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SALVATORE CARONNA

Education

• M.S. Engineering, 1976, University of California, Berkeley
• B.S. Engineering, 1974, Cornell University

Professional Affiliations

• Registered Professional Civil Engineer: California
• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
• Associate Member, United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research

Professional History

• 1985 - Present, Founder and President of gINT Software, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA, USA. Firm develops software for the geotechnical and subsurface environmental industries.
• 1981-1985, President, Caronna Consulting, Inc., a geotechnical consulting firm, Santa Rosa, California.
• 1979-1981, Project Engineer, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Chicago, Illinois.
• 1977-1979, Project Engineer, Al-Muhandis Nizar Kurdi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• 1974-1977, Staff Engineer, Woodward-Clyde Consultants.

While at Cornell University, Mr. Caronna performed sophisticated soil laboratory testing as a research assistant under Professor Dwight Sangrey.

As part of his masters degree studies while at UC Berkeley, Mr. Caronna served as a research assistant under Professor Michael Duncan, conducting three dimensional, non-linear, incremental loading computer analysis of the New Mellones Dam.

Mr. Caronna has worked as a geotechnical consultant on numerous projects including the Alaska oil pipeline, investigations for major expansions of the Saudi Arabian cities of Jizan and Jubail, the Mecca to Medina Dual Carriage Highway, and the Saudi Arabia to Bahrain Causeway.

On the Jizan project Mr. Caronna created an electronic database for all laboratory and field information collected during the investigation. From this database, reports in the form of logs, tables, and graphs were generated along with sophisticated data analyses.

Today Mr. Caronna serves as president of gINT Software. He is the senior executive in charge of the overall software architecture of all gINT products and oversees the management of the company. He leads the gINT consulting services team and remains closely involved in the company's university outreach programs.

Committees

• DIGGS (International committee for Data Interchange for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists
• COSMOS/PEER-LL Data Interchange Committee
• The Computational Geotechnics Subcommittee of ASCE's Geotechnical Institute
• United Kingdom AGS committee (contributor)

Publications

Salvatore Caronna, "The State of Data Interchange in Geotechnical Practice in the US" Paper presented at the AGS Format Conference. Birmingham, United Kingdom. June 2008.

Salvatore Caronna, "Implementing XML for Geotechnical Databases" Paper presented at the Joint Technical Committee 2 meeting (ISSMGE, IAEG, ISRM) held at the 10th IAEG Congress. Nottingham, United Kingdom. September 2006.

Salvatore Caronna, "Practical Considerations in Working with Data Interchange Standards" Paper presented at Geohazards in Transportation in the Appalachian Region - 6th Annual Technical Forum. Lexington, Kentucky. August 2006.

Salvatore Caronna, "Implementation of NC DOT Requirements in gINT" Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Geotechnical, Geophysical and Geoenvironmental Technology Transfer Conference and Expo. Charlotte, North Carolina. April 2006.

Salvatore Caronna, "The Comparative Value of Geotechnical Databases vs. Reportbases" Paper presented at GeoCongress, Atlanta, Georgia. February 2006.

Salvatore Caronna & Phil Wade, "Problems with Using the AGS Format as a Working Database Structure" Paper presented at the AGS Format Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom. October 2005.

Salvatore Caronna, "Geotechnical Data Management Issues for Transportation Authorities" Paper presented at the 6th Annual Canadian Society of Civil Engineers Transportation Specialty Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. June 2005.

Salvatore Caronna, "Data Granularity in the Storage and Reporting of Soil Exploration Information" (paper presented at The Second Annual Geotechnical, Geophysical, and Geoenvironmental Technology Transfer Conference and Expo, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 2005)

Salvatore Caronna, "Recent Trends in Data Management and Reporting" (paper presented at the Northeast States Geotechnical Engineers Meeting, Lake George, New York, September 2004)

"Presentation of Subsurface Information," S. Caronna. Santa Rosa, California: gINT Software, 1994.

"Geotechnical data management of a major highway scheme in the UK," S. Caronna, P.M. Staten, printed in the proceedings of Geotechnique et Informatique, l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, September 1992.

"Geotechnical Aspects of a Redevelopment Project for the Coastal Town of Jizan," S. Caronna, I.F. Hodgson and M.G. Abu Taleb, printed in proceedings of the Second Symposium on Geotechnical Problems in Saudi Arabia, King Saud University, May 1989.