Vice President, Construction Testing & Engineering, Inc. Vice President/Principal Engineer, QC Southwest Inc. San Diego County, California
Rod Ballard began his career as a geotechnical civil engineer with the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) in Denver, Colo., working in the Embankment Dam Design Section. In 1982, USBR sent Ballard to Oklahoma State University to pursue a master’s degree in civil/geotechnical engineering. “The knowledge I received while at Oregon State resulted in graduating at the top of my class from Oklahoma State graduate school,” says Ballard.In 1989, Ballard founded Construction Testing & Engineering, Inc., a company that provides construction quality control, geotechnical, and civil engineering services in California. In 1998, Rod and his wife Kim founded a second company called QC Southwest Inc., which provides engineering support services specific to airports and power plants.Ballard is most proud of a significant impact his technical work provided to the City of San Diego. “In 1998, while performing geotechnical engineering investigations for high-rise structures in downtown San Diego, I discovered that the default site soil profile being used by the city was overly conservative,” says Ballard."The ensuing reduced seismic loading saved millions of dollars in high-rise construction in the city after 1999."
Degrees
- B.S. Civil Engineering, 1978