Jason Chen

Structural engineer by trade, touching upon a wide array of fields within the industry including but not limited to both high and low rise new construction, retrofits, facades, forensics, and repairs.

New York, New York, United States

About

There is no final destination, just the journey.

Experience

  • Senior Designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

  • Engineering Consultant at CANY
    Sep 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Project Manager at Fast + Epp
    Jan 2022 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Senior Project Engineer at DeSimone Consulting Engineers
    Feb 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Calculator, Drafter, Modeler, Editor, Copywriter.

  • Structural Engineer at Christie Engineering
    Oct 2016 - Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Christie Engineering is a small structural engineering firm (<30 employees) with a focus on residential and commercial buildings both as new construction and rehabilitation projects. Because of its size, I was tasked and successful with handling a wide range of responsibilities from the routine to the difficult such as: -Checking and approving shop drawings -Performing 3rd party peer reviews and writing follow up technical reports -Designing structures of various construction materials (wood, masonry, steel, concrete, aluminium) using computer aided software and "by-hand" analysis -Performing site inspections of buildings under construction and to be renovated/repaired -Training new employees