Resume (C.V.)
Jeff R. Filler, Ph.D., P.E.
Consulting Engineer / Technical Writer and Editor / Freelance Writer (Present, Part-Time)
Consultant to the building products and engineering industry; development and review of test plans, product testing, and other documents pursuant to product evaluations and approvals. Particular emphasis in structural wood products.
Technical writer / editor for the Wood Products Council – Wood Products Council: review and editing of Wood Products Council articles. Consultant to the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau (PLIB).
Freelance writer on various topics.
(List of Freelance and Other Works on Pages 5ff; current Blog is here.)
Senior Staff Engineer (2014 – 2021)
Senior Staff Engineer with the International Code Council – Evaluation Service (ICC-ES) at the Birmingham Eastern Regional Office. Developed Acceptance Criteria for ICC-ES Evaluation Reports in accordance with the latest International Building and International Residential Codes and referenced and consensus Standards. Evaluate products for compliance with building codes and standards in accordance with approved Acceptance Criteria resulting in new and revised ICC-ES Evaluation Reports. Evaluations include review of test reports, manufacturer quality documentation, and engineering analyses. Responsibilities include presentation of Acceptance Criteria in public hearings before the ICC-ES Evaluation Committee, and presenting proposed revisions for public comment through the Alternative Criteria Development Process (public posting and Evaluation Committee balloting).
Consulting Engineer and Adjunct/Affiliate/Clinical Assistant Professor (Previous)
Referred to as “The Doc” by colleagues, clients, and students. As a practicing engineer I strove to provide affordable engineering solutions to satisfy owner, architect, and building code requirements. As an educator I taught `real life’ engineering design and construction to engineering, architecture, and construction management students at the local universities. I have additional experience and expertise with small mountain stream hydrology, determining flood, mean, and low flow quantities and water surface elevations. Through the years I have served as a consultant to a major Glulam manufacturer providing technical information, engineering analyses and remedies for damaged beams, improper installations, beams with checking or manufacturing defects, etc. Concurrently I penned several engineering-related blogs and was an active contributor to Associated Content/Yahoo Voices, garnering 1M page views prior to those platforms shutting down. My consulting work has also included Demolition and Shoring Engineering (not as fun as it sounds – I didn’t get to blow up things), and limited design of `civil’ works (roads, parking lots, storm sewers, etc.). I have been called upon to serve as an expert witness on several structures-construction related cases, a flood flow/ railroad embankment failure case, and a bicycle accident case (street/sidewalk signage). I have also been active as an editor/writer/reviewer of technical materials, including the role as Facilitator (main consulting editor) for the most recently published Sixth Edition Timber Construction Manual (American Institute of Timber Construction/West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau), a role I also served for the Fifth Edition. In 2011 I traveled to Malaysia to help reintroduced `Glulam’ to that country and consulted on the design of the first custom glulam timber residence there.
Teaching roles included Adjunct / Affiliate faculty member at the University of Idaho and Clinical Assistant Professor at Washington State University School of Design and Construction. Teaching assignments included instruction of most of the mechanics courses in the Undergraduate Engineering curriculum at the University of Idaho, in addition to Reinforced Concrete, Steel Building, and Wind and Seismic Design for the Architecture students at the University of Idaho, and the Structures sequence for Architecture and Construction Management students at Washington State University. The opportunity to both practice and teach in adjunct capacity at the local universities allowed me to bring practical problems into the classroom as well as perfect my technical skills for consulting. As a part of the Reinforced Concrete class at the University of Idaho, we made and broke full size reinforced (and sometimes `plain’) concrete beams. Casting, making performance predictions on, and then loading the beams to failure (our `Make and Break’ term projects), was a very effective and rewarding teaching-learning experience for my students, and myself.
Other Career Activity and Employment
Through the years I have additionally worked as a Research Analyst with Idaho Water Resource Research Institute, as a professor at the College of Ministry Training (Bible college), as well as a professional engineer for local (Pacific Northwest) engineering, surveying, and construction firms. I have also worked construction (wood frame and concrete) as an employee, volunteer, and structures and remodels on my own property.
Education
Ph.D. (Civil Engineering), Washington State University, Dec. 1989.
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Idaho, May 1985.
B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Idaho, May 1980.
B.A. Biblical Studies, College of Ministry Training, May 1991.
