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The Port of Los Angeles\u00a0<\/strong>has appointed Chris Brown to the position of Chief Harbor Engineer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Brown replaces Dina Aryan-Zahlan, who was recently promoted to Deputy Executive Director of Development<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As Chief Harbor Engineer, Brown will lead the planning, development and design of infrastructure and facilities that support the diverse operations of the seaport, including wharves, terminals, rail, roadways and public space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cChris has been a pivotal player in many port infrastructure projects over the last two decades, including the award-winning Wilmington Waterfront Park<\/strong> and the current port-wide electrification program,\u201d said Aryan-Zahlan. \u201cThis promotion recognizes all his hard work, dedication and contributions to these critical infrastructure programs. We are excited and proud to see him take on this important leadership role.\u201d<\/p>\n Most recently, Brown was the Assistant Chief Harbor Engineer responsible for division sections handling structural, specifications, architectural and electrical elements<\/strong> of port infrastructure projects. Prior to that, he served as the Harbor Engineer in charge of division sections on structural, specifications, right of way, technology and CADD. From 2000\u20132015, he held various roles\u2014including section head, program manager and designer on a number of projects, most notably as project manager for the Wilmington Waterfront Park, which won Engineering News Record\u2019s \u201cBest of the Best Award\u201d in 2012.<\/p>\n Brown started his career as a student engineer at the port in 1993. Following a four-year stint at Holmes & Narver (now AECOM)<\/strong>, he returned to the Port of Los Angeles and progressively built his career. He received his bachelor\u2019s degree in civil engineering from the University of Southern California, and his master\u2019s degree in structural engineering from the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n In addition to being a registered civil engineer in California, Brown is a certified construction documents technologist as designated by the Construction Specification Institute<\/strong>, where he serves as a board member. Brown is also a senior certified professional with the Society for Human Resource Management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Port of Los Angeles\u00a0has appointed Chris Brown to the position of Chief Harbor Engineer. Brown replaces Dina Aryan-Zahlan, who was recently promoted to Deputy Executive Director of Development. As Chief Harbor Engineer, Brown will lead the planning, development and design of infrastructure and facilities that support the diverse operations of the seaport, including wharves, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/36916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}