Dr. Ariannia is a California Certified Civil and Geotechnical Engineer, with more than 34 years of experience in design, supervision, and technical management of major projects in structural and geotechnical fields. He has been involved in major projects such as transportation/transit, power plants, cooling towers, silos, bridges, and medium to high-rise multi story structures. The breadth of his experience includes geotechnical analysis, field and laboratory testing management, slope stability and liquefaction analysis, seismic hazard evaluation, pile and earth retaining structures design, design and monitoring of soil improvement solutions, design and implementation of repair and retrofit methods relevant to soils, foundation and structural behavior for different types of structures. In the last 15 years, he has actively practiced geotechnical engineering and consulting in southern California. He has been the Geotechnical Engineer of Record for numerous educational, transportation, pavement study and rehabilitation, multi-story building, road, bridge, and parking structure projects. Dr. Ariannia has completed several value engineering for pavement and foundation projects, resulted in substantial saving. Dr. Ariannia is the founder and former chairman of ASCE SoCal Inland Empire Geo-Institute.