States in which Currently Licensed to Practice Engineering
State of Idaho, License No. 5316, Since March 1986.
State of Washington, License No. 33508, Since September 1996.
Organizations & Affiliations
Professional Member, American Institute of Timber Construction / West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau / Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau.
Chairman, Technical Review Board, ANSI A190.1 American National Standard for wood products – Structural Glued Laminated Timber, American National Standard Institute.
Active with the Wood Design Standards Committee, American Wood Council: National Design Specification® for Wood Construction (NDS), Wood-Frame Construction Manual (WFCM), and Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS).
Professional Member, ASTM International, D07 (Wood) Committees.
Selected Past Engineering Consulting Projects and Other Activities
Design of gravity and lateral force resisting systems for custom residential and commercial structures (including business and manufacturing facilities, wood-frame motels, and a ski lodge), including stick frame, timber frame, glulam, post and beam, log, and reinforced concrete (ICF).
Expert witness on railroad embankment failure, deck failure, and misconstruction cases.
Invited Speaker: various glued laminated timber topics, to the faculty and students of University Teknologi Mara (UiTM), the Malaysian Timber Council, and Malaysia Public Works Department, January, 2011.
Consultant: ‘banglo asmadi’: first custom glued laminated timber home in the country of Malaysia, attached to Iktisas Ingenieurs (Engineers), Sdn.Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Facilitator (Editor / Reviewer) for the Sixth Edition of the American Institute of Timber Construction (AITC) Timber Construction Manual (Wiley, 2012) – keeping Manual current with National Design Specification ® changes including dual ASD / LRFD format, changes to beam and column stability provisions, as well as adding examples and expanded bridge design, AND, Facilitator for Fifth Edition of the AITC Timber Construction Manual (Wiley, 2005) – essentially a complete re-write of the Manual including a chapter on Load and Resistance Factor design.
Tainter Gate Anchor Bolt Failure Investigation – Little Goose Dam, Snake River, Washington.
Structural Engineering – Mary Janes Farm® facility, Moscow, Idaho (library, guest facility, manufacturing, etc.).
Demolition Engineering (and Shoring Plans) – University of Idaho Teaching and Learning Center, Washington State University (Compton Union Building), and Spokane Convention Center.
Structural Engineering for `Mountain House’, `Guesthouse’, `Cowboy House’, and `Canyon House’ with award winning architect Paul Hirzel, AIA.
Evaluation of structural significance of seasoning checks in glued-laminated timbers, numerous; and, evaluation of structural significance of incorrectly installed, damaged, or modified glulam beams, numerous.
Design of retaining walls, including reinforced concrete, segmental block and larger (`eco’) blocks, both gravity and reinforced backfill, numerous.
Work with City Building Official and Fire Department in Mitigating Excess Snow Loads on Buildings
Structural Inspections and Observations, numerous.
Field measurement of mountain stream flows and stream and lake and water quality measurements.
Determination of streamflow of ungaged mountain streams for potential hydroelectric power development.
Measurement and determination of flood and low flows for fish habitat and stream relocation.
Architecture and Construction Management Courses (Teaching and Taught)
Washington State University – School of Design and Construction and UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO – Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Structures I – General Structures (for Architecture and Construction Management Students)
Structures II – Structural Wood and Steel (for Architecture and Construction Management Students)
Structures III – Structural Concrete and Lateral Forces (Undergraduate and Graduate Level)
Building Technology I – Reinforced Concrete Design (Engineered and Prescriptive Design); lecture and lab (Architecture Students)
Building Technology II – Steel Design (Architecture Students)
Building Technology III – Wind and Seismic Design (Architecture Students)
Surveying (Landscape Architecture Students, Lecture and Field)
Engineering Courses Taught
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO – College of Engineering (Various Departments)
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineering Statics
Engineering Dynamics
Engineering Fluid Mechanics
Mechanics of Materials
Engineering Hydraulics (Lecture and Lab)
Engineering Graphics (CAD)
Fundamentals Exam Review – Fluid Mechanics
Fundamentals Exam Review – Dynamics
Engineering Publications and Works
“The Pullman-Moscow Groundwater Management Plan,” Draft of 1990 for the Pullman-Moscow Water Resources Committee.
Response of the shear layers separating from a circular cylinder to small-amplitude rotational, J.R. Filler, P.L. Marston, W.C. Mih, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1991), vol. 231, pp. 481-499, Printed in Great Britain (Refereed).
