Mr. Creed earned his Master of Civil Engineering degree as a Davis Fellow from the University of Delaware's Center for Applied Coastal Research. He also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering with honors from North Carolina State University. As a senior coastal engineer for Olsen Associates, Inc., he performs planning, engineering, design, permitting, and construction management functions for a wide variety of coastal engineering projects.

Since joining Olsen Associates, Inc. in 1992, Mr. Creed has been involved in comprehensive beach restoration, shore stabilization, inlet sand management, and marina development projects. His specific engineering and design expertise includes beach fill and inlet sand bypassing design, revetment, groin, and inlet jetty design, coastal structure wave loading assessment, wave and shoreline change modeling, inlet and estuary tidal hydraulic modeling, and beach nourishment borrow area development. Mr. Creed also has extensive field experience that includes topographic and hydrographic surveys of beaches and inlets, hydraulic surveys of inlets and marinas, and offshore geotechnical surveys to identify beach compatible sand deposits.

In addition to work with domestic, Caribbean, and Mexican private sector shorefront projects, Mr. Creed has been the engineer for numerous publicly funded projects, including two Federal Shore Protection Projects. His involvement with these Federal projects has included the preparation of a General Design Memorandum (GDM) and a General Reevaluation Report (GRR). Development of these documents, which are required for implementation of Federal Shore Protection Projects, involves design and analysis procedures consistent with Federal Shore Protection guidelines and regulations. Such procedures include the use of physical- and economic-based numerical models to formulate an optimal project plan that is suitable for Federal cost-sharing. Mr. Creed has been involved in Federal projects that have included beach nourishment, shore stabilizing structures, and inlet sand bypassing elements.

As a graduate student at the University of Delaware, Mr. Creed participated in a wide range of numerical and physical investigations pertinent to coastal engineering. His academic numerical modeling experience includes the development of an equilibrium beach profile evolution model and the implementation of state-of-the-art refraction/diffraction models. His laboratory experience includes the use of two- and three- dimensional wave tanks to study non-linear wave-wave interaction and wave forces on vertical pilings.

Mr. Creed is a member of Chi Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Societies. He is also member of the American and Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Associations and a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Association of Coastal Engineers. Mr. Creed is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Florida. He has authored numerous technical papers and made presentations at professional conferences related to his work.

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