David Olowokere

Chair, Department of Engineering Technology, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas. Provides leadership for teaching and scholarly activities in this 12-faculty department. Oversight on budgeting and department personnel issues, effective liaison with the dean’s office, and positive impact of departmental activities on the immediate community are all included in the duties of the position. 7/2005 - Present
Administrator, Capital Projects, City of Birmingham. Duty includes overseeing the expenditure of over $70million budget on capital improvement projects for the city; acting on behalf of the Mayor in providing leadership to the engineering and planning staff; acting as the Mayor’s liaison for the Birmingham Water Works, Birmingham Airport Authority, Birmingham Transit Authority and Birmingham Construction Industry Authority; acting as the key adviser to the Mayor on city’s infrastructure improvement. (7/2000 to 3/2003)
Chairman, Civil Engineering Department, Lagos State College of Science and Technology, Lagos, Nigeria. This was a UNDP-funded
appointment to set up and manage the Civil and Building Construction program for this 4- year Technological College in Nigeria in West
Africa. (1/83 to 7/85)
Director, Structural and Construction Engineering Division of the civil engineering department, University of Detroit. 8/89 to 8/93
Administered budget for various equipment purchase for the structural laboratory.
Chairman, Design Committee, College of Engineering, University of Detroit, Detroit, MI. - Chaired the 4-man committee that reviewed all design-related courses at the college of engineering for the purpose of ensuring conformance with ABET requirements. (12/90 to 12/92)
Director, Structural and Construction Engineering Division, UNILAG Consult, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. Directed the structural engineering division of this major consulting Organization.
- Responsible for staffing, budgeting and various administrative task.
Led and supervised the various issues connected with the design
and construction inspection of the headquarters of the Nigeria
Airways--an 18-story concrete structure utilizing shear wall/frame
action for resistance of lateral load. (8/78 to 7/79)
Director, Center for Titusville Infrastructure Study - University of Alabama, Birmingham. (4/94 – 5/98)
Project Director, Construction Internship Program
Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham. (8/95 – 4/2000)

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