Response of the Shear Layers Separating From a Circular Cylinder to Small Amplitude Rotational Oscillations, Ph. D. Dissertation, 1989, Washington State University, 173 pages.
Improvement of Flow Duration Curve Prediction Using Low Flow Discharge Measurements, Masters Thesis, University of Idaho, May 1985.
Technical Reviewer for Richard D. Irwin Publishing Company (Dynamics text).
Other
Attendance and completion of FEMA Earthquake Engineering, Advanced Earthquake Engineering, and Wind Engineering (Mitigation) courses at National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, MD.
Seminars
Developed and presented `Glued Laminated Timber Design and Construction’, September 14, 2012, Boise, Idaho, 6 hrs, Hyatt Place, Boise Town Square, for Engineers, Architects, and Contractors (sole presenter).
Continuing Education
Details available by request.
References
Provided by request.
List of Other Publications (Freelance)
Currently FOR SALE on Internet
Bighorn Sheep Hunting in the Idaho Wilderness, Tales, Pointers, and Things to Think About for Do-it-Yourself and Guided Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Hunts in Idaho Units 27-1 and 26, Revised First Edition, Lulu.com, Hardcover, 76 Pages, ISBN 5800117549196.
A Boy and His Dad, Memories of a Kid Growing up in the Woods of Idaho, Lulu.com, Softcover, 57 Pages, ISBN 979-8-21-045619-9.
List of Articles on OTHER PLATFORMS, PUBLICATIONS
On Hunt’n & Fish’n Biz, Hunt’n Savage, Inc.
Candace and the Controlled Deer Hunt, Hunt’n & Fish’n Biz, Hunt’n Savage, Inc., Vol. 1, Issue 6, November 2003, Pages 32-33.
How to Easily Pack Your Meat Out, Hunt’n & Fish’n Biz, Hunt’n Savage, Inc., Vol. 2, Issue 3, March 2004, Page 52.
Father and Son Sheep Tale, Hunt’n & Fish’n Biz, Hunt’n Savage, Inc., Vol. 3, Issue 5, May – June 2005, Pages 10-11.
Idaho Goat Hunt, Hunt’n & Fish’n Biz, Hunt’n Savage, Inc., Vol. 3, Issue 11, January – February 2006, Pages 10-11.
Father and Son Sheep Tale, Hunt’n & Fish’n Biz, Hunt’n Savage, Inc., Vol. 4, Issue 1, January – February 2006, Pages 38-39.
The Bighorn
Planning a Do-it-Yourself Bighorn Sheep Hunt, The Bighorn, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society, Pages 9-12.
On BigGameHunt.net ( … website now reassigned)
Why I Hunt, Big Game Hunt (biggamehunt.net), RiderWeb, Inc.
How You Think Affects Your (Hunting) Experience, Big Game Hunt (biggamehunt.net), RiderWeb, Inc.
A New Approach to Handling Game, Big Game Hunt (biggamehunt.net), RiderWeb, Inc.
Planning a Do-it-Yourself Bighorn Sheep Hunt, Big Game Hunt (biggamehunt.net), RiderWeb, Inc.
Hunting Tips (numerous), Big Game Hunt (biggamehunt.net), RiderWeb, Inc.
List of Articles on Yahoo Voices / Associated Content (former Division of Yahoo, now closed)
(THESE PIECES ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE / RELICENSING)
On Snow and Snow Accumulation on Structures
Accounting for Drifting Snow on Lower Roof Surfaces
Balanced and Unbalanced Snow Loads on a Gable Roof
End of Season Snow Density in Moscow
Snow Density so Far This Season
More Snow in Idaho
Snow Loads Reach Design Levels – What’s Next?
