Ronald L. Bishop, 30 years experience, field and design, mechanical and adhesive structural anchoring systems, and concrete rehab systems.

1972-1980 V.P. Sandia Steel, Albuquerque, NM. Fabricator of underground support steel for the mining and tunneling industry, largest manufacturer of rock bolts in the southwest. Customers included:

• Ker McGee
• United Nuclear
• Gulf Mineral
• Conoco
• Anaconda Copper
• Molycorp.

Manufacturers representative for seismic hardware for new construction and retrofit, concrete repair, restoration and protection systems, and structural anchoring systems.

Past consulting projects include:

• Valley Transportation Authority, recommend and write concrete repair methods for VTA station platforms.
• California Earthquake Authority, pilot program to meet new earthquake standards for residential concrete repair.
• University of California at Berkeley, Doe Library shear wall boundary element repairs.
• Santa Clara Valley Water District Lexington Dam outfall pipe structure repairs.

Recent technical support and supply projects include:

• Golden Gate Bridge retrofit
• San Mateo Bridge retrofit
• Oakland Bay Bridge retrofit
• Benicia Bridge retrofit
• Stanford Art Museum retrofit
• SFO Air Train System
• Bart Trans Bay Tube
• Carmel Valley Bridges, emergency storm damage repair

Also of note:

• Graduate I.C.B.O. Certified structural inspection, San Jose State
• Past President of I.C.R.I., The International Concrete Repair Institute, Northern California Chapter
• Designed adhesive anchoring systems for the world's deepest underwater anchorages, the MBARI project in Monterey Bay. See article "Sticky Undersea Earthquake Monitors" September 1997 issue of Sea Technology.
• 11 year volunteer as public speaker of Hospice of the Valley serving Santa Clara County, California.
• Committee Chair, EarthquakeAdvisor.Com