Listen "Episode #4: Civil Engineering with Lucky Nagarajan, Geotechnical Specialist and Business Strategy and Growth Leader at Bauer Foundations Corp"
Episode Synopsis
Welcome back to episode 4 of From Scratch. Today we will be learning about civil engineering with Lucky Nagarajan. Lucky works as a Business Strategy and Growth Leader for Bauer Foundations Corp, a leader in the execution of complex excavation pits, ground improvement, deep foundations, and vertical seals, utilizing the most up to date equipment and installation techniques. In her present role, she is in charge of working extensively with management and collaborating with her peers in developing national market strategies. Develop, execute, and achieve sustainable growth within the USA and territories. Plays a key role in implementing the growth plan, assisting the team to set priorities, nurture ideas on client care and engagement, risk analysis, getting technology prequalified, specified, and growing organic partnerships. Lead client liaison for numerous clients within the USA and territories.Lucky is a Geotechnical Engineer with 18 years of engineering, project management as well as field experience and business development. She has worked on a variety of foundation solutions in residential, commercial to energy/fuel to ports/marine, dams and mining industries. She has gained her experience working in different parts of the United States learning about challenging geological conditions, varied foundation solutions and cultures. With her diverse experience, she is proud to say that she has visited 48 states out of 50 and worked internationally in Japan, Canada, Mexico, India, and Brazil.She strongly believes that it is very important for every engineer to give back to the community to help the industry grow and support fellow engineers. Lucky has been active in technical associations ASCE, G-I, DFI and USSD. She is DFI Board of Trustee, current chair of Women in Deep Foundations, co-founder of WiDF groups in Metro NYC, India, and Mexico. Also, Co-chair of DFI of India Support Committee and member of board level ASCE G-I committees -Building an Inclusive Civil Engineering Team, Innovations in Geotechnical Engineering.To give back to her original roots, she has been serving as Co-Chair of DFI India Support Committee since 2018. As part of the India chapter, she has also been involved in DFI India Chapter initiatives within the Indian construction industry and launched WiDF India group which has successfully executed programs during conferences and webinar series “Civil Engineering Career – Connect and Grow”. She has also written articles for technical magazines and been invited as speaker to international conferences to advocate for STEM and women in engineering. This has provided a platform to collaborate with Brazil, Mexico, India, and Colombia.Her latest adventure is being the host of “Broadcasting Common Ground” Podcast.