Daniel Baxter is the bridge department manager in Michael Baker's Minneapolis office, where he also serves as a project manager and senior bridge engineer. He has been involved in both the rehabilitation, design, and load rating of many complex bridges such as the Third Avenue Bridge, Winona Bridge, High Bridge, Franklin Avenue Bridge, Lafayette Bridge and Hastings Bridge, all over the Mississippi River. He also serves as an NHI-certified instructor for multiple NHI bridge design and load rating training courses. He is highly experienced in complex finite element analysis and has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals. He graduated with a BA in Physics from Carleton College in 2001 and received a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in structural engineering in December 2003 from Washington University in St. Louis.