Curriculum Vitae Gary Martin Hopkins

Current Address: 53 Main Road, Claremont, Cape Town, 7708 Date of Birth: 4 March 1992

Mobile Phone: 083 406 5591 Nationality: South African E-mail: hpkgar001@myuct.ac.za Place of Birth: South Africa Identity No. 9203045054088 Language: English

Education

2015-2016 University of Cape Town MSc Civil Engineering (2016 candidate)

Dissertation topic: Growth and remodelling of cardiac tissue – a multiphase approach with applications to rheumatic heart disease

2011-2014 University of Cape Town BSc Engineering: Civil Engineering First class honours pass with cumulative average of 80%

2006-2010 St John’s College – Johannesburg IEB National Senior Certificate Bachelor’s degree pass with five distinctions and matriculation average of 79%

Career Development

2016 Head university tutor – mechanics of materials 2015 University tutor – engineering mechanics 2014 University tutor – surveying 2013 University tutor – surveying 2013 WML Coast, Stellenbosch

Student Designer Assisted in the design of a structural steel warehouse and marine piling platform

2012 Stefanutti Stocks Marine, Durban Student Technician General site administration – rebar layout and installation, dip testing, concrete quality, steel pile quality, soffit deck movement, site finances, tidal prediction based on tide chart

2012 WML Coast, Stellenbosch Student Designer Assisted in the design of a coal transfer tower

2009 Sunninghill hospital, Johannesburg Theatre observation and ward duties

Affiliations

Current Golden Key Society Current South African Institution of Civil Engineering

Previous Academic Research

2015 BSc Thesis: Highly non-linear post-buckling analysis of shell structures

Awards

2014 Aurecon best overall achievement prize (second highest GPA of a civil engineering graduate in 2014)

2014 SA Institute of Steel Construction prize (highest cumulative structural steel design average)

2014 Ninham Shand scholarship for postgraduate research 2014 Dean’s Merit List and Class Medal: Civil Engineering (highest civil

engineering average for a third year student during the 2013 academic year) 2013 Dean’s Merit List (average of over 70% for the academic year) 2010 Golden Eagle Award (five day community service project) 2010 Gold President’s Award (included inter alia seventy five hours of community

service and personal skills development) 2010 House prefect 2010 Academic colours 2010 Cricket and hockey half colours

Personal Skills

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and Windows, Ubuntu, Latex document preparation system, C++ programming, numerical modelling, computational and continuum mechanics, AutoCAD, administration and planning, research, leadership

Interests

Road/mountain cycling and running, squash, football, cricket and hockey (2008 – 2010 school first team); nature; civil and structural engineering; medicine and biomechanical engineering; computer programming; family and friends; reading