Return I811), Mi Padre Jesús Bridge, Tres Esquinas, and Polo Entrances, integrating Construction Stage Analysis to ensure structural integrity throughout the building and installation process.
🔹 Engineered steel box girders, prestressed U girders, and steel pedestrian bridges for the Accesos Norte Bogotá Project, enhancing structural performance and cost-effectiveness.
🔹 Performed seismic analysis for bridges and structures in earthquake-prone areas, ensuring resilience against natural disasters.
🔹 Developed innovative load-bearing elements, balancing aesthetic appeal and functional performance in structural design.
🔹 Delivered precise technical documentation, improving communication and coordination among project stakeholders.
🔹 Optimized workflows using BIM tools, streamlining design, analysis, and project execution.

Structural Engineer | Transportation Infrastructure & Bridge Evaluation**

Experienced in specialized structural review for transportation infrastructure projects, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance. Key contributions include:

🔹 Structural analysis of vehicular and pedestrian bridges**, as well as stabilization structures (box culverts, retaining walls).
🔹 Development of technical guidelines** for pedestrian bridge inspections and inventory management, enhancing infrastructure assessment efficiency.
🔹 Review of structural studies for zoning and oversized load permits**, ensuring adherence to safety and regulatory standards

🔹Verified construction documentation to meet client requirements and vision.

🔹Oversaw proposal and bidding phases of construction.

🔹 Led the design of 10,000 m² of steel structures for operational and administrative facilities at Avianca Hangar—El Dorado Airport (Phase III), including a reactor workshop and access control building.

🔹 Designed anchor blocks for the Cúcuta Aqueduct Project (Ecopetrol OHL), ensuring the successful implementation of critical hydraulic infrastructure.

🔹 Engineered structural components, including headers and box culverts, for the La Dorada–Chiriguaná Railway Line (FDN), optimizing hydraulic works for performance and safety.

🔹 Ensured compliance with local building codes, regulations, and safety standards through thorough review of plans and specifications.

• Head in charge of several vulnerability and seismic strengthening studies and designs with the application of seismic friction damping system; nonlinear static performance analysis for the design of seismic friction damper system in projects in charge of the company
• PUSHOVER nonlinear static performance analysis for vulnerability studies

🔹 Expert in pushover analysis, seismic evaluation, and high-rise structural design to ensure resilience and regulatory compliance.
🔹 Performed structural reviews of 27-story buildings, determining performance points and ductility per FEMA 356 in projects like Parkview 145, Bosque Grande, and Nueva Colina-Turó.
🔹 Designed reinforced concrete structural systems, optimizing seismic stability with shear walls and moment-resisting frames in projects such as Toscana and Nueva Colina-Amonte.
🔹 Led capacity assessments for 20+ story residential buildings using nonlinear static analysis (pushover), enhancing structural safety and performance.

🔹Implemented advanced software tools for efficient modeling and analysis of complex structures.

🔹Optimized structural systems for projects, considering factors such as cost, constructability, and long-term performance.

🔹 Expert in seismic vulnerability assessment, nonlinear finite element analysis, and BIM-based structural design for critical infrastructure.
🔹 Developed finite element models for static load tests using nonlinear materials, optimizing bridge performance on Ruta del Sol – Stage 1 (HELIOS S.A.).
🔹 Conducted seismic vulnerability assessments for key structures, including San Juan de Dios Institute and La Curia building, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
🔹 Performed vibration analysis for power generation facilities, evaluating turbine-induced vibrations in AES CHIVOR’s control building.
🔹 Designed BIM-based structural systems for large-scale industrial projects, including a bovine and poultry slaughterhouse in Venezuela (ITA International).

Specialized in structural design, 3D modeling, and finite element analysis for hydroelectric, thermal, and industrial projects.
🔹 Led 3D modeling & structural analysis for powerhouses, gates, and auxiliary structures in major hydro projects like Porce IV, La Yesca, Chaparral, and Cerro del Águila.
🔹 Performed finite element analysis (Algor & ANSYS) to assess the stability and performance of pressure conduits, hermetic gates, and partition walls.
🔹 Designed metallic trusses, camps, and auxiliary buildings for key energy projects, including Perla Norte & Sur, Pacific Rubiales, and La Vegona.
🔹 Conducted budgeting & cost analysis (I.F.D.) for proposals in Termocartagena and other energy sector projects.