Andinet Zeleke Bekele

My name is Andinet Zeleke Bekele and 43 years old married man. I was born in Ambo town, Ethiopia on February 04, 1980. My father was police officer and my mother is house wife. I have five brothers and two sisters. I married in 2013 and currently I have two boys and one daughter.

I studied Civil Engineering degree and MSc degree in Structural Engineering at Addis Ababa University in 2004 and 2013 respectively. My MSc degree thesis title was ‘Development of Computer Program for the Structural Design of Concrete Slab Culvert Deck’. The program was written on FORTRAN-95 software after the thesis paper was fully completed. I finalized my MSc degree program with GPA of 3.68 and got ‘very good’ result for the Thesis work. Besides, I took short training and got certificates from International Academy and different national institutions. Certificates received from;

• Indian Academy of Highway Engineers in 2015.
• International Leadership Institute in 2014
• Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) Sponsored training given by HABCON Consult PLC in 2013.

For 15 years from 2004 to 2019, I worked in different titles from supervisor to diverse managerial posts at governmental construction sectors in Ethiopia. From 2005 to 2014, I worked at highway construction projects as supervisor, office engineer and engineering service team leader. For two years from 2014 to 2016, I worked as road design team leader in Ethiopian Road Construction Corporation. For three years from 2016 to 2019, I worked in different sections of Ethiopia Construction Works Corporation as project management department manager, building construction department manager and Deputy CEO Engineering affairs senior adviser.

My professional hobbies are;
• Short span Bridge designing (girder and slab bridge types) using Auto CAD and design manuals.
• Designing ditches and Pipe, box and slab culvert designing using Auto CAD and design manuals.
• Highway road designing using Eagle point software.
• Structural designing of low-rise building using ETABS 2009 …..
• Preparation of road templates and pavement road data from the design using Auto CAD and excel spread sheet.
• Preparation of working drawings for bridges, culverts, retaining walls from the design using Auto CAD.
• Checking and analyzing surveying point data using notepad, excel and Auto CAD, Eagle point.

Other hobbies are;
• Driving
• Listening music

Since January 2019, I have started living in Netherlands.

Thanks.