Even More Snow in Idaho
Measurement of Snow Loads on Roofs
Measuring Snow Density
Mitigation of Increased Design Snow Loads on a Sloped Roof
Mitigation of Snow on Roofs Part 2
Roof and Ceiling Sag
Snow Loads on Roofs and Decks
Thoughts on Mitigation of Snow on Roofs
Varying Snow Density
On Wood Engineering and Design
A More efficient Ledger to Concrete Bolt Determination
Additional Design Checks for a Wood Beam Carrying a Heavy Roof Load
Adjustment Factors for Structural Glued Laminated Timber
Alternate Beam Sizes to Accommodate Drilled Vertical Holes
Alternate Beam Sizes to Accommodate Unplanned (Vertical) Holes in a Beam for Electrical Service
Alternate Calculation for the Suitability of a Drilled Vertical Hole in a Wood Beam
ASD and LRFD Design Checks for a Wood Beam
Basic Issues of Beam Design
Beam Stability Factor Using the 2005 Dual Format NDS
Bearing Length Calculation for a Dimension Lumber Wood Header
Bearing Length Determination for a Heavily Loaded Timber Beam
Bending Check for a Pitched Roof Rafter
Bending Stress Calculation for a Dimension Lumber Wood Header
Board Foot Measurement
Bolting a Wood Ledger to a Flat Face Concrete Wall
Calculating the Beam Stability Factor for a Continuous Timber Beam
Calculating the Fire Resistance of a Glulam Column
Calculating the Fire Safety of a Glulam Beam
Comparison of Beam Stability Equations for a Wood Beam
Compression Stress Check for a Dimension Lumber Rim Board
Design of a Glued Laminated Timber Deck Beam
Design of a Glulam Column
Design Steps for the Specification of a Glulam Beam
Design Values for Structural Glued Laminated Timber
Design of a Glulam Beam to Carry a Heavy Snow Load
Determining Wood Joist Size and Spacing
Engineering Analysis of a Hole in the Side of a Glulam Beam
Evaluation of a Gouged Glulam Beam
Evaluation of Vertical Holes in Glulam Beams
Example Specification of a Glulam Roof Beam
Example Specification of a Western Species Glulam Beam
Example Specification of Heavy Timber Decking for a Roof
Glulam Beam Installed Upside Down
Introduction to Glued Laminated Timber
Investigating Drying Checks in a Glulam Beam
Investigation of a Larger Hole in the Side of a Glulam Beam
Ledger Connection for a Deck with Heavy Snow Load
Nailing Together a Built Up Lumber Column
Perforated Shear Wall Bracing for a Timber Frame
Proper Beam Size
Scabbing Lumber to Joists for Offset Lateral Deck Ties
Selecting a Ceiling Beam for a Kitchen Remodel
Shear Design Check for a Pitched Roof Joist
Shear Stress Design Check for a Dimension Lumber Wood header
Step-by-Step Design Calculations for a Wood Beam for a Deck
Structural Framing of a Deck for a Mountain Cabin
The Stress Interaction Factor in Glulam
Use of Column Capacity Tables for Glulam Column Design
Use of Design Aids in the Specification of a Glulam Roof Beam
Use of the Volume Factor in the Design of Glued Laminated Timber Beams
Vertical Holes in Wood Beams
Wood Column Design Using the 2005 NDS LRFD Provisions
Structural Concrete
Axial Strength of a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Basement Retaining Wall Design Continued Reinforcement
Beam Shear in Reinforced Concrete’s
Big Column Footing Part 1
Big Column Footing Part 2
Breaking a Plain Concrete Beam
Calculated Footing Design with Added Weight of Concrete Floor
Calculated Footing Width for Residential and Light Commercial Structures
Calculating Self Weight of Structural Concrete’s
Concrete House Design
Cover Spacing and Pullout of Reinforcement in an Experimental Concrete Beam
Cracked Beam Neutral Axis and Moment of Inertia
Cracks Happen
Deflection of a Reinforced Concrete Beam at Safe Service Load
Deflections of an Uncracked Reinforced Concrete Beam
Deflections of a One Way Reinforced Concrete Wall
Design of Concrete Basement Walls
Development Length for an Experimental Concrete Beam
Effective Moment of Inertia and Deflection of a Cracked Concrete Beam – Updated
Example Calculation of Shear Reinforcement in a Reinforced Concrete Lintel
Example Width Calculation for Footing Supporting Upper Floor and Truss Roof
Flexure in Reinforced Concrete Beams
Foundation Details
General Requirements and Specifications for a Concrete House
