Matthew James Donahue, PE

Strategic asset management for fixed and heavy movable structures including bridges, transportation infrastructure, marine and waterfront facilities, and integrated industrial operations. Services include condition assessment, life cycle cost analysis, maintenance planning, staffing and equipment resource analysis, and executive coaching and mentorship.

• Supervised a 75-person bridge engineering, operations, and maintenance team.
• Managed maintenance, engineering, operations, and capital program budgets totaling ~$153M.
• West Seattle Bridge: Asset Owner and Subject Matter Expert for the closure and West Seattle Bridge Safety Program — the landmark 2020 discovery of accelerating shear cracks, emergency closure decision, post-tensioning stabilization, and full repair program through reopening in 2022.
• Led bridge prioritization for all division movable bridge, inspection, and maintenance activities per Seattle City Council mandate — incorporating element-level condition data, risk assessment, and life cycle cost analysis.
• Incident Commander and Roadway Structure Section Chief, SDOT Incident Management Team.
• Division lead for labor relations across seven skilled trade craft types.
• Member of SDOT senior leadership and strategic planning team; led workforce equity policy and asset/risk management policy development.

Supervised 65-person bridge engineering, operations, and maintenance team. Managed ~$120M in combined maintenance, engineering, and capital budgets.

Project management for bridge seismic retrofits and transportation safety improvements. Supervised three fellow Project Managers; led PM guidance documentation revisions.

• Managed operational and project budgets, staff recruitment, project delivery, and QA/QC for offices in Washington, Utah, and California.
• Led business development across Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington in the bridge, marine/waterfront, and oil/industrial sectors.
• Acquired project revenues averaging $5.0M annually over four years.

• Marine and waterfront structural inspections, condition assessment, and construction management (Orion).
• Cold-region project engineer for permitting, cost estimating, scheduling, and camp management on the North Slope of Alaska — including union labor negotiations (Nanuq/AFC).
• Underwater inspection, engineering design, and construction support for transportation and marine projects including seismic design of a new hydraulic lift span for Washington State Ferries (BERGER-ABAM).

Researched dynamic soil-structure interaction of a shipping terminal wharf at the Port of Oakland — developing a practice-based approach for 3D nonlinear seismic analysis.

• NSF research fellow — East Asia Summer Institute, Kyoto; Port and Airport Research Institute, Yokosaka, Japan.
• Field deployment of broadband seismology instruments at altitudes up to 20,000 ft in Nepal and Tibet (HiCLIMB project).

• Above and underwater structural inspections for marine and waterfront projects in Boston Harbor, the Canadian Maritime Islands, and US Naval Bases worldwide (Childs).
• Conformance testing and reporting for Superfund site construction operations (Geosyntec).
• Designed rails-to-trails brownfield cleanup along the Woonasquatucket River Greenway; created the Woonasquatucket River Rangers after-school environmental education program (AmeriCorps).
• Field engineer for fiber optic routing in the Chicago Freight Tunnel System; conducted undergraduate research on electrokinetic soil remediation (UIC).