2026 SEAOSC Technical Summit & President's Lunch

Meet the Speakers

Volume 3: Concrete Shear Wall Design Example

Karl Telleen

MAFFEI Structural Engineering

Karl Telleen is an Associate Principal with Maffei Structural Engineering in San Francisco. He has 21 years of professional experience including design of concrete and steel structures, seismic retrofit and renovation of historic buildings, peer review, and wind and seismic analysis of solar arrays. He completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Switzerland in 2010, and he performed reconnaissance in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. He was selected as an EERI Housner Fellow in 2017. Karl served as Director and Treasurer of SEAONC, and he co-authored papers in the journals Earthquake Spectra, Concrete International, and the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.

Volume 4: Steel Moment Frame Design Example

Kevin S. Moore, SE, F.SEAOC, F.SEI

Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers

Kevin Moore, Principal with Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers, is a nationally recognized structural engineer with expertise in advanced analysis, design, and evaluation of buildings in high seismic regions. Mr. Moore is a licensed professional engineer, civil engineer, or structural engineer in 15 states with over 30 years’ experience evaluating existing buildings. Kevin is the current Project Manager for the SEAOC Seismic Design Manuals for the 2024 CBC, and has been active in AISC, SEAOC and SEAONC since 1995. He served as Chair of the SEAOC Structural Standards Committee, SEAOC Seismology Committee, and SEAONC Seismology Committee and is a Past President of SEAONC and the Past Chair of the NCSEA Seismic Subcommittee to the Code Advisory Committee and the NCSEA Resilience Committee. While serving as the Vice Chair of the AISC Connection Prequalification Review Panel for the first 9 years of the committee, Kevin wrote the SMF design example presented today, and he remains a voting member of AISC 358.

Volume 1 - Application of IBC and ASCE 7-22

Mason Thau

Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers

Mason Thau is an EIT at Martin/Martin. He studied at UC Berkeley, where he performed and published graduate research in base isolation and nonstructural component anchorage to support proposed changes in ASCE 7-28. Since graduating, Mason has joined the ASCE 7-28 Seismic Subcommittee as an associate member and helped author multiple significant code change proposals, leveraging his perspective and skills as a younger engineer to contribute meaningfully to the committee’s work.

Mason is also an active member of SEAOC. He currently serves as Chair of the SEAONC Young Member Forum and Vice Chair of the SEAOC Communications Committee. Among his proudest structural engineering achievements is helping create the College of Fellows Jeopardy Session at the 2024 SEAOC Convention.