Heavier Residential Footing Design
Hooked Reinforcing Bars
Interior Residential Footing Details
Internal Stresses in a Cracked Reinforced Concrete Beam – Updated
Introduction to Deflections of Reinforced Concrete Beams
Investigation of a New Post Punching Through an Existing Concrete Slab
Load Factors in the Strength Design of Concrete
Minimum and Maximum Reinforcement in an Experimental Concrete Beam
Post Punching Through a Concrete Slab
Preliminary Investigation of Using an Existing Concrete Slab to Support a New Load Bearing Wall
Prescriptive Basement Wall Design
Punching Shear
Punching Shear Example 1
Punching Shear Example 2
Reinforced Concrete Walls
Reinforcement Details and Splices
Reinforcement Details for an Experimental Concrete Beam
Reinforcement Development Length
Residential Concrete Foundation Details by Calculations
Residential Concrete Foundations
Retaining Walls
Safe Load for an Experimental Reinforced Concrete Beam
Shallow Foundation Concrete Piers Part 1 Gravity Loads
Shallow Foundation Concrete Piers Part 2 Constrained
Shallow Foundation Concrete Piers Part 3 Nonconstrained
Shear and Moment Diagrams for a Simple Beam
Shear and Moment Diagrams for a Simple Beam Part 2
Shear Reinforcement in Reinforced Concrete Beams
Stiffness Calculations for an Experimental Reinforced Concrete Beam
Strength and Deflection Calculations for an Experimental Beam
Strength Design Check of an Existing Concrete Slab for Supporting a New Framed Wall
Strength Design of a Plain Concrete Footing
Strength of a Reinforced Concrete Beam
Structural Considerations in the Design of a Log Home
Uses of Anchor Bolts in Structural Concrete’s
General Structures and Mechanics
Basic Lateral Torsional Buckling Steel Beam Example
Beam Deflections by Integration for a Statistically Indeterminate Beam with One End Displaced and Rotated
Beam Deflections by Method of Integration
Column Stability Part 1 Euler Buckling
Column Stability Part 2 Various End Conditions Slenderness and the Secant Formulas
Column Stability Part 3
Deflection of a Statically Determinate Beam by Integration
Design of a Steel Column for a Shop
Example Solutions of Indeterminate Beams Using Superposition
Generic Results of Solving for the Deflection of a Statically Determinate Beam
Generic Solution for a Fixed Fixed Beam with Triangular Load
Introduction to Loads and Forces
Load Combinations in Allowable Stress Design
Shear Design Check of a W Shape Beam Using LRFD
Solution of a Statically Indeterminate Beam by Superposition
Solving a Structural Engineering Problem with a Smartphone
Spacing of Nails Bolts and Rebar
Specification of a Steel W-Shape Beam
Stability of a W Shape Beam Using LRFD
Stability of Beams
This Thing Called Tributary Width
Outdoors and Hunting
An Open Letter to the NRA Regarding their Junk Mail
Attraction Over Enigma
Back Back in Whack North Idaho Antlerless Deer Hunt
Backpacking as a Boy in Idaho
Basic Equipment for Successful Trout Fishing
Beginners Guide to Spotting and Stalking (Puddle) Ducks
Benelli Super Black Eagle II Shotgun
Cleaning the Traditions Pursuit LT Northwest Edition Black Powder Rifle
College Girl on Break Girls with Guns 4
Common Sense for the Outdoors
Da Moose 9
De-Meating Big Game in the Field
Drinking Water in the Outdoors
(Duck Hunting) More Sneaking Up on Wild Ducks
Girls Guns and the Outdoors
Harris UltraLight Bi-pod Review
Homedale Quail
How to Clean the Remington 870 Shotgun
How We Think Affects our Hunting Experience
Hunting in Tough Terrain Part 1 Laser Range Finder
Hunting in Tough Terrain Part 2 Shooting Uphill and Down
Hunting in Tough Terrain Part 3 Extraction of Game
Hunting Near Civilization
Idaho the Carnivore State
It Pays to be Sneaky
More Common Sense for the Outdoors
Mountain Lakes of Idaho (Book Review) (My Childhood Book of Dreams)
My 2008 Buck
Off Season Turkey Hunting
Old Man and Daughter at Boy Scout Camp
On Controlled Hunt Draw Successful
Review of the Ruger M77 Mark II Compact Rifle with Remington 260 Cartridge
Stuff for Sneaking up on Ducks
The Art of Sneaking up on Wild Ducks
Why I Hunt
Other
On Xomba.com (various; not available; site reassigned)
On Helium.com (various; ot available; site reassigned)