Thomas M. Westover

Registration
Civil Engineer - OR, WA, AK, ID

Career
2007 - present
Associate Engineer
Landslide Technology, Portland, OR

Education
2017 Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
Willamette University, Portland, OR

2007 M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN

2005 B.S. in Civil Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN

​Honors/Societies
​Member, American Society of Civil Engineers,
​Oregon Section

Associate Engineer

Mr. Westover has 11 years of geotechnical engineering experience in the Pacific Northwest. His expertise includes design and testing of high-capacity ground anchors, soil-structure interactions, anchored shear pile design, geotechnical engineering for transportation applications, landslide evaluations, rockfall mitigation and design, 3D modeling and visualization, in-situ stress determination, construction sequencing on landslides, and constructability.

Representative projects include the following:

• Klondike Highway, Captain William Henry Moore Bridge Replacement, Skagway, Alaska
  
• Sellwood Bridge Landslide Mitigation, Portland, Oregon
• Washington Park Reservoir Replacement, Portland, Oregon
• The Dalles Dam Spillwall, The Dalles, Oregon
• Soda Springs Dam Fish Passage, Toketee Falls, Oregon
• Hwy 20 Pioneer Mountain to Eddyville, Eddyville, Oregon
• Iowa Street Viaduct Replacement, Portland, Oregon
• Alaska Unstable Slopes Management Program, Statewide, Alaska
• Going-to-the-Sun Road Rockfall Mitigation, Columbia Falls, Montana
• Lemolo 2 Canal Distress, Toketee Falls, Oregon
• Moran Junction to Dubois Landslide, Wyoming
• South Santiam Highway Landslides, Sweet Home, Oregon
• Dworshak Dam Instrumentation, Orofino, Idaho
• Yale Powerhouse Rock Block Mitigation, Cougar, Washington
• Lookout Point Dam Seismic Evaluation, Lowell, Oregon
• Willamette Falls Flow Control Structure, West Linn, Oregon
• Tanana River Bridge, Tok, Alaska
• Swift Dam Powerhouse Debris Flow, Cougar, Washington
• Oakridge Water System Improvements, Oakridge, Oregon
• Faraday Fish Pipeline Investigation, Estacada, Oregon
• Moorehaven Slide Shear Pile Design, La Center, Washington
• Historic Columbia River Highway Trail, Cascade Locks, Oregon​​​

Selection of technical presentations and lectures:

• Anchored Shear Piles for Landslide Mitigation: Design Approach and Instrumented Performance, Young Author Award Winner, Highway Geology Symposium, Laramie, Wyoming
• Sellwood Bridge Replacement: Landslide Mitigation, 2017 Western Bridge Engineers’ Seminar, Portland, Oregon
• Landslide Stabilization using Anchored Shear Piles, ACEC SW Washington Group, Vancouver, Washington
• Sellwood Landslide, ​ASCE Capital Branch, Salem, Oregon

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​Mike Meyer - Gerry Heslin - George Machan - Charlie Hammond - Brent Black - Darren Beckstrand - Chris Carpenter
Ben George - Wade Osborne -  Tom Westover - Zach Ruby
Andy Vessely - Larry Pierson - Derek Cornforth