- M.C.M., Construction Management, University of Southern California, 2018
- B.Sc., Architectural Engineering, National University of Iran, 2015
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Commencement Speaker for Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Students, May 2018
- Scholastic Achievement and Service Award Winner, Oct 2017
- American Society of Civil Engineers (Committee Member, Region 9 Transportation and Development)
Ms. Khorshid Azarnoush is a Manager at Exponent's Construction Consulting Practice, based in the Oakland office. With over six years of experience, she excels in project controls and management. Her expertise spans a broad spectrum of construction-related areas, including implementing project controls, mitigating risks, managing costs, analyzing change orders, and resolving construction disputes. Ms. Azarnoush has led multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects, ensuring alignment with project objectives from initial stages to completion. She has provided both dispute and advisory services and consulting to both public and private sector clients on construction cost reviews, audits, change orders, claims analysis, and damages analysis. She specializes in project management and controls, project risk mitigation, project cost management, and construction litigation support on projects worldwide.
Beginning her engineering career in various on-site roles, Ms. Azarnoush transitioned to consultancy work in 2020, working extensively on large-scale construction and engineering projects internationally. Her notable projects include managing change orders and resolving claims at Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, conducting earned value and technical analyses for a 2,200 MW power plant in Saudi Arabia, and cost management for a major federal bridge renovation in Northern California.
Ms. Azarnoush's Data Science for Business certificate from Harvard Business School has equipped her with the necessary skills to effectively leverage data from project contracts, bid and IFC estimates, pay applications, job cost reports, and logs for cost analysis to ensure project success. This has helped Ms. Azarnoush assist clients in establishing new cost management and tracking tools for effective project cost tracking.