Senior Project Manager
Verdantas
St. Clairsville, OH
AJ Smith is a Senior Project Manager with Verdantas with 23 years of engineering experience. He leads the Verdantas St. Clairsville, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia offices. AJ has vast engineering experience managing dams projects and working with dam owners in Ohio. His areas of expertise include geotechnical engineering, hydraulics & hydrology (H&H), floodplain management and erosion & sediment control. He has directed and coordinated various services to dams clients, including: site inspections, slope stability and seepage analyses, monitoring, Emergency Action Plans, dam breach analyses, reservoir routing, spillway modifications, lake drain design, new dam permitting, construction certification, and decommissioning.
AJ has worked with the Ohio DNR Dam Safety Group since 2002 and understands the rules and requirements for dam compliance. AJ was the engineer of record for a new 25’ tall Class II in-stream dam that was constructed in eastern Ohio in 2019. AJ also has experience with floodplain permitting, is a Certified Floodplain Manager, and currently acts as the floodplain administrator for Belmont County, Ohio.
AJ obtained his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Ohio Northern University and his Master of Science in Civil Engineering, specializing in Geotechnical Engineering from the Ohio State University. AJ is a registered professional engineer in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET