How Additive Manufacturing Is Expanding Design Possibilities  

Carlos de Oliveira, MASc. P.Eng, is the co-founder, President, CEO, and Principal Structural Engineer of Cast Connex Corporation. He is recognized as a leading expert in the design and application of steel castings for building and bridge structures, having played a key role in advancing their adoption throughout the industry. Carlos earned a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Applied Science from the University of Toronto and is licensed as a Professional Engineer in numerous jurisdictions.

D. Mark Douglass, PhD, CFA is the Business Development Manager for Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions, responsible for overseeing sales, marketing, and strategic commercial and technical partnerships; prior to this role, he was a member of Lincoln Electric’s strategy and M&A team. Prior to Lincoln Electric, he was a sell-side equity analyst, focusing on industrial manufacturing technology companies. Preceding his Wall Street tenure, he was an advanced manufacturing engineer specializing in laser materials processing. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst®️ (CFA) designation.

Hunter Ruthrauff is a bridge architect with over a decade of experience focused on signature bridges of all types and scales. He acquired his Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona in 2009 and his Master of Science in Architectural Design Computation from the University of Washington Seattle in 2012. He first joined TY Lin in 2012 where he was brought in to work on the I-395 Viaduct and Signature structure. A few years later he designed and oversaw construction of the Idaho Avenue pedestrian bridge in Santa Monica that was awarded the Hayden Medal by the International Bridge Conference. Since then, this work has included the design of large-scale rail and vehicular bridges but remains focused on signature pedestrian bridges. His duties include concept development, public outreach, visualization, technology advancement, and plan set development. He excels at rationalizing complex geometry and seamlessly interweaving structural form, landscape, lighting, and materials as part of the design process. He is the Architecture and Visualization Group’s (AVG) design manager and oversees the design and progression of TY Lin’s most complex and iconic structures.