Bruno Mendes

Senior Geotechnical Engineer at DNV | P.Eng.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

About

Experience

  • DNV (Remote)
    • Senior Geotechnical Engineer
      Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    • Acting Head of Section - Civil Engineering
      Aug 2025 - Oct 2025 · 3 mos

      Acting Head of Section for Civil Engineering Section during the HoS extended leave. Supporting the Section operations

    • Manager (Team Lead) - Civil Engineering (Wind and Infrastructure)
      Mar 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

      • Manage a team of 7 members • Manage projects within the Section • Prepared proposals for conventional reviews, as well as novel foundation technologies • Coordinate internally between disciplines leads to ensure scope, budget, deliverables, and time constraints • Review of design package for onshore, offshore wind, PV solar, and BESS energy foundations. • Lead and coordinate meetings with internal & external customers associated with foundation design review. • Perform root cause analyses of wind system structural failures. • Conduct liquefaction and site response analyses for wind and solar support structures, including collaboration with DNV's Jack-up team • Performing numerical modelling of wind foundations (including ground improvement), and developing scripts in Python to automate pre and post-processing of numerical models. • Collaborated with the other regions, in reviewing O&G and offshore wind projects.

  • Moved to Canada at Canada
    Jul 2017 - Mar 2018 · 9 mos

  • Geotechnical Engineer at NOV
    Apr 2012 - Jun 2017 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    - Specifications for geotechnical soil investigation - Geotechnical design of Monopiles for subsea turret systems, Pile clusters for subsea turret systems, Pile and Suction anchors for moorings. - Design of gravity bases (e.g. for risers and flowlines) - Design of grouted connections - Development of spreadsheets and apps, produced in Excel, Visual Basic, Mathcad and Matlab. - Review of Structural Analysis, both for buckling and fatigue. - Preparation of tender and project documentation, in accordance with the project specification and class societies (e.g. DNV, ISO, API). - Work with BD for bids, tenders and new developments - Follow-up of of fabrication of steel structures, including visits to site, meetings with contractor and site team. - Representative of NOV-APL during offshore installation. - Part of a Delivery team with members located in Norway and Singapore.

  • Research Assistant at Instituto Superior Técnico
    May 2012 - Nov 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

    - Part-time collaboration with the research project, by programming scripts in Matlab for running automated analysis and post-processing of Finite Element Analysis in Itasca Flac 2D.

  • Moved to Norway at Norway
    Apr 2012 - Apr 2012 · 1 mo